Resources
Low-fee Counseling Centers in San Francisco
Holos Institute: with offices in San Francisco and Oakland, Holos provides low-fee therapy with interns who have an orientation towards ecopsychology.
Center for Somatic Psychotherapy: one of the counseling centers of the California Institute of Integral Studies, CSP provides low-fee therapy with interns and trainees. All interns and trainees are either currently enrolled or have graduated from the CIIS Somatics department.
Opportunities for Wilderness Quests
Wilderness Reflections offers programs for both adults and youth. Based in Marin County.
Earthways offers full vision quests and day quests for men and women. Based in Sonoma County.
On Relationship
Undefended Love, by Jett Psaris and Marlena Lyons. Click here to visit their website to learn more about the book and their work.
Journey of the Heart: The Path of Conscious Love, by John Welwood.
Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening, by Stephen and Ondrea Levine.
On Food, Body-Image and Eating Issues
Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, by Geneen Roth, as well as many of her other books, including When Food is Love and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating.
The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health, by Karen R. Koenig.
Addiction to Perfection, by Marion Woodman.
On Ecopsychology
Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche and Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World, both by Bill Plotkin.
Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, by Theodore Roszak.
For Women
Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul, by Marion Woodman and Jill Mellick.
Dancing in the Flames, by Marion Woodman.
Uncursing the Dark, by Betty DeShong Meador.
For Men
I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression, by Terrence Real.
King, Magician, Warrior, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillete.
Addressing the Self-Critic
No Enemies Within: A Creative Process for Discovering What's Right About What's Wrong, by Dawna Markova.
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, by Tara Brach.
On Work
Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity, by David Whyte.
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the World of Work, by Matthew B. Crawford.
Books for Guided Process
The Presence Process: A Healing Journey into Present Moment Awareness, by Michael Brown.
The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron.
Holos Institute: with offices in San Francisco and Oakland, Holos provides low-fee therapy with interns who have an orientation towards ecopsychology.
Center for Somatic Psychotherapy: one of the counseling centers of the California Institute of Integral Studies, CSP provides low-fee therapy with interns and trainees. All interns and trainees are either currently enrolled or have graduated from the CIIS Somatics department.
Opportunities for Wilderness Quests
Wilderness Reflections offers programs for both adults and youth. Based in Marin County.
Earthways offers full vision quests and day quests for men and women. Based in Sonoma County.
On Relationship
Undefended Love, by Jett Psaris and Marlena Lyons. Click here to visit their website to learn more about the book and their work.
Journey of the Heart: The Path of Conscious Love, by John Welwood.
Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening, by Stephen and Ondrea Levine.
On Food, Body-Image and Eating Issues
Women, Food and God: An Unexpected Path to Almost Everything, by Geneen Roth, as well as many of her other books, including When Food is Love and Breaking Free from Compulsive Eating.
The Food and Feelings Workbook: A Full Course Meal on Emotional Health, by Karen R. Koenig.
Addiction to Perfection, by Marion Woodman.
On Ecopsychology
Soulcraft: Crossing into the Mysteries of Nature and Psyche and Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World, both by Bill Plotkin.
Ecopsychology: Restoring the Earth, Healing the Mind, by Theodore Roszak.
For Women
Coming Home to Myself: Reflections for Nurturing a Woman's Body and Soul, by Marion Woodman and Jill Mellick.
Dancing in the Flames, by Marion Woodman.
Uncursing the Dark, by Betty DeShong Meador.
For Men
I Don't Want to Talk About It: Overcoming the Secret Legacy of Male Depression, by Terrence Real.
King, Magician, Warrior, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine, by Robert Moore and Douglas Gillete.
Addressing the Self-Critic
No Enemies Within: A Creative Process for Discovering What's Right About What's Wrong, by Dawna Markova.
Radical Acceptance: Embracing Your Life With the Heart of a Buddha, by Tara Brach.
On Work
Crossing the Unknown Sea: Work as a Pilgrimage of Identity, by David Whyte.
Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry into the World of Work, by Matthew B. Crawford.
Books for Guided Process
The Presence Process: A Healing Journey into Present Moment Awareness, by Michael Brown.
The Artist's Way, by Julia Cameron.
