The Trinity Health and Wellness Center offers free and confidential mental health services to students, including Individual Counseling; Support Groups; Mental Health Screenings and Prevention & Education Workshops and Programs. Contact the Health Center at 202-884-9615.  Also, you can contact Trinity Department of Public Safety 24/7 at 202-884-9111 to get connected to help.

In DC: The Comprehensive Psychiatric Emergency Program is a twenty-four hour/seven day a week operation that provides emergency psychiatric services and extended observation beds for individuals 18 years of age and older.  Services can be accessed by telephone or in person.  1905 E Street, SE Washington, DC 20003 (on the grounds of the old DC General Hospital)
Main: (202) 673-9319

In PG County: The Dyer Care Center (DCC) is a 24/7/365 facility always open to walk-ins in Prince George’s County, MD; offering short-term (up to 23 hours), personalized emergency crisis services for residents facing mental health and/or substance use challenges.

Additionally, below is a list of applications and websites that can assist you in addressing a variety of concerns and can be used to support the work you do in therapy or assist with self-improvement.

Anxiety

Breathe2Relax

Breathe2Relax is a portable stress management tool for iPhone and Android devices. It’s a hands-on diaphragmatic breathing exercise. Breathing exercises have been documented to decrease the body’s ‘fight-or-flight’ response, and help with mood stabilization, anger control, and anxiety management.

Mindshift

Mindshift, for iPhone and Android devices, is designed to provide you with tools for managing various types of anxiety, including test anxiety, perfectionism, social anxiety, performance anxiety, worry, panic, and conflict.

SAM

SAM (Self-Help for Anxiety Management), an iPhone and Android app, offers options for tracking anxiety, identifying anxiety triggers, teaching breathing and relaxation strategies, and developing an anxiety management toolkit.

Stop Panic and Anxiety

Stop Panic and Anxiety is a free Android app that offers self-help methods to control panic and anxiety. The info in this app assumes that you are suffering from panic attacks due to Panic Disorder. It may not be applicable to other forms of anxiety. It focuses on the fear of having a panic attack and the fear of the sensations when having a panic.

Tactical Breather

The Tactical Breather app for iPhone and Android devices can be used to gain control over physiological and psychological responses to stress. Through repetitive practice and training, you can learn to gain control of your heart rate, emotions, concentration, and other physiological and psychological responses to your body during stressful situations.

Bilingual Support

Neighbors Consejo

Free mental health counseling, medication evaluations & management, community support services to those without Insurance. Services are in English and Spanish.

Depression

Depression CBT Self-Help Guide

This Android app contains a depression severity test, audios, articles, a cognitive diary, and a motivational points system that help you learn how to do this.

Cognitive Diary CBT

The self-help methods used in this Android app are based on the tools of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) and challenge irrational thinking.

MoodGYM

MoodGYM is an internet based Cognitive Behavioral treatment for Depression developed by a psychologist. Create an account and follow the treatment plan. This is an excellent tool to use in conjunction with in person therapy.

Mental Health Tools

BEAM

This is an organization that centers on the healing and wellness of Black and marginalized communities. The organization offers online tools, events, and education for individuals who are looking to tend to their mental health. https://www.beam.community/

DBT Self-Help

This iPhone and Android app is designed to help you cope with overwhelming emotions and impulsive behaviors. It will also assist with relationships and help you cultivate mindfulness.

T2 Mood Tracker

T2 Mood Tracker is an iPhone and Android app that allows you to monitor and track emotional health. The app records a range of emotions for anxiety, depression, head injury, stress, posttraumatic stress and general well-being. You can create items to track your progress and results are displayed in an easy-to-understand graph.

 

Mindfulness/Relaxation

Headspace

Headspace, for iPhone and Android devices, is meditation made relevant to modern life. Get unique daily guided meditations, science facts and figures and progress reports, all designed to make it as easy as possible for you to get some calm and clarity.

