Wellness Resources
Knowledge is a powerful tool – when our friends and loved ones need help, we want to help them find it.
Below are some organizations who want to help.
Ethos Wellness at The Lovett Center
In partnership with I’ll Have What She’s Having, restaurant employees can enroll in one-on-one counseling for up to 12 weeks, free of charge, and receive assistance finding both psychiatric care or longer term therapy options, if needed.
About Ethos Wellness: Our serene healing centers situated in the Houston and Chicago areas, Ethos Wellness offers compassionate outpatient therapy for navigating emotions, processing life transitions and exploring the self in relation to others. This includes mental, behavioral health and substance use disorders.
Southern Smoke
A beneficiary of WellWeek 2018 and 2019, Southern Smoke is a local non-profit who provides emergency funding for hospitality industry employees, including support for mental health services.
Free mental healthcare is now available to all Texas-based food and beverage employees and their children.
Houston Recovery Center
Houston Recovery Center provides compassionate care to underserved individuals affected by substance use through early intervention and community care coordination to help them achieve lifelong recovery.
The Montrose Center
The Montrose Center, established in 1978, provides sliding scale behavioral health services specifically designed for the LGBTQ and HIV positive communities who face disproportionate numbers of behavioral health issues in comparison to their heterosexual peers.
Professional individual, couples, family, and group psychotherapy is provided for issues impacting the target population uniquely and faced generally among other vulnerable populations.
988 Helpline
988 connects callers to an existing network of more than 200 local crisis call centers around the country. When you call or text 988, you'll be connected to a trained counselor at a crisis center closest to you.
#BeThe1To
#BeThe1To is the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline’s network of local crisis centers with suicide prevention resources for the public.
Ben’s Friends
Ben’s Friends is a food & beverage industry support group offering hope, fellowship, and a path forward to professionals who struggle with substance abuse.
Chefs with Issues
Chefs with Issues is a forum for hospitality industry folk to share their experiences and resources in facing depression, anxiety, addiction, eating disorders and more.
Crisis Text Line
Crisis Text Line serves anyone, in any type of crisis, providing access to free, 24/7 support and information via a medium people already use and trust: text.
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance
Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance envisions wellness for people living with depression and bipolar disorder, and provides hope, help, support, and education to improve the lives of people who have mood disorders.
Hope Clinic
This Federally Qualified Health Center serves over 20,000 unique patients, regardless of the patient’s ability to pay. A unique characteristic of HOPE Clinic is its capacity to provide services in 30 different languages, including behavioural health care providing psychiatric evaluation and medication management, counseling services for children, adolescents and adults, via individual, family and group therapy as well as Substance Use Disorder supportive counseling treatment.
Hope and Healing Center
Hope and Healing Center is a comprehensive mental health resource dedicated to transforming lives and restoring hope through education, training, clinical services and research.
Legacy Community Health Mental Health Services
Legacy Community Health Mental Health Services is a federally qualified health center offers a full range of counseling and psychiatric services, including prescribing and managing medications, regardless of ability to pay. Legacy’s Behavioral Health providers conducted 88,646 patient visits in 2017, with 60% of visits for individuals younger than 19 years of age.
Mental Health America of Greater Houston
Established in 1954 by philanthropist Ima Hogg, Mental Health America of Greater Houston is the area’s longest serving mental health education and advocacy organization.
Publisher of The Guide, a free listing of mental health resources in Harris County that are low-cost and/or affordable.
National Alliance on Mental Illness Greater Houston (NAMI GH)
National Alliance on Mental Illness Greater Houston (NAMI GH) is the local chapter of the nation’s largest and oldest grassroots mental health organization.
NAMI GH sponsors no-cost, evidence-based education programs, peer-facilitated support groups, community information and referral programs, and strategic advocacy efforts that enable families and individuals affected by mental illnesses to live healthy and fulfilling lives.
National Suicide Prevention Hotline
National Suicide Prevention Hotline provides 24/7, free and confidential support for people in distress, prevention and crisis resources for you or your loved ones, and best practices for professionals.
re: Mind
re: Mind provides free and confidential support groups for individuals living with, or family and friends affected by, depression and bipolar disorders.
Shades of Blue Project
Shades of Blue Project founder Kay Matthews is dedicated to helping minority women before, during and after childbirth with mental health advocacy, treatment and support.
Tales of the Cocktail
Tales of the Cocktail is a non-profit organization serving as a global leader in spirits education and a platform to tackle issues facing the industry. The Foundation aims to educate, advance, and support the hospitality industry through programs that benefit individuals and organizations in the community.
United Way Houston
Trained HELPLINE specialists of United Way Houston are good listeners, blending understanding and expertise to provide information and referrals drawn from a comprehensive database of social services, including mental health services.
Dial 2-1-1, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week in many languages.
Vecino
Vecino is a federally qualified health center providing services for adults, teens and children. Counseling professionals are bilingual (English and Spanish), licensed and experienced. Treatment options include individual, group, family and couples’ therapy.
