Church Street Integral Counseling Center

Our center offers low-fee counseling for adults, couples, families, seniors, adolescents, and children from across the San Francisco Bay Area. Our sliding-fee scale is structured to accommodate people of all income levels and life situations. We are the country's only university-affiliated Gestalt/existential therapy center. Our therapists are trained to focus on themes of difference and inclusion, offer a social justice perspective, and stress the importance of choice and awareness. We are open for in-person as well as virtual sessions!

1782 Church St, San Francisco, CA 94131

(415) 648-2644

Pierce Street Integral Counseling Center

Our clients are as diverse as the Bay Area. We serve adults, children, couples, families and are inclusive of all racial, socio-economic and LGBTQ+ backgrounds. The clinic is centrally located in Pacific Heights with several bus lines nearby. Additionally our sliding scale serves to support people with financial hardship and extenuating circumstances.We offer in-person and virtual therapy.

2140 Pierce Street, San Francisco, CA 94115

(415) 776-3109

CIIS Center for Somatic Psychotherapy

The Center for Somatic Psychotherapy offers high-quality body-mind-spirit psychotherapy. We welcome individuals, couples and partners, youth, and families of all ages, genders, racial and cultural backgrounds, bodily expressions, and sexual orientations. Our therapists are trained in both conventional and body-oriented counseling and psychotherapy. Our approach integrates basic therapeutic models with movement and breath practices, sensory awareness, and other somatic modalities. We offer low-cost, sliding scale therapy based on income both in-person and online.

312 Sutter St., Suite 410, San Francisco, CA 94108

(415) 217-8895

Marina Counseling Center

We provide compassionate, personalized integrative psychotherapy in-person or virtually to support you. As a non-profit counseling center, we offer income-based siding scale beginning at $40/per session. 

1781 Union St, San Francisco, CA 94123

(415) 563-2137

Access Institute

We offer low and no-fee psychological services to those who want and need psychological support, but aren’t able to access it for any number of reasons including: income, cultural barriers, stigma around mental health, and lack of mobility.

110 Gough Street, Suite 301, San Francisco, CA 94102 

(415) 861-5449

The Liberation Institute

The Liberation Institute is a grassroots non-profit mental health organization based in San Francisco and Portland. We are co-created by counselors, psychotherapists, mindfulness teachers, artists and activists from the community we serve. The aim is to fill what we see as gaps in the availability of easily accessible professional support for issues related to mental, emotional, and spiritual well-being.

3150 18th Street, San Francisco, CA 94110 & 1227A Folsom Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

(415) 606-5296 ext.102

Berkeley Psychotherapy Institute Community Clinic

The Community Clinic is staffed by therapists who have advanced degrees in psychology, social work, counseling, or related mental health fields and are participating in TPI's Psychotherapy Training Program.

TPI’s fee for therapy is $160. There is a sliding scale for those who cannot pay the full fee; our lowest fee is $45. Before your first session, you and your therapist will discuss the frequency of meetings, work together to set the appropriate fee for you, and set up convenient payment methods.

2232 Carleton Street Berkeley, California, 94704

(510)548-2250

The James Goodrich Whitney Center for Jungian Psychotherapy

All Whitney Center therapists—whether interns or candidates in the Institute’s Analytical Training Program—have advanced degrees, and are supervised by Jungian analysts or advanced candidates. Some of our analyst members donate time to see Whitney Center patients in their private offices. After an initial interview to determine if the Whitney Center’s services are right for you, a therapist is chosen. Patients are seen for 50-minute sessions, usually once or twice weekly. There is no limit on the number of sessions. Fees are set on a sliding scale based on ability to pay.

2610 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
(415) 771-8055

Alchemy Community Therapy

We believe in a model of community healing, where therapists can engage with clients in a collaborative relationship to help highlight patterns, process the past, and dream into the future.

We will do our best to connect you with someone with the identities, background, and theoretical orientation you are hoping to work with. Sliding scale for talk therapy starts at $60 per session.

444 34th St
Oakland, CA 94609

Pacific Center for Human Growth

Founded in 1973, Pacific Center for Human Growth is the oldest LGBTQIA+ center in the Bay Area, the third oldest in the nation, and operates the only sliding scale mental health clinic for LGBTQIA+ and QTBIPOC people and their families in Alameda County.

We offer counseling for individuals age 7 and up, couples/polycules, and families. We are a practicum site for interns working to gain hours for their licensure. We accept Alameda Alliance Medi-Cal insurance only and offer sliding scale rates (starting at $45/hr) for private pay clients in California.

2130 Center St Suite 200

Berkeley, CA 94704

(510) 548-8283

The Latinx Therapist Action Network

The therapists listed in this directory are committed to providing therapy or other mental health services for those in need on a sliding scale for a maximum of 6 sessions at this scale. This sliding scale starts at $50 and goes up to $100. The pricing will vary based on the agreement between the therapist and the client