Managing Psychological Crises
For those living in Lawrence Kansas, if your life is in danger, please immediately call 911 or go to the Lawrence Memorial emergency room. The hospital is located at 325 Maine Street.
If your life is not in danger, but you are feeling in crisis:
If you are already my client, please try to reach me at 785-760-3952. However, I often cannot answer the phone immediately and sometimes do not hear my messages for a few hours if I am busy with other clients or at night when I am asleep. In that case, you should contact psychological crisis services, which I describe next.
If your life is not in danger, but you are feeling in crisis:
If you are already my client, please try to reach me at 785-760-3952. However, I often cannot answer the phone immediately and sometimes do not hear my messages for a few hours if I am busy with other clients or at night when I am asleep. In that case, you should contact psychological crisis services, which I describe next.
- If you live in Douglas County, Kansas, where my practice is, your 24 hour psychological crisis line is called "Headquarters" and their phone number is 785-841-2345. Headquarters is a phone counseling service, with well-trained volunteers available 24/7. If your needs cannot be met through phone counseling, they will direct you to the appropriate services. Headquarters also offers text-only online chat services. For chat, go to their website at www.headquarterscounselingcenter.org and click on the "let's chat" button.
- If you are feeling actively suicidal and can't reach me immediately, please contact the Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center at 785-843-9192. Bert Nash CMHC can provide a professional assessment and determine what level of care for you would be appropriate.
- You can learn about other Douglas County resources, such as emergency food, health care or child care, at the LJWorld.com website.
- If you do not live in Douglas County, you could call a national suicide crisis line at 1-800-TALK(8255) or search the internet for information on crisis counseling in your county. Virtually every county in every state has crisis counseling services.
- For child abuse or neglect, report to the Kansas Department for Children and Families at 1-800-922-5330. The number is the same for adult abuse as well.