The ISP Clinical Committee is currently creating a Referral List of highly qualified Bay Area clinicians to serve those interested in spiritually informed psychotherapy. Although the list will be a good resource to anyone interested in spiritually informed psychotherapy, our Referral List clinicians will be especially well qualified to provide therapy for the following groups:

• Clients actively engaged in a spiritual practice who also wish to explore their experience in the context of psychotherapy with a spiritually oriented psychotherapist,
• Experienced practitioners who have had a significant spiritual opening and are seeking help with the integration of their new experience and understanding into their daily lives, and
• Anyone in the midst of any kind of spiritual crisis or emergency.

For more information about spiritually informed psychotherapy, see our FAQ page.

The Committee recently completed a list of criteria and competencies designed to help us identify appropriate clinicians for inclusion on our Referral List. We have created interview teams of highly qualified senior clinicians to interview potential Referral List members and have begun the interview process.  The Referral List will be posted on our website starting in the spring of 2008. 

Clinicians on our Referral List will attend bi-annual consultation groups led by senior clinicians. Consultation groups will focus on clinical cases involving spiritual issues such as those mentioned above. CEUs will be offered for attendance at these consultation groups.

Our long range plans include:

• A training program for clinicians wishing to develop their skills and competencies for working with spiritual/religious issues in therapy,
• A clinic providing  spiritually oriented psychotherapy on a sliding scale as well as internship opportunities for clinicians-in-training, and
• Clinical research in the area of spiritually oriented psychotherapy.