Del Valle Clinic
The Del Valle Clinic has been established in Livermore, California since 1984. We are a psychological clinic providing psychotherapy for adults, children, adolescents, and their families. We also provide psycho-educational and social-emotional testing for children and adolescents. It is our ...
The Del Valle Clinic has been established in Livermore, California since 1984. We are a psychological clinic providing psychotherapy for adults, children, adolescents, and their families. We also provide psycho-educational and social-emotional testing for children and adolescents. It is our ...
Cultivating Calm: Group Therapy for Professionals
Do you: Feel stressed, spread too thin, and overwhelmed by trying to balance work, family, and daily pressures? Struggle to carve out time for yourself? Experience stress-related physical symptoms? Use caffeine, alcohol, or other substances to cope? Feel like you’re ...
Hosted by Brenna McGee
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Albany, CA 94706
Do you: Feel stressed, spread too thin, and overwhelmed by trying to balance work, family, and daily pressures? Struggle to carve out time for yourself? Experience stress-related physical symptoms? Use caffeine, alcohol, or other substances to cope? Feel like you’re ...
8 Week Anxiety/Social Phobia Group Program
1. $2000.00 at 8 week/1x a week 2 hour group. 2. $3600.00 8 week group + weekly individual session
1. Causes of Anxiety Disorders
2. Visualization for Anxiety/Panic
3. Overcoming Negative Self-Talk
4. Coping with Panic Attacks
5. Identifying and ...
Hosted by Richard J Barnes Treating Adolescents Adults And Families.
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Pleasanton, CA 94588
1. $2000.00 at 8 week/1x a week 2 hour group. 2. $3600.00 8 week group + weekly individual session
1. Causes of Anxiety Disorders
2. Visualization for Anxiety/Panic
3. Overcoming Negative Self-Talk
4. Coping with Panic Attacks
5. Identifying and ...
Mindful Recovery
This group will utilize mindfulness practices to help individuals overcome destructive behaviors and reconnect with their innate capacities for joy, love, and fulfillment.
Hosted by Zoya K Hynes
Marriage & Family Therapist, MFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Berkeley, CA 94709
This group will utilize mindfulness practices to help individuals overcome destructive behaviors and reconnect with their innate capacities for joy, love, and fulfillment.
Healing from the Fear of Abandoment
This workshop will help you identify your repetitive relationship challenges and provide guidance on how to break these negative patterns. We all bring to our relationships aspects of our past that continue to show up and impact our ability to ...
Hosted by Valerie Doyle
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Leandro, CA 94577
This workshop will help you identify your repetitive relationship challenges and provide guidance on how to break these negative patterns. We all bring to our relationships aspects of our past that continue to show up and impact our ability to ...
LGBTQ Disabled Group
(Past Group) - Currently at Pacific Center. In collaboration with the Center for Independent Living, I will be developing and facilitating groups to address the specific needs of individuals within the disabled community. Groups will address a range of psychological ...
(Past Group) - Currently at Pacific Center. In collaboration with the Center for Independent Living, I will be developing and facilitating groups to address the specific needs of individuals within the disabled community. Groups will address a range of psychological ...
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Group
Virtual ACT for Anxiety and Depression workshop: 8-week course to help you find your path to a life worth living. Whether you struggle with lifelong anxiety and/or depression, feel stuck in life or overwhelmed by current events, this group can ...
Virtual ACT for Anxiety and Depression workshop: 8-week course to help you find your path to a life worth living. Whether you struggle with lifelong anxiety and/or depression, feel stuck in life or overwhelmed by current events, this group can ...
Women's Metastatic Cancer
Support Group for women with metastatic cancer to share experiences, treatment, journey
Hosted by Kim C Venezia
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Berkeley, CA 94705
Support Group for women with metastatic cancer to share experiences, treatment, journey
Workshop-Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work
New dates to be determined. Save Your Marriage/Relationship - an 8 hour relationship workshop based on the research of John Gottman, PhD and his book the Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work. Visit my website for registration information.
Hosted by John R. Edwards
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Oakland, CA 94609
New dates to be determined. Save Your Marriage/Relationship - an 8 hour relationship workshop based on the research of John Gottman, PhD and his book the Seven Principles For Making Marriage Work. Visit my website for registration information.
Interplay Support Group for Therapists
This is a group for LMFT's, LPCC's, LCSW's, Psychologists and Interns in these fields. It is a support group for professionals using the spirit and forms of Interplay to inform our lives and our work.
