SAN FRANCISCO CENTER FOR MEDITATION AND PSYCHOTHERAPY

The San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy was founded in 1992 as a place where independent, licensed psychotherapists sharing an interest in meditation and the interface between psychotherapy and spirituality could come together to work. While the Center is now closed, their shared space included a meditation room as well as consultation rooms. Individual practitioners came from different educational backgrounds and spiritual traditions. Over the years the Center sponsored and hosted workshops, conferences, meditation and spiritual reflection groups, Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy consultation groups, and retreats for psychotherapists as well as the general public.
Dorothy Hunt was the founder of the Center, and practiced psychotherapy from 1967 to 2021 after completing a graduate degree in social work at the University of Chicago. She has been a Licensed Clinical Social Worker in California since 1969, and taught extensively at the San Francisco Center for Meditation and Psychotherapy, and at Moon Mountain Sangha events, as well as conducting workshops at Esalen, the Association for Transpersonal Psychology, Nondual Wisdom and Psychotherapy, and the annual Science and Nonduality conferences.
Dorothy says that when she founded the Center, she imagined that meditation and psychotherapy were two different things. Now, however, she experiences meditation as “simply Being—being intimate with whatever is here in the moment,” so that it is impossible to separate the practice of meditation from the practice of psychotherapy. Dorothy is now retired from the practice of psychotherapy, no longer taking any clients, and is now focused on offering dokusan. In speaking about her work, Dorothy said,

