Feeling Grieving / Loss? Find Real Help

24 hours a day, by phone, text, or chat — real, trained people ready to help.

Text HOME to 741741 — when speaking out loud isn't possible, 24/7 in English or Spanish.

If calling feels like too much, the 988 Lifeline's online chat connects you with a trained crisis counselor in real time — text-based, confidential, and available right now.

Day or night, in the language that feels most like home.

Dial 988, press 1, or text 838255 — responders trained specifically in military culture, 24/7.

24/7 support that affirms LGBTQ+ young people at their most vulnerable.

Peer support run by trans people, for trans and questioning people — full anonymity, no non-consensual active rescue. Hours vary by region and it's weekdays only, so check before you call.

Text STEVE to 741741 for a counselor who understands what racialized stress actually feels like — built on the belief that young people of color deserve support that sees race, identity, and daily pressure as connected, not separate problems.

Finding a Black woman therapist who truly gets you shouldn't be a long exhausting search — this makes it faster and more human.

Find someone who looks like you, speaks your language, and understands your world.

Curated therapists offering sessions starting around $30 — good care should not only belong to those who can afford it.

Short-term, evidence-based therapy for post-9/11 veterans, service members, and military families — PTSD, anger, grief, family strain. Insurance is accepted and cost is not meant to be a barrier, with care sometimes available free if you are uninsured. Twenty-three clinics across fourteen states, with telehealth reaching further.

The most comprehensive therapist directory in the country — filter by insurance, specialty, location, and sliding scale fees. If you're starting your search for a therapist, this is the place to start.

Free and low-cost therapy cohorts for Black men — healing circles that build the emotional language that makes life more livable.

Free programs, clinics, and peer support built for what veterans carry after combat.

Vet Centers are community-based VA centers offering confidential counseling, support groups, and referrals to veterans and their families — often more accessible and less formal than a VA hospital.

Free reading plans on anxiety, depression, grief, and healing — search "Wisdom for Mental Health" in the app's plan library to start there, or browse the thousands of others. One of the most widely used faith apps in the world.

The VA built this specifically for veterans working through PTSD — grounding skills, symptom tracking, and crisis links, all in your pocket.

A therapist-search tool built around actually being understood — filter by specialty, language, faith, identity, and approach to find someone who already gets where you're coming from.

There's a kind of relief that comes from sitting across from someone who doesn't need everything explained — this helps you find a provider whose lived experience brings them closer to yours.

A therapist directory built to help you actually find the right fit — filter by specialty, identity, approach, and more, from anxiety and addiction to relationships and trauma.

Search real Christian therapists, coaches, clinics, and pastoral counselors by what you're actually facing — anxiety, trauma, addiction, and more.

Live, trained prayer volunteers answer around the clock — no appointment, no wait, just someone to pray with you right now.

A free call-in line staffed by prayer partners who listen first and pray with you over the phone.

One of the longest-running prayer hotlines in the country — real people, praying with callers 24/7.

Combines prayer support with practical crisis referrals, for when you need both comfort and next steps.

Call or text — prayer support that meets you in whichever way feels easiest to reach out.

National prayer support available around the clock, for anyone who wants to be prayed with, not just for.

Dr. Bessel van der Kolk's landmark book on how trauma lives in the body — often the first place people find language for what they're feeling.

A 24/7 culturally-grounded helpline for Native Americans and Alaska Natives affected by domestic or sexual violence.

Free and confidential, in the Catholic tradition — trained volunteers who listen, and pray with you if you want that too.

Call 1-800-804-3823 for prayer and a listening ear, day or night, from the Marian Fathers of the Immaculate Conception.

Call 1-800-329-0029 any time, in English or Spanish — someone will pray with you, no matter what you're carrying.

Free, private, 24/7 for anyone in North Carolina — you reach a peer who's lived it themselves. No forms, no assessments, and they won't call the police unless someone's life is in danger. You don't have to be in crisis to call.

Call 855-838-8255 (or use their web chat) for free, 24/7 peer support from fellow veterans — active duty, Guard, Reserve, any era — built to reach you before things turn into a crisis, not just after.

Call the 24/7 Talk Line at 845-617-6164 to reach a Peer Leader who's served themselves — veteran, military, or first responder. Not a crisis line, just someone who gets it, whenever you need to talk.

