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It can sometimes be difficult to find support from family members, friends, or like minded people. While you might have a best friend or a support system and network such as groups on social media, you might want to seek support without any social interaction.

Our listeners provide emotional support through active listening. Active listening helps process your emotional distress. The following page can be filtered to seek listeners who provide long-term help and support. You can also browse listeners according to your preferred language as well as for different topics amongst other filters.

7 Cups is a chat site/app that has different options to find a good listener. You can meet new people and text chat with other individuals going through tough times - you are not alone! Everyone goes through a hard time at some point in their lives and we are here for you. Whether you are facing relationship problems, panic attacks, struggling with substance abuse, loneliness, depression, anxiety, or any other mental health issue, our site/app is a safe space based on confidential, anonymous support.

A good idea is to consider what form of support you would like in the first place - we have plenty of options to explore and one of the best ways is to give them a try to find out what works for you. We understand that different people have different needs and preferences. All these support services are appropriate for different situations.

This page can help you seek a trained active listener to talk to through 1-on-1 conversations. These listeners come from different walks of life and all are ready to offer a compassionate listening ear to people who would like to talk to someone else. You can select their username to view their detailed profile page with their shared bio and other information such as whether they have lived experience of mental health conditions or topics, their reviews, as well as their training and other badges. While our listeners do not provide direct advice, their support can help you vent your feelings and concerns in a safe space and you can work together to figure out healthy coping tools.

Listener conversations can vary in duration according to your listener's and your personal availability. Some listeners have the option to schedule chats with them in advance. You can always browse for listeners and leave them a message so that they can get back to you with their availability.

There are several other ways you can find someone to talk to at 7 Cups. These include the group chats and subcommunities. We are glad you are taking the first step towards support!

Our group chat rooms are online chat rooms that serve as different support groups where you can send text messages 24/7. We are a global community with people from all over the world. Some chat rooms include the Sharing Circle room, which is a non-judgemental safe space based on the traditions of AA and similar support groups. This space can prove helpful if you need a group of people to talk to who can listen and get to know you over a long time. Sharing your feelings and experiences as well as listening to those of others can help feel supported. You can expand your support network and make online supportive friends and connections!

On the other hand, if you would like to interact with people and talk to someone over forums, we have dedicated subcommunities for over 45+ topics covering a wide range of mental illness support topics through various sub-forums. Our subcommunities provide support, awareness, events, as well as opportunities to participate in light-hearted icebreakers.

Apart from the above mentioned mental health services at 7 Cups, we have affordable therapy options allowing you to seek online therapy for mental health problems with an online therapist, licensed psychologist, and other mental health professionals. This support is affordable as compared to other online and offline services or other options like support through insurance companies. Therapists are also available to talk to throughout the week on working days.

While our community can help support you after you have lost someone else to suicide, 7 Cups is not to be used in the state of active/passive suicidal thoughts - for such cases, please visit helpful resources such as the Samaritans or National Suicide Prevention Lifeline. For a complete list of helpful resources, click here.

If you would like to gain further insight and helpful information about different mental health topics, you can visit our Community Questions and Answers pages, or read our Expert Mental Health News and Advice articles. Other main features you can explore include our self-help guides and growth paths based on treatment protocols available for free!

The bottom line is, you are never alone - 7 Cups is a community aiming to provide compassion on a global scale. There are various ways to talk to someone at 7 Cups. These include 1-on-1 conversations based on active listening and support through trained listeners, group chats with support discussions and Sharing Circles, and the subcommunity forums. Other features that you may find helpful include the growth paths, community questions and answers, as well as expert advice sections.

