Low-Cost Counseling Clinics in Portland:
River’s Way Process Work Clinic
Emergency Lines:
Multnomah County Crisis Line
tel: 503.988.4888
Call to Safety (formerly Portland Women’s Crisis Line)
tel: 503.235.5333
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
tel: 800.273.8255
Trans Lifeline
tel: 877.565.8860
National Domestic Violence Hotline
tel: 800.799.7233 or text LOVEIS to 866.331.9474
The Trevor Project
(crisis intervention and suicide prevention services to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer & questioning (LGBTQ) young people under 25)
tel: 866.488.7386
Meditation Groups:
Portland Insight Meditation Community
(current classes and meditations are all online)
Other Professional and Advocacy Services:
African American Provider List (Portland)
Basic Rights Oregon
(working to ensure equality for all LGBTQ Oregonians)
Be Nourished (Portland)
(therapy, trainings, and workshops focusing on creating a body-compassionate and weight-inclusive world)
Brave Space, LLC (Portland)
(health care providers and resources for transgender and non-binary children, youth, adults, and their families)
Disability Rights Oregon
(fighting for rights of people with disabilities)
Wise Heart PDX
(relationship skills building through Non-Violent Communication and Mindful Compassionate Dialogue workshops and classes for individuals and couples)
The Living Breath (Margaret Townsend)
(Breathwork)
Books
Mindfulness/Meditation:
Mindfulness: A Practical Guide to Awakening (Joseph Goldstein)
Wherever You Go, There You Are: Mindfulness Meditation in Everyday Life (Jon Kabat-Zinn)
Altered Traits: Science Reveals How Meditation Changes Your Mind, Brain, and Body (Daniel Goleman and Richard Davidson)
Mindfulness in Plain English (Bhante Gunaratana)
Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment (Robert Wright)
Waking Up: A Guide to Spirituality Without Religion (Sam Harris)
Depression/Anxiety:
Lost Connections: Uncovering the Real Causes of Depression – and the Unexpected Solutions (Johann Hari)
When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times (Pema Chödrön)
The Happiness Trap: How to Stop Struggling and Start Living: A Guide to ACT (Russ Harris)
Get Out of Your Mind & Into Your Life (Steven Hayes) (workbook)
The Mindfulness and Acceptance Workbook for Anxiety: A Guide to Breaking Free from Anxiety, Phobias, and Worry Using Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (John Forsyth) (workbook)
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (William Styron)
The Inflamed Mind: A Radical New Approach to Depression (Edward Bullmore)
Trauma:
The Trauma of Everyday Life (Mark Epstein)
Radical Compassion: Learning to Love Yourself and Your World with the Practice of RAIN (Tara Brach)
Waking the Tiger: Healing Trauma (Peter Levine & Ann Frederick)
The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma (Bessel van der Kolk)
Complex PTSD: From Surviving to Thriving (Pete Walker)
Relationships and Intimacy:
Hold Me Tight: Seven Conversations for a Lifetime of Love (Sue Johnson)
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find–and keep–Love (Amir Levine & Rachel Heller)
Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples (Harville Hendrix)
Intimacy & Desire: Awaken the Passion in Your Relationship (David Schnarch)
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science that Will Transform Your Sex Life (Emily Nagoski)
The Seven Principles for Making Marriage Work: A Practical Guide from the Country’s Foremost Relationship Expert (John Gottman)
Disability:
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the 21st Century (edited by Alice Wong)
Nothing About Us Without Us: Disability Oppression and Empowerment (James Charlton)
NeuroTribes: The Legacy of Autism and the Future of Neurodiversity (Steve Silberman)
Nerdy, Shy, and Socially Inappropriate: A User Guide to An Asperger Life (Cynthia Kim)
We’ve Been Too Patient: Voices from Radical Mental Health–Stories and Research Challenging the Biomedical Model (edited by L.D. Green & Kelechi Ubozoh)
Body Positivity / Intuitive Eating:
Intuitive Eating: An Anti-Diet Revolutionary Approach (Evelyn Tribole and Elyse Resch)
Health at Every Size: The Surprising Truth About Your Weight (Linda Bacon)
Fearing the Black Body: The Racial Origins of Fat Phobia (Sabrina Strings)
The Body is Not an Apology: The Power of Radical Self Love (Sonya Renee Taylor)
Racial Healing:
My Grandmother’s Hands: Racialized Trauma and the Pathway to Mending Our Hearts and Bodies (Resmaa Menakem)
Me and White Supremacy: Combat Racism, Change the World, and Become a Good Ancestor (Layla F. Saad)
How to Be an Antiracist (Ibram X. Kendi)
So You Want to Talk About Race (Ijeoma Oluo)
Addiction:
Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs
(Johann Hari)
In the Realm of the Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Gabor Maté)
The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction is Not a Disease (Marc Lewis)
Recover!: Stop Thinking Like an Addict and Reclaim Your Life with The PERFECT Program (Stanton Peele)
Understanding Cognition and Changing Behavior:
Changing for Good: A Revolutionary Six-Stage Program for Overcoming Bad Habits and Moving Your Life Positively Forward (James Porchaska, John Norcross, & Carlo DiClemente)
The Emotional Life of Your Brain: How It’s Unique Patterns Affect the Way You Think, Feel, and Live–and How You Can Change Them (Richard Davidson & Sharon Begley)
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation (Daniel Siegel)
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience (Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi)
Decisive: How to Make Better Choices in Life and Work (Chip & Dan Heath)
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQ (Daniel Goleman)
Why Everyone (Else) Is a Hypocrite: Evolution and the Modular Mind (Robert Kurzban)
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions (Dan Ariely)
Intuition Pumps and Other Tools for Thinking (Daniel C. Dennett)
Synaptic Self: How Our Brains Become Who We Are (Joseph LeDoux)
The Strange Order of Things: Life, Feeling, and The Making of Culture (António R. Damásio)
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion (Jonathan Haidt)
How Emotions are Made: The Secret Life of the Brain (Lisa Feldman Barrett)
Why We Sleep: Unlocking the Power of Sleep and Dreams (Matthew Walker)
Human Nature: Brain Science and Human Knowledge (Gerald Edelman)
Behave: The Biology of Humans at Our Best and Worst (Robert Sapolsky)
The Voices Within: The History and Science of How We Talk to Ourselves (Charles Fernyhough)
Metaphors We Live By (George Lakoff & Mark Johnson)
The Tree of Knowledge: The Biological Roots of Human Understanding (Humberto Maturana)
Entheogens/Psychedelics/Harm Reduction:
How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence (Michael Pollan)
The Psychedelic Explorer’s Guide: Safe, Thearapeutic, and Sacred Journeys (James Fadiman)
Other:
Man’s Search for Meaning (Viktor Frankl)
The Four Agreements: A Practical Guide to Personal Freedom (Miguel Ruiz)
Quiet: The Power of Introverts in a World That Can’t Stop Talking (Susan Cain)