Adolescent Group Therapy
Hosted by Tonia Ferguson
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, MFT, AMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92108
LiT Choices: Counseling group with Coaching
Groups are microsystems that mimic our societal view. We are empowered to become self-aware, counter negative thoughts, grow, hold firm to our values and/or accept life. Come gain skills to make choices that literally work for You! VIRTUAL Mon or ...
Hosted by Latrese Thompson
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, MS, LPCC, CRC
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92105
Groups are microsystems that mimic our societal view. We are empowered to become self-aware, counter negative thoughts, grow, hold firm to our values and/or accept life. Come gain skills to make choices that literally work for You! VIRTUAL Mon or ...
Building Motivation
Cultivating motivation is hard enough without pandemic getting in the way! Join us virtually to process, get support, and learn techniques to build motivation for any kind of behavioral change. This is an open group so you can join anytime.
Hosted by Julia Rosengren
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92117
Cultivating motivation is hard enough without pandemic getting in the way! Join us virtually to process, get support, and learn techniques to build motivation for any kind of behavioral change. This is an open group so you can join anytime.
Bloom Family Therapist Group
Bloom is composed of highly skilled therapist with a passion for helping individuals navigate life's challenges and achieve emotional well-being. With a warm and empathetic approach, our Bloom Therapists create a safe and non-judgmental space for clients to explore their ...
Hosted by Bloom Family Therapy | Erica M. Topete, LMFT
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92108
Bloom is composed of highly skilled therapist with a passion for helping individuals navigate life's challenges and achieve emotional well-being. With a warm and empathetic approach, our Bloom Therapists create a safe and non-judgmental space for clients to explore their ...
Male Survivors of Sexual Abuse & Assault
These groups help men cope with their history of non-consensual sex, either sexual abuse in childhood or sexual assault in adulthood. These experiences have lifelong repercussions in emotional, psychological and interpersonal realms. The group provides participants a safe place to ...
Hosted by C. Allen Ruyle
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, CGP
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92108
These groups help men cope with their history of non-consensual sex, either sexual abuse in childhood or sexual assault in adulthood. These experiences have lifelong repercussions in emotional, psychological and interpersonal realms. The group provides participants a safe place to ...
Process and Support Group
Process and support group. Group process is one of the most powerful means of growing, healing and getting closer to people and oneself.
Hosted by Trevor Olson
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92109
Process and support group. Group process is one of the most powerful means of growing, healing and getting closer to people and oneself.
Depression Group
This group was formulated to assist individuals in regaining their lives by alleviating depression, increasing self-esteem and self-worth and in reducing the occurrence of another depressive episode. This group treatment will utilize a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach which has been ...
Hosted by Association for Compassionate Transformation
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92130
This group was formulated to assist individuals in regaining their lives by alleviating depression, increasing self-esteem and self-worth and in reducing the occurrence of another depressive episode. This group treatment will utilize a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy approach which has been ...
Bloom Family Therapist Group
Bloom is composed of highly skilled therapist with a passion for helping individuals navigate life's challenges and achieve emotional well-being. With a warm and empathetic approach, our Bloom Therapists create a safe and non-judgmental space for clients to explore their ...
Hosted by Tanya Ridaura, LPCC, NCC | Bloom Family Therapy
Licensed Professional Clinical Counselor, LPCC, NCC
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92108
Bloom is composed of highly skilled therapist with a passion for helping individuals navigate life's challenges and achieve emotional well-being. With a warm and empathetic approach, our Bloom Therapists create a safe and non-judgmental space for clients to explore their ...
Ellie Mental Health San Diego
Ellie Mental Health in San Diego-Sorrento Valley isn’t your average therapy clinic. We’ve created a comfy, judgment-free zone where you can be authentic, get real about where you’re at in your mental health, and receive the compassionate care you deserve. ...
Hosted by Elizabeth Strout
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92121
Ellie Mental Health in San Diego-Sorrento Valley isn’t your average therapy clinic. We’ve created a comfy, judgment-free zone where you can be authentic, get real about where you’re at in your mental health, and receive the compassionate care you deserve. ...
