Working together in a group provides support for you and also compassionate understanding of your issues. The Stress Management with Positive Side Effects Group provides tools for you to use to evaluate where you are and to help you manage your feelings NOW with positive results for you.
Hosted by Xander Abrams
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT, Coach
Verified Verified
Group meets in Santa Cruz, CA 95062
Having studying Mindfulness for the past 30+ years I have created evidence based Cognitive Behavioral / Mindfulness tools that help people face life crises by recognizing their own wisdom, resources, and the ability to exercise choice. This mind/body approach to health utilizes relaxation and focus tools that you can learn easily and use anywhere, anytime. You focus on what you can control to achieve your goals. These programs compliment the best medical treatment.
Psychodynamic Group Therapy is structured to encourage spontaneous interactions, and then to reflect on the experience with the group. Group therapy can facilitate greater self-awareness of what triggers emotional reactivity in yourself and other and practice sustaining mindfulness in the face of someone’s defensiveness. Group Therapy can provide a corrective emotional experience of being one self while accepting other’s differences. Kathy Gusewelle, MFT has been facilitating groups for over 25 years. She has an ongoing mixed group. If you are interested call Kathy for information about openings or be added to her wait list.
Hosted by Kathy Gusewelle
Marriage & Family Therapist, MFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Capitola, CA 95010
Good therapy experiences are enlivening, collaborative and honest. I have over 25 years experience as a Depth Psychotherapist helping people gain greater self-awareness about what triggers negative emotional reactivity and self sabotaging patterns. Identifying and integrating unconscious beliefs, trauma and self defeating responses can help develop emotional resilience, greater self acceptance and happiness. When we feel truly heard, seen and understood a transformative power ignites and we can risk being different and more open. Hidden in the darkest places can be found the riches treasures such as creativity, passion, purpose and being present.
This group is for women and couples who have lost a baby in any stage of pregnancy. If you have suffered from an abortion, miscarriage or stillbirth, the pain can be excruciating. Healing is possible. Please contact me if you are interested in this group.
Hosted by Michelle Abodeely
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Imagine knowing how to read your own body cues, how to trust yourself, how to move through your relationships with confidence and boundaries, compassion and wisdom. Feeling out of touch with your core self, not feeling grounded, or sure of your decisions is a hard way to go through the day. Earn your own trust again, come back to your core self. Interns and associates, this goes for you too. Your best therapist is in there, forming itself while you gain experience. You deserve guidance as you develop and learn. Allow me to support you in this exciting time.
Note: Online/California residents. The goal of this group will be to explore one's inner world and heal grief and loss as a means of expression beyond words, using Internal Family Systems (IFS) and expressive arts mixed media art visual arts journaling. The subconscious and creative parts of us have so much to offer and share for our healing, support and vitality. We will learn and play with the foundations of art journaling approaches including layering and mixed media techniques, collage, drawing, painting, using prompts including movement, mindfulness, writing, poetry. No drawing experience is required.
Hosted by Theresa M Soltzberg
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Santa Cruz, CA 95062
Are you at a place in your life where you need some support and guidance to move forward? It may feel like you’ve done all you can, and you’re not sure what to do next. It may even feel like past patterns, keep repeating themselves. You’re not alone. Change is hard, and there are many reasons why our past and the ways we’ve learned to relate in the world keep giving us the same results. The good news is that we can always learn new ways of being and relating, and new ways to move forward We can find new meaning and continue to learn and grow. I hope that you will take this next step on your path of healing.
C.L.I.M.B (courage, learning, integration, mindfulness, becoming) is an 8-week indoor therapeutic climbing group for teenage girls focused on building self-confidence, cultivating mindfulness, and increasing feelings of empowerment. I incorporate the benefits of climbing into this group therapy program to help participants thrive because I believe that play, exercise, support, and community are vital for mental health and self-confidence. Email me at sienna.f@margintocenter.org to inquire about availability and set up a pre-group assessment if space is available. Currently recruiting teens ages 13-14 and 15-17.
Hosted by Sienna Forest
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Capitola, CA 95010
Are you feeling disconnected from yourself or others, struggling to express your authentic emotions, or finding it difficult to trust your intuition? You may be used to holding back, fearing judgment or rejection, which can lead to loneliness or frustration in your relationships. I work with people who want to break these patterns and reconnect with themselves and others. Together, we’ll explore how vulnerability and body awareness can become powerful tools for deepening connections, allowing you to create more fulfilling relationships and a more present, authentic life.
