External
Resources
This working list is non-exhaustive but is a working document to support clients in various areas that I find come up in therapy. Please take what you need, and leave what is not helpful or supportive for you. Check back if you need as it will be continually updated, and feel free to share with others who might benefit from these resources.
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This is not meant to be a replacement for therapy, and may not be reflective of my personal views.
Crisis Resources (City of Toronto)
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Toronto Distress Centre 24 hour crisis line 416-408-4357 (408-HELP)
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Gerstein Centre 24 hr crisis line 416-929-5200
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Kids Help Phone 24 hour crisis line 1-800-668-6868
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Assaulted Women’s Helpline (24 hrs) 1-866-863-0511
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Toronto Rape Crisis Centre crisis support 416-597-8808
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Women’s College Hospital 24hr Sex Assault/Domestic Violence care: 76 Grenville St. room 1305, 416-323-6885
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Gerstein Centre mobile crisis team 416-929-5200
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St. Elizabeth mobile crisis team 416-4980043
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St. Mike’s and St. Joe’s mobile crisis teams call 911 and ask for mobile crisis team
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Location of CAMH emergency: 250 College St.
Self-Help General
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Take Care 19 - https://takecare19.com/ - free/low-cost resources online originally started to support people during COVID-19
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Are U OK - Kati Morton - (book)
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Don't Call Me Crazy - 33 Voices Start the Conversation on Mental Health
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Maybe You Should Talk To Someone - Lori Gottleib (book)
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Research, links, workbooks, exercises, etc. on Positive Psychology
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Self Assessment Scales
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Emotion Wheels & Needs Inventory
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Social Justice, Anti-Racism, Anti-Oppression
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We Should All Be Feminists - Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie (book)
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Black Fatigue - How Racism Erodes the Mind Body & Spirit - Mary Frances Winters (book)
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Uncomfortable Conversations with a Black Man - YouTube/videos
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Good Ancestor (podcast)
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Indigenous Specific Organizations & Books
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IllumiNative
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IFS Resources
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Mosaic Mind - Empowering The Tormented Mind of Child Abuse Survivors - (book)
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You are the one you’ve been waiting for - Richard Schwartz - (book)
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The Pain We Carry; Healing from Complex PTSD for POC - Natalie Gutierrez (book)
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Brown Girls Don't Do Therapy (Diviya Lewis) (podcast)
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Inside Out 1 & 2 (Pixar movies)
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Encanto (movie) Disney/Pixar
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Mindfulness & Self-Compassion
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Insight Timer (meditation app) - free with paid options
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Calm - (meditation app) - limited free, mostly paid options
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Headspace - (meditation app) - limited free, mostly paid options
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Tara Brach - (website) (book recommendations: Radical Acceptance, Radical Compassion)
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Kristen Neff - (website) (book recommendations: Self Compassion)
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Get Out of your Head and Into your Life - Steven Hayes - (book)
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Inside Out - (movie) - Pixar
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Trauma in the Body/Somatic Psychotherapy
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It Didn't Start with You - Mark Wolyn (book)
Grief
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Attachment, Intimacy & Relationships
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ADHD & ASD
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Your brain's not broken : strategies for navigating your emotions and life with ADHD (Book)
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ADHD & Dopamine article
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ADHD & Risky Behaviour article
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Habits & Boundaries
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LGBTQ2S+, Gender & Sexuality
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LGBT Youth Line - 416-962-9688 & Support by Text 647-694-4275
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Come As You Are - Emily Nagowski (book)
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Beyond The Gender Binary - Alok Menon (book)
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Gay People Of Colour - Facing Prejudices, Forging Identities (book)
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For Educators, Organizations, and other Service Providers
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Toronto Psychotherapists for Equity and Justice List Serv & Referral Website
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Models of Understanding our Inner Systems & Relational Patterns
Internal Family Systems model | Some qualities of Self energy | Understanding our bodies' stress responses based on polyvagal theory |
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Ruth Culver's model integrating IFS & Polyvagal theory | Somatic Experiencing Interventions for regulation | A model showing patterns of relational interactions, and how to unblend from them (Karpman's model) |