You will find on this page an account of how the mental-health material on jonathanhaverkampf.com is put together – from writing and sourcing to review and the boundaries we set. We have made it available so you can see for yourself how the site endeavours to be a useful, safe and transparent place, one that makes it simple to locate professional help when you need it.
What This Site Is For
Put simply, this is an educational public resource as much as it is a way in to counselling and psychotherapy services. It is meant to give readers a handle on common mental-health matters, to think through their next move or put better questions to a professional, and to point them in the direction of support. But let us be clear: what you read here does not stand in for medical care, a diagnosis, medication or legal advice, nor for emergency treatment. The full extent of that is in our Disclaimer.
Who Is Behind the Information
Dr Jonathan Haverkampf is the one who writes and keeps these pages up to date. This is a professional single-author site, not some large media outfit with an editorial board of its own. So we are explicit about our limits and when you should go and get personal professional help. You may see links to Jonathan’s research or publications where they are truly pertinent, via the Research and Publications hub, but they are never put forward as the sole evidence for any clinical, legal or public-health claim.
On Sources
We choose our sources with care because mental-health information can inform real decisions. Where we can, we check high-trust pages against the best available references. That means independent public-health bodies, peer-reviewed work, major health-system explainers and similar conditions. When it comes to wording on crisis or access to care, we will defer to the official word from the NHS, HSE, 988, SAMHSA or your local equivalent. For matters of treatment, safety and diagnosis, we look to clinical guidelines, regulators and the literature from major teaching hospitals.
If You Feel Unsafe Right Now
Should you be reading this in a state of fear or worry, feeling overwhelmed or concerned about what you might do, then this website does not replace the kind of immediate, real-time response you need and are entitled to.
Do not try to manage things on your own or put it off by looking at a webpage if you are having thoughts of self-harm, suicide or of hurting another person. Your safety has to come first. Make contact with a recognised crisis service, head to an emergency department or call on local emergency services now.
The purpose is transparency. The site explains how material is written, reviewed, sourced, and corrected, while keeping clear boundaries around diagnosis, medication, crisis care, privacy, and individual medical or psychotherapy advice.
This page explains how mental-health information on jonathanhaverkampf.com is written, sourced, reviewed, and bounded. It is here so readers can see how the site tries to stay useful, transparent, and safe, while making professional help easy to find when it is wanted.
If You Feel Unsafe Right Now
If you are reading because you feel frightened, overwhelmed, unsafe, or worried about what you might do, this website cannot be sufficient support on its own. You need and deserve real-time help from a person who can respond immediately. Please contact local emergency services, go to an emergency department, or use a recognised crisis support service now.
If thoughts of suicide, self-harm, or harming someone else are part of what is happening, please do not try to carry this alone or manage it through a webpage. Safety needs to come first. Please contact local emergency services, go to an emergency department, call a mental health crisis centre, or use a recognised crisis support service now, so a person can respond in real time.
What This Site Is For
This site is both an educational public mental-health resource and a route to psychotherapy and counselling services. It can help readers understand common mental-health topics, think through possible next steps, prepare better questions for professionals, and find relevant support routes.
The information here is not a substitute for diagnosis, psychotherapy, counselling, emergency care, medical care, medication advice, legal advice, or personalised treatment advice. The fuller site boundary is set out in the Disclaimer.
Who Writes and Maintains the Information
Pages are written and maintained by Dr Jonathan Haverkampf for this professional mental-health website. This is a single-author professional site, not a large media publication with a separate editorial board. For that reason, the site aims to be clear about its limits, careful about claims, and explicit about when readers should seek personal professional help.
Jonathan’s own publications and research routes may be linked where they are genuinely relevant, especially through the Research and Publications hub. They are never used as the only evidence for clinical, medication, diagnostic, crisis, legal, or public-health claims.
How Sources Are Chosen
Mental-health topics can affect real decisions, so high-trust pages are checked against reputable sources where practical. The sources vary by topic, but priority goes to independent public-health bodies, clinical guidelines, peer-reviewed literature, professional organisations, and major health-system explainers.
- For crisis, public-health, access-to-care, and support-route wording: official services such as HSE, NHS, 988, SAMHSA, or equivalent local services are preferred.
- For diagnosis, medication, safety, and treatment topics: clinical guidelines, regulator information, public-health bodies, peer-reviewed literature, and major teaching-hospital explainers are preferred.
- For psychotherapy, counselling, communication, relationships, grief, stress, and self-understanding: clinical guidance and research are combined with careful plain-language explanation.
- For service pages: wording is kept calm and professional, without outcome guarantees, pressure tactics, or claims that a service is right for everyone.
How Pages Are Reviewed and Updated
The site is updated by priority. Pages are refreshed when source material changes, when search or reader-interest data suggests a page is being found for a sensitive query, when internal links or routes become stale, or when a topic needs clearer safety boundaries.
Where a page has been substantially reviewed, it may include a visible source/review note. Older pages are being improved over time, especially where they cover symptoms, medication, diagnosis, crisis-adjacent wording, service routes, or high-traffic mental-health questions.
Safety Boundaries
- If you or someone else may be in immediate danger, contact local emergency services. In Ireland, call 112 or 999 or go to an emergency department; the HSE urgent-help page lists crisis routes. In the United States, call or text 988.
- The site cannot diagnose you. It can help you reflect on patterns and prepare questions, but diagnosis and treatment planning require an appropriate professional assessment.
- Medication questions, including starting, stopping, increasing, reducing, or combining medication, need to be discussed with a qualified prescriber.
- New, severe, persistent, unexplained, or worrying physical symptoms should not be assumed to be anxiety, stress, or another mental-health issue without appropriate medical advice.
- Comments, community areas, contact forms, and email are not psychotherapy, crisis care, or confidential clinical treatment channels.
How Reader Data Informs Improvements
The site uses privacy-conscious aggregate analytics and search data to notice pages that may need clearer wording, better routes, safer boundaries, or more helpful next steps. The Privacy Policy explains data handling in more detail.
Analytics work is not used to identify individual visitors, infer personal diagnoses, or store sensitive visitor details. It is used only at an aggregate level to improve public information, navigation, accessibility, and service discovery.
How To Use The Site
- Start with Mental Health Topics for explanations of anxiety, OCD, depression, trauma, grief, relationships, stress, burnout, and related topics.
- Use Mental Health Help if you are looking for possible next steps or feel unsure where to begin.
- Use the Dublin and online psychotherapy/counselling page, appointment page, or contact page if you are considering personal support.
- Treat each page as a starting point for reflection and discussion, not as personal instruction or diagnosis.
Corrections and Questions
If a factual point, source link, page route, or safety boundary seems unclear or out of date, you can use the contact page to flag it. Please do not send urgent crisis information, highly sensitive personal details, or emergency requests through website forms or email.
Sources and Review Note
Page updated and source checked: 13 May 2026. This page links to official public-health and clinical-information sources used as part of the site’s review framework. Pages on specific conditions or treatments use more specific sources where needed.
- HSE mental-health supports and services and HSE urgent mental-health help.
- NIMH guidance on when mental-health help may be needed.
- NHS mental-health information, NICE guidance, and WHO mental-health topic information.
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline for United States crisis-routing context.