This six-week group will be held on Wednesdays from 4:30 pm to 6:00 pm, starting July 17th, 2024, through August 21st, 2024. Location: 2715 Porter Street #102, Soquel, CA 95073 Cost: $500 Please complete the form below to express your interest. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based, multifaceted treatment approach that helps teens learn new skills to manage their emotions, thoughts, and behaviors more effectively and healthily. DBT includes cognitive behavior skills training, mindfulness, emotional regulation, distress tolerance skills, interpersonal effectiveness, behaviorism, and dialectics. Link to express interest: https://forms.gle/myQffaQAoGoxP8DaA
Hosted by Rebecca Zalona
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Soquel, CA 95073
Do you feel like you're bearing the weight of your past - your experience of life is riddled with worry, gloom, or the lasting effects of trauma? Do you feel overwhelmed by daily challenges stemming from these issues and that maybe you have ADHD or your brain just feels broken? You seek healing from trauma that has impacted your perspective, functioning, and emotional and cognitive abilities. You want to regain a sense of control and calm in your life, aiming to transform your coping mechanisms from merely surviving to actively thriving. You crave practical solutions for significant life disruptions and daily hurdles alike. Welcome!
Expressive Arts Therapy includes writing, drawing, painting, movement, dance and music in the therapeutic healing process. Connect with other women, find support and community, share your story, express yourself creatively, discover the depth of who you are and engage with others in an honest, open and safe environment. Helps with the following: Stress * Anxiety * Depression * Isolation *Communication Skills *Personal Growth (Groups Form Every 8 weeks for an 8 week series)
Hosted by Jihan Amer Holistic Counseling & Coaching
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Watsonville, CA 95076
I integrate all my training in helping clients heal and transform their lives in the direction which honors living one's full potential/purpose. I work with individuals and offer women's expressive arts groups. The areas I have worked with include: mild - moderate anxiety, mild - moderate depression, stress reduction, communication skills, codependency, low self- esteem, relational issues, grief, social skill building, marital/divorce/relationship issues, women's issues, racial/ethnic/cultural concerns, meaning of life, life transitions, life purpose, identity questions, BIPOC issues, spiritual issues, and eco-related issues.
Come gather together in a safe & sacred space to allow your grief opportunity to heal and transform into life-serving energy. We have forgotten as a culture the importance of gathering together in ritual to support this natural process of grief. In this weekend ritual, you will: -Honor what you love and have lost- Express your grief through writing, movement, song, and connection with nature -Experience the healing power of sacred witnessing without trying to change, fix or solve the grief process - Release tension and stress to open to renewed sense of aliveness and purpose
Hosted by Dana Schlick
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Santa Cruz, CA 95060
I want to reflect the wholeness that exists within you at this moment, even with the challenges and stuckness you might be experiencing. I believe healing begins with creating the space for a different kind of relating with yourself and your life that honors your innate wisdom. One that is fed by curiosity, compassion, and loving presence. Through supporting the wisdom of your body-mind-spirit-soul, it is possible to move beyond "managing" painful symptoms and stuck patterns that often emerge from past overwhelming life experiences and trauma into true healing, authentic vitality and engagement with life. Healing is possible.
This is a group for women going through changes of any kind (i.e. divorce, retirement, relocation, empty nest, midlife). The group provides a safe place to process feelings and thoughts about current situation. Members support each other. Facilitator provides support and skills to redefine your life.
Hosted by Lucia Merino, LCSW (Bilingual Spanish/English)
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Watsonville, CA 95076
Often life presents challenges and we feel alone, trapped, and afraid. Right now you may have marital, work, or family problems. You may feel depressed, anxious or having panic attacks. You may feel lonely and not have anybody to turn to for help. I believe I can help you. Together, in therapy, you will learn how to overcome your current challenges and find your way back into a happy and meaningful life. I provide therapy in Spanish and English. I am bilingual/bicultural and I have been in practice for 20+ yrs. I also provide psychological evaluations for immigration cases. I look forward to hearing from you.
Licensed therapists and advanced interns working with complex cases involving patients with histories of trauma, abuse and dysfunctional attachment characteristics will find value in this group.
