Feeling Trauma / PTSD? Find Real Help

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

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.

A confidential crisis center for the Jewish community — real help for abuse, addiction, and mental health, staffed by professionals who understand.

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, built by a Black mental health advocate, with support sections most apps never name — coping after police brutality, mental health in the Black church, talking to family who don't understand. Also available in Spanish.

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.

The federal government's own PTSD research center, with plain-language guides and a free self-screen tool anyone can use.

Trained support specialists, free and confidential, 24/7 in English and Spanish, by phone or text (HOPE to 64673) — you don't have to say what happened to get help.

A searchable directory of therapists trained specifically in EMDR, one of the most researched trauma treatments available.

Filter therapists specifically by trauma and PTSD experience, insurance, and location — free to search.

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.

Free, 24/7 support specifically for distress connected to disasters and traumatic events — call or text 1-800-985-5990.

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.

A real clinical treatment center that weaves chaplaincy and spiritual care into full psychiatric and addiction care.

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.

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.

A trauma-informed Christian therapist's guide to healing without forcing yourself to just 'try harder.'

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.

Thirty free therapy sessions with a real clinician, no VA enrollment, no referral, no diagnosis required, and nothing that touches your record. A twenty-minute intake call is the whole front door. Currently available in twenty states plus DC, so check whether yours is on the list.

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.

Free counseling from volunteer licensed clinicians who donate their time, running since 2005, open to active duty, reserves, guard, veterans, and in some cases spouses and caregivers. You fill out an intake form and they match you. It is not instant, but it costs nothing and does not run through the VA.

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.

Plain-language answers for the moment you do not know what to say. What trauma actually looks like in a kid, written for parents and for foster, adoptive, and grandparent caregivers. Free, and in Spanish.

Loving someone with PTSD wears on you too. This one is written for the person doing the supporting, with real starting points for finding your own footing rather than only theirs.

Meets Latino families in faith communities to talk openly about mental health without stigma.

A workbook written by VA psychologists specifically for veterans of Iraq and Afghanistan, built around what reintegration actually looks like, the sleep that will not come, the anger that surprises you, the distance that creeps in at home. Real exercises, not just chapters to read. It runs $17 to $32, which is worth knowing since most of what we list for veterans is free.

Kander was an Army captain in Afghanistan and a rising political name when he walked away from a mayoral race and said publicly that PTSD and suicidal thoughts had him in crisis. This is that story in full, someone with everything to lose choosing treatment over hiding it.

The PTSD Workbook for Teens is written directly to you if flashbacks, nightmares, or a constant sense of danger have followed you since something traumatic happened. It walks through cognitive behavioral exercises step by step, on paper, so it works like a workbook you fill in rather than something you just read. It costs about twenty two dollars in paperback or twelve dollars as an ebook, no account or subscription needed beyond owning the book. It is not a crisis tool and does not replace a therapist, though it works well alongside one.

Written by a military psychiatrist for anyone who has come home from a war zone, it takes the things that kept you alive over there and explains why they do not switch off here. The reintegration material holds up. It was published in 2010, so treat the sections on navigating services and treatment as dated.

The PTSD Survival Guide for Teens was written by a trauma specialist and her own teen daughter, and it reads like it, practical skills for flashbacks, nightmares, and shaken trust in other people rather than a clinical lecture. It mixes cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, and acceptance based techniques into short, workable sections. The paperback is currently out of print, so the real option right now is the ebook at about eleven dollars, no account needed beyond the purchase. It is not a crisis line and will not replace a therapist, but it gives you something concrete to do between now and finding one.

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.