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Who we are

Want to join the Austin Mental Health Group? Do you work in mental health and are you interested in joining the Austin Mental Health Group? If so, thank you for your interest in joining our group and we would love to have you! We have over 2,400+ members who are a community of people involved in mental health in Austin.

Psychiatrists, psychiatric nurses, therapists, and other doctors are members and come to our events and participate online. Online you can find resources like office space, specialists who take various insurance all over Austin, workshops, jobs, marketing tips, business help, insurance advice, and we advocate for mental health, etc. We ask for a suggested donation of $20 or your fee for one session to join for a year. If you feel this group isn’t helpful for you after 60 days, we will refund your donation and unsubscribe you.

How to join

  1. All you have to do is click on the donate button below.
  2. After you have completed the donation, there is a manual review process to make sure you are who you say you are. This takes 24-48 hours. If you have an issue, email hello at just mind dot org.
  3. When you have been admitted, make sure to carefully consider if you want a “Digest” or each individual email as the group tends to send out 20-25 emails a day and that might overwhelm your inbox. 
  4. You can also manually request to join but we also confirm a donation and that you are indeed a therapist.
  1. When you are approved, say hello to the group.
  2. You can always reach the group online by clicking groups.google.com as long as you are logged in with a Google account.
  3. You can also reply to the digest at [email protected]. You might want to save that email in your address book.
  4. That email will only work with the email address that you registered for the group with.

Where does your money go?

The money goes to help offset the time I dedicate to the group. I personally spend time organizing our networking events, providing some food and beverages, (when we aren’t in a pandemic), dealing with issues and mitigating concerns within the group, educational events, and I spend a good bit of time advocating for the mental health community during legislative cycles. As the group grows, my hope is to turn it into a non-profit which is focused on community action and education for mental health in Texas.

Advocacy

I strongly encourage you to get involved with your professional organizations and consider donating or volunteering every year. They are tirelessly working for you in legislative cycles, trying to improve the future of our field, and fighting against well-funded insurance company lobbying efforts and the like. I have been so impressed with the efforts of TCA, NASW, TAMFT, and TPA. The reason telehealth is still allowed is due to the efforts of these groups. If you don’t have money to donate but are interested in helping the field, Texas Coalition of Healthy Minds can always use your efforts or ask how you can volunteer with any of the above as well.