Support Groups in San Francisco, CA
Hosted by Jim Torrens
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94123
While grief is normal and natural, most of the information passed on within our society about dealing with grief is not normal, natural or helpful. Grief is the emotional response to loss but most of the information we have learned about dealing with loss is intellectual and often referred to as 'trauma' rather than naming the loss that has actually been suffered. There are 43 different types of losses, from losing a loved one, to job loss, divorce, break ups and more. The grief recovery group will identify incomplete loss and help the griever complete the pain caused by loss.
Hosted by Dr. Tara Cronin
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, LPCC, ATR-BC, PATP
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94110
Hello and welcome! I started my practice to help people overcome and recover from grief and loss, trauma and relationship issues. My therapeutic approach allows negative or problem situations to transform into positive solutions. I am a certified grief recovery specialist and also work with pet loss, relationship endings and life transitions. I enter each therapy session with sincerity and compassion and will work with you to develop a plan for reaching your goals. If you are experiencing pain from the death of a loved one, a life change or relationship ending, please call or e-mail to set up an in-person appointment.
Empathy Tool Kit Provided. Training Ground to learn the Essential Tools of NVC- Non-violent Communication. Tools to have more Loving Relationships: Overcoming Blame & The Demand to be Right! What People are Saying: Nothing short of amazing “I recently had the pleasure of experiencing a workshop with Ilene Wolf and she is a strong, bright and clear teacher and therapist who creates a lot of depth, safety, and connection in a very short period of time. Everyone in group opened up, connected easily, experienced a great sense of joy in Ilene’s presence through her skilled facilitation. I highly recommend working with her.” – L. P.
Hosted by Ilene Wolf
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94123
Sad, Worried & Feeling stuck with the same old negative recurring thoughts? I know you are here to feel clear, to feel stronger. Practical Tools to overcome negative thought patterns that can keep you anxious and depressed. Can't accept what is- I can show you ways to be more in the moment and free from hurt and anger. You can feel better - starting with the first month of therapy. Loneliness, despair, challenges at work, in your relationships or at home. You can feel more hopeful. Resilience Spoken Here. Stanford Trained, Licensed 30 years, I have worked successfully with 100s of happier individuals, couples, parents & kids.
A group of up to five clients; through Simple Practice .com;the platform similar to Zoom;once a week or twice if needed.
Hosted by Patricia Jane Weiss
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94118
This is Dr. Patricia Jane Weiss, PhD. I am a Neuropsychologist, and I specialize in treating children , teens and adults. I do an assessment of cognitive and psychological tests. The point of the assessment (group of tests) is to determine if the client has any Learning Disorders that are blocking them from being able to use their full potential in both school and/or work. I specialize in children and teens who may need accommodations at school, and on Standardized testing or testing at school.I also work with adults who may need accommodations at work or who are involved in forensic situations.
Learn Somatic techniques to help you manage anxiety during these unprecedented times. Learn breathing techniques, ways to notice and relax tension, diminish anxiety before it takes hold of your behavior. We will use a video platform for this group.
Hosted by Antony Thier
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94115
I practice Mindfulness and Somatic based Cognitive Therapy to help treat Anxiety, Depression, Trauma, Relationship, and life's woes. Together we will understand what causes your suffering and create change. Our traumas, difficult relationships, COVID, loss, and heartache, can all be confusing and debilitating and influence us to live patterns of suffering through our behaviors, beliefs, habitual thinking and life circumstances. By discovering and practicing new behaviors you will learn how to relate to your thoughts, emotions, and body in a manner that allows you to live the life that you want to be living.
RCC specializes in working with couples and individuals who want to find more ease and satisfaction with their partner.
Hosted by Sara Bingaman
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94118
I work with people who want to feel at peace in themselves, able to appreciate their unique lives and grow a capacity to deeply connect with others. If you are feeling down, alone or stuck I can help. My goal is to create an accepting safe place where you can express yourself, explore what is troubling you, question beliefs that keep you from joy and help you develop strategies to facilitate the change you desire.
