Mental Health Monthly Magazine

Mental Health Monthly is a digital magazine dedicated to making mental health knowledge accessible, meaningful, and grounded in real life. Each issue brings together research, lived experience, expert perspectives, and practical tools to help readers better understand themselves, others, and the systems that shape mental well-being.

This magazine is not about trends or surface-level advice. It is about depth, clarity, and application. Our goal is to bridge the gap between academic research, clinical insight, and everyday experience in a way that is readable, relevant, and genuinely useful.

In-Depth Feature Articles

Every issue includes long-form feature articles that explore key topics across the mental health field, including clinical psychology, behavioral science, trauma, positive psychology, parenting, relationships, and systems of care. These pieces are designed to go beyond headlines, offering context, nuance, and insight that readers can reflect on and apply.

Practical Mental Health Tools

Mental health should not live only in theory. Each issue includes practical strategies, exercises, and reflections that readers can use in their daily lives. These may focus on emotional regulation, stress reduction, communication, resilience, or personal growth, always grounded in evidence and real-world application.

Firsthand Perspectives

Mental Health Monthly includes columns and essays from professionals, caregivers, parents, and individuals working within or navigating mental health systems. These firsthand accounts offer a window into lived experience and bring humanity and honesty into conversations that are often oversimplified or misunderstood.

Parenting and Family-Focused Content

Many issues include dedicated sections focused on parenting, caregiving, and family dynamics. These pieces address real challenges with compassion and clarity, offering guidance rooted in understanding rather than judgment.

Book Club Features

Each issue highlights the current Mental Health Monthly Book Club selection, along with reflections and discussion themes. The Book Club is a free, virtual space where readers can read together, follow along, and engage in thoughtful conversation throughout the month.

Community and Industry Recognition

Mental Health Monthly is proud to recognize individuals and organizations making meaningful contributions to mental health through our awards, including the Community Improvement Award and the Impact & Innovation Award. These features spotlight work that produces real-world change and advances how mental health care is understood and delivered.

Mental Health Monthly exists to build a community dedicated to the advancement of mental health understanding, the sharing of helpful and accurate information, and the normalization and popularization of mental health conversations.

We aim to make mental health knowledge approachable without oversimplifying it, and impactful without sensationalizing it.

 Each issue of Mental Health Monthly is available online and free to read. New issues are released regularly and announced through our website and social media channels.

 Your Story
Lived through a mental health triumph or struggle? Share the details — what got you through, what surprised you, and what feels important to pass on. 

Your Research
Exploring something compelling in the mental health field? Break it down for us in a way that informs and challenges perspectives.

Research Requests
Is there a topic you wish more people were talking about? Point us in the right direction and we may explore it further.

Community Gems
Know a local support system, organization, or resource making a real difference? Give it the recognition it deserves.

Mental Health Movers
From emerging therapies to tireless advocates, tell us who is pushing the mental health field forward.

Send a 200–300 word summary of your idea to
publishers@mentalhealthmonthly.org
with “Magazine Pitch” in the subject line.

Please include:

• Who you are
   
• What you’re proposing
   
• Why it aligns with our focus on real conversation and real impact
   

For personal stories, offer a glimpse into your journey and why it matters.

 Our editorial team will review submissions and respond within approximately two to three weeks. If your idea is a good fit, we will work with you to shape it for publication in the Magazine.

Let’s fill these pages with voices that matter.

Send us your pitch and let’s get started.