San Francisco resources
See also: SF LGBT Center Resources directory
Trauma-informed spiritual groups
SF Dharma Collective
SF Zen Center
GLIDE radically inclusive church
(there are many more)
Immersion Learning & Retreat Centers
1440 Multiversity - Santa Cruz
Esalen Institute — Big Sur holistic alternative retreat center
Spirit Rock — Marin Insight meditation center
Green Gulch Farm — Marin
Deer Park Monastery — Escondido, CA — Thich Nhat Hanh’s monestary in the US
HIV/AIDS Support
SF AIDS Foundation
The Shanti Project
Instituto Familiar de la Raza (Latino/Chicano AIDS Services)
Native American AIDS Project
Project Open Hands (meals & groceries for seniors)
USCF Alliance Health Project (peer support in San Francisco)
Recovery Groups
AA SF and Al-Anon
Foundations SF (queer recovery group)
Narcotics Anonymous SF
Northern California Debtors Anonymous
Trauma Recovery Center serves several specific groups: victims of violent crime and sexual assault, refugee/asylum-seeking survivors of torture or gender-based violence, and people who have suffered traumatic brain injuries as a result of trauma
San Francisco Local Meetups
Trans* & Genderqueer Mindfulness Meetup, Oakland
Pacific Center Transgender Support Group
WTF! Genderqueer Support Group
PFLAG Oakland-East Bay
TransGender SF support & social group
Volunteering
Gender/Sexual Health Clinics
Lyon-Martin
UCSF Trans Health
Kaiser Gender Pathways Clinic
Gender Health SF (SF Dept of Health)
UCSF Child & Adolescent Gender Clinic
Dimensions Clinic (for youth ages 12-25)
SF City Clinic gives out free PrEP
LGBT Centers
SF LGBT Center
Oakland LGBTQ Center
Qulture Collective downtown Oakland cafe & safe space
LYRIC SF center & housing for queer youth
Rainbow Community Center - Contra Costa
Spectrum Marin
San Jose LGBT Community Center
Queer LifeSpace — Castro space for affordable mental health services and healing. Offers several support groups.
OpenHouse SF
LGBT retreats
Groundswell Community — Queer intentional community in Yorkville, CA
Faerie Sex Magick — workshops for gay men in Oregon and worldwide
Therapists
Bay Area Open Minds — Index of gender-affirming, kink-aware, and poly friendly therapists
EMDR Therapists
Sand Chang, PhD — Oakland-based genderqueer EMDR therapist & psychologist
Lisette Lahana, LCSW — Oakland EMDR gender specialist
Heather Bradley — SF EMDR therapist
Julie Tapley — SF EMDR therapist
Jan S. Cehn — SF EMDR therapist
Somatic Experiencing Therapists
List of CA therapists Rita Cahn Pawan Bareja