Center for Mental Health Excellence
The Center for Mental Health Excellence (CFMHE) is a nonprofit organization and training center providing affordable, accessible telehealth counseling for individuals, couples, and families. Our compassionate therapists, including Marriage and Family Therapist Trainees, address a wide range of emotional and ...
Hosted by Jonah Oderberg
Pre-Licensed Professional
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92108
The Center for Mental Health Excellence (CFMHE) is a nonprofit organization and training center providing affordable, accessible telehealth counseling for individuals, couples, and families. Our compassionate therapists, including Marriage and Family Therapist Trainees, address a wide range of emotional and ...
Transcendelic Retreats
Transcendelic’s mission is transcendence through psychedelic experiences. We host a variety of holistic wellness retreats utilizing ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Ketamine is a legal psychedelic medicine that pairs well with psychotherapy in conjunction with a safe and compassionate space and time for ...
Hosted by Amy Milroy
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, DNP, APRN
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92117
Transcendelic’s mission is transcendence through psychedelic experiences. We host a variety of holistic wellness retreats utilizing ketamine-assisted psychotherapy. Ketamine is a legal psychedelic medicine that pairs well with psychotherapy in conjunction with a safe and compassionate space and time for ...
Center For Mental Health Excellence
The Center for Mental Health Excellence (CFMHE) is a nonprofit organization and training center providing affordable, accessible telehealth counseling for individuals, couples, and families. Our compassionate therapists, including Marriage and Family Therapist Trainees, address a wide range of emotional and ...
Hosted by Nicole T. Isbell
Pre-Licensed Professional
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92108
The Center for Mental Health Excellence (CFMHE) is a nonprofit organization and training center providing affordable, accessible telehealth counseling for individuals, couples, and families. Our compassionate therapists, including Marriage and Family Therapist Trainees, address a wide range of emotional and ...
Center for Mental Health Excellence
The Center for Mental Health Excellence (CFMHE) is a nonprofit organization and training center providing affordable, accessible telehealth counseling for individuals, couples, and families. Our compassionate therapists, including Marriage and Family Therapist Trainees, address a wide range of emotional and ...
Hosted by Kim Nielsen
Pre-Licensed Professional
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92108
The Center for Mental Health Excellence (CFMHE) is a nonprofit organization and training center providing affordable, accessible telehealth counseling for individuals, couples, and families. Our compassionate therapists, including Marriage and Family Therapist Trainees, address a wide range of emotional and ...
Building Motivation Group
Struggling to find motivation is a symptoms of many mental health difficulties. This virtual group offers both skills and education on ways to increase motivation as well as a process group. The goal is to learn, laugh, and make connections ...
Hosted by Alex Lewis
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92117
Struggling to find motivation is a symptoms of many mental health difficulties. This virtual group offers both skills and education on ways to increase motivation as well as a process group. The goal is to learn, laugh, and make connections ...
Hillcrest Wellness Center
Home to an exceptional group of independent wellness service providers offering counseling, life coaching, massage therapy, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, energy work, aromatherapy and more!
Hosted by Samuel A. Newman
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92103
Home to an exceptional group of independent wellness service providers offering counseling, life coaching, massage therapy, acupuncture, Chinese medicine, energy work, aromatherapy and more!
Anger Mastery Group
Anger is a signal from our brains telling us exactly what to do. We must learn how to use that signal and hear what anger is telling us to do we begin to use anger effectively. However, we tend to ...
Hosted by Sarah Schumacher
Marriage & Family Therapist
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92123
Anger is a signal from our brains telling us exactly what to do. We must learn how to use that signal and hear what anger is telling us to do we begin to use anger effectively. However, we tend to ...
Adolescent DBT group (Multi-Family)
Personal Evolution Psychotherapy (PEP) provides DBT skills training groups that provide skills to teens who have anxiety, mood swings or depression, poor communication with family or friends, family conflict, difficulty regulating emotions, low impulse control or emotional eating, a difficult ...
