General Wellness

These are not intended to be a replacement for therapy, but are other avenues of exploring mental health. Most resources listed are either free or low-cost.

Informational

Mental Health is Health (A great place to start if you’re new to exploring mental health)
Youth-led Mental Health Resource Page
Students Against Depression

Support Groups & Peer-to-Peer Support

One-on-one Peer Support:

Project LETS Peer Mental Health Advocates: PMHAs are trained to build long-term, 1-1 peer support relationships (with specific skills in: peer counseling, advocacy, crisis response skills). PMHAs also offer rapid crisis response support and short-term drop in sessions. Some PMHA relationships last a few months, and some have lasted years! It’s up to you to determine what type of support you’re looking for.
Liberatory Peer Support for BI&POC in Mental Health: Uplifting and investing into future generations of BI&POC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color) mental health clinicians and social workers is a core Mental Health Liberation mission. We invite BI&POC students to share space, participate in dialogue, and actively guide this movement.

Groups:

DBT Skills Group(s) for QT/BIPOC Teens - Paradox Therapy
MALIKAH's Healing Justice Collective (different from Y-WE, online virtual healing circle)
BEAM (Black Emotional & Mental Health) Events
Fireweed Collective Support Groups (Includes QTBIPOC centered groups, survivor-centered groups, disabled/chronically ill support groups)
Nalgona Positivity Pride Events (past events include: co-working sessions for BIPOC students, writing sessions, eating disorder webinars)
Support Groups facilitated by Kate Mageau sliding-scale available; Offerings: Healing from Toxic Relationships (adults), Rainbow Heads/Neurodiversity Group
NAMI Seattle Support Groups
Psychiatric Survivors Support Group
Amy Sigle Art-Based Peer Support

unless specifically mentioned, reach out to ensure that the groups support folks under 18 before signing up

Other resources:

You Are Made of Medicine: A Mental Health Peer Support Manual | For indigiqueer, 2 Spirit, LGBTQ+ & Gender Non-conforming Indigenous Youth

Seattle Trans List: A community-sourced list of resources for and by trans people

Community Mental Health & Healing Funds

Psych Survivor Healing Fund: https://airtable.com/shrwofgLsI2EoUlXT

The goal of this fund is to support the healing, safety, and care needs of psychiatric survivors who have experienced harm, trauma, and violence in the mental health system.

Anti-Carceral Community Safety Fund: https://airtable.com/shrz4pDB4b4Uid7Ce

The goal of this fund is to support our community members in accessing care, safety, and healing in the community. Too often, a place to stay away from other people, access to food or sleep, not being able to tap in other support, not being able to stop working so you can support someone, etc. can be the difference between someone being incarcerated in a psychiatric facility, and them being able to remain free. Funds can be requested for: hotel rooms, AirBnBs, food, caregiver stipends, mediators and Transformative Justice facilitators, emergency funds for medicine, co-pays, medical or healing appointments, etc.

Healing Fund for Black Disabled, Mad, and Neurodivergent Folks: https://airtable.com/shrG8YnXUQuwsi3cG

This fund is for US-based Black people who identify as Disabled, mad, mentally ill, and/or neurodivergent. The goal of this fund is to support ongoing healing needs due to the traumatic impacts of white supremacy, anti-Blackness, ableism, and sanism (on an ideological, institutional, interpersonal, and internalized level). Priority will be given to requests from multiply marginalized people, including: no/low-income folks, queer and trans folks, undocumented folks, etc.

Therapy Specific Funds are listed here

Audio Wellness & Podcasts

Audio Wellness (grounding & breathing techniques)
All My Relations is a podcast hosted by Matika Wilbur (Swinomish and Tulalip), and Desi Small Rodriguez (Northern Cheyenne) [previously by Dr. Keene] to explore our relationships— relationships to land, to our creatural relatives, and to one another.
Brene Brown: Unlocking Us Podcast | We are hardwired for connection, and connecting requires courage, vulnerability, and conversation. I want this to be a podcast that’s real, unpolished, honest, and reflects both the magic and the messiness of what it means to be human.
Finding our Way with Prentis Hemphill Podcast | Prentis dives into topics of embodiment, boundaries, harm, creativity, and more with people who are working to reshape this world. This isn’t a podcast about answers. It is an exploration into ourselves, and the skills we need to create and embody the world we want.
Life Kit Podcast | “Everyone needs a little help being a human. Life Kit is here to help you get it together.”
- Life Kit Mental Health Reset Playlist
Maintenance Phase Podcast | Debunking the junk science behind health fads, wellness scams and nonsensical nutrition advice
Melanin & Mental Health “Between Sessions” Podcast
Teen-y Podcast | Teen-y is the podcast where we tackle, discuss and investigate the not so Teen-y topics through the lens of storytelling and conversation. Expanding the scope of media to tell the full story is our goal at Teen-y pod, and you to can become a part of that community of engaged learners by listening. ***Hosted by Syd Walter -- a recent Y-WE alum!***
Therapy for Black Girls Podcast is a weekly chat about all things mental health, personal development, and all the small decisions we can make to become the best possible versions of ourselves.
YouthSpeaks Podcast YouthSpeaks brings in acclaimed guest speakers to discuss mental well-being, specifically in people of color, from a South-Asian perspective.