Resources
Free, no email address required, and written to be useful on their own. If a guide only makes sense as a step toward booking a session, it is not a guide.
Workbook · 7 pages
The reflective exercises that accompany Jim's book, laid out to work through at your own pace. Usable on its own without having read the book.
Being re-set for screen-reader accessibility and reviewed for crisis language before it goes back up.
Guide
How to prepare, what a therapist will ask, what confidentiality actually covers, questions worth asking them, and how to tell whether it is a fit.
Guide
What the symptom clusters mean, which treatments carry guideline support, when to seek an evaluation, and where the crisis routes are.
Guide
What the process involves, what the evidence does and does not show, the screening questions that should be asked of you, and realistic expectations.
Checklist
A printable version of the eight questions on the insurance page, with space to write down who you spoke to and what they said.
Guide · clinical review required
How to build a written plan for the hours when things get bad, and how to talk it through with someone you trust.
Held until clinical review is complete. A safety-planning tool that is written carelessly does harm, so this one is not being rushed.
Resource center
A full reading path rather than a single guide: the signs people miss, why leaving is hard, managing contact when no contact is not available, and how to help someone who is still in it. No email address required.
Resource center
What the term means clinically, how the pattern is assessed, what outpatient treatment involves, and where partners and family can get help of their own.
Elsewhere
None of these are affiliated with this practice. They are listed because they are free, national, and better resourced than any single therapist.
Call or text 988, any hour
988 then press 1, or text 838255
1-800-799-7233, or text START to 88788
1-800-662-4357, treatment referral, 24/7
Plain-language overview from the National Institute of Mental Health
Self-help tools and treatment information, open to everyone
Everything on this page is general education. It is not a diagnosis, not treatment, and not a substitute for talking to a professional about your own situation. Downloading a guide does not create a therapist–client relationship, and none of it is monitored for emergencies.
If something here is out of date or wrong, tell us and it will be corrected. Material is reviewed at least annually; the sitewide review date is currently 1 September 2026.
Written and clinically reviewed by Jim Denning, MA, LPC. Last reviewed 1 September 2026.
We review health content at least once a year, and sooner when clinical guidance, fees, insurance, or crisis information changes. Tell us if something here looks wrong.
Healing is possible. Tell us a little about what is going on and Jim will get back to you.