Liberate

Meditation app for the Black, Indigenous, and People of Color community. Listen to dozens of guided meditations to ease anxiety, find gratitude, heal internalized racism and micro-aggression and celebrate Blackness.  https://liberatemeditation.com/

Nature Sounds Relax and Sleep

This Android app lets you choose from a list of 6 different good quality nature relaxing sounds (sounds of nature) which include thunder, ocean sounds, sea, birds sounds, rain, night in jungle, water sounds, waterfall, nature and start your personal audio therapy.

Relax Melodies: Sleep and Yoga

Select sounds and melodies that you like and combine them to create a mix with this iPhone and Android app.

Mental Health Tools

T2 Mood Tracker

T2 Mood Tracker is an iPhone and Android app that allows you to monitor and track emotional health. The app records a range of emotions for anxiety, depression, head injury, stress, posttraumatic stress and general well-being. You can create items to track your progress and results are displayed in an easy-to-understand graph.

DBT Self-Help

This iPhone and Android app is designed to help you cope with overwhelming emotions and impulsive behaviors. It will also assist with relationships and help you cultivate mindfulness.

Online Therapy

BetterHelp

Over 4900 therapists with a minimum of a master’s degree: PhD, PsyD, LMFT, LCSW, LPC, LMSW.  Text messages, live chat, phone, video conference, app.  Prices from $40/week, billed monthly for basic subscription.  HIPAA compliant, secure, and anonymous.  https://www.betterhelp.com/

Melanin and Mental Health

“If you are looking for a clinician of color, melaninandmentalhealth.com has an online directory of Black and Latinx clinicians. You can also check out therapyforblackgirls.com, therapyforblackmen.org, or openpathcollective.org.”

Online-Therapy.com

Focused on Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT).  Self-help course with workbooks, activity plans, videos, and various tools.  Access to certified therapists via live chat, messaging.  3 pricing plans starting from $39.95/week up to $79.95/week (not including 20% discount for the first month).  https://www.online-therapy.com/

Wellnite

$35/month for monthly visits by video or phone, and text support.  Medical doctors offering medications or CBT Treatment plan mapped out during initial visit with MD.  https://www.wellnite.com/

eTherapyPro

$40 per week; billed every four weeks.  Licensed therapists; not psychiatrists; no prescribing.  App with voice, message, and video• Patient is matched with a therapist.  Monthly subscription includes cost of one prescription a month.  https://etherapypro.com/

PTSD

PTSD Coach

PTSD Coach was developed by the Department of Veterans Affairs’ National Center for PTSD. This iPhone and Android app is intended to be used as an adjunct to psychological treatment, but can also serve as a stand-alone education tool.

Self-Esteem

Self-esteem Blackboard

This Android app was developed by a clinical psychologist using the methods of cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) to help improve self-esteem. This app may be for you if low self-esteem is affecting your relationships or preventing you from being successful at school. If you’re unhappy with yourself, or having problems with anxiety or depression, this app may be for you.

Substance Abuse

Suicide Prevention

A Friend Asks

This iPhone and Android app offers tips for getting help for a friend (or yourself).  Helpful information includes what to do RIGHT NOW as well as what NOT to do.

LifeBuoy

This iPhone app is designed specifically to assist suicide survivors after a recent attempt.  It offers a daily mood diary, suggestions for decreasing social isolation, and other ways to monitor increased warning signs of suicidality.

ReliefLink

This award-winning suicide prevention iPhone app assists users with tracking daily mood/thoughts, creating a safety plan, locating the nearest hospitals, and obtaining quick-access to coping methods.

Virtual Hope Box

This iPhone and Android app helps with coping relaxation, distraction from overwhelming emotion, and positive thinking. You can personalize the content on the app to meet your specific needs.

 

WE HAVE LOTS OF WAYS TO HELP.  Contact the Health & Wellness Office at 202-884-9615