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Mental Health Services

Asian Communities Mental Health Services
(510) 451-6729
Asian Family Resource Center: (510) 970-9750
http://www.acmhs.org
Provides mental health services for Asian families in
Alameda County and Contra Costa County. Case
management for developmentally disabled clients and
families. Prevention services for at-risk youth and their
families. Most Asian languages spoken. Sliding scale
fee.

Asian Pacific Psychological Services
431 - 30th Street, Suite 6A, Oakland CA 94609
(510) 835-APPS (2777)
inforequest@appsweb.org
http://www.appsweb.org
The APPS Richmond Clinic is located at 3905
MacDonald Avenue, Richmond, CA 94805. The phone
number is (510) 233-7555. Our hours of operation are
Monday, Tuesday, and Friday from 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM,
Wednesday and Thursday from 9:00 AM - 7:00 PM.
Saturdays are by appointment only. APPS primarily
serves indigent and disadvantaged refugee and
immigrant families who have limited or no access to
mental health care. While APPS' main geographic
service areas are Alameda County and Contra Costa
County, some clients come from cities as far away as
Modesto, Santa Rosa, and Sacramento to receive
culturally and linguistically competent services at
APPS. The Asian population
we serve is extremely diverse in language, ethnicity,
migration history, and level of acculturation. The vast
majority of clients (90%) need to be served in their
native Asian languages. Over 95% of APPS' clients
have Medi-Cal or are uninsured. Many of the families
served are large families with 5-7 children.

John Muir Behavioral Health Center
(925) 674-4100; (800)-680-6555
Provides psychiatric evaluation, inpatient and partial
hospitalization services. Also provides in and outpatient
psychiatric treatment for children and
adolescents.

Community Counseling Center
John F. Kennedy University
(925) 798-9240
Adult, child and family therapy. Support groups for
single parents, women, and Adult Children of
Alcoholics; special Play Therapy rooms for children.
Wheelchair access.  Sliding scale fees.

Community Options for Families and Youth Inc. (COFY)

The Center for Trauma Processing

(925) 943-1794

www.cofy.org

The Center for Trauma Processing provides treatment and support for children and families who are traumatized due to abuse, neglect, domestic violence, and other crimes.  COFY strives to provide evidence based treatment for trauma in the form of Trauma Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy, Play Therapy, Family Therapy, Hyponotherapy and EMDR.  Services are provided through California's victim compensation program for those who qualify.

Languages of Service: English, Spanish, and Swedish

Contra Costa Regional Medical Center
Psychiatric Emergency Services
Contra Costa County Mental Health Services
Crisis 24 hour: (925) 646-2800
Martinez Crisis:
(925) 313-6414 for adults
(925) 313-6408 for child/teens
Richmond Crisis:
(510) 374-3061 for adults
(510) 374-3261 for children
Concord Outpatient:
(925) 646-5480 for adults
(925) 646-5468 for children
Pittsburg/Antioch Outpatient:
(925) 427-8110 for adults
(925) 427-8664 for children
Services for children and their families with behavioral
and emotional difficulties. Crisis and short-term therapy
for adults; psychiatric consultation and medication
monitoring. Child play therapy. Support group for
women re-entering the job market. Sliding scale fee.
Spanish services available.

Invision Associates
Lafayette: (925) 284-2503
Psychotherapy for individuals and couples, therapy
groups, massage, Rosen Method body work and
movement classes. Some sliding scale fees. Private
insurance accepted.

Lynn Center

www.contracostaarc.org

(925) 439-9628 Pittsburg

Lynn Center serves East Conta Costa County.  Mental Health programs for children birth to 6 years old who are at-risk, severly emotionally disturbed, abused, or neglected. The center also serves children with behavioral issues and consultation to preschools and day care providers who have children with challenging behaviors.  Spanish services are available.  Services are free.


The Lucas Michael Rubino Family and Child Counseling Center
515 Marina Blvd., Pittsburg CA 94565
(925) 432.7844
http://www.lucascenter.com
The Lucas Center offers affordable counseling to East
Contra Costa County. Medi-Cal, VOC, and private
insurance are gladly accepted and we do offer a
sliding scale. We provide individual, couples, family,
and group counseling to people of all ages. We offer a
Parenting Class, a therapy group for children, and other
groups. Call for more details or to do a 5 minute simple
intake interview to get started.

