Support Groups for You
Are you and someone in your life struggling with Mental Health?
Check out these sites that offer different types of support groups :
Female Focused
Here are a few female-focused support groups and activities:
The Women’s Initiative offers a plethora of services geared to empower women and minimize the systemic oppression, regardless of your ability to pay. Explore their resources to transform life challenges into opportunities for change and growth.
Gateway Church has a support group for women who are going through or have went through a divorce.
For Hers understands the importance of mental health, especially in the current environment, and thus offering free virtual group support sessions based on a variety of topics like coping with COVID-19, trouble with sleep, relationship questions, managing anxiety and more.
Adolescence Focused
Re:mind Depression and Bipolar Support provides adolescent-focused groups. (Scroll down to “Adolescent Support Group”)
Minority Focused
Black Women Healing Circles is a support group located in Houston, TX for women of color who have been diagnosed with a mental health disorder or have a family member struggling with illness. You will need to request to join to access meetings.
The Brown Girl Therapy Newsletter offers information on its virtual meet-ups, workshops, and resources on mental health
QTPoc Mental Health offers a Facebook group and holds physical meetings in New York.
Asian Mental Health Project offers weekly ‘community check-in sessions’ open to anyone interested. Many of these meeting also include guest speakers who cover a wide variety of mental health discussions.
Trauma Focused
Here are a few trauma-focused support groups as well as group therapy sessions:
Montrose Center envisions to positively impact attitudes and behaviors in order to create a healthier society, with a focus on the LGBTQ community.
The Sexual Trauma & Abuse Care Center offers free and confidential services to support people of all ages and genders who have experienced sexual trauma or abuse.
Asian Mental Health Project offers weekly ‘community check-in sessions’ open to individuals in any location. Some topics covered include sexual trauma discussion led my a mental health expert.
Postpartum Focused
Postpartum Support International’s list of Texas support groups is at the bottom of the page.
Houston Center for Valued Living provides postpartum peer support groups
Depression Focused
re: Mind provides a list of support groups for depression. This organization offers countless depression and bipolar support groups with a number of focuses such as LGBTQ+, adolescent, military and veterans, and also offer groups in Spanish. All are free, confidential, and require no registration.
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance provides online support groups focused on depression and bipolar support
Anxiety Focused
Mind Over Matter Support Group and Mindful Meditation based in Webster, TX with monthly meet ups.
Eating Disorders Focused
Center for Discovery Houston offers free weekly group sessions—virtual and in person—for group therapy with a focus on eating disorders
Eating Disorders Hope lists related Texas support groups
Virtual Family & Community Support Group - For Loved Ones of Adults experiencing an eating disorder
Virtual Family & Community Support Group - For Loved Ones of Children & Adolescents experiencing an eating disorder
Religion Focused
Mental Health in the Jewish Community is a Facebook page for people within the Jewish community that would like peer support from likeminded people. This can act as a virtual support group.
Our Jewish Recovery is a Facebook page for Jewish people recovering from any form of addiction and can act as a virtual support group
Mental Health Ministries offers Christian faith-based support groups
Incarceration Focused
Strong Prison Wives & Families was created as a virtual community for partners, family members and friends of incarcerated individuals to share their experiences.
Prison Wives-Mothers-Daughters-Prayer Group is a Facebook group community for faith-based women in an incarcerated individual’s life. The group requires membership.
Family Focused
Finding the Foundation provides motherhood support groups.
Autumn Counseling provides group counseling for those who have lost their mothers.
Texas Department of Family and Protective Services offers their Parent Collaboration Group
Family Education and Resource Center (FERC): A family-focused program that provides free education, support and advocacy to family caregivers of those with loved ones with a mental health issue. This program is currently focused in Alameda Country, California.
Loss/ Bereavement Focused
Bo’s Place provides group support after a death of a loved one.
Autumn Counseling provides group counseling for those who have lost their mothers.
Institute for Spirituality and Health offers weekly online bereavement groups
Suicide Focused
Suicide Awareness Voices of Education exposes suicide supports groups nationwide
HIV Focused
Healthful Chat features chat rooms for HIV peer support
Veteran Focused
Wounded Warrier Project offer support groups for veterans in many US states
Disclaimer: Please note that these resources are suggestions, not recommendations. We vetted the agencies, organizations and companies and not the clinicians they have added to their sites. We are not a judge of the quality of care and of treatment.