SJW614
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I currently only take in Trauma Work (e.g. PTSD, CPTSD, DID, OSDD-1a, OSDD-1b) as this is my current focus in view of my limited schedule. ------------------------- Hello there! I'm SJW, and I hold a Diploma in Counselling Skills. I am currently not a registered therapist but may be considering to be one in the future. Please look for a registered therapist here on 7 cups if you have needs that require a registered therapist. I have particular interest in talking about Dissociative Disorders (including DID/OSDD), and am Officially Diagnosed DID and I am LGBTQ+ myself. I am also an adoptee and was adopted at birth and I am okay with talking about adoptee issues as a fellow adoptee. I have direct experience with many friends diagnosed with ADHD and on the Autism spectrum. Feel free to connect with me if you think I would be a good fit! Courses done: * Diploma in Counselling Skills * Certificate in Dissociation & DID: The Fundamentals (6 hours CPD training) * Certificate in Working with Dissociative Disorders in Clinical Practice (6 hours CPD training) What my status means: ✅GREEN - Available 🌕YELLOW/ORANGE - Busy with something 🔴RED - Offline - I may see your message once I'm free, I may reply when I have small gaps of time but may not be my full attention. The time zone which I run on: GMT/UTC+0, British Standard Time ------------------------- Articles I have written on 7 cups: What is Dissociative Identity Disorder [DID]?  [https://www.7cups.com/forum/trauma/DissociationRelatedDisorders_2335/TwAbuseWhatisDissociativeIdentityDisorderDID_318358/] DID vs OSDD-1a vs OSDD-1b [https://www.7cups.com/forum/trauma/DissociationRelatedDisorders_2335/DIDvsOSDD1avsOSDD1b_318423/] [DID] Switching, Co-consciousness, Passive Influence, and Masking [https://www.7cups.com/forum/trauma/DissociationRelatedDisorders_2335/DIDSwitchingCoconsciousnessPassiveInfluenceandMasking_318689/] [DID] Suspecting You’re a System, What Do We Do Now? [https://www.7cups.com/forum/trauma/DissociationRelatedDisorders_2335/DIDSuspectingYoureaSystemWhatDoWeDoNow_319814/]
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LetsCherishLife
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(Deutsch: Siehe unten) I only take chats within my topics.  ​Urgency first: If you are facing an acute situation like a panic attack, etc., please message me. There's no need to read the rest of the profile.  Hello and welcome to 7cups. I'm a 27-year-old female from Germany, and glad you're reading this. I had and still have to struggle with some of the things I offer support with. I hope I can help you with some things based on my experience, professional university knowledge, and over six years of experience as a Listener here. I understand you well, and maybe I have suggestions, techniques, or skills to help you. For example, I'm familiar with living with chronic pain, self-harm (stopped a few years ago), and panic attacks. I also have non-epileptic (dissociative/conversion) seizures. I'd like to exchange experience about this anytime to possibly learn from each other in managing or getting them under control better. In the following, I will describe myself as a Listener and explain in what case I am the right one for you. If you select me as your Listener and I think there is a chance that I might be able to help, I will try my best to do so. If I had to describe myself as a Listener, I would say I'm primarily supportive, reassuring, and encouraging. But despite all my empathy and understanding, I still tend to be somewhat challenging. I assure you that you have my greatest support if you choose to work with me, and I will be here for you through whatever struggle you may face. My favorite saying I took from the saw movies, which I enjoy (don't worry, I'm not a creep), is "CHERISH YOUR LIFE," and I hope I can help you do that too along the way. Send me a personal request by chatting with me or leaving me a message if: - you want to learn to live better with chronic (physical) pain/ disease, especially such that gets worse in flare-ups, or you want to know how to best support a person close to you who suffers from this (1) - you want to manage daily life better with a disability that affects you or a person close to you (autism and ad(h)d included) (2) - you want to quit self-harm (3) - you want to cope better with panic attacks and possibly get rid of them (4) - you want to talk about psychological, non-epileptic/ dissociative seizures (PNES) and possibly gain better control of them or talk about any other kind of dissociation or dissociative or psychosomatic disorder (5) - you want to chat about (C)PTSD and how it affects your life and find coping strategies that work for you (6) - you want to chat about parenting: I don't have any own kids and not so much practical experience yet, but I'll probably be doing counseling for parents, especially for children with disabilities, in my future job, so I would like to test my skills on this here and gain some first experience. (7)    - you want to chat about guilt or forgiveness. I am curious about what they involve and I'd be interested in discussing them. Depending on the situation, though, I might decide that I am not the right Listener for you at some point. (8)   - you want to chat about a personality disorder (any kind). I am curious to learn more about it, how it affects people's lives, and how they manage life with it. Yet, I am not very experienced with this topic, so it would be more active listening than suggestions. (9) - you want to learn to manage, accept, and understand your thoughts, emotions, and psychological needs. (I might decide that I am not the right person depending on what they are related to, and the chat would be more focused on the thoughts, emotions, and needs themselves and identifying them rather than what causes them.) (10) - you want to chat about faith, religion, spirituality, etc. If you wish, I might share my beliefs, but I will not force them upon you. We can try to find out what you believe or how you could solve a conflict that, for example, makes you question your faith. (11) - you have general questions about mental health, want to figure out what's going on for you, what the next steps could be, what you could do to improve your allover well-being, or if you want to find out which topic(s) the right Listener(s) for you should cover (12) - you want to discuss something related to communication or violence/abuse (any form, active and passive position) to