RESOURCES

Beck Depression Inventory

This reflective self-assessment helps you explore your emotional landscape with curiosity and care. The Beck Depression Inventory can illuminate patterns in mood and energy, offering insight into how depression may be touching your daily life. By bringing gentle awareness to these experiences, you open space for understanding and healing.

Take the Test:
When you’re ready, complete and submit your Beck Depression Inventory so one of our providers can review your results and support you in the next steps.

Take the Beck Depression Inventory

Beck Anxiety Inventory

The Beck Anxiety Inventory invites you to notice how stress and tension show up in your body and mind. This self-reflective tool can help you recognize patterns of anxiety and deepen your awareness of what your system may be trying to communicate. Understanding your anxiety with compassion is the first step toward creating more calm, balance, and emotional freedom.

Take the Test:
You’re invited to complete and submit your Beck Anxiety Inventory so our providers can review your results and help you explore ways to restore balance and ease.

Take the Beck Anxiety Inventory

Somebody to Love by Lesléa Newman offers interactive activities throughout the book, making it an engaging tool for self-reflection and emotional growth. Through these exercises, readers are invited to explore their own emotions, relationships, and self-worth in a deeply personal way. I recommend this book to clients because it combines a touching narrative with practical activities that promote self-acceptance, empathy, and healing, making it an ideal resource for those on a journey of self-discovery and emotional well-being.

The Gifts of Imperfection by Brené Brown offers powerful insights into embracing vulnerability and letting go of the need for perfection. Brown's research-based guidance helps readers develop self-compassion, build resilience, and cultivate a sense of worthiness. For clients struggling with self-criticism, shame, or the pressure to meet unrealistic expectations, this book is a valuable resource. It encourages them to live authentically, connect deeply with others, and embrace imperfections as essential to a wholehearted life. The book’s blend of personal stories and actionable steps makes it both relatable and transformative.

The Four Agreements by Don Miguel Ruiz offers a simple yet profound guide to personal freedom and emotional well-being. The book's core principles—being impeccable with your word, not taking things personally, not making assumptions, and always doing your best—are powerful tools for clients seeking to break free from self-limiting beliefs and unhealthy patterns. Its wisdom encourages mindfulness, self-awareness, and healthier relationships with both ourselves and others. For clients wanting to cultivate inner peace, resilience, and a more balanced life, The Four Agreements serves as an accessible, transformative resource.

I Am Worthy: A Journey of Self-Acceptance by Desiree Mangandog provides a unique, integrative approach to emotional healing, combining powerful mindset work with the use of essential oils. Mangandog offers practical exercises and rituals that help clients release feelings of unworthiness, self-doubt, and shame, while teaching them how to use essential oils as a tool to support their emotional journey. For clients seeking self-acceptance and empowerment, this book delivers a hands-on, holistic guide to nurturing self-love and transforming limiting beliefs through both emotional and physical healing techniques.

Here are a few different options in the event that you need support as soon as possible. Some are available 24/7, and others will respond at their earliest convenience.

Crisis Text Line
Text HOME to 741741 to connect with a volunteer Crisis Counselor. Free 24/7 support at your fingertips.

988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
988 is the three-digit dialing code that connects callers in crisis to trained counselors who listen, understand the impact of their problems, provide support, and connect them to resources as needed. Please be aware that in many situations, these calls are still routed to 911 and may involve a police response.

The Trevor Project
Available 24/7, Trevor Project’s trained counselors understand the challenges LGBTQ+ young people face. They will listen without judgment. All of your conversations are confidential, and you can share as much or as little as you’d like. Text START to 648648 or call 1-866-488-7386.

City of Chicago Domestic Violence Helpline
1-877-863-6338
The City of Chicago Domestic Violence Help Line is a 24-hour, toll-free, confidential number that provides services and information for those experiencing domestic violence.

Illinois Helpline for Opioids and Other Substances
1-833-234-6343 or text HELP to 833234
The only statewide, public resource for finding substance use treatment and recovery services in Illinois, serving people using opioids and other substances, with or without insurance.

Here are a few websites that can help you track down the ideal specialist for your needs.

Illinois Non-Crisis Mental Health Partners
If you (or your child) have Illinois Medicaid, this is a list of non-emergency mental health clinics covered by your insurance.

Psychology Today
Search by location, specialization, insurance, gender, race/ethnicity, and more!

Therapy Den
Therapists are required to sign a values pledge related to anti-racism, celebration of gender and sexual diversity, etc. Search by location, specialization, insurance, gender, race/ethnicity, and more!