Resources.
Resources.
Psychotherapy and Mental Health
Bay Area Open Minds (BAOM): I’m a member of this organization of “psychotherapists and psychotherapy students who affirm that sexual and gender diversity are natural expressions of the human experience.”
CAMFT: I’m a member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists (CAMFT).
HealthyPsych: A progressive psychology website that I write for with information on psychotherapy, mental health, wellness, and more.
SFCAMFT: I’m a member of the San Francisco chapter of the California Association of Marriage and Family Therapists.
Somatic Experiencing® International: I am a Somatic Experiencing® Practitioner (SEP) trained by Somatic Experiencing International, an international organization dedicated to training healthcare providers in this groundbreaking modality that addresses the effects of trauma and chronic stress.
Integrative Medicine
Tieraona Low Dog, MD: Integrative medicine physician and herbalist.
Jenny Mann, ND: San Francisco–based naturopath specializing in autoimmune and digestive health issues.
Aviva Romm, MD: Integrative medicine physician, herbalist, and midwife specializing in women’s health and a multipronged approach to addressing depression, fatigue, and burnout.
Solstice Naturopathic Medicine: April Blake, ND, LM.
Women’s Vitality Center: Amy Day, ND, Jennifer Henry, ND, and Claire Graser, ND.
Holistic Practitioners and Spaces
Miscellaneous
See links below for resources related to psychotherapy,
integrative medicine, wellness, living fully, and more.
Please be sure to consult your primary healthcare provider before incorporating any new health regimens into your routine.
Rebecca Riyana Sang: Herbalist, doula, teacher, and workshop leader.
23 Nutrition Therapy: Gayatri Saldivar, MS, RDN.
Every Day Morning Rituals: A comprehensive (and fun!) program to create a nourishing daily morning practice for mind, body, and spirit by Riyana Rose Sang.
Do the mending that’s right in front of you.
"When the culture...grows too large, it forgets the tasks of the soul's bloodlines.... There's a Hebrew concept...called tikkun olam...the repair of the world's soul. It is a daily endeavor. It is a ritual and a practice both to reach out to what is within your reach, immediate reach...and to touch and comfort and mend and care for anything that is not in balance any longer.... It's the repair of the world's soul by doing the mending that's right in front of you.
When the culture forgets that primary daily practice and instead inserts various and sundry other ideas about what you're supposed to do with your time every day, then you also have a culture that not only does not feed the soul, but it literally begins to starve the person of their soul life. And in the soul is all creative life, all imaginative life, all innovation, all immaculate love, all the things that we cherish as souls on this earth."—Clarissa Pinkola Estés