reflect on yourself generally or regarding specific situations, or you want to discuss how communication and violence are related. Depending on the exact issue, I might not be the right Listener for you. (13) - you want to ethically or morally reflect on or position yourself in general or regarding a particular situation. (14) - you want to change a particular generally controllable (own) behavior by analyzing causing and motivational factors and looking for different ways to manage these. I have the most experience with this method regarding self-harming behavior, but I want to see if I can apply it to other topics and behaviors as well (15) If you send a personal request, please start the chat with (a) code number(s) from 1 to 15 (which you see on the list, next to the thing(s) you want to chat about) to show you have read this. I do provide long-term support as well! Let me know if you wish that, so I can see what I can offer. I offer chats related to other topics like work stress if the focus is on one of the topics listed above, e.g. work-induced PTSD, communication and/or violence, or behavioral issues at work - own behavior only.  Please note: While I have my own and professional experience with some of these topics, I am not a fully trained professional. I am in education for a job where I work with people and help them, for example, through counseling. Still, here I am only a Listener and not a Therapist. That means I can't advise you on the ultimate solution. Yet, I am glad to provide suggestions where I feel it's appropriate and consider your options together if you want to. If I am offline (red), you can still message me, and I will get in touch when I see it. If I don't take your request, feel free to message me because I might have forgotten to log out, but I will get back to you when I see it. ​ Ich spreche auch Deutsch. Themen:     - chronische Schmerzen oder Beeinträchtigung bei Betroffenen und Angehörigen, - selbstverletzendes Verhalten, - Panikattacken, - dissoziative Identitätsstörung und dissoziative Zustände/ Anfälle oder andere dissoziative Störung, - Trauma (PTBS), - Genesung/ Erholung/ Rehabililitation von einer Verletzung oder körperlichen oder psychischen Erkrankung, - Erziehung/ Elternberatung, - Schuld und Vergebung, - Persönlichkeitsstörungen, - Umgang mit Gedanken, Gefühlen und psychologischen Bedürfnissen, - Glaube und Religion, - allgemeine mentale Gesundheit, - Kommunikation und Gewalt, - ethisch-moralische Selbstreflexion und Positionierung, - Verhaltensanalyse und -änderung (eigenes Verhalten), - Andere Themen dürfen gerne beinhaltet sein, solange der Schwerpunkt auf den genannten Themen liegt, z. B. Arbeitsleben: berufsbedingte Traumatisierung, Kommunikation und Gewalt oder (eigenes) problematisches Verhalten im Beruf. Ausschließlich andere Themen auf Anfrage, wenn sonst niemand für einen Chat auf Deutsch verfügbar ist. 
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SupportingEarthAngel
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My name is Angel, and I would be most delighted to assist with almost anything you may be struggling with. I may not always have the right answer, but I always do my best to listen, support, and guide. I am a very open, honest and relaxed individual, who has much patience and does not prefer to put a time limit on my chats. This being said, I usually allow as much time as needed. As a girl who lives with Clinical Depression and both Generalized and Social Anxiety Disorder, I personally know how it feels to deal with these awful demons, and how real the struggle can be! But I also know how to tackle it, and kick those demons to the curve! Further, I am currently studying to work in the Disability Support field, and specialize in Autism/Asperger’s. I would be happy to discuss any questions or concerns you have about you or someone you love who is on the Autism Spectrum. That being said, I will never be the expert on you or the individual you discuss, as no two people with Autism are alike. I can only provide helpful advice or answer general questions! Topics that I cover include: Grief and Loss, Managing Emotions, Confidence Building, Breakups, Forgiveness, and most importantly, Self-Love. If you would like to discuss something different, or you simply just want to chat in order to take any negative thoughts or emotions off your mind, I am open to that as well. If I am not online and you really need to chat, just shoot me a private message, and I will get back to you as soon as I can. Have a wonderful day, Remember to smile and hope to chat soon! Due to being a very busy college girl, I am not online as often as I like, so please, please, please have much patience with me. I will get back to you, I promise! However, there are many other wonderful listeners here that can take great care of you, till we are able to connect- Thank you for your understanding!   ❤ ❤All my Love, - Angel ❤❤ ✧Browse Listeners [https://www.7cups.com/BrowseListeners/] ✧For users in a crisis situation [https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/]  
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 **TAKING NEW LONG-TERM MEMBERS, PMS ARE OPEN** Hello there and welcome to my bio. You can call me Hershey and I'm a high school student planning to study medicine in university to become a surgeon. My pronouns are she/her :)  I have many hobbies and interests which include: -Piano, Violin, Guitar, Singing -Badminton, Horse Riding, Gymnastics -Astronomy, Nature, Reading I am comfortable with all topics except Men's Issues. I do not have a lot of experience in Adoption/Foster Care, Alcohol/Drug Abuse, Autism Spectrum, Bipolar, Borderline (BPD), Cancer, Chronic Pain, Diabetes, Exercise Motivation, Financial Stress, LGBTQ+ Issues, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, Parenting, Perinatal Mood Disorder, Schizophrenia, Sexual Health and Work Stress. I can still take these topics but if you prefer a listener with more experience on these topics, do find another listener.  I have a special interest in Self-Harm, Domestic Violence, PTSD and Family Stress.  If my status is RED, I am currently not online and not taking chat requests, but you can PM me and I will get back to you as soon as possible.  If my status is YELLOW, I am currently busy but online, I may or may not reply to PMS and take general requests.  If my status is GREEN, I am online and ready to reply to PMS and take general requests. 
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Johanna Liasides

