Knoxville Mental Health Resources

Sometimes mental health providers are hard to access immediately. By the time most folks actually make their first call to a mental health provider, they have picked up the phone several times, or drafted an email more than three times. So by the time you are asking for help, it can feel imminently important. However, most providers don’t have immediate openings (though some do) and it can be a bit of a wait from a few days through a month or more. So here are some Knoxville local resources should you need them.

Safety Concerns

Mobile Crisis in Knox, Sevier, Blount via Helen Ross McNabb Center (865) 539-2409

Mobile Crisis in Anderson, Roane, Morgan, Campbell, and Scott Counties via Ridgeview Health: 1-800-870-5481

Text Help to 741-741 for a counselor response.

Tennessee Resources

Finding Help: These resources were borrowed from the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) TN, their presence here does not indicate an endorsement but merely an available list of options.

Updated 4/2021

There is no “one” right reading list for attending to the current conversations around racism, how to be an anti-racist, and how to begin the work of ally ship with the Black community as non-Black folks. These are a few resources I have found immensely helpful. This is not exhaustive.

I have read read  “Between the World and Me”, “Stamped” and “I’m Still Here: Black Dignity in a World Made for Whiteness.”

I’m planning to check this book out next “Me and White Supremacy” by Layla F. Saad

Also really interested to read

Viewing Options are a plenty.

Netflix and Hulu are great places to look for their “Black Lives Matter” titles. Recently I have seen “American Son” and “13th.”

There is a new documentary called “Disclosure” also on Netflix that details the media portrayals and experiences of having stories told accurately and inaccurately of the Transgender community. There are lots of intersectional conversation around Black Trans bodies as well.