Mental Health Consumer Concerns, Inc.
Patients' Rights and Advocacy
(925) 646-5788
Advocacy to mental health clients. Investigation and
resolution of complaints. Training workshops on
patients' rights and peer support. Services are free.
National Alliance for the Mentally Ill of Contra
Costa County (NAMI)
(925) 646-5798
Support groups for families of persons in treatment for
severe mental and emotional disturbances. Advocacy
and education. Opportunity to share feelings and
concerns. Services are free. (Optional membership fee.)

Wellspring Psychotherapy
(925) 831-2442
Adult individuals, families, couples, adolescents and
children 4 years and up. Play therapy, sand tray, art,
music, and games incorporated in working with
children in a safe and supportive environment.
Caretakers are strongly encouraged to participate in
treatment. Parent education and support covering young
children through adolescence. Client centered approach,
working with existing strengths, appropriate boundaries,
creative problem solving and empowerment. Medi-Cal
and Victim Witness accepted in addition to private pay.

West Coast Children's Center
(510) 527-7249
http://www.westcoastcc.org
Outpatient mental health services for children ages 2-18
and their families. Individual, family and group
counseling, parent guidance, and full-scale
psychological testing. Other programs include school based
training for children in coping skills, plus
grandparent support program that provides support for
grandparents and the grandchildren they are raising.
Sliding scale fees. ASL, Spanish, Tagalog, French
services.

West County Crisis Services:
(510) 374-3420
M-F 8 -4:30 p.m. Provides psychiatric emergency
services. Some free services available. Medi-Cal, Medi-
Care and private insurance accepted.
Early Childhood Mental Health Program
(510) 412-9200
http://www.ecmhp.org
Serves West Contra Costa County; some Alameda and
Solano County. Mental Health programs for children
birth to 6 years, at-risk, severely emotionally disturbed,
abused, or neglected. Counseling for families and foster
families. Parent and grandparent support. Support for
relative caregivers of children with substance
involvement. Consultation to day care providers.
Monday-Friday 8:30-5. Evenings by appointment. Call
for information on fees. Spanish services available.

Counseling Services

Bay Area Psychotherapy Services / Oak Creek Counseling Center
(888) 649-9320
http://www.b-a-p-s.org
Brentwood, Concord, Lafayette, San Ramon, Walnut
Creek, El Cerrito, Pleasant Hill, Hayward, Oakland, San
Francisco.
Quality, affordable psychotherapy based on the client's
needs. Services provided to individual adults, couples,
families, children and adolescents, and groups. Issues
addressed include depression, anxiety, drug and alcohol
recovery, family conflict, grief, physical and sexual
abuse, and divorce.
Sliding scale fees. German services available.

Bay Area Psychotherapy Training Institute (BAPTI)
(925) 284-2298
Individual, couple, child, adolescent and family
counseling; parent education; drug and alcohol
evaluation and education.
Sliding scale fees.
Contra Costa Referral Service
Lafayette: (925) 946-4500
Referrals to licensed therapists. Individual, child,
couple and marriage counseling, parenting skills, stress
disorders, depression, substance abuse, eating disorders,
etc. Sliding scale fees. Spanish services available.

Child and Family Guidance Center
(925) 933-1290
Groups for parents of children under 18 years old.
Individual, couple and family counseling also available.
Assessment of children with learning and behavioral
and family problems. Psychotherapy for children 18
months and older. Call for free screening interview.
Sliding scale fees.

Circle of Care
(510) 531-7551
http://www.ebac.org
Offers ongoing Peer Support Groups for children and
families who are coping with illness or loss. Groups
are held on Wednesday and Thursday evenings. Other
services include outpatient individual and family
counseling that is home, office, or school-based, and
Comfort Companion programs for children, teens, and
family impacted by illness (including HIV/AIDS) or
bereavement. No one is turned away for inability to
pay. Spanish services available.

Community Counseling Center JFK University
(925) 798-9240
Adult, child and family therapy. Support groups for
single parents, women, and Adult Children of
Alcoholics; special Play Therapy rooms for children.
Wheelchair access.  Sliding scale fees.

Diablo Valley Counseling Center
Walnut Creek: (925) 210-1414
Offers broad range of clinical expertise and specialized
training for individuals, children, couples and families
including: sexual and physical abuse, premarital,
parenting and step-parenting, separation and divorce,
remarriage/blended family, play therapy for children.
Sliding scale fees.

