Resources to Support Personal Growth & Introspection for LGBTQ+ Adults and Adult Children of Immigrants Seeking Therapy in Oakland and Online in California
Includes: warm lines, therapist directories, and reading lists about queerness, gender, disability and neurodivergence, and sexuality and pleasure.
Allow yourself as many opportunities to deepen your self-knowledge.
The resources below can help you understand what has shaped your thoughts, feelings, and beliefs about different parts of your life and identity. Individual therapy in Oakland and online in California can help bridge the intellectual with the emotional, so that you can move into your felt sense of being.
Schedule your free 20-minute consultation to see what kind of expansive, creative, and life-affirming work we can do together.
Non-Carceral Support Lines
These are support lines that do not involve the police.
MH Oakland: call or text (510) 999-9MH1, Friday & Saturday nights from 8pm to 8am
THRIVE Lifeline: text “THRIVE” to 1-313-662-8209, 24/7 support
Trans LifeLine: (877) 565-8860
LGBT National Hotline: 888-843-4564, Monday-Friday 1-9pm, Saturday 9am-2pm
BlackLine call or text line: 1-800-604-5841, Monday-Friday 6am-8pm, Saturday-Sunday 5pm
Wildflower Alliance Peer Support Line: call 888-407-4515, Monday-Thursday 4-6pm, Friday-Sunday 4-7pm
A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation, Tan Hoang Nguyen (nonfiction)
Baby Making for Everybody: Family Building and Fertility for LGBTQ+ and Solo Parents, Ray Rachlin & Marea Goodman (nonfiction)
Choosing Family: A Memoir of Queer Motherhood and Black Resistance, Francesca T. Royster (nonfiction)
Don’t Cry For Me, Daniel Black (fiction)
Girls Can Kiss Now: Essays, Jill Gutowitz (nonfiction)
Greedy: Notes from a Bisexual Who Wants Too Much, Jen Winston (nonfiction)
Hijab Butch Blues: A Memoir, Lamya H (nonfiction)
How Far The Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures, Sabrina Imbler (nonfiction)
How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir, Saeed Jones
In The Dream House: A Memoir, Carmen Maria Machado (nonfiction)
Kink: Stories, Garth Greenwell and R.O. Kwon (fiction)
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous, Ocean Vuong (fiction)
Nepantla: An Anthology Dedicated to Queer Poets of Color, Christopher Soto (poetry)
Punch Me Up to the Gods: A Memoir, Brian Broome (nonfiction)
We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir, Samra Habib (nonfiction)
A Clinician's Guide to Gender-Affirming Care: Working with Transgender and Gender Nonconforming Clients, Sand Chang, Anneliese A. Singh, and lore m. dickey (nonfiction)
A History of My Brief Body, Billy Ray-Belcourt (nonfiction)
Before We Were Trans: A New History of Gender, Kit Heyam (nonfiction)
Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity, C Riley Snorton (nonfiction)
Detransition, Baby, Torrey Peters (fiction)
Hijab Butch Blues, Lamya H (nonfiction)
Nonbinary: Memoirs of Gender and Identity, Micah Rajunov and A. Scott Duane (nonfiction)
Surviving Transphobia, ed. Laura A. Jacobs (nonfiction)
Tomboy Survival Guide, Ivan Coyote (nonfiction)
Trans+: Love, Sex, Romance, and Being You, Kathryn Gonzales and Karen Rayne (nonfiction)
Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, Lucie Fielding (nonfiction)
Transcending: Trans Buddhist Voices, Kevin Manders and Elizabeth Marston (nonfiction)
Summer Fun, Jeanne Thornton (fiction)
We Want It All: An Anthology of Radical Trans Poetics, Andrea Abi-Karam and Kay Gabriel (poetry)
Sex & Sexuality
Ace: What Asexuality Reveals about Desire, Society, and the Meaning of Sex, Angela Chen (nonfiction)
Ace Voices: What It Means to Be Asexual, Aromantic, Demi or Grey-Ace, Eris Young (nonfiction)
Bang!: Masturbation for People of All Genders and Abilities, Vic Liu (nonfiction)
Come as You Are: The Surprising New Science That Will Transform Your Sex Life, Emily Nagoski (nonfiction)
Come Together: The Science (and Art!) of Creating Lasting Sexual Connections, Emily Nagoski (nonfiction)
Pleasure Activism: The Politics of Feeling Good, adrienne maree brown (nonfiction)
Trans Sex: Clinical Approaches to Trans Sexualities and Erotic Embodiments, Lucie Fielding (nonfiction)
Want: Sexual Fantasies by Anonymous, Gillian Anderson (nonfiction)
Disability Justice
All Our Families: Disability Lineage and the Future of Kinship, Jennifer Natalya Fink (nonfiction)
Brilliant Imperfection: Grappling With Cure, Eli Clare (nonfiction)
Care Work: Dreaming Disability Justice, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (nonfiction)
Crip Kinship: The Disability Justice & Art Activism of Sins Invalid, Shayda Kafai (nonfiction)
Disability Intimacy: Essays on Love, Care, and Desire, Alice Wong (nonfiction)
Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-First Century, Alice Wong (nonfiction)
How to ADHD: An Insider's Guide to Working with Your Brain (Not Against It), Jessica McCabe (nonfiction)
Skin, Tooth, and Bone: The Basis of Movement is Our People (Second Edition), Sins Invalid (nonfiction)
Spectrums: Autistic Transgender People in Their Own Words, Maxfield Sparrow (nonfiction)
Supporting Transgender Autistic Youth and Adults: A Guide for Professionals and Families, Finn V. Gratton (nonfiction)
The Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, Esmé Weijun Wang (nonfiction)
The Future Is Disabled: Prophecies, Love Notes and Mourning Songs, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha (nonfiction)
True Biz, Sara Nović (fiction)
Unmasking Autism: Discovering the New Faces of Neurodiversity, Devon Price (nonfiction)
Unmasking for Life: The Autistic Person’s Guide to Connecting, Loving, and Living Authentically, Devon Price (nonfiction)