Community Healing Centers

The San Francisco, Marin, and Sonoma Healing Centers provide essential services to the community. Together they comprise the Community Healing Centers. Each Center is a local provider of high quality counseling and psychological services for adults, children, couples, and families, designed to meet a variety of needs. The Healing Center approach integrates Western psychology with ancient wisdom to bring balance and harmony to the whole person – mind, body, and spirit. The clinical staff is comprised of highly trained and qualified psychotherapists and interns specializing in a broad spectrum of clinical issues.

Sufism Psychology Forum

The Sufism and Psychology Forum (SPF) has been created as a department of the International Association to explore the relationship between the study of Sufism and of psychology. Members from around the world are working to bring together the application of Sufi principles and practices and the study of psychology through research, translation, and discussion in many different ways.

Goals of the Sufism and Psychology Forum are to:

• sponsor seminars and lectures presented by Sufi psychologists and therapists;
• hold informal meetings to discuss related topics;
• manage an electronic mailing list for SPF members;
• provide a web site bulletin board for exchanging short articles and other information of interest related to both Sufism and psychology;
• publish a quarterly newsletter;
• publish books on Sufi Psychology;
• expand the IAS research library; and
• conduct research in the field of Sufi psychology

The Sufism and Psychology Forum is not affiliated with any one Sufi school or order. The SPF has been successful in opening and maintaining an international dialogue among Sufi practitioners who work in the field of psychology, and in facilitating the integration of Sufi principles into the practice of psychology. Through the efforts of its members and the support of the International Association of Sufism, the SPF has made great strides since its inception in 1996 toward meeting its founding goals.