May 2022 Newsletter: Thank you Patt & Jeannie! Now…Who’s the Boss?
On a sunny, breezy, mid-week January day in 2022, five of HRTC’s staff met at a bank parking lot in Oakland. The purpose of the…
Save the date: Jeannie & Patt’s Retirement Party!
Please join us to celebrate Jeannie & Patt’s retirement from 22 years of work at HRTC! We want to honor all they have contributed over these…
The Times They Are a Changin’ at HRTC
Jeannie and Patt are taking the giant step of turning over the leadership of HRTC to a new team of Directors. In keeping with our…
As COVID-19 cases rise, so does mutual aid effort launched at UC Berkeley
Eight months after a Ph.D. student and a research assistant turned a UC Berkeley lab into a makeshift hand sanitizer factory, soon producing nearly 500…
May 2021 News! May Is Mental Health Awareness Month!
The Harm Reduction Therapy Center continues at the forefront of offering harm reduction mental health and substance use therapy to people most in need. HRTC…
Defiant hospitality: a grounded theory study of harm reduction psychotherapy
A group of 5 researchers completed the first study of Harm Reduction Psychotherapy (HRP)in 2021. Their goal – to identify the therapeutic techniques of harm…