Crisis Resources

BRC Therapy does not offer crisis support or 24/7 services, however, we have compiled a list of potential crisis support options for you including call and text, virtual peer support groups, and youtube videos. Current clients, you may have a safety plan in place and it could be helpful to revisit that to determine what to do next. Calling a close family member, friend, neighbor, or other support person can be helpful in moments of crisis, but when they are not available or simply not able to provide the level of care you are needing, you may seek other support. Please evaluate the options listed below for best fit.


Please also note that some crisis line workers are mandated to report plans of suicide to the police. If this is poses a concern or potential risk to you, I encourage you to inquire about their reporting policies before sharing any personal details. It is up to you how much you share with them from there or if you seek out other support.


If you or someone you know is in immediate, threatening danger and decide to call 911, please be aware that police are not equipped to offer mental health support and may pose danger to people of Color, neurodivergent people, and disabled people/people with disabilities. Please ALSO reach out to community leaders, neighbors, friends, and family to be present if you are calling the police for a person with marginalized identities.

Blackline: peer support and counseling prioritizing BIPOC, with an LGBTQ+ Black Femme Lens.

*“We do not trace or send any type of intervention under any circumstances without consent.”

Call or text 800-604-5841

Trans Lifeline: trans peer support for trans community that’s been divested from police since day one. Run by and for trans people.

US 877-565-8860

Canada 877-330-6366

Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: warmline answered by a trained peer supporters.

*“We do not trace or send any type of intervention under any circumstances without consent.”

888-407-4515

See operating hours here

Lines for Life: to talk to a suicide or substance use specialist. Lines for Life also offers support for military & family, senior loneliness, teen-to-teen crisis help, and racial equity support.

800-273-8255

Trevor Hotline for LGBTQ+ Youth:

866-488-7386

Text “START” to 678678

NAMI Helpline: to talk to a trained crisis counselor 24/7

Text “NAMI” TO 741741

THRIVE Lifeline: offers 24/7 text-based crisis support to anyone 18+ with specific focus on multiply marginalized communities. *“THRIVE has a strict policy against non-consensual active rescue. If you are in crisis, we will not call police or emergency services on you unless you ask us to or consent when we offer to.”

Text: 313-662-8209

Yarrow Collective: Peer-led support groups with the vision of a community where coercive care is no longer necessary because individuals experiencing mental distress have a broad array of effective, accessible, and safe pathways towards their own unique definition of mental wellness. “Alternatives to Suicide” runs each Wednesday on Zoom 8-9:30 PM EST

Kiva Centers: a nationally recognized peer-run and trauma-informed organization that offers training, technical assistance, and networking opportunities statewide across Massachusetts. The Kiva Centers’ focus is the development and promotion of healing communities for people experiencing different social class impacts like trauma, mental health, and substance use. Kiva Centers offers daily online peer support groups.

https://kivagroups.carrd.co/

Peer Support Space: a peer-led organization, that exists outside of the current system, where we use our lived experience to support and hold space for one another as we navigate our unique journeys with life struggles, mental illness and/or substance misuse challenges, neurodivergence, disability, grief, trauma, or other obstacles to mental wellness. We use, and help others use, the power of lived experience to support, educate, and guide one another while providing additional, free options for mental wellness. PSS hosts virtual peer support groups twice a day Monday through Saturday

https://peersupportspace.org/daily-gatherings

Project LETS: a national grassroots organization and movement led by and for folks with lived experience of mental illness/madness, Disability, trauma, & neurodivergence. We specialize in building just, responsive, and transformative peer support collectives and community mental health care structures that do not depend on state-sanctioned systems that trap our folks in the medical/prison-industrial complex. Project LETS provides support by text for urgent issues that involve involuntary hospitalization

Text 401-400-2905 for urgent support with psychiatric incarceration/involuntary hospitalization.

https://projectlets.org/resources