Trauma and PTSD Support Group
Weekly support group for adults struggling with a diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or those suffering from a traumatic experience that is causing significant distress. Addressing matters of hypervigilance, avoidance, reclusive and isolating behaviors, psychological and physiological reactivity, intrusive ...
Hosted by Danielle Barone, LCSW
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Boca Raton, FL 33431
Weekly support group for adults struggling with a diagnosis of Post Traumatic Stress Disorder or those suffering from a traumatic experience that is causing significant distress. Addressing matters of hypervigilance, avoidance, reclusive and isolating behaviors, psychological and physiological reactivity, intrusive ...
Adolescent Dialectical Behavior Skills Group
Join us on a 25 week journey to create your life worth living! We will learn Core MIndfulness to increase good vibes and reduce suffering, Distress Tolerance to get through a crisis without making things worse, Emotion Regulation to gain ...
Hosted by Miriam K Harrison
Counselor, LMHC, CAP, ICADC
Verified Verified
Group meets in South Miami, FL 33143
Join us on a 25 week journey to create your life worth living! We will learn Core MIndfulness to increase good vibes and reduce suffering, Distress Tolerance to get through a crisis without making things worse, Emotion Regulation to gain ...
FREE Support Group for Patients with Cancer
This is a one hour, FREE, virtual, co-ed support group that welcomes you to engage in giving and receiving mutual aid with peers. You will find support, not feel so alone, and feel joy from helping others in their cancer ...
Hosted by Dr. Diane Benfield
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, DSW, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Stuart, FL 34994
This is a one hour, FREE, virtual, co-ed support group that welcomes you to engage in giving and receiving mutual aid with peers. You will find support, not feel so alone, and feel joy from helping others in their cancer ...
Depression Treatment with TMS
Depression Treatment with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Its time to win the battle with NeuroStar Advanced Therapy. TMS has helped many people who have continued to struggle with depression even when using anti depressants. During our weekly groups we will review ...
Hosted by Neuro Wellness TMS Centers Of America
Treatment Center, MD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Coral Springs, FL 33065
Depression Treatment with Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation. Its time to win the battle with NeuroStar Advanced Therapy. TMS has helped many people who have continued to struggle with depression even when using anti depressants. During our weekly groups we will review ...
Center of Revitalizing Psychiatry
At the Center Of Revitalizing Psychiatry we understand that it can be difficult to seek professional help for mental health concerns, and we work hard to provide confidential mental health services that put our clients’ needs first. We’re equipped to ...
Hosted by Renee Novak
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, APRN
Verified Verified
Group meets in Sarasota, FL 34237
At the Center Of Revitalizing Psychiatry we understand that it can be difficult to seek professional help for mental health concerns, and we work hard to provide confidential mental health services that put our clients’ needs first. We’re equipped to ...
Therapy and Meditation for Anxiety and Stress
This group brings together people with similar issues to talk and/or listen to learn from each other's experiences. Instruction, discussion and mindfulness meditation. Benefits : Reduction in levels of anxiety, depression, and stress. Improve brain function, perception, memory, and ability ...
This group brings together people with similar issues to talk and/or listen to learn from each other's experiences. Instruction, discussion and mindfulness meditation. Benefits : Reduction in levels of anxiety, depression, and stress. Improve brain function, perception, memory, and ability ...
The Miranda Healing Group
The Miranda Healing Group is a group practice with competent counselors that can assist with a different array of issues, all ages, and offer a variety of specialties. Counseling available for couples, adolescence, and general mental health. Call the Miranda ...
Hosted by The Miranda Healing Group/ Counsel NJ LLC
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, PhD, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Tamarac, FL 33321
The Miranda Healing Group is a group practice with competent counselors that can assist with a different array of issues, all ages, and offer a variety of specialties. Counseling available for couples, adolescence, and general mental health. Call the Miranda ...
Supportive group practice with experienced therapists
Mind-Body Interventions for Greater Wellness
Monday Evenings 6:00-7:00 pm (Feb 3 - March 23) Join us! During this 8 week group, members will relieve stress, reduce anxiety, release tension, and increase overall wellness by focusing on mind-body interventions! Group members will learn about the mind-body ...
Hosted by Larry Green
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Gainesville, FL 32601
Monday Evenings 6:00-7:00 pm (Feb 3 - March 23) Join us! During this 8 week group, members will relieve stress, reduce anxiety, release tension, and increase overall wellness by focusing on mind-body interventions! Group members will learn about the mind-body ...
Upward & Onward
This is a small group of Depressed adults of any age who want to take charge of their depression. It is held in a safe confidential environment and it is up to each individual if they want to contribute to ...
This is a small group of Depressed adults of any age who want to take charge of their depression. It is held in a safe confidential environment and it is up to each individual if they want to contribute to ...
DBT Teen
DBT Group for ages 13-18, led by DBT Intensively Trained Therapist, Alyssa Hickey, LCSW. 24 week group, with 4 modules, with open-enrollment at start of new modules.
