Author of The Scarred Soul: Understanding and ending self-inflicted violence, a very wise and useful self-help book or people who self-harm. She's recently reopened her private practice.
Butler Hospital
345 Blackstone Boulevard
Providence, RI 02906
(401) 455-6200
Partial (day) hospital DBT program. Specifically mentions self-injury, but in context of BPD.
Covenant House
Nineline
1-800-999-9999 (1-800-999-9915 TTY)
Crisis hotline with referral database of more than 26,000 agencies. Not SI-specific, but might be worth trying.
Adolescent Psychiatric Services at Fairfax Hospital
10200 N.E. 132nd Street
Kirkland, Washington 98034
Telephone: 425-821-2000
Toll free: 800-435-7221
Fax: 425-821-9010
"Fairfax provides services for individuals ages 12 to 18 with psychological, emotional and behavioral problems. We approach the adolescent's treatment through thorough consideration of their social, academic and family environments. "We value and explore perceptions of the patient, family, treating physician, school and community professionals. Our professionals will then target those areas that are going to be critical in the stabilization process:
A nonprofit counseling center with a 24-hour crisis line. I don't
have much information here, but they have a sliding scale, will contact
you for intake within a week, and specifically mention self-injury on their
web page.
The
Healing House
5435 Balboa Blvd.
Encino, California 91316
Andrew Levander, M.A., M.A.C.
Clinical Director
213-470-7730
info@thehealinghousela.com
The Healing House is a private therapeutic treatment center specializing in the treatment of self-injury. They offer intensive outpatient therapy, individual therapy, group therapy, and family support.
Andrew Levander, Clinical Director, says, "The Healing House understands that, although self-injury may temporarily alleviate unwanted or undesired thoughts and or feelings, self-injurious behavior happens in the absence of healthy relationships with people. The Healing House is dedicated to providing comprehensive therapeutic services to adolescent girls and boys as well as men, women, parents and interested community organizations."
Independent Living Center of the North Shore
583 Chestnut Street
Lynn, MA 01904
(617) 593-7500
Publishes the pamphlet "Women and Self Injury" and offers support
groups.
Institute for Bio-behavioral Therapy and Research
935 Northern Boulevard
Great Neck, NY 11021
(516) 487-7116
Mentions SI specifically. They claim to rely on "conservative use of drug therapy, a psychological approach that focuses upon the present and future of the patient rather than upon the past, emphasis on nutrition and physical exercise, family par model, as there are no ticipation (if necessary), [and] educating patients and relatives about their problems."
Behavioral
Technology Transfer Group
4556 University Way NE, Ste 222
Seattle, WA 98105
Phone: 206/675-8588
Fax: 206/675-8590
information@behavioraltech.com
Although LTG is concerned with training mental health professionals
in the use of treatments such as Dialectical Behavioral Therapy, it's possible
that someone at this site can direct you to a nearby DBT therapist. Marsha
Linehan is also running studies in the use of DBT at the
University of Washington. DBT is demanding for both client and therapist,
but when it works the results are amazing.
The Menninger Clinic
PO Box 829
Topeka, KS 66601-0829
General 1-800-288-0317
Admissions/Care Coordination 1-800-351-9058
Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry & Mental Health Sciences
1-800-288-0317 Ext 5833
Menninger has a 95-bed hospital for adults and a 48-bed hospital
for children and adolescents. Special units are available for
emergency admissions, short-term diagnosis and treatment, and patients
requiring treatment for alcoholism and drug-related problems, eating
disorders, self-harm, dissociative disorders, and sexual
abuse. Menninger offers partial hospital, halfway house, community
residence, and day treatment programs.
Pittsburgh Action Against Rape (PAAR)
81 S. 19th Street
Pittsburgh, PA 15203
(412) 431-5665
Support for anyone who has been sexually assaulted. Self-injury group therapy, short- and long-term counseling, information and referral. Also does some community outreach and education. Publishes a workbook for self-injurers.