JohannaLiasidesMSc
Psychologist, MSc, PhDc
Aghia Paraskevi
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I work with youth and young adults to help them improve depressive symptoms and self-esteem as well as effectively address family, relationship and peer conflicts.
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katiebug7374
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I am currently in school majoring in psychology and working towards graduate education to become a licensed clinical psychologist. I have completed independent research regarding sex differences in autism annd the effects of mindfulness based interventions.  I have research interests in how diagnosis treatment and presentation of autism as well as vulnerabilities to and symptoms of substance abuse, sexual assault, and trauma vary by sex and ethnoracial, cultural, linguistic, and LGBTQ+ minority identities. 
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Joe Nelson

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Clinical Social Work/Therapist, Licensed Clinical Social Worker Doctor of Social Work
Clarksville, IN
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Compassionate, solution-focused therapy for those battling depression and anxiety. I strive to empower clients to find their voice and reclaim joy, offering a nonjudgmental, s
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Othebi
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I've personally dealt with Bipolar, ADHD, PTSD, Substance Use, Borderline, traits of ASPD, Autism and have personally have closed ones deal with Bullying, DID
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CalmNature6200
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Hi! My current studies in clinical psychology expand my knowledge of mental health disorders, therapeutic techniques, and research methodologies, enhancing my ability to analyze and address psychological issues with a scientific and empathetic approach. In addition to formal education, I am dedicated to continuous learning through professional certifications. Certifications in Anatomy & Physiology, Medical Terminology, Biology, ADHD & Autism Management, and Palliative Care have provided me with a detailed understanding of the human body's structure and function, proficiency in the language of healthcare, and knowledge about managing ADHD and Autism. My professional journey is built on passion, commitment, and a relentless pursuit of excellence. I am driven by a desire to make a positive impact through his work, whether it is designing a compelling marketing campaign or conducting research in clinical psychology. My ambition drives me to push boundaries and strive for excellence in all endeavors. My multilingual proficiency enhances my ability to communicate effectively with diverse audiences and collaborate with individuals from different cultural backgrounds. I am always open to networking, collaborating, and discussing new ideas. In conclusion, my journey as a Clinical Psychology student with a background in biology and extensive experience in graphic design has equipped me with a unique blend of skills and knowledge.
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Brooke Bowen

