Big news about Wellness Island

After 3.5 years, Wellness Island is closing its doors permanently.

It has been a great experience to be at the very beginning of mental health resources and education in SL, and heartening to see how many groups and individuals now offer resources. We are proud to have been helpful to so many in providing library resources, speakers at your events, middle of the night IM support for your needs, and so much more.

We are closing because we are low on two vital resources - money (I purchased and have paid the tier for the island since it started, thousands of US dollars out of pocket) and time (RL clients and work have skyrocketed lately, and time for SL has become scarce). It has been a very worthy cause and if time and money were not an issue, we'd still be open. But, real world trumps SL, and it's time for a change :-) A good one, I think!

The Counseling Center will still continue in SL and we are scouting locations now. I will not only still offer in-world mental health support to individuals, couples, and groups, but is expanding to offer Skype and webcam sessions as well. Only good changes there.

For now we still have a mainland annex with public resources - LM in my profile.:

This will likely be changing as we will need something a little bigger and more private. Details to come as we have them. Our Groups will stay open as well.

It has been wonderful working with so many of you, and thank you for your support over the last few years. I will still be around, so say hello sometime! All updates will be in my Profile and on our website www.slwellness.com or my blog