HOTLINES & EMERGENCY SERVICES IN SAN FRANCISCO
ADDICTION
CHILDREN & TEENS
DEPRESSION
DOMESTIC & PARTNER VIOLENCE/RELATIONSHIP ABUSE
EATING DISORDERS
GENERAL SUPPORT, MINDFULNESS & MEANING
GRIEF & LOSS
LGBTQ
SOMATICS
ROMANTIC LOVE & PARTNERSHIP
TRAUMA & ABUSE
- Child Crisis
- (415) 970-3800
- For any child or youth related emergency or abuse reporting.
- Communities United Against Violence (CUAV)
- (415) 333-HELP(4357)
- For LGBTQQI people who have experienced or witnessed harassment, violence, abuse, threats, or trauma.
- National Domestic Violence Hotline
- 1-800-799-SAFE (7233)
- San Francisco Women Against Rape (SFWAR)
- (415) 647-7273
- Suicide Prevention Hotline
- (415) 781-0500
- S.F.G.H. Psychiatric Emergency Services
- (415) 206-8125
ADDICTION
- Narcotics Anonymous
- Codependent No More by Melody Beatie
CHILDREN & TEENS
- Child Trauma Academy Professional Articles
- Chid Trauma Library
- Dr. Bruce Perry Articles
- Love is Respect
- A national teen dating abuse helpline.
- How To Talk So Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
DEPRESSION
- The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression by Andrew Solomon
DOMESTIC & PARTNER VIOLENCE/RELATIONSHIP ABUSE
- Women's Law
- Free legal information and online support to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault
- Gay Men's Domestic Violence Project
- California Courts Self-Help
- Help with restraining orders, child custody, help for children and teens, criminal justice system, etc.
- The Verbally Abusive Relationship and Controlling People by Patricia Evans
- No Visible Wounds: Identifying Non-Physical Abuse by Mary Miller
- The Emotionally Abusive Relationship by Beverly Engel
- Violence in Gay and Lesbian Domestic Partnership by Renzetti & Miley
- Intimate Betrayal: Domestic Violence in Lesbian Relationships edited by Ellyn Kaschak
EATING DISORDERS
- National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders
- Eating Disorders Publication & Education
- National Eating Disorders
- The Eating Disorder Sourcebook by Carolyn Costin, M.A.
- La Ventana Eating Disorder Program
- Life Without Ed by Jenni Schaefer
- Don't Diet, Live-It by Andrea Wachter & Marsea Marcus
- Help Your Teenager Beat An Eating Disorder by Lock & LeGrange
GENERAL SUPPORT, MINDFULNESS & MEANING
- Taking the Leap: Freeing Ourselves from Old Habits and Fears by Pema Chödrön
- When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times by Pema Chödrön
- Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living by Pema Chödrön
- Being Peace by Thich Nhat Hanh
GRIEF & LOSS
- Zen Hospice
- The Grief Recovery Institute
- (818) 907-9600
- Who Dies?: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying by Stephen Levine
- Miscarriage: Women Sharing From the Heart by Marie Allen and Shelly Marks
- Grieving Mindfully by Sameet Kumar, Ph.D.
- The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion
LGBTQ
- National Center for Lesbian Rights
- (415) 392-6257
- Communities United Against Violence(CUAV)
- Gay & Lesbian Medical Association/Gay & Lesbian Physician Referral
- (415) 255-4547
- My Gender Workbook: How to Become a Real Man, a Real Woman, the Real You, or Something Else Entirely by Kate Bornstein
- Genderqueer: Voices from Beyond the Sexual Binary edited by Joan Nestle, Riki Wilchins and Claire Howell
- Permanent Partners: Building Gay and Lesbian Relationships That Last by Betty Berzon, Ph.D.
SOMATICS
- Being Human at Work Edited by Richard Strozzi Heckler
- The Anatomy of Change: A Way to Move through Life’s Transitions by Richard Strozzi Heckler
- The Body Remembers: The Psychophysiology of Trauma and Trauma Treatment by Babette Rothschild
- Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma by Peter A. Levine and Ann Frederickson
ROMANTIC LOVE & PARTNERSHIP
- Sex and Love Addicts Anonymous
- Getting The Love You Want(book and workbook) by Harville Hendrix
- Perfect Love, Imperfect Relationships: Healing the Wound of the Heart and Challenge of the Heart: Love, Sex, and Intimacy in Changing Times by John Wellwood
- Permanent Partners: Building Gay and Lesbian Relationships That Last
by Betty Berzon, Ph.D. - How To Be An Adult in Relationships: The Five Keys to Mindful Loving by David Richo
- All About Love: New Visions by bell hooks
- Opening Up: A Guide to Creating and Sustaining Open Relationships by Tristan Taormino
- Redefining Our Relationships: Guidelines for Responsible Open Relationships by Wendy-O Matik
TRAUMA & ABUSE
- Allies in Healing: When the Person You Love Was Sexually Abused as a Child by Laura Davis
- Trauma & Recovery by Judith Lewis Herman, M.D.
- Yes Means Yes: Visions of Female Sexual Power and a World without Rape by Jaclyn Fiedman and Jessica Valenti
- Outgrowing the Pain: A Book About Adults Abused As Children by Eliana Gil
- The Drama of the Gifted Child by Alice Miller
