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My name is Asher, and I valued empathy and emotional awareness from a young age. Even as a child, I naturally found myself being a comforter by listening to others, offering reassurance, and staying present when someone was struggling. Over time, this habit has grown into a genuine commitment to supporting people with care and intention. During school retreats and community experiences, I often find myself following my teachers and pastors. I spent time talking with others about their stories, challenges, and successes, learning how meaningful it can be simply to listen without judgment. I notice that when people share both their struggles and their joys, I feel a sense of connection by experiencing sorrow with them in difficult moments and happiness with them in moments of growth. I find deep fulfillment in being a listener for others, and I am motivated to join this organization because I believe everyone deserves a safe and supportive space. It would be my passion to contribute my time and care to helping others feel heard, understood, and less alone.

I’m not here to fix nor diagnose. I’m not a friend, nor your guide for the happy ever after. Not giving advice nor the replacement of a therapist. Just a quiet passerby, like those you see in the blur of everyday life. Maybe we speak, maybe we don’t. But if we do, I’ll hold space for your words, without judgment or expectation. (Only in the mentioned topics in categories section.) Important Note: If you are experiencing suicidal thoughts, intentions, or attempts, thoughts or acts of harming others, or if you are in any dangerous situation such as sexual assault, self-harm, abuse, or any form of violence, or facing a medical emergency , please know that 7Cups is not a crisis or emergency service. We, as listeners, are volunteers who offer emotional support only and are not professionals trained to handle these situations. I kindly encourage you to reach out to the proper emergency services or crisis lines in your area as soon as possible. Your safety matters.💙 https://www.7cups.com/crisis/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1111z8brHtY2wphqibHXoxo8t45ExFbm5K_rVimZKwiA/htmlview#gid=1239984559 https://www.7cups.com/forum/listenerjourney/ListenerResourcesMockChatGuides_2381/HandlingMedicalEmergenciesinChats_74187/ Arabic Translation: أنا مش هنا علشان أصلّح، أو أشخّص. مش صاحب، ولا دليلك لحياة سعيدة. مش بدي نصايح و لا بديل للمعالج النفسي. أنا مجرد عابر هادي و بسيط، زي اللي بنقابلهم كل يوم في الزحمة من غير ما نحس. يمكن نتكلم، ويمكن لأ. بس لو اتكلمنا، هسمعك من غير حُكم، ومن غير ما أستنى حاجة. (بس في المواضيع الموجودة في خانة مواضيع الاستماع). تنويه مهم: لو إنت بتمرّ بـأفكار أو محاولات انتحار، أو أفكار لإيذاء غيرك، أو في أي موقف خطر زي اعتداء جنسي، إيذاء نفسك، عنف بأي شكل، أو أي حالة طبية طارئة , لازم تعرف إن المنصة هنا مش مركز طوارئ أو أزمة. إحنا كمستمعين هنا متطوعين بنقدّم دعم معنوي بس، ومش متخصصين ولا مدرّبين نتعامل مع الحالات دي. 💙 من فضلك تواصل فورًا مع الجهات أو الخدمات المتاحة في بلدك اللي تقدر تساعدك بشكل مباشر. سلامتك أهم حاجة https://www.7cups.com/crisis/ https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/0/d/1111z8brHtY2wphqibHXoxo8t45ExFbm5K_rVimZKwiA/htmlview#gid=1239984559 https://www.7cups.com/forum/listenerjourney/ListenerResourcesMockChatGuides_2381/HandlingMedicalEmergenciesinChats_74187/

Currently not accepting new member chat requests unless I initiate the chat myself. Exceptions: a direct referral from another listener, responding to a classified listing. If you are need of support, please seek the general chat request or browse through available listeners: (https://www.7cups.com/BrowseListeners/) ------------------------- Hi, I'm Soup 🍛. I'm glad you found this space of support 💛  About me: * My pronouns: they/them/theirs 🌈 * I'm a trained active and verified listener. * Some things that guide me as a listener are: curiosity, openness, and honesty. * I love learning more about others and talking through (not just as a listener, but as a fellow human being) what's on your mind. Chats with me are: * 30-60 minutes long. I will let you know at the beginning of the chat how much time I have available. * Supportive, respectful, validating, engaging, and reflective.  * Chats are for support for yourself, so please provide feedback on if the style, pacing, or other factors work/don't work for you. * Note: I generally only take one chat at a time, so that you have my undivided attention.

