Mental Health

We heard you & are responding!

In the past year we asked the community what resources the YWCA Berkeley/Oakland should focus on. Out of the 27 categories people identified, Therapy/Mental Health Resources topped the list.

The Mental Health Program is brand new and seeking collaboration with the community to create a meaningful programming that is responsive and relevant to the community’s needs. 

Given the stressful times we currently live in and everything that has happened since Covid, there has been a marked increase in anxiety, fear, unrest, uncertainty and unsafe. We are hoping to partner with our community to offer a mental health program that is a useful resource for everyone. We hope to support and resource people via events, workshops and other activities that will support mental and emotional health and wellness.

Our Vision

  • Clinical Training Program

    that offers no to low cost individual and group therapy services for the Berkeley/Oakland Community while simultaneously creating a socially and racially aware training program for therapists working towards licensure in California.

  • External Community Offerings

    that include discussion groups; support groups and /or other group based activities that folks can participate in to learn more about mental health in general and more specific areas of need in the community

  • Internal Offerings

    to staff and interns of the YWCA to support mental wellbeing, self care and education on mental & emotional wellness as they provide much needed services to the community.

Our first community event is a town hall to discuss in more detail the mental health needs of the Berkeley-Oakland community. 

Please fill out this brief survey to indicate what date works best for you to have our first gathering as well as a few questions designed to gather information to help guide and inform our mental health program offerings moving forward.

If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to email our Mental Health Director, H. Ameeta Singh, LMFT #50409 @ asingh@ywca-berkeley.org.