mental health resource finder
Created to connect Dayton families with local mental health resources—supporting wellness, access to care, and a healthier future for every child.

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Pathways of Hope – Ohio Hospice of Dayton
Pathways of Hope – Ohio Hospice of Dayton – Hospice of Dayton offers individual counseling to help children (ages 6 and older) with their grief and can provide emergency and group counseling for schools and organizations following a loss. They offer individual counseling and family counseling both before and after the passing of the ill patient. Their services are free to the family and families do not need to be receiving hospice services to get counseling there. Pathways of Hope programs helping children include: Individual and Family Counseling, Healing Pathways School Based Services, and Camp Pathways for ages 7-17 (can…
Pathways of Hope, Ohio’s Hospice of Dayton
Pathways of Hope offers programs for children, which includes Individual and Family Counseling, Healing Pathways School Based Services, and Camp Pathways. There are no costs for these services. In partnership with area schools, Pathways of Hope supports grieving children through school-based grief support groups. This effort provides information, guidance and age-appropriate resources for support. They also offer a special summer group-counseling program for children ages 717. Camp Pathways is an overnight weekend camp experience held at Joy Outdoor Education Center in Clarksville, Ohio. For more information, please visit their website.
Peace of Mind Therapeutics
Peace of Mind Therapeutics is a private outpatient mental health practice located in the heart of downtown Dayton Ohio. Services are provided by a Psychiatric Mental Health Nurse Practitioner with over 20 years of nursing experience and 14 years experience as a nurse practitioner. We provide quality individualized care to meet the needs of our clients. Peace of Mind Therapeutics strives to provide peace across the lifespan.
Peace Through Play – Behavioral Health Therapy
Peace Through Play – Behavioral Health Therapy – Evening and weekends are full, if you can schedule during normal work house, she can see you within a week. She is able to do telehealth kind of things which is not ideal for the service she is able to provide, but she is trying to make it work. It’s a lot of parent training and teaching parents how to do play therapy type things with their children. Her office is located in the Life Plus Health and Wellness Group/ For Insurance, she bills Anthem and UHC and should be able to…
Personal Growth Counseling
Rosalie Stluka, LISW and Kay Schamp, LISW provide services for children ages 7-18 with various mental health concerns. For more information please call or visit their website.
Pinnacle Psychological Services Of Northwest Ohio
Pinnacle Psychological Services Of Northwest Ohio, Rachel Hummel-Sass PsyD offers Counseling for ages 5 and up. Rachel works with children and adolescents with family conflicts, LGBTQ+, chronic illness and terminal illness, and parenting.
Pinpoint Behavioral Health Solutions
Pinpoint Behavioral Solutions provides a holistic approach to helping individuals and family’s navigate through current or past events causing them current unwanted distress.
PKM Life Transitions
PKM Life Transitions provides counseling services to children ages 10 and up, but will review this case by case and may see children under the age of 10. This agency provides services for substance use, OCD, and depression. The center will accept most major insurances, as well as CareSource, Medicaid, Paramount, and Cigna. Please call or visit this agency’s website for more information.
Poppy’s Therapeutic Corner, LLC
Poppy’s Therapeutic Corner, LLC, is a private group practice located in Cincinnati and Dayton, Ohio, providing counseling (telehealth and in-office) for children ages 4 and older.
Positive Leaps – East Gate
Positive Leaps specializes in physical or verbal aggression, tantrums, poor peer relations, control issues, defiance, impulse control issues, violence, ADHD, anger issues, irritability, anxiety, depression, stealing or hoarding, sleep issues, and at-risk behaviors (e.g., running away from home) for ages 3-18 (Outpatient only).