Discovery Counseling Center
(925) 837-0505
http://www.discoverycenteronline.com
Provides drug and alcohol treatment for adults and
teens in need of support. Also provides mental health
services. Sliding Scale fees.

Jewish Family and Children Services
of the East Bay
Berkeley: (510) 704-7475
Walnut Creek: (925) 927-2000
Individual, child, family, and group psychotherapy,
family life education, parenting workshops and groups.
Resettlement of Jewish émigré’s. Open to all regardless
of ethnic background, religious affiliation, gender and
sexual orientation. Sliding scale fees. Hebrew,
Russian, Spanish, and Farsi services available.

New Directions Counseling Center
(925) 798-7500
Low-fee individual, marriage, family, child and couple
counseling. Only serves low income and homeless
clients. Monday -Thursday 9a.m.-9p.m.

Northern California Family Center
(925) 370-1990
Youth and Families in Contra Costa. Individual, couple
and family therapy. Free placement services for
runaway and homeless youth and youth in crisis.
Family Mediation Services for at-risk youth. Recruits,
trains and certifies foster families. Assists families in
applying for Medi-Cal (Children and Healthy Families
Program.) Sliding scale for therapy services. Services
available in English and Spanish.

Orinda Psychology Group
(925) 952-4841
Consultation with nursery schools, workshops for
parents and psychological evaluations. Psychotherapy
and counseling available for children and adults.
Sliding scale fees. Medi-Cal, Victim Witness and
private insurance accepted.

REACH Project Inc.
Antioch: (925) 240-2045
Brentwood: (925) 754-3673
APD REACH: (925) 779-6908
Individual and family counseling, including Spanish speaking.
Age-appropriate support and peer groups,
teen and adult drug and alcohol treatment. Parent and
grandparent support. Youth intervention and panel
hearings ages 6-17.
Sliding Scale fees. Spanish services available.

River Counseling Center

(925) 757-4837

www.rivercounselingcenter.com

River Counseling Center is a group of private practitioners with a variety of skills and training who provide multiple services including individual, couples, family, adolescent, and child therapy.  Other services include parent education and divorce and custody issues.  Office also available in Walnut Creek

Hours of Service: Monday-Saturday by appointment

Cost of Services: Private pay and multiple insurance companies

Languages: English and Spanish

 

Stepping Stones Counseling Center
(800) 403-6111 or (510) 307-4162
Sexual abuse counseling for children and adults.
Services include evaluation, individual therapy, group
therapy, family and parent therapy and education.
Insurance is accepted. Availability of services is not
dependent on a client’s ability to pay.

The Low-Fee Referral Network
(510) 433-9499
Referral network of private therapists in Contra Costa
and Alameda counties offering individual, couples and
group counseling for children, adolescents, adults and
families. Variety of specialties address: the workplace,
stress reduction, depression, anger management,
sexuality/intimacy, adoption, children at-risk, incest,
alcohol/drugs, parenting, self-esteem and loneliness.
Sliding scale fees. Spanish may be available.

The Women's Therapy Center
(510) 524-8288
http://www.womenstherapy.org
Counseling for women and couples. Sliding scale fees.
Victim witness and private insurance accepted.

Touchstone Counseling Services
(925) 932-0150
Individual, couple, family counseling, children's play
therapy. Support groups and workshops dealing with
parenting and family issues, substance abuse and child
abuse. Single parent and children of divorce groups.
Sliding scale fees.

Turning Point Counseling Center
Walnut Creek: (925) 934-8925
Services:
Treatment for children and families where sexual abuse
has occurred. Ongoing groups for adult survivors,
adolescent and adult situational offenders. Group and
individual treatment for domestic violence offenders
and individual treatment for family members. Play
therapy available.

Mental Health Services:
Provides quality mental health care services covering a
wide range of needs, offering reality based solutions
and practical tools for successful living. Also services
for domestic violence, victims of sexual abuse and their
families. Sliding scale fees.

Youth and Family Counseling Center
(925) 634-6391
Primarily serves East County. Individual, couple,
family and group counseling; parenting support groups.
Specialization in juvenile drug and alcohol problems,
delinquency/pre- delinquency counseling, child abuse
issues. Intern training program. Sliding scale fees.
Private insurance, Victim Witness and Contra Costa
Health Plan accepted. Spanish services available.