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Counselor, LPC
Fort Payne, AL
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I am nonjudgmental, supportive, and encouraging. I use an eclectic approach in order to empower you so you can have a happy and fulfilling future :)
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SilverRailey
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                            Hello - Bonjour - مرحبا  * Hello everyone!  I am silverrailey. I am a verified listener on this site. Feel free to contact me whenever you want. I am here to listen, support, comfort and validate your experiences. There will be no judgement and I will not be offering advice. My response time may vary. Thank you for understanding! * Bonjour à tous! Je suis silverrailley. Je suis un auditeur vérifié sur ce site. N'hésitez pas à me contacter quand vous le souhaitez. Je suis là pour écouter, soutenir, réconforter et valider vos expériences. Il n'y aura pas de jugement et je ne donnerai pas de conseils. Mon temps de réponse peut varier. Merci de votre compréhension!                                                                                       -------------------------                   ✅ topic that i am comfortable with ✅: * *   anxiety *  break ups *   bullying * depression * loneliness * managing emotions * relationship stress * work stress * exercice motivation * forgiveness * student life ------------------------- ❎topic that i am not comfortable with❎: * * alcohol/drug/abuse * Autism Spectrum * self-harm * spirituality ------------------------- 💬language i can speak💬: Arabic: Mother language Français: Excellent (2nd langauge) Anglais : Excellent ------------------------- thank you 
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entwinedinwings
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My name is Maraisa. I identify as a 26 year old, white bisexual cis-woman. I find that some strengths that I hold to high regard in my personality are what I call my therapeutic qualities such as being compassionate, understanding, empathetic, non-judgmental, etc. I am to provide a safe space free of judgement and stigma and try to talk to others and provide emotional support from the perspective of a peer with lived experience of mental health conditions. I have autism and depression and try to use the wisdom gleaned from my experiences to uplift and support you along your mental health journey.
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MonkeyPineMarten
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Hello! I'm glad you found me on 7 Cups of Tea. If you are ready to connect go right ahead! If you don't know or are unsure of how to start or what to say, that is ok too. We can start off with cats, dogs, pets, wild animals, food, games, or whatever else you would like and then go from there. If I am not online when you read this, you can still message me and I will get back to you as soon as possible. I look forward to our chat! *If I am offline and you feel you need a listener right away you can go to the browse listeners page and find someone currently online.* I am willing to talk with anyone and some topics i'm particularly knowledgeable in are: autism / ASD, aspergers disorder, sensory processing disorder, gender, sexuality, learning disabilities, educational psychology, friendship, challenging / complicated parent/child relationships, trauma, abuse, and related topics.    My amazing listener twins are @EuphoricDreamer and @dreamwithmelovers31   
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