This group offers guided process, support, and community for highly sensitive people (HSPs), empaths, and intuitives. Topics will include boundary setting and communication, increasing energy and preventing exhaustion, relationship dynamics, working with your intuition, and infusing life with a greater sense of purpose. If you would like to understand yourself better, make sense of spiritual experiences, and develop your gifts, this may be your group. We meet every two weeks over Zoom. Begins Late Summer / Fall 2024.
Hosted by Vesna Lubina Westbrook
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94114
I work with clients who are (highly) sensitive, empathic, or intuitive. Sensitive people have a finely attuned nervous system that is a huge gift when made conscious. They experience life deeply, yet don't always feel easily understood by others. Growing up, they often experienced not fitting in, and have adapted to a largely non-sensitive world in myriad ways that didn't always serve their best interest. I support sensitive people on their path to finding their voice, experiencing genuine relationships, purposeful work, and reclaiming their space in the world.
“Fertility Resilience: Primary Paths” is a structured therapeutic support group for women without living children who are trying to conceive and struggling with the social and psychological impact of infertility or recurrent pregnancy loss. This group provides a safe space for social connection and sharing, while imparting skills to build emotional resilience for a difficult fertility journey. Participants will learn tools to manage fertility-related stressors including relaxation, self-compassion, techniques to address negative thinking, and skills for interpersonal effectiveness. Limited to 6-8 women who should be able to attend all six sessions.
Hosted by Bloom Therapy
Psychologist, PsyD, PMH-C
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94114
Bloom Therapy specializes in women's mental health across the lifespan. Women face unique stressors in their relationships and career, and experience anxiety, depression, and traumatic stress at twice the rate of men. We offer a compassionate, evidence-based approach to address these challenges and help you reach your goals. Our work focuses on building strengths, enhancing self-confidence, and empowering you with knowledge and tools so that you can thrive in your relationships, work, and life.
Unfortunately, I have no therapy groups that are open to new clients at this time. The therapy groups that I currently conduct focus on a variety of personal, relationship, marital, family, work, and other issues. If you are interested in learning more about the types of therapy groups that I conduct and/or my clinical expertise in conducting therapy groups, please email me and I will be happy to respond to any questions that you may have. I look forward to hearing from you.
Thank you.
Hosted by David A Thomson, LCSW
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, BCD, CAS
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94118
Do you feel that your everyday challenges are beginning to overwhelm you? Have you set goals for yourself, but you have not been able to achieve them? The solution is in sight. With skill, professionalism, empathy, and compassion I can help you to achieve your goals and the life that you want. Because you are a unique individual, I will tailor my treatment methods to fit your unique situation and needs. I believe that we all have what it takes to meet and conquer life's many challenges and difficulties.
Overwhelming anxiety or depression getting you stuck? The arts present fresh perspectives and enhance our capacity for change. In this 2-hour expressive arts group, we investigate entrenched patterns with a creative stance. Each week, we attune to the senses and expand our understanding through improv, drawing, music, poetry, or storytelling. No artistic skills necessary! Three ways this group will help you -See that you are not alone: Learn how to slow down in your responses to stress. -Effect change in your relationships, work, and hobbies. -Engage with a healing community: Connect with creative wisdom to live your best life.
Hosted by Melissa Louise Craven
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, PMH-C
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94115
Do you feel caught in self-criticism? Do you feel separate from others- or less than? Self-criticism can affect mood, sleep, relationships, and motivation. You might feel you've lost your sense of purpose- that a good life is out of reach. You are not alone. In this post-pandemic world, so many of us feel anxious and hard on ourselves.
Support, education and stress management for the sandwich generation -- adults who are managing or providing care for aging relatives, in addition to their other responsibilities.
Hosted by Kate Hellenga
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94103
November 2024 - my practice is full and I am not taking new clients. I do not anticipate new openings until April 2025 or later. I will update this page if and when I have room. I'm sorry I can't be of help right now, but I'm confident you can find a therapist who works well with you.
