RESOURCES
ATLANTA Low Cost Clinics
Metropolitan Counseling Services
Address: 2801 Buford Hwy NE #470, Atlanta, GA 30329
Phone: (404) 321-1794
www.mcsatlanta.org
Care and Counseling Center of Georgia
Address: 1814 Clairmont Rd, Decatur, GA 30033
Phone: (404) 636-1457
www.cccgeorgia.org
Mercer Family Therapy Center
Address: 1938 Peachtree St NW #107, Atlanta, GA 30309
Phone: (678) 547-6789
www.medicine.mercer.edu/mftc/atlanta
The Link Counseling Center
Address: 348 Mount Vernon Hwy NE, Atlanta, GA 30328
Phone: (404) 256-9797 www.thelink.org
Emory Outpatient Psychotherapy Training Program
Address: 12 Executive Park Drive NE, Atlanta, GA 30329
Phone: (404) 778-5526
Emory University Psychological Center
Address: 36 Eagle Row #270, Atlanta, GA 30322
Phone: (404) 727-7438 www.psychology.emory.edu/home/about/psychological-center/index.html
Helpful Reading
Resources for ADHD / Attention
Time Management for the Creative Person: Right-Brain Strategies for Stopping Procrastination, Getting Control of the Clock and Calendar, and Freeing Up Your Time and Your Life
- Lee Silber, 1998
Making the System Work for Your Child with ADHD
- Peter S. Jensen, MD, 2004
Mastering Your Adult ADHD: A Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment Program Client Workbook (Treatments That Work)
- Steven A. Safren (Author), Susan Sprich (Author), Carol A. Perlman & Michael W. Otto, 2005
Resources for Couples and Marriages
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love
- Sue Johnson, 2008
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country's Foremost Relationship Expert
- John Gottman, 2015
Love Sense: The Revolutionary New Science of Romantic Relationships
- Sue Johnson, 2013
The 5 Love Languages: The Secret to Love that Lasts
- Gary D. Chapman, 2015
The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate
- Gary Chapman, 2004
The Dance of Connection: How to Talk to Someone When You're Mad, Hurt, Scared, Frustrated, Insulted, Betrayed, or Desperate
- Harriet Lerner, 2002
Resources on Codependency
Codependent No More: How to Stop Controlling Others and Start Caring for Yourself
- Melody Beattie, 1986
Codependent No More Workbook
- Melody Beattie, 2011
I Hate You Don’t Leave Me
- Jerold Kreisman, MD and Hal Straus, 1991
Love is a Choice: The Definitive Book on Letting Go of Unhealthy Relationships
- Paul Meier M.D., Dr. Frank Minirth, Dr. Robert Hemfelt, 2003
The Language of Letting Go: Daily Meditations for Codependents
- Melody Beattie, 1990
Resources on Black Mental Health
Black Suicide: The Tragic Reality of America's Deadliest Secret
- Alton R. Kirk, 2009
Black Man Emerging: Facing the Past and Seizing a Future
- Joseph L. White, 2013
Standing In the Shadows: Understanding and Overcoming Depression in Black Men - John Head, 2004
Black Families in Therapy: Understanding the African American Experience
- Nancy Body-Franklin, 2006
Resources on Anxiety and Depression
The Anxiety and Phobia Workbook
- Edmund Bourne, 2015
Overcoming Depression: A Cognitive Therapy Approach Workbook (Treatments That Work)
- Mark Gilson, PhD, 2009
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation and Distress Tolerance
- Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, and Jeffrey Brantley, 2007
Resources on Mindfulness and Acceptance
Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life: The New Acceptance and Commitment Therapy
- Steven Hayes, 2005
Wherever You Go, There You Are
- Jon Kabat-Zin, 1994
The Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Workbook: Practical DBT Exercises for Learning Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotion Regulation and Distress Tolerance
- Matthew McKay, Jeffrey C. Wood, and Jeffrey Brantley, 2007
A Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction Workbook
- Bob Stahl, 2010
Resources on Trauma
The Courage to Heal: A Guide for Women Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse, 20th Anniversary Edition
- Ellen Bass, 2008
The Courage to Heal Workbook: A Guide for Women and Men Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse
- Laura Davis, 1990
Voices of Courage: Inspiration from Survivors of Sexual Assault
- Michael Domitrz, 2005
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy
- Tricia Rose, 2004
Resources for Parents
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens: The Ultimate Teenage Success Guide
- Sean Covey, 2014
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Families
- Sean Covey, 1998
How to Talk so Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk
- Adele Faber, 2012
How to Talk so Teens Will Listen and Listen So Teens Will Talk
- Adele Faber, 2006
Walking on Eggshells: Navigating the Delicate Relationship Between Adult Children and Parents
- Jane Isay, 2008
Resources on Black Culture
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria: And Other Conversations About Race
- Beverly Daniel Tatum, 2007
