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…

06.07.2021

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…

03.03.2021

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…