Resources for Mindfulness Meditation
Websites:
Mindful.org : Getting started tab: Introduction and then simple guided meditations
Palouse Mindfulness : free collection of videos with a description that leads you through a mindfulness based stress reduction program.
Freemindfulness.org : Free Resources tab: free collection of downloadable guided meditations.
Local resource for practice:
Midwest Alliance for Mindfulness: Classes, practice groups, retreats (Membership Costs)
Public Library resources: Search “mindfulness” or “mindfulness meditation” for books, audiobooks, and meditation CDs
Apps:
Calm: App that provides guided mindfulness meditation practices on a variety of topics and areas. Also has guided sleep stories that assist with falling asleep. 60$/year or 13$/month.
Headspace: App that provides guided meditations to help introduce you to meditation. 95$/year or 13$/month.
Resources for no or low cost mental health services
Missouri Metro: CMHS/Burrell ; Rediscover ; University Health ; Swope Health ; KC Care ; Samuel U Rodgers
Kansas Metro: Wyandot Center ; Johnson County Mental Health
Counseling only: Openpathcollective.org (reduced fee counseling sessions offered by private practitioners); Community Counseling and Assessment Services (student therapists at UMKC) ; Community Counseling Center (student therapists at MNU (religious university in Olathe)); COR (Low cost or free services with intern counselors through a metro church), Resolve counseling (offers discounted options for services with interns); Therapy for Therapists Collective (free counseling for licensed practitioners who offer a free session to another counselor in return)
Other Practitioners and Directories:
Directories: LGBT-Affirming Therapist Guild (allied counselors and therapists in the kansas city metro); Color Collective Kansas City (BIPOC counselors in the kansas city metro); Psychology Today (website to search for therapists or counselors); Therapy for Queer People of Color (directory of affirming anti-oppressive mental health professionals); EMDR Network of Greater Kansas City (Directory of EMDR therapists in the metro area and further)