Center for Emotional Health 





Regan Sheppard, M.A.


Mental health Resources:

Promoting Positive Psychology:

Positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. Research findings from positive psychology are intended to supplement what is known about humman suffering and disorder. The intent is to have a more complete and balanced scientific understanding of the human experience-the peaks, the valleys, and everything in between. 

Authentic Happiness is a great resource of questionnaires to develop insight into yourself and the world around you through scientifically tested questionnaires, surveys, and scales.

The mission of the International Positive Psychology Association (IPPA) is to promote the science and practice of positive psychology and to facilitate communication and collaboration among researchers and practitioners around the world who are interested in positive psychology.


The Positive Psychology Center promotes research, training, education, dissemination, and the application of Positive Psychology. Positive Psychology seeks to understand and build the strengths and virtues that enable individuals and communities to thrive.

Promoting Healthy Relationships:

The mission of The Couples Clinic is to promote the well-being of individuals and families through the strengthening of adult intimate relationships.

Healthy relationships bring happiness and health to our lives. Studies show that people with healthy relationships really do have more happiness and less stress. There are basic ways to make relationships healthy. Here are Ten Tips for Healthy Relationships from Kanas State University

The Gottman Institute provides practical, research-based tools to strengthen and repair marriages & relationships.



General Mental Health Resources:

The American Psychological Association (APA) is a scientific and professional organization that represents psychology in the United States. With 150,000 members, APA is the largest association of psychologists worldwide. The objectives of the American Psychological Association shall be to advance psychology as a science and profession and as a means of promoting health, education, and human welfare.

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) is one of 27 components of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), the Federal government's principal biomedical and behavioral research agency. The NIMH mission is to reduce the burden of mental illness and behavioral disorders through research on mind, brain, and behavior.
 

Friends Along the Road is a public benefit nonprofit corporation dedicated to providing sanctuary, relief and helpful frames of reference for those grieving the loss of family members and friends, so that they may have time and places in which to rest, seek consolation or healing, and possibly reevaluate their lives.

Directory of support groups through counselingseattle.com. Links to national and international support groups (most with contacts for local chapters) providing help and support for a great variety of problems and conditions. 


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