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Therapist Peer Support
Mutual peer support for therapists. This is not for consultations. The idea is to create a nonjudgmental space for therapists to seek and find support for the unique emotional challenges we face. Professionals often find they cannot freely express or ...
Hosted by Laura Calnan
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Studio City, CA 91604
Mutual peer support for therapists. This is not for consultations. The idea is to create a nonjudgmental space for therapists to seek and find support for the unique emotional challenges we face. Professionals often find they cannot freely express or ...
I Hate Weekends
Due to their unstructured nature, weekends can be a difficult time for many people in recovery from depression, anxiety or substance abuse. The "I Hate Weekends" group is an ongoing weekly therapy group that meets on Sundays to provide the ...
Hosted by Jesse Sandler
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
Due to their unstructured nature, weekends can be a difficult time for many people in recovery from depression, anxiety or substance abuse. The "I Hate Weekends" group is an ongoing weekly therapy group that meets on Sundays to provide the ...
Mindfulness Group for Anxiety, Depression, Stress
Do you suffer from stress, overthinking, depression, and anxious or worrisome thoughts? Mindfulness is the practice of paying attention to the present moment without judgment. Immerse yourself in the proven "Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)" group over eight dynamic weeks. This ...
Hosted by Cathy Trenary
Associate Professional Clinical Counselor, APCC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Van Nuys, CA 91405
Do you suffer from stress, overthinking, depression, and anxious or worrisome thoughts? Mindfulness is the practice of paying attention to the present moment without judgment. Immerse yourself in the proven "Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)" group over eight dynamic weeks. This ...
KN Therapy
KN Therapy is a group of licensed mental health professionals and associates. We provide individual, couples, and family therapy for children, adolescents, and adults. We treat depression, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and grief & loss to name a few. The modalities ...
Hosted by KN Therapy
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, MSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Fernando, CA 91340
KN Therapy is a group of licensed mental health professionals and associates. We provide individual, couples, and family therapy for children, adolescents, and adults. We treat depression, anxiety, addictions, trauma, and grief & loss to name a few. The modalities ...
You Can't Stop The Waves But You Can Learn To Surf
This is an ongoing weekly support group for people who struggle with depression and anxiety. We combine techniques from cognitive therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and mindfulness to help you find the skills to ride the waves of life.
Hosted by Jesse Sandler
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
This is an ongoing weekly support group for people who struggle with depression and anxiety. We combine techniques from cognitive therapy, psychodynamic therapy, and mindfulness to help you find the skills to ride the waves of life.
Grief Support Group
It's important to talk about your loved one, honor your emotions and recognize the various stages of mourning. With loss also comes changes in self-identity and the role a person plays in life. This group is a safe space where ...
Hosted by Cathy Trenary
Associate Professional Clinical Counselor, APCC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Van Nuys, CA 91405
It's important to talk about your loved one, honor your emotions and recognize the various stages of mourning. With loss also comes changes in self-identity and the role a person plays in life. This group is a safe space where ...
Online Adult Process Group
This Interpersonal/Psychodynam ic group is open to Adults of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and racial, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The group meets online, allowing for easier access and consistency to engage in self-reflective work on a range of subjects ...
Hosted by Sarah Frank Jarvis, LMFT, ATR-BC, CGP
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, ATR-BC, MA, CGP
Verified Verified
Group meets in North Hills, CA 91343
This Interpersonal/Psychodynam ic group is open to Adults of all sexual orientations, gender identities, and racial, cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The group meets online, allowing for easier access and consistency to engage in self-reflective work on a range of subjects ...
Childhood Trauma Processing Group
Childhood trauma is defined as an event or events experienced by a child that is emotionally painful, frightening, or distressful, which can often lead to lasting mental and physical effects. Symptoms of childhood trauma in adults can include but are ...
Hosted by Christine Rivlin
Counselor, LPCC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Van Nuys, CA 91405
Childhood trauma is defined as an event or events experienced by a child that is emotionally painful, frightening, or distressful, which can often lead to lasting mental and physical effects. Symptoms of childhood trauma in adults can include but are ...
Online Caregiver Support Group
Caregivers need care, too. Caregivers are at higher risk for emotional fatigue, social isolation, financial pressure, physical injury, and job stress. This support group is for caregivers dealing with a loved one, such as an aging parent, disabled adult child, ...
Hosted by James J De Santis
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Glendale, CA 91203
Caregivers need care, too. Caregivers are at higher risk for emotional fatigue, social isolation, financial pressure, physical injury, and job stress. This support group is for caregivers dealing with a loved one, such as an aging parent, disabled adult child, ...
Finding Guidance Behavioral Services
Welcome to our practice. We are a group practice of several licensed therapists. We provide individual, family, and couples therapy to children, adolescents, adult and the elderly. We have Spanish speaking staff and therapists. We offer evening and weekend appointments. ...
