Resources

Assertiveness

Your Perfect Right by Robert Alberti
Playing Big by Tara Mohr

Mindfulness

East Bay Meditation | www.eastbaymeditation.org
Spirit Rock | www.spiritrock.org
Dharma Seed | www.dharmaseed.org

Compassion and Managing Emotions

Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
When Things Fall Apart by Pema Chodron
Soul without Shame by Byron Brown
The Tao of Fully Feeling by Pete Walker
Self-Compassion by Kristin Neff

ADD/ADHD

Driven to Distraction by Edward M. Hallowell and John J. Ratey
The ADHD effect on a Marriage by Melissa Orlov

Bipolar Disorder

Marbles by Ellen Forney | graphic memoir
The Icarus Project | www.theicarusproject.net/

Eating Disorders and Body Love

The Body Positive | www.thebodypositive.org
This Is Beauty | www.thisisbeauty.org
The Body is not an Apology | www.thebodyisnotanapology.com
Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch
Embody by Connie Sobczak
Beautiful You by Rosie Molinary
Eating without Fear by Lindsey Hall and Leigh Cohn

Low Fee Psychiatric Assessment

Pathways to Wellness (510) 273-4200
Schuman Liles Clinic (510) 569-9334
Sausal Creek Outpatient Stabilization Clinic (510) 437-2363
Residents of Alameda County can call Access Line for Mental Health Services (800) 491-9099
Residents of Contra Costa County can call access Line for Mental Health (888) 678-7277

Trauma

8 Keys to Safe Trauma Recovery by Babette Rothschild
Trauma and Recovery by Judith Herman
The Body Remembers by Babette Rothschild
Complex PTSD by Pete Walker

Addiction

Life Ring | www.lifering.org | an alternative to AA or NA
Smart Recovery | www.smartrecovery.org
Narcotics Anonymous | www.na.org
Alcoholics Anonymous | www.aa.org
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate
Codependent No More by Melody Beattie
Another Chance by Sharon Wegscheider-Cruse
Unbroken Brain By Maia Szalavitz

Gender/ Transgender  

World Professional Association for Transgender Health | www.wpath.org
Transgender San Francisco | www.tgsf.org/

Sex and Sexuality

Come as You Are by Emily Nagoski
The Ethical Slut by Dossie Easton and Janet  W. Hardy
SM 101 by Jay Wiseman
The Alternative Sexualities Health Research Alliance | www.tashra.org/

Low Fee Psychotherapy

Women’s Therapy Center (510) 524-8288
John F. Kennedy University (510) 444-3344
The Psychotherapy Institute (510) 548-2250
Pacific Center  (510) 548-8283