River
Oaks Hospital Compulsive Behaviors program
1525 River Oaks Road West
New Orleans, LA 70123
Phone: (504) 734-1740
Toll-free: (800) 366-1740
Inpatient, partial, intensive outpatient, and impaired professional programs. Program focuses on issues including: Ownership of the compulsive behavior, breaking the denial (facts, awareness, responsibility, impact), accepting responsibility for the impact on self/others, affect regulation, shame reduction, identification of acting out cycles and interventive strategies, relapse prevention planning, dealing with trauma, and developiong a plan for using the new skills in a balanced life.
Rock Creek Hospital
40 Timberline Drive
Lemont, IL 60439
Inpatient self-injury program; insight-oriented and
cognitive-behavioral approaches.
SAFE Alternatives Program
MacNeal Hospital
Berwyn, IL
1-800-DONT CUT
"SAFE Alternatives is an eclectic program which combines cognitive-behavioral interventions with milieu therapy, expressive therapies, intensive group work, and psychodynamic therapies."
The Sanctuary
Friends Hospital
4641 Roosevelt Boulevard
Philadelphia, PA 19124-2399
(215) 831-6916
The Sanctuary is a special inpatient unit designed to meet the needs of trauma survivors and balance the needs to be safe, to be nurtured, and to have boundaries. They specifically target self-injury, but only take patients with traumatic pasts.
Other therapists I know of who do DBT or treat SI
Adult Survivors Struggling with Self-Injury
New Hope Healing Institute
nhhi@nhhi.net
PO Box 532067
Indianapolis, IN 46253
(317) 251-0453 (Best time to Call - Tuesday & Wednesday, 1p - 4p)
Services include support groups for survivors of abuse with self-injury issues, Retreats, conference workshops, SIED (newsletter) and more.
Trichotillomania support group
Schaumburg, IL
Contact: Karleen Wink, M.S.
(847) 519-7770
A support group for compulsive hair pullers in the Chicago area. Monday evenings, 8 to 9 pm.
National Office:
439 University Avenue
Suite 300
Toronto, ON
M5G 1Y8
TEL: (416) 586-0100
FAX: (416) 586-1880
"Kids Help Phone is Canada's only toll-free, national telephone
counseling service for children and youth. We provide counseling
services directly to children and youth between the ages of 4 and 19
years and help adults aged twenty and over find the counseling
services they need."
S.A.F.E. in Canada
735 Wonderland Rd. N. Suite 224
London, Ontario
N6H 5N7
(519) 857-7259.
Provides therapy and support for self-injurers in Canada, teen programs,
professional education, workshops (including one for family and friends),
and literature. Cognitive-behavioral community-based model.
Youth
Services Bureau
465 MacLaren Street
Ottawa, ON
(613) 234-5511
Free outpatient counseling (client-centered and cognitive-behavioral) for low-income youth in Ottawa. Mentions self-injury specifically.
42nd Street is a mental health service for Manchester young
people aged fifteen to twenty-five who face wide and varied problems
including self-harm and suicide. They offer a variety of individual
support alongside a range of groups based at the resource and within
the local community. They have initiated specific projects including
a suicide/self-harm project which itself offers individual and group
support to young people. They completed a research project on young
people, self-harm and suicide and produced an excellent book based on
their findings.
Barnardo/Social Services Leaving Care Project
76c Walter Road Swansea SA1 1RQ
England
Tim Phillips
0179 246 0178
Supports young people in educating social workers and other
intervention services on the rational and driving forces behind
self-harm and self-injury. Explores positive responses as well as
instances when intervention is effective or counter-productive. Led,
developed and delivered by young people who self-harm or injure
themselves.
The Basement Project
P.O. Box 5 Abergavenny NP7 5XW
Wales
Lois Arnold and Anne Magill
0187 385 6524
A community resource providing support groups for individuals abused
in childhood as well as training, supervision, consultation, research and
publications.
The Basement Project has carried out research and worked extensively
with people (including young people) who self-injure, and has set-up the
self-injury forum (leaflet available on request). It also works to encourage
good practice and provides training workshops and support for workers in
the field of self-injury.
Brent Adolescent Centre
Johnston House 51 Winchester Avenue London NW6 7TT
England
Dr Catalina Bronstein
0171 328 0918
The Centre will provide assessment, psychotherapeutic consultations
and, when needed, psychotherapeutic treatment. It will investigate and
try to understand the underlying anxieties that generate such behaviour
in young people in order to help adolescents understand why they need to
attack themselves.