Between the World and Me
- Ta-Nehisi Coates, 2015
Americanah
- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, 2014
Resources For Black Women
Longing to Tell: Black Women Talk About Sexuality and Intimacy
- Tricia Rose, 2004
Shifting: The Double Lives of Black Women in America
- Charisse Jones and Kumea Shorter-Gooden, 2004
Stolen Women: Reclaiming Our Sexuality, Taking Back Our Lives
- Gail Wyatt, 1998
Words of Fire: An Anthology of African American Feminist Thought
- Beverly Guy-Sheftall (Editor), 1995
Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes and Black Women in America
- Melissa Harris-Perry, 2013
In Search of Our Mothers' Gardens: Womanist Prose
- Alice Walker, 2003
The Black Woman, An Anthology
- Toni Cade Bambara (Editor), 2005
Resources on Disordered Eating
Anorexia Nervosa: A Survival Guide for Families, Friends and Sufferers
- Janet Treasure, 1997
Eating in the Light of the Moon: How Women Can Transform Their Relationship with Food Through Myths, Metaphors, and StoryTelling
- Anita Johnston, PhD, 2000
Help Your Teenager Beat an Eating Disorder
- James Lock, MD / PhD and Daniel La Grange, 2015
Goodbye Ed, Hello Me: Recover from Your Eating Disorder and Fall in Love with Life
- Jenni Schaefer, 2009
Life Without Ed: How One Woman Declared Independence from Her Eating Disorder and How You Can Too
- Jenni Schaefer, 2003
Restoring Our Bodies, Reclaiming Our Lives: Guidance and Reflections on Recovery from Eating Disorders
- Aimee Liu, 2011
Resources on Self Reflection and Self Esteem
The Six Pillars of Self-Esteem: The Definitive Work On Self Esteem by the Leading Pioneer in the Field
- Nathaniel Branden, 1995
Big Magic: Creative Living Beyond Fear
- Elizabeth Gilbert, 2015
The Four Agreements - A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom
- Don Miguel Ruiz, 1997
Letters to a Young Brother: Manifest Your Destiny
- Hill Harper, 2007
Letters to a Young Sister: DeFINE Your Destiny
- Hill Harper, 2009
The Happiness Project: Or, Why I Spent a Year Trying to Sing in the Morning, Clean my Closets, Fight Right, Read Aristotle and Generally Have More Fun
- Gretchen Rubin, 2011
The Dance of Fear: Rising Above Anxiety, Fear and Shame to Be Your Best and Bravest Self
- Harriet Lerner, 2005
The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You
- Elaine Aron, 1997
The Highly Sensitive Person’s Workbook
- Elaine Aron, 1999
Resources on Grief and Death
On Grief & Grieving: Finding the Meaning of Grief Through the Five Stages of Loss
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, David Kessler, 2014
On Death & Dying: What the Dying have to Teach Doctors, Nurses, Clergy and Their Own Families
- Elizabeth Kubler-Ross, Ira Byock, 2014
Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, A Young Man, and Life's Great Lesson
- Mitch Albom, 2002
Resources for Women
Dance of Anger: A Woman's Guide to Changing the Patterns of Intimate Relationships
- Harriet Lerner, 2014
Women Who Run with the Wolves
- Clarissa Pinkola Estés PhD, 1996
Bad Feminist
- Roxane Gray, 2014
Love in My Language
- Alexandra Elle, 2014
Resources for Adults with Difficult Childhoods
Drama of the Gifted Child: The Search for the True Self (Revised Edition)
- Alice Miller,1996
The Truth Will Set You Free: Overcoming Emotional Blindness and Finding Your True Adult Self
- Alice Miller, 2002
The Glass Castle: A Memoir
- Jeannette Walls, 2006
Websites and Hotlines
Mental Health Organizations
American Psychological Association (APA)
www.apa.org
American Psychiatric Association
www.psychiatry.org
National Alliance on Mental Health (NAMI)
www.nami.org
Association of Black Psychologists
www.abpsi.org
National Institute of Mental Health – Health Info
www.nimh.nih.gov/health/index.shtml
Black Mental Health
www.OurselvesBlack.com
Georgia Psychological Association (GPA) www.gapsychology.org
Depression and Suicide
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
www.dbsalliance.org
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
www.SuicidePreventionLifeline.org
1-800-273-8255
The Jed Foundation
www.jedfoundation.org
Substance Abuse / Addiction
Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration
www.samhsa.gov/find-help
Alcoholics Anonymous Atlanta
www.aaatlanta.org
Alcoholics Anonymous Georgia
www.aageorgia.org/find-a-meeting.html
Al-Anon
www.al-anon.org
Al-Anon Atlanta
ww.alanonatl.com
Talbott Recovery Atlanta www.talbottcampus.com
Assault & Abuse
The National Domestic Violence Hotline
Call 1-800-799-7233 or
Text 1-800-787-3224
Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network (RAINN)
www.rainn.org
National Sexual Assault Hotline
1-800-656-HOPE(4673)
Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence www.gcadv.org
Partnership Against Domestic Violence www.padv.org
Postpartum Support
Postpartum Support International
Black Mamas Matter Alliance
Postpartum Progress www.postpartumprogress.com