Hosted by Finding Guidance Behavioral Services
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Mission Hills, CA 91345
Welcome to our practice. We are a group practice of several licensed therapists. We provide individual, family, and couples therapy to children, adolescents, adult and the elderly. We have Spanish speaking staff and therapists. We offer evening and weekend appointments. ...
Anxiety and Depression
Our Anxiety and Depression group is a safe place for individuals looking to overcome their anxiety /depression. This is a 12 week structured group where we use CBT, Mindfulness, somatic experience and solution focused approaches.
Hosted by Therapize Me
Marriage & Family Therapist, PsyD, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Burbank, CA 91505
Our Anxiety and Depression group is a safe place for individuals looking to overcome their anxiety /depression. This is a 12 week structured group where we use CBT, Mindfulness, somatic experience and solution focused approaches.
Growing 21st Century Resilience - open enrollment
Developing resilience is essential in helping to cope and thrive with the challenges of a rapidly changing world… Our online group will meet to discuss real-world mental health challenges in our current society and within ourselves, and include practical tools ...
Hosted by Renée Glick
MA, MFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Los Angeles, CA 90068
Developing resilience is essential in helping to cope and thrive with the challenges of a rapidly changing world… Our online group will meet to discuss real-world mental health challenges in our current society and within ourselves, and include practical tools ...
8 - Week Anxiety Detox for Teen Girls
The 8-Week Anxiety Detox helps teen girls develop healthier perceptions of themselves and the world at large. They learn coping skills for dealing with anxiety, depression, and stress-reduction. We explore topics ranging from body image, avoiding the social comparison trap, ...
Hosted by Tamika L Lewis
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, PPS , PSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
The 8-Week Anxiety Detox helps teen girls develop healthier perceptions of themselves and the world at large. They learn coping skills for dealing with anxiety, depression, and stress-reduction. We explore topics ranging from body image, avoiding the social comparison trap, ...
Co-ed Adult Process Psychotherapy Group
An open-ended group that allows people to have a safe space to get support from other group members, to be free to explore difficult issues in their lives, and to get the opportunity to see how others agree, disagree, and ...
Hosted by Seth Menachem
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Valley Village, CA 91607
An open-ended group that allows people to have a safe space to get support from other group members, to be free to explore difficult issues in their lives, and to get the opportunity to see how others agree, disagree, and ...
Interpersonal Process Group
This group is for individuals who want to improve their self-understanding and relationships with others. The primary focus of this group is to engage in the "process," or here-and-now experience of relationships in the moment as a means of creating ...
Hosted by Hillside Trauma Psychology
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Los Angeles, CA 90041
This group is for individuals who want to improve their self-understanding and relationships with others. The primary focus of this group is to engage in the "process," or here-and-now experience of relationships in the moment as a means of creating ...
Bridal Support Group
Are you a bride struggling with your mental health? Virtual group therapy for brides confronting stressors that come with wedding planning. As a 2022 bride that made it through & therapist with clinical expertise, I am here to help. We ...
Hosted by Roxanna McCabe
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Los Angeles, CA 90068
Are you a bride struggling with your mental health? Virtual group therapy for brides confronting stressors that come with wedding planning. As a 2022 bride that made it through & therapist with clinical expertise, I am here to help. We ...
Teen Group: Managing Big Emotions
8-week group. Starts 3/7. 14-18 year olds. This group provides teens with a safe space amongst peers to process big emotions and learn tools for healthy emotional regulation. Great for those experiencing anxiety, depression, ADHD, low tolerance for distress, or ...
Hosted by Animating Principle's Workshop
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Glendale, CA 91208
8-week group. Starts 3/7. 14-18 year olds. This group provides teens with a safe space amongst peers to process big emotions and learn tools for healthy emotional regulation. Great for those experiencing anxiety, depression, ADHD, low tolerance for distress, or ...
Postpartum Passages
transition group for women dealing with motherhood and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
Hosted by Diana Lynn Barnes
Marriage & Family Therapist, PsyD, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Sherman Oaks, CA 91423
transition group for women dealing with motherhood and perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.
Tiny Steps Developmental Services
Tiny Steps Developmental Services offers psychotherapy, psychological testing and ABA therapy for children and adults. We are contracted with several insurance companies and will work to gain single case agreements with insurance companies that we don't have contracts with if ...
Hosted by Tiny Steps Developmental Services
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Studio City, CA 91604
Tiny Steps Developmental Services offers psychotherapy, psychological testing and ABA therapy for children and adults. We are contracted with several insurance companies and will work to gain single case agreements with insurance companies that we don't have contracts with if ...
Grief Through the Holidays
Whether these are going to be your 1st holidays grieving or your 10th, holidays after loss can be painful. This group is here to help you through the last few months of the year. Understand patterns and symptoms of grief, ...
Hosted by Stacey Sherrell
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Glendale, CA 91203
Whether these are going to be your 1st holidays grieving or your 10th, holidays after loss can be painful. This group is here to help you through the last few months of the year. Understand patterns and symptoms of grief, ...
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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.