Hosted by Peggy Burns
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94127
VIRTUAL GROUP! Next Cohort starts August 2024, once full. This group is for you if you’re exploring healing through psilocybin and want more guidance along your journey. We discuss where to begin and common protocols. Thursdays 6:00 - 7:30 pm for 8 weeks. Each group includes a short lecture & meditation or breathing exercise. Must commit to 8 sessions. $375. Insurances accepted: Optum, Aetna & Cigna, Blue Shield Blue Cross of Massachusetts, including UnitedHealthcare, Oxford Health Plans, UMR, Oscar, UHC Student Resources, AllSavers UHC, Harvard Pilgrim, Trustmark Health Benefits - Cigna.
Hosted by Rima Danielle Jomaa
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94102
I create a confidential space for you to safely explore your mental health concerns & gain practical tools to apply to your daily life. I offer short- & long-term therapy. I collaborate with you to understand your needs & goals. Then I create a treatment plan that is unique for you, based on what you need. I teach tools that have been proven to work in the past for my clients or for me. My clients tend to struggle with anxiety, depression, self-comparison, body image/EDs, trauma, abuse, substance use/addiction, relationship issues, spirituality questions, lack of self-esteem/confidence, stress, setting boundaries, & communication.
Harness your inner creativity and strengths by learning the skills and information to take you from feeling disorganized to thriving in your life. During this 6 week group you will learn to: develop self-compassion, use meditation to focus your attention, cultivate self-care, learn new relationship skills that recharge you, use your unique creativity to tackle projects and develop ways to manage time that safeguard your energy and goals. As a skills-based group, this would be a good adjunct to those in individual therapy or on it's own. For more information webiste: www.innerpowertherapy.com/groups
Hosted by Dr. Dana Blu Cohen
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94102
Do you find yourself playing out the same self sabotaging patterns and feel frustrated to break them? Do you have trouble in your relationships, wanting connection yet feeling lonely? Do you resort to alcohol or drugs and it's becoming a problem? Does it feel like parts of you are in conflict and out of your control? If you could figure it out logically you would have already. These patterns may feel mysterious to you but what if these parts of yourself have good intentions and are just stuck trying to help. In therapy we can break these painful patterns by healing the underlying issues and giving you freedom and peace inside.
Psychiatry and psychotherapy in the San Francisco Bay Area. The Practice of Dr. Sanjana Karim. Dr. Karim is a board certified psychiatrist & addiction medicine specialist. She provides therapy, complemented with medication treatment when needed. She specializes in women's mental health and psychiatry, CBT, psychodynamic psychotherapy, Muslim mental health, & dual diagnosis treatment.
Hosted by Sanjana Karim
Psychiatrist, MD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94115
I help women facing cancer, illness, and difficult life transitions find healing, peace, and contentment in their lives. I am a psychiatrist and psychotherapist with over 15 years of experience. As a cancer survivor, I walk the talk. During our initial sessions, we will delve deeply into the issues at hand, and collaborate to create a plan for addressing them in a way that helps you get your life back. Most of my patients see a gradual lifting of symptoms within the first month and sustained improvement thereafter. If you have been suffering on your own, I want you to know that there is hope for relief, and that you aren’t alone.
Are you or a loved one facing the challenges of cancer and seeking a supportive community to share experiences and emotions? Join our End of Life Cancer Support Group, a compassionate space where individuals can process the realities of illness and find support on their journey, especially during challenging times or at the end of life. Check www.biancaaarons.com/group-therapy to learn more.
Hosted by Bianca Aarons Integrative Psychotherapy
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94114
Bianca Aarons is a San Francisco based Couples Therapist and Individual Therapist who works in an integrative way, incorporating a psychoanalytic, relational, and somatic styles of working. Bianca treats couples who struggle with communication, survivors of sexual abuse, and others to help people find their voice, to feel empowered, and to access healthy anger and boundaries. Bianca also works with people who struggle within relationships because of anxiety and past family issues which may have let to lower self esteem and perfectionism. She works in a direct and honest way while also being very compassionate and empathetic.
