Caring Report 2025—Mental Health
Mental and emotional challenges affect many, often in quiet and unseen ways. In response, the Church and its members strive to fulfill the Savior’s call to “comfort those that stand in need of comfort” (Mosiah 18:9) by using Christ-centered resources and compassionately ministering.
2025 Mental Health Efforts
Family Services Counseling
Family Services support includes resources such as self-help materials, educational courses, group therapy, and marriage or individual counseling, and in 2025, Family Services served 16,099 clients. Church leaders can counsel with Family Services about members’ social and emotional challenges and can even receive support when responding to a crisis, including suicide.
In 2025, Family Services expanded access to group counseling internationally through teletherapy and offered support for emotional and psychological wounds of those impacted by emergencies, disasters, and tragedies.
This expansion included providing care and comfort to those impacted by the hurricane in Cape Verde and its surrounding islands, supporting children at a school in the Pacific who experienced a traumatic loss in their community, and assisting Church members in Lesotho following a tragic multi-vehicle accident.
Other Mental Health Resources
Outside of Family Services, the Church offers other tools for mental and emotional support, including an addiction recovery program, online mental health guides, emotional care cards, and an emotional resilience course.
Brother Wang, a member in Taiwan who took the Finding Strength in the Lord: Emotional Resilience course, said, “It [helps] take care of unstable emotions, not controlling emotions but living peacefully with them. The course has been very helpful.”
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Receiving Love through Psychological First Aid
In 2025, devastating fires swept through Los Angeles, California, leaving many families without homes. President Ames, a local stake president, described it as the area’s “darkest hour.” Family Services counselors responded by providing psychological first aid and training to offer comfort, guidance, and a renewed sense of hope to those affected.
“[The Family Services counselors have] been a testament to the Church’s commitment to caring for the whole person, addressing not just temporal needs but the deep emotional and psychological wounds that disasters like this create,” says President Ames. “They have visited our wards, . . . met individually with those in need, and shown love and support in countless ways.”