If you are experiencing a mental health crisis and cannot reach your therapist, contact your county’s Crisis unit, listed below; call 911; or go to your nearest emergency room. You can also call or text the national Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at 988.
Metro Area Mental Health Crisis Response Numbers
Ramsey: adults – 651-266-7900, children – 651-266-7878
Hennepin: adults – 612-596-1223, children – 612-348-2233
Anoka: 763-755-3801
Carver/Scott: 952-442-7601
Dakota: 952-891-7171
Washington: 651-777-5222
The crisis teams, made up of mental health professionals, can travel to your location and assess the situation. They help people through the crisis by providing stabilization services, intervention services, crisis prevention planning, referral to other professionals (including in some areas rapid access to psychiatrists) and follow-up services.
The crisis teams are available by phone 24 hours a day, seven days a week. If you or someone you are with are suicidal, psychotic, exhibiting out of control behavior or threatening to harm self or others, we urge you to call them. In some areas there are also crisis homes, where adults can stabilize without going to a hospital or emergency room.
(Source: NAMI Minnesota)
Somatic Psychotherapy
Somatic psychotherapy helps clients to heal by focusing on their body sensations. If you encounter an actual or perceived threat, and are not able to act in response, your body can become stuck, resulting in physical and emotional symptoms. Somatic psychotherapy gently and at your own pace helps you to become aware of your body and allowing the “stuckness” to release. More information is available through this link. https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-intelligent-divorce/201503/somatic-experiencing
Informed Care recognizes that trauma is widespread and that historically, many health care professions have worsened traumatic reactions in their encounters with clients and patients.