DBT Group for ages 13-18, led by DBT Intensively Trained Therapist, Alyssa Hickey, LCSW. 24 week group, with 4 modules, with open-enrollment at start of new modules.
Anxiety about Current Events
As we are bombarded daily with information about the weather, politics, gun violence and more, it can become increasingly more difficult to understand how to handle negative thoughts, feelings and emotions. If you have an interest in learning ways to ...
Hosted by Audrey Karabiyik
Counselor, MS, LMHC, BS, RT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Palm Beach Gardens, FL 33410
As we are bombarded daily with information about the weather, politics, gun violence and more, it can become increasingly more difficult to understand how to handle negative thoughts, feelings and emotions. If you have an interest in learning ways to ...
Take Control of Your Life! (Anxiety)
Weekly group therapy sessions with emphasis on problems managing anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. TOGETHER, we can change our way into the life we want!
Hosted by Fort Lauderdale Therapy Center, LLC
Treatment Center
Verified Verified
Group meets in Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304
Weekly group therapy sessions with emphasis on problems managing anxiety, depression and low self-esteem. TOGETHER, we can change our way into the life we want!
Teen Girls Support Groups
Support groups do not focus on one’s flaws but it is focused on strengths. This will help your teen develop empathy for themselves and others. They will learn to push themselves and each other to flourish beyond their current situations. ...
Hosted by Chima Lubin | Kabod Counseling
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, CCTP, EMDR
Verified Verified
Group meets in Bradenton, FL 34205
Support groups do not focus on one’s flaws but it is focused on strengths. This will help your teen develop empathy for themselves and others. They will learn to push themselves and each other to flourish beyond their current situations. ...
Mind-in-Motion Movement Therapy
Mind-in-Motion™ uses easy, flowing, movements combined with free expression, to open the heart, shoulders, hips, and other areas where we “hold” stress. The combination of flow, dynamic stretch, and sound promotes a psychomotor feedback pattern that helps us “let go” ...
Hosted by Catherine Salmons
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Winter Park, FL 32789
Mind-in-Motion™ uses easy, flowing, movements combined with free expression, to open the heart, shoulders, hips, and other areas where we “hold” stress. The combination of flow, dynamic stretch, and sound promotes a psychomotor feedback pattern that helps us “let go” ...
High , Middle and Elementary School Groups
I have a 3 groups that are divided into gender/age. Each week is a different discussion such as healthy coping skills, self-regulation skills, peer conflict resolution, anti-anxiety/stress reducing strategies, how to identify depressive symptoms and be a support for each ...
Hosted by Compassion & Grace Family Counseling
Counselor, LMHC, Ed,D
Verified Verified
Group meets in Destin, FL 32541
I have a 3 groups that are divided into gender/age. Each week is a different discussion such as healthy coping skills, self-regulation skills, peer conflict resolution, anti-anxiety/stress reducing strategies, how to identify depressive symptoms and be a support for each ...
Breathwork Group
Join us for a deeply profound transpersonal experience. Breathwork helps us unlock higher levels on consciousness, inner growth, and our powerful connection to the universe. Breathwork is a method of circular conscious connected breathing that can, help individuals open up ...
Hosted by Dr. Carolina Pataky
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT, CST
Verified Verified
Group meets in Coconut Grove, FL 33133
Join us for a deeply profound transpersonal experience. Breathwork helps us unlock higher levels on consciousness, inner growth, and our powerful connection to the universe. Breathwork is a method of circular conscious connected breathing that can, help individuals open up ...
Virtual Clinical Supervision Group
Come take part in group clinical supervision where you will learn from a well versed and knowledgeable clinical supervisor and a group of individuals from various clinical settings. The biggest benefit to group supervision is learning from your peers as ...
Hosted by Love and Empathy Counseling, LLC
Counselor, LMHC-QS, LPC, CCATP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Tampa, FL 33619
Come take part in group clinical supervision where you will learn from a well versed and knowledgeable clinical supervisor and a group of individuals from various clinical settings. The biggest benefit to group supervision is learning from your peers as ...
Trauma Releasing Exercises (TRE) Workshop
TRE® is an innovative series of simple exercises which assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension, and trauma by inducing a gentle muscular shaking response. This natural response generally feels pleasant and soothing, and after doing ...
Hosted by Ashley Pickard
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, PMT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Tallahassee, FL 32303
TRE® is an innovative series of simple exercises which assist the body in releasing deep muscular patterns of stress, tension, and trauma by inducing a gentle muscular shaking response. This natural response generally feels pleasant and soothing, and after doing ...
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy Skills Group
This group is informed by Dialectical Behavioral Therapy focusing on building skills in regulating emotions, tolerating distress, building effective interpersonal relationship skills, and mindfulness strategies.
Hosted by Kristal Pollack
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Oviedo, FL 32765
This group is informed by Dialectical Behavioral Therapy focusing on building skills in regulating emotions, tolerating distress, building effective interpersonal relationship skills, and mindfulness strategies.
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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.