Hello! I'm Luna, and I am here to be a helpful ear, comforter, and friend when you need one. :) "The most important thing is to enjoy your life- to be happy- it's all that matters." -Audrey Hepburn Main areas of expertise: anxiety, general mental health, education, healthy lifestyle, relationships, and Christianity/religion in general. 

Hi 💙 I’m Raphael! 16 yo. bi male, loves science & writing. I'm here for anything you need, whether its just a distraction or listening or a friend through a hard time. Feel free to message me anytime, although I may not respond right away- unless my status is "online" (green), I'm probably tied up in something else at the moment. It's best for me if we can schedule a time to chat, but if it's urgent let me know! I can make time 💙 Not every listener is a perfect fit for everyone! Don't feel bad if you need to find someone who really clicks with you. 💙 I hope I can help!

Responsive and cheerful, I love to chat about everything under the sun and discuss those moments that bother you. Polite and courteous, I respond quickly and can support any conversation topic. I have extensive experience in counseling and listening to people. Overall, I enjoy reading and contemplating what I read, putting myself in the shoes of the characters and the author

(Deutsch: Siehe unten) I only take chats within my topics.  ​Urgency first: If you are facing an acute situation like a panic attack, etc., please message me. There's no need to read the rest of the profile.  Hello and welcome to 7cups. I'm a 29-year-old female from Germany, and glad you're reading this. I had and still have to struggle with some of the things I offer support with. I hope I can help you with some things based on my experience, professional university knowledge, and over six years of experience as a Listener here. I understand you well, and maybe I have suggestions, techniques, or skills to help you. For example, I'm familiar with living with chronic pain, self-harm (stopped a few years ago), and panic attacks. I also have non-epileptic (dissociative/conversion) seizures. I'd like to exchange experience about this anytime to possibly learn from each other in managing or getting them under control better. In the following, I will describe myself as a Listener and explain in what case I am the right one for you. If you select me as your Listener and I think there is a chance that I might be able to help, I will try my best to do so. If I had to describe myself as a Listener, I would say I'm primarily supportive, reassuring, and encouraging. But despite all my empathy and understanding, I still tend to be somewhat challenging. I assure you that you have my greatest support if you choose to work with me, and I will be here for you through whatever struggle you may face. My favorite saying I took from the saw movies, which I enjoy (don't worry, I'm not a creep), is "CHERISH YOUR LIFE," and I hope I can help you do that too along the way. Send me a personal request by chatting with me or leaving me a message if: - you want to learn to live better with chronic (physical) pain/ disease, especially such that gets worse in flare-ups, or you want to know how to best support a person close to you who suffers from this (1) - you want to manage daily life better with a disability that affects you or a person close to you (autism and ad(h)d included) (2) - you want to quit self-harm (3) - you want to cope better with panic attacks and possibly get rid of them (4) - you want to talk about psychological, non-epileptic/ dissociative seizures (PNES) and possibly gain better control of them or talk about any other kind of dissociation or dissociative or psychosomatic disorder (5) - you want to chat about (C)PTSD and how it affects your life and find coping strategies that work for you (6) - you want to chat about parenting: I don't have any own kids and not so much practical experience yet, but I'll probably be doing counseling for parents, especially for children with disabilities, in my future job, so I would like to test my skills on this here and gain some first experience. (7)    - you want to chat about guilt or forgiveness. I am curious about what they involve and I'd be interested in discussing them. Depending