If you need help now
Call or text 988. In danger, call 911.
Need help now? Call or text 988, or chat at 988lifeline.org. In danger, call 911.
Emergency
Call 911
If you or someone else is in immediate danger, or has been hurt, call 911 or go to the nearest emergency room.
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Call or text 988
Free, confidential and open 24 hours a day, every day of the year. You can also chat at 988lifeline.org. In New York City, 988 is the City's own crisis line too, and it can arrange for a mobile crisis team to come to you.
Veterans Crisis Line
Call 988, then press 1
For veterans, service members and the people who care about them. You can also text 838255.
Crisis Text Line
Text HOME to 741741
A trained counselor by text, 24 hours a day, from anywhere in the United States.
These are public services. None of them is a Woodside Psychotherapy line.
If you're a teenager reading this. A teenager can't book here on their own: in a private practice like this one, New York needs a parent's or guardian's consent for treatment. If you're a teenager and you need to talk to someone now, call or text 988 — it's free, it's confidential, and you don't need anybody's permission — or talk to your school counselor.
What this practice is, and isn't
Not an emergency service. Woodside Psychotherapy is not an emergency service. Nobody watches the website, the voicemail or the e-mail inbox outside office hours, and a message left at night is read the next working day.
When messages are read. Messages are answered Monday to Friday, 9 am to 5 pm, and returned within one working day. They are not watched in the evening, at night or at weekends.
Between sessions your clinician agrees with you what to do if things get worse, and that plan includes 988.
When you are ready to talk to us
There is no hurry. When you want to, the free call is a short conversation about what you are looking for.