Ken Sherman, LMHC, Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Counseling Services

Links to Resources on the Internet

The following are links to resources on the Internet that you may find helpful. There are many others that can be found using search engines.

Stress

• Stress Management & Emotional Wellness
  Extensive links to web resources for stress management and emotional wellness, including: relaxation, humor, self-esteem, and lots more. Well worth a visit.
• Stress Assess
  The University of Wisconsin has developed an informative and entertaining interactive instrument that assesses your current stressors and then offers individually tailored suggestions.
• MindTools
  Stress Management, stress relief, and stress reduction techniques and resources from the MindTools web site.
• NEHC Stress Management
  The Navy Environmental Health Center has numerous links to helpful resources for dealing with stress.

Anxiety and Trauma

• NIMH Anxiety Disorders
  The National Institute of Mental Health’s web pages on anxiety.
• APA Trauma Topic page
  The American Psychological Association has extensive information about trauma.
• ADAA
  The Anxiety Disorders Association of America is a non-profit group.
• Anxieties.com
  This site was developed by a psychologist who provides an interesting self-assessment questionnaire.
• PTSD Alliance
  The PTSD Alliance is a coalition of professional and advocacy organizations. The web site offers useful information about Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD).
• Trauma Center at Justice Resource Institute
  A very helpful web site with excellent links relating to trauma, especially PTSD.
• Trauma-pages.com
  This site is designed for clinicians, and deals with trauma in depth.
• National Center for PTSD
  The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs trauma web site.
• Gift From Within
  This is a non-profit organization for survivors of trauma. Some helpful resources and links.

Substance Abuse

• SAMHSA
  A comprehensive web site offered by SAMHSA, the federal government’s Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration. The first place to look for information about substance abuse and dependence.
• Drugabuse.gov
  The National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIDA, has authoritative information on all drugs of abuse.
• Helpline Online
  A 24-hour telephone hotline for information about substance abuse treatment and prevention services throughout Massachusetts. Lots of other information on the web site.
• NSU Alcohol Risk Assessment
  A confidential online self-assessment tool for assessing your risk for problems with alcohol.
• Sober.com
  All of the drug rehab programs in the country are listed here.
• Alcoholics Anonymous
  This is the official web site of the group that started the twelve-step movement.
• Narcotics Anonymous
  The emphasis in Narcotics Anonymous is on recovery from the addictive use of any drug.
• SMART Recovery
  SMART Recovery is an alternative to twelve-step groups. It has a scientific foundation, not a spiritual one.

Spirituality

• Beliefnet
  Beliefnet’s goal is to create a multi-faith e-community, providing information and inspiration relating to spirituality and religion. You can sign up for free newsletters, each written from a different perspective.
• Dharma.org
  Dharma.org is a good place to find out about insight meditation. Known as vipassana in the Buddhist tradition, this simple technique is appropriate for those grounded in any religion (or none). Links to organizations in the Boston area and elsewhere.
• Sounds True
  An extraordinary resource for “audio, video, music for the inner life.” Hundreds of spoken word titles: for example, Clarissa Pinkola Estes (The Boy who Married an Eagle) and Women who Run with the Wolves.
• Thinking Allowed
  More than two hundred videotapes available from the independently produced public television series. Psychologist Jeffrey Mishlove is taped in conversation with leading figures, talking about spiritual development, health and healing, mythology, humanistic psychology, and other topics.
• The Women’s Well
  The Women’s Well offers courses for women focusing on the wise use of spiritual power. Located in the Boston area, the community welcomes women of all religious and spiritual traditions. The web site has a comprehensive list of recommended books.

Baal Teshuva

• “When Children Go Frum” (Moment Magazine Dec. 2001)
  A well-written overview by Gabrielle Birkner of the growing trend among young Jewish people to become far more religiously observant than their families of origin.
• Aish.com
  Aish HaTorah is one of the most active organizations dedicated to bringing young Jews back to traditional observance.
• Ohr Samayach
  Ohr Samayach is also an active outreach organization.
• Jewish Student Information Center
  The mission of Jeff Seidel’s Jewish Student Information Centers in Jerusalem is to guide young Jews in becoming more observant.
• The Pain of One Jewish Mother
  An angry, bitter mother tells the story of how her son was “brainwashed” on a visit to Jerusalem.

Additional offline Baal Teshuva resources are suggested in Ken’s Baal Teshuva Reading List.

Professional Associations

Ken is a clinical member of the following:

• Massachusetts Mental Health Counselors Association
• American Mental Health Counselors Association
• American Counseling Association
  The American Counseling Association has an extensive web site that can be searched. The above link is to the section of the site designed for clients wanting information about professional counselors.
• Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health Professionals
  Ken is a licensed mental health counselor who has complied with all requirements for licensure as detailed in the link above. The regulations are overseen by The Board of Registration of Allied Mental Health Professions, which is part of the Division of Professional Licensure, which in turn is an agency within the Office of Consumer Affairs in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.