on the situation, though, I might decide that I am not the right Listener for you at some point. (8)   - you want to chat about a personality disorder (any kind). I am curious to learn more about it, how it affects people's lives, and how they manage life with it. Yet, I am not very experienced with this topic, so it would be more active listening than suggestions. (9) - you want to learn to manage, accept, and understand your thoughts, emotions, and psychological needs. (I might decide that I am not the right person depending on what they are related to, and the chat would be more focused on the thoughts, emotions, and needs themselves and identifying them rather than what causes them.) (10) - you want to chat about faith, religion, spirituality, etc. If you wish, I might share my beliefs, but I will not force them upon you. We can try to find out what you believe or how you could solve a conflict that, for example, makes you question your faith. (11) - you have general questions about mental health, want to figure out what's going on for you, what the next steps could be, what you could do to improve your allover well-being, or if you want to find out which topic(s) the right Listener(s) for you should cover (12) - you want to discuss something related to communication or violence/abuse (any form, active and passive position) to reflect on yourself generally or regarding specific situations, or you want to discuss how communication and violence are related. Depending on the exact issue, I might not be the right Listener for you. (13) - you want to ethically or morally reflect on or position yourself in general or regarding a particular situation. (14) - you want to change a particular generally controllable (own) behavior by analyzing causing and motivational factors and looking for different ways to manage these. I have the most experience with this method regarding self-harming behavior, but I want to see if I can apply it to other topics and behaviors as well (15) If you send a personal request, please start the chat with (a) code number(s) from 1 to 15 (which you see on the list, next to the thing(s) you want to chat about) to show you have read this. I do provide long-term support as well! Let me know if you wish that, so I can see what I can offer. I offer chats related to other topics like work stress if the focus is on one of the topics listed above, e.g. work-induced PTSD, communication and/or violence, or behavioral issues at work - own behavior only.  Please note: While I have my own and professional experience with some of these topics, I am not a fully trained professional. I am in education for a job where I work with people and help them, for example, through counseling. Still, here I am only a Listener and not a Therapist. That means I can't advise you on the ultimate solution. Yet, I am glad to provide suggestions where I feel it's appropriate and consider your options together if you want to. If I am offline (red), you can still message me, and I will get in touch when I see it. If I don't take your request, feel free to message me because I might have forgotten to log out, but I will get back to you when I see it. ​ Ich spreche auch Deutsch. Themen:     - chronische Schmerzen oder Beeinträchtigung bei Betroffenen und Angehörigen, - selbstverletzendes Verhalten, - Panikattacken, - dissoziative Identitätsstörung und dissoziative Zustände/ Anfälle oder andere dissoziative Störung, - Trauma (PTBS), - Genesung/ Erholung/ Rehabililitation von einer Verletzung oder körperlichen oder psychischen Erkrankung, - Erziehung/ Elternberatung, - Schuld und Vergebung, - Persönlichkeitsstörungen, - Umgang mit Gedanken, Gefühlen und psychologischen Bedürfnissen, - Glaube und Religion, - allgemeine mentale Gesundheit, - Kommunikation und Gewalt, - ethisch-moralische Selbstreflexion und Positionierung, - Verhaltensanalyse und -änderung (eigenes Verhalten), - Andere Themen dürfen gerne beinhaltet sein, solange der Schwerpunkt auf den genannten Themen liegt, z. B. Arbeitsleben: berufsbedingte Traumatisierung, Kommunikation und Gewalt oder (eigenes) problematisches Verhalten im Beruf. Andere Themen ausschließlich auf Anfrage, wenn sonst niemand für einen Chat auf Deutsch verfügbar ist. 