Hosted by Craig W Clark
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Capitola, CA 95010
Welcome to my practice, Attachment Center of Monterey Bay. My focus is on your care and successful outcomes by providing a safe, warm, non-judgemental environment for change, growth, and healing. My approach integrates research-validated, attachment-informed, brain-based treatment with other effective modalities including mindfulness, cognitive behavioral, and family systems therapies. In addition to many years of clinical and parenting experiences, I actively and regularly participate in continuing education and advanced training to provide you with the best treatment possible.
The Lotus Collaborative hosts a free online eating disorders recovery support group. This group is for anyone struggling with an eating disorder to get recovery support as well as to practice giving recovery support to others. While this is not a therapy group, it is a supportive virtual environment in which to meet others working towards recovery, build relationships, gain insight, and practice recovery skills. Everyone working towards eating disorder recovery is welcome.
Hosted by The Lotus Collaborative
Treatment Center, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Santa Cruz, CA 95060
The Lotus Collaborative offers holistic behavioral health recovery services for individuals struggling with their mood, trauma, food and eating disorders through in-person and virtual programs. Lotus strives to create a recovery environment in which clients feel heard, respected and empowered, through ongoing collaboration between clients and the treatment team. All staff are sensitive to sexual orientation and gender identity as key issues in the recovery process and hold the understanding that “recovery” will vary from person to person. TLC offers two tracks to recovery: 1) The TLC Eating Disorder Track specializes in the treatment of anorexia, bulimia, binge eating disorder, ARFID, compulsive exercise and any other ways disordered eating may show up in individuals of all identities. 2) The TLC Mood & Trauma Track focuses on the treatment of trauma and mood disorders including, but not limited to: PTSD, depression, anxiety and stress.
When our relationships suffer, we want improvement -- who wants too little joy, too little sex, arguments, loneliness, stone-walling? Joining my group with other couples can help a lot, in addition to couples therapy. You'll be surprised how much hearing other couples' stories can help you change, gain insight and perspective. Give this a try! As soon as I have at least 4 couples signed up, I'll start the group! ----I have 26 years' experience working with couples and I've completed a year-long training by the esteemed Couples Institute in Menlo Park, CA
Hosted by James ‘Jamie' Martin Hollomon
Marriage & Family Therapist, JD, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Without mincing words, I'm a very good therapist and I love my job. With 28 years experience at 3 youth and adult clinics, including 10 years now in private practice, I've met with such a variety of people in about 34,224 sessions over this time! Educated at Harvard, Penn and CA State Chico, I have remarkable ability to see through a person's upset to your wonderful spirit and strengths. I'm a great detective at identifying the core issues. I'm romantic at heart, so I love getting people through difficult periods to come out shining! I congratulate you for your courage in seeking help. Call Me!
[Groups are on hold until I return from travel in 2021.] In these groups, we create a safe place to explore the causes and cures for any type of food, weight or body image issue. There are 4 different groups, each with a maximum of 6 people. We provide a free 1/2 hour assessment session. If the group is right for you, we ask for a 16-week commitment.
Hosted by Marsea Marcus-Rotman
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Scotts Valley, CA 95067
Hello. I have been a therapist for over 30 years and to this day I absolutely love meeting people, hearing their stories and helping them make peace with their past. I work to help people increase their emotional health and become more effective in their current lives. I specialize in helping people with depression and anxiety. I work primarily with adults.
A 6-week group for female identifying teens to learn and implement core DBT skills, including emotion regulation, core mindfulness, distress tolerance, and interpersonal effectiveness. Group starts on 1/17/24 and runs through 2/21/24. Co-facilitated by myself and Rebecca Zalona, LCSW.
Hosted by Jordan Boyer
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Soquel, CA 95073
Asking for help is one of the hardest things to do. Celebrate yourself for taking this leap! You're probably here because you are looking for someone to partner with to make sustainable changes, work through past or current experiences, and cultivate safety inside yourself and in your relationships. You value growth, honesty, authenticity, and rest. I provide a safe container for you to explore your inner self; all the reflections of light on the surface and all the darkness in the depths. We will learn how to feel, how to self soothe, and how to transform your thoughts, emotions, and sense of self.
Hosted by Ann Marie Speno
Marriage & Family Therapist, MFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Santa Cruz, CA 95060
In this group men find safety, a nurturing place to move beyond pain related to childhood sexual abuse. Participants work through isolation, fear, confusion, depression, low self esteem and anger with other men who have had similar experiences. Intake required.
