Resources

Websites of Interest

PARENTING

  • Kids in the house is the largest video library you’ll find on parenting, pregnancy, adoption and childhood.
  • Co-author of bestseller “The Whole Brain Child” and “No-Drama Discipline,” Dr. Bryson has a helpful blog for parents.
  • The Orange Rhino - 365 days without yelling. A supportive website/blog for parents who want practical alternatives to yelling at their children. Take the challenge!

  • https://www.positiveparentingsolutions.com/ Excelent online training for parents of toddlers to teens. Very thoughtful, practical and hands on solutions to the everyday parenting struggles.

MINDFULNESS

  • UCLA Mindfulness Awareness Research Center offers free guided meditations.
  • Insight Timer, a Web based, free application, offers over 2,000 guided meditations or a simple timer for your own meditation/breathing practice. 
  • http://www.insightmeditationcenter.org  The Insight Meditation Center is a community-based, urban refuge for the teachings and practice of insight (mindfulness, vipassana) meditation. They offer Buddhist teachings in clear, accessible and open-handed way.

GENERAL PSYCHOLOGY 

  • NAMI is an organization focused on educating and stopping the stigma of mental illness in America.
  • Stop it Now!  A national organization committed to stop child abuse.

  • CORA Crisis Intervention. From our 24-hour support hotline to an emergency safe house,  CORA provides counseling, support and shelter for those affected by domestic violence. has information,

  • It Gets Better Project has the mission to communicate to LGBT youth that life gets better and they’re not alone.

  • Bringing life to the field of Interpersonal Neurobiology, Child Psychiatrist Daniel Siegel has a website where he posts about his books, research and collaborations.

  • https://greatergood.berkeley.edu/ Based at UC Berkeley, The nstitute for Greater Good reports on groundbreaking research into the roots of compassion, happiness, and altruism.

TRAUMA

“For our physiology to calm down, heal and grow
we need visceral feelings of safety. 
No doctor can write a prescription for friendship and love.

— Bessel van der Kolk, M.D.

EATING DISORDERS

COUPLES

  • Love and Life Toolbox is a neat educational site for couples by Bay Area therapist Lisa Kift, LMFT.
  • Two of Us is a clearinghouse for timely information and resources about healthy marriages.
  • Excellent writer/therapist/speaker, Esther Perel, LMFT articulates typical challenges in couplehood with an astute cultural and psychological understanding.
  • Love is Respect was created to empower youth to prevent and end dating abuse.

SUBSTANCE ABUSE

  • Alcoholics Anonymous is a 12 Step support group for people with a drinking problem who want to live a sober life. 
  • Narcotics Anonymous is a 12 step community based organization offering ongoing support for substance abusers who want to attain a drug free lifestyle.
  • Al-Anon/Alateen:  For those affected by substance abusers.
  • The Meadows:  Addiction and trauma treatment center.
  • Smart Recovery:  A Self-management support group for addiction recovery.

VOLUNTEERING

  • Volunteer Match:  A portal that matches organizations and the causes that are meaningful to you.
  • Voices for Children:   CASA volunteers ensure foster children's needs are met and help them find a safe, permanent home. 

  • peninsulahumanesociety.org Provides vital services to animals and people by sheltering and adopting animals, providing positive reinforcement training classes, investigating animal cruelty and neglect, and much more.

MOVIES/DOCUMENTARIES/videos

  • Happy: A movie about the science and the pursuit of happiness. By Roko Belic.
  • Eu Maior (in Portuguese):  30 pessoas diversas são entrevistadas -- filósofos, psicólogos, artistas, atletas, lideres espirituais -- e compartilham suas ideias sobre o significado da existência. Documentário.
  • https://www.ted.com/watch/topic/happiness 14 of the most interesting and watched TED TALKS on Happiness.

 

** These resources are intended to assist clients in their healing process as an adjunct to psychotherapy. From time to time, these websites get edited and may display content that I am not familiar with, or do not condone, therefore I cannot be made responsible for their content.