- 🌼 If you reach out to me while I am offline, please keep in mind that it will likely take 1-2 weeks for me to respond. Briefly introduce yourself and what you would like to talk about and let me know what days and times would generally work for you, so we can set up a time to chat as soon as possible 🌼 - ------------------------- Hey! Great that you found me here on 7cups. My screenname here is MoonlightPrimrose, but you can call me Louie or Lou if you want. My pronouns are they/them and he/him. I've been listening on and offline for more than 7 years now, I like to read, I like to be creative in many different ways with photography, drawing, painting, writing and playing DnD and I have a gentle spiritual self-care practice of Tarot, Yoga Asana, meditation and other grounding and connecting techniques. I am also quite passionate about social justice and try to learn and unlearn every day. I do my best to consider my own positioning as a white, upper-middle class neurodivergent disabled queer trans person in my listening work. I am very queer. I use a lot of different words and labels to describe myself, depending on people and situations in my life. Some of them are: trans*, non-binary, gay, transmasculine, greyromantic, or simply queer. Feeling alone, overwhelmed or sad is something I know, but I also know how much it helps to just talk to someone... It's not always a solution to every single problem, but it's often a relief to know that there are people out there who care for you and who know what you are going through. We are meant to support each other. We are not meant to fight through this life on our own. I've experienced struggles with bullying, school and family stress, anxiety, depression, coming out and other issues of queer (gender) identity myself and this might help you feel heard if we share these experiences. If you feel like we might be a good match: Just send me a message. As mentioned above it might take 1-2 weeks for me to respond, but we'll schedule a time to chat if I have capacity and see where it goes from there. The chats I schedule are up to 50 minutes long and my timezone is CET. If I have the capacity and feel like we match well I will offer follow-up chats towards the end of our first one. As you might have noticed: I'm from Germany and German is my native language. So if there are fellow Germans out there who want to talk, schreibt mir einfach, dann können wir natürlich auch Deutsch reden :) ------------------------- - Louie -

Current Leadership Roles: Mentor Leader for VL Team, Chatroom Mentor, Global Mod, Anonymous Evaluations Team, Doorkeeper. **Currently not accepting new member chats.** **Please read my bio before messaging me.** Heya. I'm Rain. It's very nice meeting you! I'm a college student from Turkey. I am diagnosed with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) and Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Despite my young age, I have been and continue to go through a lot journeying life, so I promise to offer a compassionate and judgment-free environment in our chats. I commend your courage and strength: reaching out for support is never easy!  **As listed on my profile, I only offer support chats in English. Although I am fluent in more languages, I have taken my training in English, thus I feel comfortable offering support only in that language.** **Please do not message me asking if I am willing to make an exception.** Topics I am most comfortable offering support with: - Anxiety & Anxiety Attacks - Depression - Panic Attacks - Break-Ups - Self-Harm - Domestic Abuse - Relationship Stress Topics I prefer not to discuss: - Sexual abuse, - Schizophrenia, - Grief, - Politics or religion.  **Please note; I prefer not to discuss these as I don't feel sufficiently trained in said topics.** Graduate of Quality Listening, Leadership Development, Internship, and Inner Development Goals with honors. 

I can't provide you with answers or advice, but I will listen and try my best to understand your situation and the feelings surrounding it. Don't hesitate to message me - your emotions are valid, your needs are just as important as anyone else's, you deserve to be heard out. 

Welcome to 7 Cups! I'm the chief cook and bottle washer here. I love 7 cups and the community we have built. Really proud of all that we've accomplished and excited to see how we continue to evolve. I unfortunately do not have much time for listening, but please drop me a note if you have thoughts or feeback. Glad you are here!

🛑 🌟 Listener Status 🛑 Thank you for visiting my profile! At this time, I am not accepting new member chats unless I initiate the request myself. This helps me maintain balance, stay grounded and offer the most thoughtful intentional support when I’m able to be fully present.   *This does not apply to listeners who are seeking mentorship, resources, peer support or any related 7 Cups matters*  💬 Looking for a Listener? If you’re seeking someone to talk to right now, you can browse available listeners using this link:    https://www.7cups.com/BrowseListeners/ I appreciate your understanding as I focus on intentional outreach, mentorship, leadership and other related aspects of where my 7 Cups journey has landed me. *Always eager to gain more knowledge, growth, wisdom, experience... Your feedback is incredibly valuable, as it helps me improve as a listener and ensures that I can provide the best support to others in the 7 Cups community. If you have a moment, I’d greatly appreciate it if you could leave a review or share any feedback you think would be helpful.*