Hosted by Stephen L Braveman
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, DST, CST, CST-S
Verified Verified
Group meets in Aptos, CA 95003
Founder and Director of the Intimacy, Sexuality & Gender Center of California, Stephen has been providing professional top of the field Sex Therapy and Gender Identity Therapy to the Central Coast for over 32 years! ISGC, extensively serves the needs of individuals with sexual dysfunctions, those who have been sexually abused, couples struggling with sexual and intimacy issues, the Transgender/Transsexual community, the LGBT communities and the communities of all other sexual and gender minorities. Stephen also serves Victims of Domestic Violence and Sexual Compulsivity (Out of Control Sexual Behavior.)
You are not alone. This is a FREE, DROP-IN support group for survivors of Domestic Violence, Sexual Assault and Human Trafficking. Come share experiences, learn coping skills, and build practices for self-empowerment, self-care and healing - all in a safe and inclusive space. The group is offered free of charge through Monarch Services, and meets virtually via Zoom.
Hosted by J. Sarah MacEwan
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Santa Cruz, CA 95062
Too many of us are suffering in isolation, with complex challenges and big feelings we were never meant to carry on our own. That's where therapy comes in. I love supporting people with grief and loss, anxiety, depression, trauma, life transitions, co-dependance, and issues around self-worth and self-esteem. Bring me your grief, your sadness, your anxiety and your overwhelm. Bring me your wounded parts, and let's hold them close, together. Once you have a place where you feel seen, heard and held without judgment, you will naturally begin to heal. Allow me to be that place for you today.
Group dreamwork supports personal growth by making the unconscious conscious. Dreams are partly individually and culturally unique and partly shared by all humans. Both leaders have several decades of dreamwork training and experience, and some members have experience too. After a lesson on symbolism or another dream aspect all group members respond to one person’s dream as if it were their own. Newcomers contribute by exercising their own imagination and knowledge. The result is both a creative jam session and a profoundly intimate communal celebration. From all its themes the dreamers can choose those that most stimulate their growth.
Hosted by Norman Malcolm Brown
Pre-Licensed Professional, PhD, MA
Verified Verified
Group meets in Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Never have our challenges been as great as now. We must improve all our relations with people and nature or both will deteriorate around us. As a man you may feel frustrated in either work or intimate relationships or both. Yet the personal skills you've built for work are often opposite from those for intimacy. There may seem to be no way to the success and connections you need. As a woman you may face too much work and too little love and friendship. Coupling may mean losing track of yourself, and good men are hard to find. The way forward involves increasing our emotional versatility and love for ourselves, others and our planet.
A DBT skills group uses a psycho-educational class format where the emphasis is on learning and practicing behavioral skills. These skills include mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness. Skills are taught in a series of three modules, each lasting approximately 8-10 weeks. The first two weeks of each module cover and review mindfulness and this skill is also practiced in every group. The following six to eight weeks rotate through each of the remaining modules. All the modules will be covered in approximately 6-8 months
Hosted by Charese Allen
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Santa Cruz, CA 95060
I believe the purpose of therapy is to create a safe and validating environment where people can focus on creating a "life worth living". I help facilitate this journey by focusing on both acceptance and change in a warm, interactive and thoughtful fashion. If you are someone who is struggling to manage your emotions and behaviors because of anxiety, depression, or trauma we can work together to define the life you want and overcome the obstacles to it.
I know many of us are affected by the war in Israel. This is an online group especially for those who have family and loved ones in Israel. This is not a political discussion but rather a space to process grief, loss, anxiety, and any other feelings related to knowing our family and friends are in a war torn place at this time. It is also a place to share our intentions and prayers for those we love in the ways that most fit for each of us. We will meet online.
Hosted by Elizabeth Ariel Clark
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Soquel, CA 95073
NEW clients WELCOME! I’m Elizabeth, or Liz for short. I am experienced in working with trauma. This is a commonly used word and there are many definitions for it. What I mean is that I help people who have gone through events in their lives, whether singular or reoccurring, that have caused parts of their personality to separate from other parts. This could be experienced through relational conflict, addictive tendencies, dissociation, sex, drugs, procrastination, a lack of motivation, inner conflict, anxiety, and difficulty sleeping or eating. My approach is somatic and relational, working with what shows up in the present moment.