Play is fun, stress free, and ...
Hosted by John Connors McConville
Marriage & Family Therapist, MDiv, MA, LMFT, PhD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Oakland, CA 94612
This is a group for LMFT's, LPCC's, LCSW's, Psychologists and Interns in these fields. It is a support group for professionals using the spirit and forms of Interplay to inform our lives and our work.
Play is fun, stress free, and ...
Supervision & Consultation
A supervision/consultation group for Marriage & Family Therapist interns. Join a weekly supervision group with a focus on mutual support, case consultation, creativity, safety and authenticity. Accrue hours and learn in a nurturing environment where you can be yourself. Explore ...
Hosted by Lucy Collier
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Berkeley, CA 94706
A supervision/consultation group for Marriage & Family Therapist interns. Join a weekly supervision group with a focus on mutual support, case consultation, creativity, safety and authenticity. Accrue hours and learn in a nurturing environment where you can be yourself. Explore ...
Grief Recovery Support Group
The Grief Recovery Method® Grief Support Group IN PERSON In Oakland! June 4th-July 23rd (Tuesday evenings). The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, Estrangement & Other Losses. How do you “let go,” “move on,” and “accept” a loss? Many ...
Hosted by Megan Gredesky
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, RDT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Oakland, CA 94610
The Grief Recovery Method® Grief Support Group IN PERSON In Oakland! June 4th-July 23rd (Tuesday evenings). The Action Program for Moving Beyond Death, Divorce, Estrangement & Other Losses. How do you “let go,” “move on,” and “accept” a loss? Many ...
Anger Mangement
This twelve week group teaches women to find their strength by expressing their needs in a way that is more likely to be heard. You will learn to feel pride in the way you present in the world.
This is ...
Hosted by Norma Lee Myers
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Berkeley, CA 94709
This twelve week group teaches women to find their strength by expressing their needs in a way that is more likely to be heard. You will learn to feel pride in the way you present in the world.
This is ...
Meditation Support Group
This group is for beginning and intermediate meditators to learn and practice meditation in a supportive small group. Many people feel they "can't" meditate, they give up quickly, or continue to try but find it very difficult and unpleasant, often ...
Hosted by Heather Hardeman Galvano
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Berkeley, CA 94705
This group is for beginning and intermediate meditators to learn and practice meditation in a supportive small group. Many people feel they "can't" meditate, they give up quickly, or continue to try but find it very difficult and unpleasant, often ...
Foresight Mental Health
Foresight is a mental health and wellness clinic providing patients with a wide range of treatment and services related to improving mental health and lifestyle. We are a team of psychiatrists, therapists, software engineers, bioengineers, and researchers with a mission ...
Hosted by Dmitra Danilenko-Dixon
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Berkeley, CA 94705
Foresight is a mental health and wellness clinic providing patients with a wide range of treatment and services related to improving mental health and lifestyle. We are a team of psychiatrists, therapists, software engineers, bioengineers, and researchers with a mission ...
DBT Skills Group
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 ...
Hosted by Charese Allen
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Oakland, CA 94610
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 ...
True Yang Somatic Ketamine Therapy
True Yang Somatic Ketamine Therapy offers somatic and ketamine-assisted therapy for the healing of trauma. Somatic therapy is based in the neuroscience of attachment. Together, you and your therapist will navigate an exploration of the “imprints” in your nervous system ...
Hosted by Angela Allan
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Oakland, CA 94611
True Yang Somatic Ketamine Therapy offers somatic and ketamine-assisted therapy for the healing of trauma. Somatic therapy is based in the neuroscience of attachment. Together, you and your therapist will navigate an exploration of the “imprints” in your nervous system ...
Sibling Loss Group
The death of a sibling, either in childhood or adulthood, is a very particular kind of loss that can involve a myriad of complex emotions. In this supportive psychotherapy group, we will explore the impact of losing a sibling with ...
Hosted by Ava Charney-Danysh
Marriage & Family Therapist, MFT, ATR-BC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Berkeley, CA 94705
The death of a sibling, either in childhood or adulthood, is a very particular kind of loss that can involve a myriad of complex emotions. In this supportive psychotherapy group, we will explore the impact of losing a sibling with ...
Art As A Pathway
The aim of this group is to practice and develop tools for processing emotions, letting go of perfection, gaining insight into and challenging thought patterns, through art and writing. The group is open to people who identify as female age ...
