The Archdiocese of St. Louis’ new Mental Health Support Site seeks to remind individuals that they are not alone when they experience mental illness.
The website offers information about a number of Catholic and community-based mental health resources, as well as crisis contacts, Church teaching, pastoral guidance, and focused resources for specific categories, including anxiety and depression, pregnancy and parenting, youth and young adults, marriage and divorce, trauma, substance use, and more.
It also includes a directory of the archdiocesan Catholic Therapist Network, made up of counselors who integrate their Catholic faith into their mental health practices and strive to meet the needs of Catholic clients who would like to incorporate their own Catholic faith into the therapeutic process.
May is observed as Mental Health Awareness Month. Twenty-three percent of adults in the U.S. experienced mental illness in 2024, according to the National Alliance on Mental Illness. More than 1 in 7 youth (16.5%) ages 6-17 experienced a mental health disorder that year.
You can read more at the St. Louis Review.