Offering a blend of didactic skill based training and supportive group process, the Moving Through Emotional Crisis Group offers support to anyone suffering from intense depression, anxiety or trauma related symptoms. This 90 minute group is divided into approximately 30 minutes of skills training and 60 minutes of supportive group processing. Skills training for managing emotional distress are based on various modalities, including DBT (Dialectical Behavioral Therapy), CBT (Cognitive Behavior Therapy) and ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy) Skills. Group members are encouraged to provide support and compassion to one another to provide a safe, healing environment.
Hosted by Mary Deyo
Psychologist, MA, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94114
NOW ACCEPTING CLIENTS for individual, couples and group therapy. PLEASE ASK ABOUT ONLINE SUPPORT GROUPS Anyone who is currently struggling with emotional pain and wanting to change, is my ideal client. I am here to guide you through a journey into your mind and heart, to help you face your greatest fears, and discover your unimaginable strength. Out of the ashes, rises the phoenix and out of a personal crisis, comes tremendous growth and healing. Whether you are dealing with mood swings, depression, anxiety, addiction, panic, trauma or relationship issues, I am here to help. https://fitforjoy.org/guests1/dr-mary-deyo
These Men's Groups are supportive, challenging settings to receive frank, empathetic feedback from other men within a confidential and growing space. On Zoom & live, one group is composed of straight men, the other of gay men. The group explores your specific life issues and relationships. Members learn to more skillfully: *Integrate emotions and intellect. *Build community with men. *Align daily actions with larger vision and values. *Balance needs with intimate partners. *Enhance self-confidence. *Work skillfully with sexual attraction. *Come to terms with the nice guy in you. *Manage feelings of anger, depression and anxiety *Be authentic
Hosted by Kevin Orzech
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94104
Psychotherapy is about change. I work grounded in the belief that we have innate resources for thriving and ease that become concealed or underdeveloped. It is my role to help you understand your fundamental needs, history and challenges so you can realign with your strengths and wisdom; while uncovering whats blocking these resources. I work in a straightforward, compassionate and collaborative way to help you integrate thinking, feeling and intuition. The focus of my style is helping you become more confident and knowledgeable about yourself, your mind and relationships; while offering you the tools and guidance to do that.
Self-Compassion is a way to train the heart and Mind to respond to life's difficult moments with kindness and compassion rather than self-criticism and judgment. It can be learned by anyone, it provides emotional strength and resilience, makes it easier to admit our shortcomings and motivate ourselves with kindness, forgive ourselves when needed, relate wholeheartedly to others, and be more authentically ourselves. This is an 8 week, empirically supported training program, based on the groundbreaking research of Kristen Neff, Ph.D and Chris Germer, Ph.D.
Hosted by Pauline Wakeham
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, SEP
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94127
Are you having trouble getting over a past shock or trauma?
Are you frequently in overwhelm/collapse?
Are you constantly bracing against danger, ready to fight or run away?
If you answered yes to any of these questions, I can help.
I specialize in working with people who have experienced being overwhelmed by events and experiences that have shaken their very foundations.
I take time to assess your personal stress/trauma history and provide guidance and support to assist you in your recovery.
I also help couples create sustained improvement in their relationship, creating more effective communication and fulfilling relationships.
PAWC's provider group is among the largest in CA and includes only Board Certified or Licensed Practitioners. Our doctors focus on your needs and feelings, while PAWC administrative staff collaborates with you, your doctor and insurers to keep administration smooth and easy. During your treatment, practitioners and staff work together well to create a seamless care experience, including support for scheduling, billing and managing prescriptions. Our doctors collaborate with each other and listen to patient needs and interests.
Hosted by Benjamin Elswick
Psychiatrist, MD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94118
Dr. Elswick is a Board Certified Adult Psychiatrist who emphasizes personality structure assays, functional biographical analysis, and relational behavior patterns, to tailor an individual treatment plan for medications and psychotherapy. He enjoys helping patients find their way through existential, spiritual, relational, and career problems. He specializes in treating adult ADHD and in reducing the burden of medications wherever possible. Dr. Elswick works closely with our psychologists, so he can provide a collaborative treatment plan to patients.
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