04.20.2022

We’re Hiring!

We are looking for two drug-user loving radical street-based therapists to join our team of social-justice minded clinicians working to make sure everyone who can…

02.10.2022

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…

02.09.2022

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…

02.09.2022

HRTC Responds to SF Mayors Emergency Order for the Tenderloin Neighborhood

12/22/2021 Dear Board of Supervisors: We, the staff from the Harm Reduction Therapy Center (HRTC), a mental health and substance use treatment organization that works…

02.09.2022

Come As You Are by Helen Redmond

Make a sharp left on to Merlin Street and you enter another world. Past two low-slung, industrial buildings and under a busy, noisy freeway is…

06.14.2021

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…