favorite resources
mental heatlh resources
Athens Parent Wellbeing
- Athens Parent Wellbeing partners with therapists who are knowledgeable and focused on helping parents through their prenatal & postpartum periods. They also hold monthly events, provide peer support resources, and much more!
- Life can be hard. Sometimes you just need someone to listen. Call or text 988 to connect with a trained crisis counselor. Studies have shown that callers feel less suicidal, less depressed, less overwhelmed, and more hopeful after speaking with a 988 Lifeline crisis counselor.
- Advantage Behavioral Health Systems has a 24/7 walk in clinic at 240 Mitchell Bridge Road in Athens that offers crisis intervention services any time of day or night.
therapeutic approach resources
What is Trust Based Relational Intervention®?
- Learn more about TBRI and it's origin, how you can use it, and what children would benefit most from it.
- Want to learn more about Child-Parent Psychotherapy? Click on the link above to read more about how it can support family strengths, assist in family healing after stressful events, while also respecting the family and their values.
- Click the link above to read information from the Association for Play Therapy about what play therapy is, who it's for, and why it's effective.
favorite books and podcasts
Recommended Books
- The Whole Brain Child by Daniel J. Siegel and Tina Payne Bryson
- Raising Kids with Big Baffling Behaviors - Brain-Body-Sensory Strategies that Really Work by Robyn Gobbel
- The Connected Child by Karyn Purvis
- The Connected Parent by Karyn Purvis and Lisa Qualls
- Reclaim Compassion - The Adoptive Parent’s Guide to Overcoming Blocked Care with Neuroscience and Faith by Lisa Qualls
- No-Drama Discipline by Tina Payne Bryson and Daniel J. Siegel
- The Explosive Child - A New Approach for Understanding and Parenting Easily Frustrated, Chronically Inflexible Children by Ross Greene
- Trying Differently Rather than Harder - Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders by Diane Malbin