Hosted by Marhya Kelsch
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Hayward, CA 94545
The aim of this group is to practice and develop tools for processing emotions, letting go of perfection, gaining insight into and challenging thought patterns, through art and writing. The group is open to people who identify as female age ...
The Relational Self
This group offers a holistic, trauma-informed and experiential therapeutic approach. The group aims to help members discover strengths, uncover and realign belief systems, improve their ability to relate and interact with others, receive feedback, and identify how societal/cultural themes influence ...
Hosted by Erica S Wheeler-Dubin
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA
Verified Verified
Group meets in Oakland, CA 94611
This group offers a holistic, trauma-informed and experiential therapeutic approach. The group aims to help members discover strengths, uncover and realign belief systems, improve their ability to relate and interact with others, receive feedback, and identify how societal/cultural themes influence ...
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FAQs - About Group Therapy and Support Groups
How can I find a support group in Alameda County?
Search for nearby support groups by inputting your city, zip code, or the name of the group into the search bar. From there, you can filter to find a group that suits your needs, whether you are looking for support for a teenager, a group that focuses on a specific issue, such as depression, or a particular program type, such as one geared toward developing social skills. To navigate between locations within the same country, enter a new city or zip code into the search bar.
How does group therapy work?
Therapy groups are led by one or more therapists and serve to help people process their experiences and learn from others who understand their challenges firsthand. They can be based on a specific issue, such as addiction, grief, physical illnesses, parenting, and caregiving. They can involve a specific type of program or therapy, such as a social skills group or CBT group. They can also be specific to a particular population or community, such as teens or LGBTQ.
Support groups, like Alcoholics Anonymous, also focus on a specific issue, but are typically led by members with lived experiences and are less structured than therapy groups. Most therapy groups will meet for a fixed length of time with a consistent group of members, while many support groups meet for an indefinite period of time with members coming and going.
Support groups, like Alcoholics Anonymous, also focus on a specific issue, but are typically led by members with lived experiences and are less structured than therapy groups. Most therapy groups will meet for a fixed length of time with a consistent group of members, while many support groups meet for an indefinite period of time with members coming and going.
What are the benefits of group therapy?
Support groups help connect people with shared challenges or physical and mental health conditions. In a group setting, participants can receive support and feedback from peers and can acquire new skills, strategies and perspectives by listening to one another. Discussing your experience with someone who also has a cancer diagnosis, or whose son also struggles with addiction, for example, can help you feel less alone, reduce distress, find empathy and connection, and learn practical or medical information that has helped others. Group therapy can also be a more affordable option than individual therapy and just as effective.
Is group therapy as effective as individual therapy?
Support groups can be deeply valuable for both emotional support and/or treatment outcomes. It’s difficult to make a blanket statement on efficacy due to the many different types of support groups and conditions treated, but group therapy has been found to be just as effective as individual therapy in establishing long-term abstinence for conditions such as substance abuse, addiction and alcohol abuse.
How much does group therapy cost?
Group counseling is typically less expensive than individual counseling, with each session costing on average between $60 to $75. Meanwhile, individual therapy sessions can run anywhere from $100 to $200 and up, even after insurance. It is possible to find low-cost group therapy options and many therapists offer group sessions free of charge.
Does insurance cover group therapy?
As with individual therapy, many insurance companies do offer coverage for group therapy sessions. However, the coverage varies based on your insurance plan details and whether you choose an in-network or out-of-network mental healthcare provider. Individuals are encouraged to check with their insurance providers to verify coverage.
How long does group therapy last?
The length of a support group session is often one hour but can fall anywhere between 45 minutes and two hours. The amount of time that people remain in a support group varies based on their specific needs and goals and the type of therapy. Some individuals may seek a shorter-term group, such as a bereavement group, that may last between six and 20 weeks. Some may seek a longer-term group that lasts for a year or indefinitely.
What are the limitations of support groups?
Support groups have many benefits, but there are a few limitations as well. Support groups do not constitute formal therapeutic or medical treatment, and are not run by licensed mental health professionals, so some people may opt for group therapy or individual therapy instead. Additionally, support groups can depend on the other participants, so a disruptive individual has the potential to mar the group dynamic, and the anecdotal information shared may sometimes be unhelpful or inaccurate. Because it is a group setting, confidentiality can be more difficult to guard and participants receive less personalized attention than they would in an individual therapy session.