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NAMI WLA Mental Health Clinical
Advocate Sharon Dunas
From a lived experience perspective
Family Resources Available
This is a resource for NAMI Westside LA members who have loved ones living with mental health conditions.
Are you looking for help handling a loved one’s mental health crisis or threats of suicide?
Want to understand better and respond to a loved one experiencing psychosis (delusions, hallucinations, hearing voices)?
Would you need to learn about resources to help adjust to and manage family dynamics (siblings, partners, and the entire family)?
Sharon Dunas is a longtime facilitator of NAMI WLA support groups and a teacher of Family-to-Family classes and has her own Learn Coping Skills private practice as a family therapist.
Learn Communications Skills
Making crisis calls.
Talking to a loved one thinking about.
Using reflective listening.
Using Dr. Xavier Amador's LEAP method health crisis or threats of suicide? Want to (Listen, Empathize, Agree, Partner).
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