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
Where We Work
CTI brings care directly into shelters, clinics, drop-in centers, transitional housing, and community spaces across San Francisco. By embedding our services within trusted partner sites, we reach people where they already are and reduce every barrier between them and care.
What We Offer
Each session is a focused 15-minute chair massage, free and open to anyone. No appointment, no ID, no cost. For many clients, it is a rare moment of calm, physical relief, and dignified human contact in the middle of a difficult day.
Why It Works
Showing up to the same sites, week after week, builds something that a single visit never can. Consistent presence creates trust, and trust is what makes relationship-based care possible for people who have often been let down by systems meant to help them.
Our Vision
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
Where We Work
CTI brings care directly into shelters, clinics, drop-in centers, transitional housing, and community spaces across San Francisco. By embedding our services within trusted partner sites, we reach people where they already are and reduce every barrier between them and care.
What We Offer
Each session is a focused 15-minute chair massage, free and open to anyone. No appointment, no ID, no cost. For many clients, it is a rare moment of calm, physical relief, and dignified human contact in the middle of a difficult day.
Why It Works
Showing up to the same sites, week after week, builds something that a single visit never can. Consistent presence creates trust, and trust is what makes relationship-based care possible for people who have often been let down by systems meant to help them.
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.
See Our Work in Action
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