Pilot project for three years.
Bristol Crisis Service for Women
PO Box 654
Bristol
BS99 1XH
0117 925 1119
Resources for women who self-harm, including several booklets and
information sheets and help line service on Friday and Saturday nights
between 9.00 p.m. and 12.30 a.m. From what I've seen of their stuff,
they're an extremely valuable resource for women in Europe and the UK
who self-injure. They recently published "The Hurt
Yourself Less" Workbook, written by people who self-injure, for
people who self-injure.
Crisis
Recovery Unit
Fitzmary 1
Bethlem Royal Hospital
Monks Orchard Road
Beckenham, Kent
BR3 3BX
Phone: 020 8776 4102
Fax:
Email: Jane.bunclark@slam-tr.nhs.uk
The CRU offers humane and understanding inpatient SI treatment
in a six-month program. "Experience has shown that self harm is
virtually impossible to extinguish through nursing observation or
other interventions. It continues, albeit in secret, and therapeutic
alliances are broken as individuals and staff struggle to determine
who has control. The unit has developed an approach which whilst not
condoning self harm, tolerates it as a current means of coping whilst
seeking for alternatives." I've heard a few negative reports from
people who have been through the program, but mostly positive
ones. NHS.
Loughborough Youth Affairs
Mountfields Lodge Youth Centre
Epinal Way
Loughborough
LE11 OQE
England
Janet Holland
0150 923 6043
One-to-one youth support work, mainly with young women who self harm.
In addition to youth work with young women who self harm, Janet Holland
has an interest in exploring and carrying out research on 'youth work'
as opposed to 'medical' responses to self harm. Youth work responses might
adopt an empowerment model to encourage development and personal growth.
National Self-Harm Network
C/o Survivors Speak Out
34 Osnaburgh Street
London
NW1 3ND
0171 916 5472
(comments by Steve Blake, a UK psychiatric worker) Led by Louise
Pembroke - active S'Her. Political campaigning survivor led organization
for rights of s'hers. Takes up complaints against A&E depts. Compiling
list of poor treatment received by s'hers. Also explores day-to-day issues
- how to cover up scars. Publishes a SH sheet & 'Crisis Card' to take
to A&E if you need medical intervention but are too distressed to fight
for treatment. Particularly good if you've been sh*t on by psychiatric
or medical services.
North West Self-Injury Interest Group
Christine Hogg
Maureen Burke
0151 471 2460
Primarily a resource for medical professionals, the North West Self-Injury Interest Group acknowledges the difficulty of caring for self-injurers but seeks to provide resources to allow medical professionals to do so in a way that validates caregiver and client. They have an excellent resource pack available for professionals and might be able to refer you to help in northwest England.
SIARI (Self-injury and related
issues)
Jan Sutton
A valuable resource by the author of Healing the Hurt Within, this site has links to treatment programs and a wealth of information for counselors and other professionals who encoutner self-injurious clients.
Moira Toms C.Q.S.W
Bramblewood
Guildford Road
CRANLEIGH
Surrey
GU6 8PR
0148 327 4183
She offers family, couple, individual therapy - psychotherapy. Referral
from host organizations and GP's, Self referrals, Social Services. Offering
therapy to anyone with a problem to include mental health - i.e. Depression,
Eating Disorders, Family/Couple disharmony, Breakdown of relationship,
Alcohol or drug related problems, Adolescent difficulties, Self harm. Area
based: Cranleigh Village - However can be flexible and willing to negotiate
for accommodation near client.
Barry Kiehn
Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist
Gwynfa Adolescent Service
Pen-y-Bryn Road
Upper Colwyn Bay, Clwyd, North Wales, LL29 6AL.
Michaela Swales
Chartered Clinical Psychologist, Gwynfa Adolescent Service and
Lecturer in the Psychology of Adolescence
University College of North Wales
Bangor, Gwynedd, LL57 2DG.
pss051@bangor.ac.uk
Kiehn and Swales wrote a wonderful explication of DBT therapy and might know more about the availability of DBT in England.
