Resources

Below you will find writing, organizations, and websites that you may find useful. These offerings are not a therapy services, but things that some clients have used in their own work, or that we have found valuable at New Soil Counseling.

    • The Betrayal Bond, Patrick Carnes

      • understand and interrupt patterns of exploitative and destructive relationships

    • Radical Acceptance, Tara Brach

      • explores Buddhist traditions merged with academic psychology

    • Codependent No More, Melody Beattie

      • break free from patterns of losing oneself in the problems faced by others

    • The Primal Wound, Nancy Verrier

      • the emotional and developmental impacts of adoption

    • Polysecure: Attachment, Trauma and Consensual Nonmonogamy, Jessica Fern

      • applying the principles of attachment therapy to polyamory/ethical non-monogamy

    • Trauma Stewardship: An Everyday Guide to Caring for Self While Caring for Others by Laura van Dernoot Lipsky and Connie Burke

      • a guide for taking care of yourself when your professional life may involve vicarious trauma

    • Planned Parenthood

      • One of the nation’s leading providers of high-quality, affordable health care, and the nation’s largest provider of sex education. They offer compassionate care, backed by medical experts and more than 100 years of research in reproductive health.

    • AIDS in Prison Project Hotline

      • Phone: (718) 378-7022 (English and Spanish)

        This hotline provides HIV and AIDS information for prisoners, and accepts collect calls.

    • National AIDS Hotline

      • Phone: (800) 342-AIDS / (800) 344-7432 (Spanish) / (800) 243-7889 (TDD)

    • Star Track

      • Star Track is an organization whose missions is to improve the health of youth and young adults in Maryland by being a leader in sexual and reproductive healthcare and education. Star track offers free STI testing, trans healthcare, family planning (including access to birth control and pregnancy healthcare), HIV prevention and access to PrEP, and counseling services.

    • LGBT National Help Center

      • The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) National Help Center, founded in 1996, is a non-profit, tax-exempt organization that provides vital peer-support, community connections and resource information to people with questions regarding sexual orientation and/or gender identity. They offer three multiple national hotlines for support.

    • True Colors United

      • The True Colors Fund is working to end homelessness among lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and questioning youth, creating a world in which all young people can be their true selves. True Colors United runs a database of service providers.

    • U.S. National Domestic Violence Hotline

      • Phone: (800) 799-7233 (English and Spanish) (800) 787-3224 (TTY).

        They also have an online chat feature available. Operating around the clock, seven days a week, confidential and free of cost, the National Domestic Violence Hotline provides lifesaving tools and immediate support to enable victims to find safety and live lives free of abuse. Highly trained, experienced advocates offer compassionate support, crisis intervention information and referral services in over 170 languages.

    • Rape Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN)

      • The nation’s largest organization fighting sexual violence, RAINN also carries out programs to prevent sexual violence, help victims and ensure that rapists are brought to justice.

    • House of Ruth Maryland

      • Phone: 410-889-7884

        The House of Ruth Maryland leads the fight to end violence against women and their children by confronting the attitudes, behaviors and systems that perpetuate it, and by providing victims with the services necessary to rebuild their lives safely and free of fear.

        Their services include a 24 Hour Hotline, Client Service Coordinators who provide safety planning, basic needs assistance, and resource referral, Legal Clinic services providing free legal advice and representation, access to emergency shelter, Individual and group counseling, a comprehensive Children’s Program and abuse Intervention through the Gateway Project and Si Puedo which provides psycho-educational programs to individuals (men and women) who are emotionally, physically, or sexually abusing their partner; assists and educate victims to ensure their safety.

        The emergency shelter offers 23 private rooms for women and children in imminent danger, onsite, state licensed childcare and health clinic; six transitional apartments and supportive services.

    • Turnaround

      • They provide counseling and support services to those impacted by sexual violence, intimate partner violence, and human trafficking.