Hosted by Sheela Shivaprasad - Personal Evolution Psychotherapy
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92108
Personal Evolution Psychotherapy (PEP) provides DBT skills training groups that provide skills to teens who have anxiety, mood swings or depression, poor communication with family or friends, family conflict, difficulty regulating emotions, low impulse control or emotional eating, a difficult ...
Packed Wellness
Hosted by Julia Johnson
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92103
The Black Women’s Collective
In an effort to support community healing and make therapy more financially accessible The Black Women’s Collective is back. This will be a space to learn and practice skills. An opportunity to build community. And a chance for personal growth. ...
Hosted by Kendall Stewart
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92108
In an effort to support community healing and make therapy more financially accessible The Black Women’s Collective is back. This will be a space to learn and practice skills. An opportunity to build community. And a chance for personal growth. ...
Women’s Support Group
This group is for those who need support for anxiety, depressive symptoms, trauma triggers or "dual diagnosis" (mood disorder, anxiety + addiction). Learn how to identify triggers, redirect/reframe distressing thoughts, self-regulate, cope more effectively, manage stressors, break your sense of ...
Hosted by Transcend Therapy, Inc.
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, CEAP
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Diego, CA 92119
This group is for those who need support for anxiety, depressive symptoms, trauma triggers or "dual diagnosis" (mood disorder, anxiety + addiction). Learn how to identify triggers, redirect/reframe distressing thoughts, self-regulate, cope more effectively, manage stressors, break your sense of ...
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Depression Support Groups
What is the goal of therapy for depression?
Therapy for depression has several major goals. One is to relieve the mental pain of depression, which distorts feeling and thinking so that sufferers cannot see beyond their current state of mind or envision feeling better. Another is to give people the mental tools to recognize and correct the kinds of distorted thinking that turn a problem into a catastrophe and lead to despair. Therapy also teaches people how to process negative emotions in constructive ways, so they have more control over their own emotional reactivity. And it helps people regain the ability to see themselves positively, the motivation to do things, and the capacity for pleasure.
What happens in therapy for depression?
Perhaps most important, no matter the type of therapy, patients form an alliance with the therapist; that connection is therapeutic in itself, plus it becomes an instrument of change. Patients learn to identify and to challenge their own erroneous beliefs and thoughts that amplify the effects of negative experiences. They learn to identify situations in which they are especially vulnerable. And they learn new patterns of thinking and behaving. They may be given “homework” assignments in which they practice their developing skills. In addition, good therapists regularly monitor patients to assess whether and how much the condition is improving.
What therapy types help with depression?
Several types of short-term therapy have been found effective, each targeting one or more areas of dysfunction. Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) helps clients challenge their negative thoughts and beliefs, learn new behavioral strategies, and curb reactivity to distressing situations. Behavioral activation (BA) is a form of therapy often used in conjunction with CBT; it focuses on engagement in rewarding activity as a pathway to changing negative feelings and disturbed mood. Another widely used approach is interpersonal therapy (IPT), which targets the social difficulties that both give rise to and get exacerbated by depression. Therapists may combine approaches as needed.
Can therapy for depression be done online?
Studies have found that online therapy can be highly effective for treating depression, although it may be more challenging to build a good therapist-patient alliance on screen than in person—at least at first. However, online therapy can offer considerable advantages. Accessibility and convenience are tops among them. Some people actually find it easier to talk about problems online than in person. While online therapy typically limits visibility of facial expression and body gestures that give important nonverbal cues to a patient’s state of mind, it can give therapists a glimpse into a patient’s world and life, providing information that can be highly useful in guiding therapy.
How effective is therapy for depression?
Many studies show that therapy is highly effective provided that patients complete the prescribed course of therapy, commonly 16 to 20 sessions. Over the long term, it is more effective than medication and the effects are more enduring. As a result, psychotherapy has the power not just to relieve current suffering but to prevent future episodes of the disorder. Therapy reverses the dysfunction in neural circuitry that disposes individuals to a negative view of themselves, the world, and their future and they acquire coping techniques, problem-solving skills, and understanding of their own vulnerabilities that are useful over the course of a lifetime.