Healing Where It’s Needed Most
For over 40 years, CTI has provided free, trauma-informed massage in San Francisco—easing suffering, restoring dignity, and strengthening human connection.
Our Mission
To be present with human suffering and
promote healing through human connection.
Meeting People Where They Are
CTI serves individuals in shelters, clinics, drop-in centers, transitional housing, and community spaces across the city. Our focused chair massage sessions relieve physical pain, regulate stress, and create moments of calm in the midst of daily hardship.
By embedding care directly within trusted partner sites, we reduce barriers and ensure consistent, relationship-based support for people often excluded from traditional healthcare systems.
Our Vision
We envision a world shaped by justice, kindness, and compassion—where stigma rooted in poverty, homelessness, racism, age, or gender is dismantled, and healing, dignity, and hope are available to all.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion
CTI advances equity through a no-barrier service model. We provide care without requirements for identification, insurance, sobriety, or documentation—ensuring access for individuals often excluded from traditional systems.
We serve people of all genders, backgrounds, and lived experiences. Our commitment to ongoing trauma-informed and culturally responsive training ensures that every session centers consent, autonomy, and respect.
Our Values
We honor the inherent dignity and sacred worth of every human being and advocate for integrative, compassionate systems of care that uphold justice and equity.
Help Us Keep Showing Up
Your Support Matters
Your support provides free, trauma-informed massage to unhoused and marginalized communities, trains compassionate practitioners, sustains our volunteer network, and expands CTI’s reach to new neighborhoods across San Francisco.