Healing at the intersection of race and queer identity requires care that holds both — NQTTCN works to transform mental health for queer and trans people of color with genuinely affirming care.

Emma McAdam's YouTube channel breaks down evidence-based mental health skills — anxiety, depression, trauma, relationships — in clear, actionable videos. Free therapy education at its best.

Losing someone changes everything. GriefShare connects you to grief recovery support groups meeting near you, in churches and communities across the country — faith-based and open to all, with resources for navigating loss at your own pace.

Helping veterans heal moral injury through faith community and spiritual care — because some wounds go deeper than the body.

This directory exists on the belief that Black and Hispanic/Latino people deserve clinicians genuinely committed to their communities — not just willing to see them, but built for them.

Thoughtful, biblically grounded articles, podcasts, and resources on every mental health topic — anxiety to trauma to depression.

Built around a simple truth: people of color heal better with therapists of color — InnoPsych makes that match easier with filters for specialty, identity, insurance, and format.

A directory of 800+ curated Christian therapists, plus free faith-based articles and resources for whatever you are carrying — anxiety, grief, relationships, and more.

Healing goes deeper when you don't have to explain your whole cultural world first — this directory helps Asian clients find therapists who share their background and lived context.

Biblical guidance on over 100 mental and emotional health topics — counseling keys and practical steps grounded in faith.

Free anonymous chat with a trained volunteer listener, any hour — you'll need to make an account first. They also have an AI chatbot and paid therapy; the free human chat is the part worth knowing about.

One of the most comprehensive and compassionate grief education sites online — tools, exercises, blog posts, and a community that understands that grief doesn't follow a schedule.

Search therapists near you and see what actually matters before you reach out — who is accepting clients, when their next opening is, and what it costs, including with your insurance. Message someone or book a free intro call without making an account. Every provider goes through a license check, and most people hear back within a day.

Many veterans live with PTSD symptoms for years without naming them — this brief VA self-screen helps you see whether your reactions to trauma might be PTSD and encourages follow-up.

Finding a therapist who is bilingual, trauma-informed, and culturally grounded can feel like searching for something rare — this directory makes that search real and specific.

Dr. Michelle Bengtson, a Christian clinical neuropsychologist, offers free faith-rooted resources for grief — you don't have to choose between your beliefs and your healing.

For families who have lost a child, at any age, from any cause. More than 500 local chapters plus online groups, free, run by people who have been where you are and know there is nowhere to put it.

For many of us, faith is where we process the hardest things — these 16-week faith-centered support groups make space for both spiritual grounding and real mental health tools, with special tracks for people of color.

Written for Black men specifically, by an actor who lost his father and his godson to suicide and a psychologist who gave the grief a framework. Half memoir, half clinical, it treats the mental health of Black men with real specificity instead of generic self-help language.

A free national locator for grief groups and camps built for young people, filterable by where you are, how old you are, what language you need, and whether it is free. It is a finder, not a service, so the next step is contacting whoever comes up near you.

The things nobody warns you about — finances, legal decisions, grief, and keeping a piece of your own life.

Pauline Boss named the grief most people cannot find words for, when someone is physically here but psychologically gone. Dementia, addiction, estrangement. If you have been grieving someone who is still alive, this is the book that explains why it feels like that.

A reading list put together by Black clinical psychologists, 100+ titles across eleven categories, pointing you to library and Overdrive access so cost is not the thing that stops you.

For the kind of loss adults tend to wave off, nine skills for getting through a breakup, drawn from CBT and DBT, plus how to spot when a relationship was not good for you in the first place. Written for teens through about nineteen.

A journal rather than a book to read, pages to write on for a teen who processes better in private than out loud. Revised in 2023, which means people are still finding it useful thirty years on. Also available in Spanish.

Sheehy wrote this from the inside, after a decade caring for her husband through illness. It maps the messy stages of caregiving so you feel less alone inside them, including the part nobody warns you about, where you grieve someone who is still here.

Shay put veteran testimony next to the Iliad to make a case that changed how people talk about combat trauma, it is not weakness, it is what happens when the moral order you trusted collapses. It is a dense, literary read rather than a set of exercises, but for the right person it is the book that finally makes it make sense.

Short, direct, and unsentimental about losing someone you love, no adult softening it, no pretending it is fine. Grollman spent a career writing about grief and this is the one he wrote for teenagers.