Bristol -- Self-injury Self-Help Group
Contact through Bristol Crisis Service for Women
0117 925 1119
An unfacilitated self-help group for women who self-injure. It is
independent of any organisation and is run solely by the women who
attend.
Hidden Scars
Contact: Tracie Adams
0127 477 0149
Self Help support group in the Bradford area for both men and
women to talk about self-harm in an informal. safe, secure, non
judgmental environment for complete confidentiality. Meets every
Tuesday 3-4:30pm and Wednesday 6:30-8pm. Phone line available Monday
and Tuesday 11am-3pm.
Cutting Back
C/o Self Help Nottingham
Ormiston House
32-36 Pelham Street
Nottingham
NG1 2EG
A Nottingham based closed support group, hoping to start an evening
support group as well. Help line available on Friday and Saturday night,
9pm-midnight on 0115 958 3399.
North London Women's Self-Harm Support Group
Contact: Helen Blackwell
7 Fernhall
Freirn Park
London N12 9LT
For the London area.
HOPE - Hope of people everywhere
Contact: Clara Manzi/Bill Downer
0127 373 6168
0127 388 5556
c/o INSIGHT
79 Buckingham Road
Brighton
East Sussex
BN1 3RT
A closed group in Brighton that has been running since January 1996
with a focus on self-injury and what lies behind it.
STEPS - Support, Tolerance, Empathy, Perseverance and Strength
Contact: Clare Shaw
Flat 3, 23 Ullet Road
Aigburth
Liverpool
The qualities which enable women as individuals and together, to
live with and overcome self harm. Meets weekly in Wavertree, Liverpool.
Manchester Women's Self Harm Support Group
Contact: Quibilah Montsho
0161 226 0787
The women's self-harm support group meets in the first Saturday
of each month at Hulme Library in Manchester. The group provides a
safe, supportive and non-judgmental space for women who self harm to
express their feelings.
SSIAG
Contact: Tracy
0159 581 0330 or
Alan Murdoch 0159 574 3006
The Shetland Self-Injury Action Group is hoping to meet regularly in Lerwick and Brae. It will be facilitated by an experienced counselor, sympathetic to the issues around self-injury. The group has been set up with the efforts of the Shetland Health Board Mental Health Team, and Bristol Crisis Service for Women.
SHOUT is a bi-monthly newsletter which aims to break down isolation and provide support for women affected by self-harm (will accept subscriptions from men too). It is read and contributed to by women all over the country, by groups and by professionals who work with people affected by self-harm. SHOUT includes articles, pen-pals/contacts, letters, poems, cartoons, book reviews, plus details of help lines, groups and resources. The mailing list is confidential and copies will be sent in a plain envelope.
To subscribe, contact:
SHOUT
PO Box 688
Bradford, BD8 7YZ
Youth Services
Centerlink, Youth Suicide Intervention Program, assesses young people
in crisis and at risk of self-harm or suicide.
Southern
Community Welfare
2-4 Tea Gardens Avenue
Kirrawee NSW 2232
Phone: 02 9545 0299
Fax: 02 9521 6252
Anthony Sell
Home of the "Scars on the Inside" project. Offers support groups in NSW and contacts to groups in other states and territories. "Southern Community Welfare aims to provide support by reducing the isolation and increasing the education surrounding the issue of self-injury. This is currently being achieved through support groups for people who self injure, workshops for professionals and the construction of a website to network Australian services. We also provide an on-line chat room."
Wesley Private Hospital
91 Milton Street
Ashfield NSW
2131
9716 1400
All I know about them is that they exist, are affiliated with a church,
and mention self-injury on their web page.
The Samaritans are a non-religious charity that have been offering
emotional support to the suicidal and despairing for over 40 years by phone,
visit and letter. Callers are guaranteed absolute confidentiality and retain
the right to make their own decisions including the decision to end their
life. The service is now available via E-mail, run from Cheltenham, England,
and can be reached from anywhere with Internet access. Trained volunteers
read and reply to mail once a day, every day of the year.
SASH - Survivors of Abuse and Self Harming
Pen friend network offers support, friendship and understanding on a one to one basis in writing.
Contact:
SASH
20 Lackmore Road
Enfield
Middlesex
EN1 4PB