Cultivating Mindful Awareness - Transforming Depression and Anxiety | Befriending Emotions

Lee Lipp, Ph.D.

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A Sampling of Some Previous Events

Transforming Depression and Anxiety

  • San Francisco Zen Center
  • Spirit Rock Meditation Center - Redwood City
  • Insight Meditation - Modesto
  • East Bay Meditation Center
  • Tassajara Mountain Center
  • Green Gulch Farm
  • Gay Men’s Buddhist Sangha
  • Arcata Zen Center
  • Community of Mindful Living - Albany

A Mental Breather Staff Retreat:
Preventing Compassion Fatigue

  • UCSF
, San Francisco
 - Dept. of Psychiatry, Staff
  • Trauma Recovery Center
  • Dept of Psychiatry, Staff, Child/Adolescent Support
  • Advocacy Research Center
  • Aids Project Los Angeles
  • Coping with Babies with Aids Agency
  • Homeless Coalition, Los Angeles

Mindfulness and Addiction Recovery

  • The Drug Court of the Superior Court of California
  • San Francisco County
  • San Mateo Mental Health Services-Psychiatric Residency Training
  • Walden House-Youth House-San Francisco
  • San Francisco Zen Center Mindfulness and Recovery Program

Mindful Living: Transforming the Inner Critics

  • San Francisco Insight
, San Francisco


Taming the Dragons: Relating to Depression and Anxiety

  • Spirit Rock Meditation Center
  • San Francisco Insight

Mindfulness and Anxiety

  • Spirit Rock Meditation Center
  • East Bay Meditation Center
  • San Francisco Insight
  • Insight Meditation Center

Mindful Living In Stressful Circumstances:
Cultivating the “Personal Listening Mind”

  • National Alliance for Mental Illness-DBSA San Francisco

Coping with Depression: An Introduction
to Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression

  • California Institute for Integral Studies
  • MBCT Bay Area
  • Haight Ashbury Psychological Services
  • San Mateo Psychiatric Society

Building a Positive Relationship With Yourself

  • La Casa de Las Madres - Mary Elizabeth Inn

Coping with Depression

  • Mental Health Association, San Francisco
  • San Francisco Dept. of Mental Health
  • Zen Hospice Project, San Francisco

Mindfulness Strategies: Working with Depression

  • Insight Meditation Center -Redwood City


Mindful Parenting

  • Turning Place Mindful Parent Program
  • Westside Child Trauma Council

Mindfulness Training for Staff

  • New Sierra Hospital -Tucson
  • SFV Homeless Coalition- Los Angeles
  • Aids Project-Los Angeles

Organizations where Lee has presented programs

Dr. Lipp has provided workshops, classes, and staff retreats and events for many organizations:

  • The Drug Court of the Superior Court of California, San Francisco County
  • San Francisco Mental Health Association - San Francisco Dept. of Mental Health
  • UCSF-Dept. of Psychiatry, Staff, Trauma Recovery Center – San Francisco
  • UCSF-Dept of Psychiatry, Staff, Child/Adolescent Support Advocacy Research Center
  • San Mateo Mental Health Services-Psychiatric Residency Training
  • San Mateo Psychiatric Society
  • San Mateo County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services
  • Stanislaus County Behavioral Health and Recovery Services
  • Spirit Rock Meditation Center-Woodacre
  • San Francisco Zen Center-San Francisco
  • Haight Ashbury Psychological Services
  • Insight Meditation Society-Redwood City
  • Insight Meditation - Modesto
  • Tassajara Mountain Center-Carmel Valley
  • East Bay Meditation Center-Oakland
  • Gay Men’s Buddhist Sangha-San Francisco
  • Zen Hospice Project-San Francisco
  • Aids Project Los Angeles
  • Walden House-Youth House-San Francisco
  • San Bruno Jail-San Francisco County Jail
  • La Casa de las Madres-Mary Elizabeth Inn -San Francisco
  • Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance –San Francisco
  • Community of Mindful Living-East Bay
  • UCSF Symposium - The Practice of Peace-San Francisco
  • New Sierra Hospital -Tucson, Arizona
  • Turning Place Mindful Parent Program-Santa Monica
  • Westside Child Trauma Council-Santa Monica
  • Unitarian Universalist Church-Santa Monica
  • Phillips Family Study Center-Los Angeles
  • Brotman Hospital Wellness Center-Los Angeles