DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING RESONATE WITH YOU? You are noticing that your use has crept into a lot of different parts of your life. You are curious about what life would be like if you focused on the things that mattered in life instead of drinking so much. Come explore why you are drinking so much in a safe place!
Many clients find me to help them overcome issues related to anxiety, trauma, addiction, LGBTQ issues, and relationship issues.
DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING RESONATE WITH YOU? You are noticing that your use has crept into a lot of different parts of your life. You are curious about what life would be like if you focused on the things that mattered in life instead of drinking so much. Come explore why you are drinking so much in a safe place!
This group is designed specifically for people who are in recovery from drug or alcohol use issues.
about 80 percent of my practice currently is working with people struggling with the intersection of trauma and substance use
This group is designed specifically for people who are in recovery from drug or alcohol use issues.
We will discuss sorting out your different sources of stress and identifying and prioritizing specific actions that are in your power to take to address them.
We will discuss sorting out your different sources of stress and identifying and prioritizing specific actions that are in your power to take to address them.
Male and Female Co-therapists Leading a Virtual Therapy Group (via Zoom) Focusing on members developing greater awareness of their interpersonal patterns and behaviors which interfere with developing closeness and intimate connection with others. Members desire to develop safe and functional attachments to others by overcoming barriers to the creation of nourishing relationships in their lives. The therapists are Donald Kiehn LMFT & Anna Berger Phd They have been facilitating a therapy group for over ten (10) years.
Male and Female Co-therapists Leading a Virtual Therapy Group (via Zoom) Focusing on members developing greater awareness of their interpersonal patterns and behaviors which interfere with developing closeness and intimate connection with others. Members desire to develop safe and functional attachments to others by overcoming barriers to the creation of nourishing relationships in their lives. The therapists are Donald Kiehn LMFT & Anna Berger Phd They have been facilitating a therapy group for over ten (10) years.
This group will utilize mindfulness practices to help individuals overcome destructive behaviors and reconnect with their innate capacities for joy, love, and fulfillment.
This group will utilize mindfulness practices to help individuals overcome destructive behaviors and reconnect with their innate capacities for joy, love, and fulfillment.
An intimate, rich process group of 4-9 members who seek support around coping with a loved one's addiction or mental illness, and are ready to engage in self-care. Designed for high functioning individuals interested in embracing life's confounding challenges as an opportunity to transform their lives, grieve, find meaning, self-understanding, self-acceptance, serenity, humor, relationship skills, and remain accountable to personal hopes and dreams. Required continuity of participation, respect of self, and other's anonymity. Enhance personal growth under the caring therapeutic guidance of a knowledgable, experienced Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Didactic component available.
An intimate, rich process group of 4-9 members who seek support around coping with a loved one's addiction or mental illness, and are ready to engage in self-care. Designed for high functioning individuals interested in embracing life's confounding challenges as an opportunity to transform their lives, grieve, find meaning, self-understanding, self-acceptance, serenity, humor, relationship skills, and remain accountable to personal hopes and dreams. Required continuity of participation, respect of self, and other's anonymity. Enhance personal growth under the caring therapeutic guidance of a knowledgable, experienced Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist. Didactic component available.
*ONLINE GROUP*. Join an experiential group to strengthen mindfulness skills, increase awareness of cravings and triggers, reduce impulsive reactions, and develop healthier habits to support your journey in managing problematic substance use! The 8-week group will be online and utilize the evidence based approach Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP; Bowen, Chawla, Grow, & Marlatt 2021). *NEXT ROUND STARTS APRIL 2025*
I work with clients struggling with anxiety, trauma-related difficulties, substance use problems, and identity-related stress.
*ONLINE GROUP*. Join an experiential group to strengthen mindfulness skills, increase awareness of cravings and triggers, reduce impulsive reactions, and develop healthier habits to support your journey in managing problematic substance use! The 8-week group will be online and utilize the evidence based approach Mindfulness Based Relapse Prevention (MBRP; Bowen, Chawla, Grow, & Marlatt 2021). *NEXT ROUND STARTS APRIL 2025*
This group offers you a safe, nonjudgmental space to explore and change your relationship with drugs or alcohol. Over 10 weeks, you'll gain a deeper understanding of addiction through the biopsychosocial approach and develop practical recovery skills. The group will help you reduce harmful consequences, manage cravings with mindfulness, address difficult emotions like shame and grief, and find healthy alternatives to substance use. You'll also work on improving your relationships, including with yourself, and cultivating a more fulfilling lifestyle that supports your needs and desires. This supportive community will encourage your personal growth as you commit to overcoming addiction.
I work with clients who want to change their substance use or other addictive behaviors.
This group offers you a safe, nonjudgmental space to explore and change your relationship with drugs or alcohol. Over 10 weeks, you'll gain a deeper understanding of addiction through the biopsychosocial approach and develop practical recovery skills. The group will help you reduce harmful consequences, manage cravings with mindfulness, address difficult emotions like shame and grief, and find healthy alternatives to substance use. You'll also work on improving your relationships, including with yourself, and cultivating a more fulfilling lifestyle that supports your needs and desires. This supportive community will encourage your personal growth as you commit to overcoming addiction.
An intimate, rich process groupof 5-10 members. Designed for individuals who would like to embrace recovery as an opportunity to transform their lives, find meaning and guidance around life challenges facilitated by an experienced therapist. This relapse prevention group can be helpful when the individual in recovery wants to avoid plateau. Group therapy offers bonding, self-understanding, humor, relationship skills, coping skills, accountability. Required continuity of participation, respect of self and others' anonymity under the therapeutic guidance of a knowledgable and experienced Licensed Therapist. Didactic component available.
An intimate, rich process groupof 5-10 members. Designed for individuals who would like to embrace recovery as an opportunity to transform their lives, find meaning and guidance around life challenges facilitated by an experienced therapist. This relapse prevention group can be helpful when the individual in recovery wants to avoid plateau. Group therapy offers bonding, self-understanding, humor, relationship skills, coping skills, accountability. Required continuity of participation, respect of self and others' anonymity under the therapeutic guidance of a knowledgable and experienced Licensed Therapist. Didactic component available.
Join our Harm Reduction Addiction Support Group for holistic recovery. Our compassionate space embraces diverse needs with structured sessions covering addiction, anxiety, depression, impulse control, relationships, and more. We focus on coping skills, healthy relationships, and relapse prevention, integrating IFS, CBT, mindfulness, trauma informed care, and attachment theory. Reclaim control, build community, and explore new possibilities with us. Book a free consultation today for personalized support on your journey to recovery.
Join our Harm Reduction Addiction Support Group for holistic recovery. Our compassionate space embraces diverse needs with structured sessions covering addiction, anxiety, depression, impulse control, relationships, and more. We focus on coping skills, healthy relationships, and relapse prevention, integrating IFS, CBT, mindfulness, trauma informed care, and attachment theory. Reclaim control, build community, and explore new possibilities with us. Book a free consultation today for personalized support on your journey to recovery.
A process for those in recovery learning the difference between using and healing with plant medicines
Hosted by Doorway Therapeutics
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Group meets in Oakland, CA 94610
A process for those in recovery learning the difference between using and healing with plant medicines
This group is for men who want to learn opening up and navigating better their emotions. Even for men, men can be scary, especially when considering opening up to our vulnerabilities and weaknesses. This is a trauma aware, somatically focus processing group where we will practice giving and receiving support. For more info, email me or check jadotnicolastherapy.com/mens-work
Hosted by Nicolas Jadot
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MA, AMFT
Group meets in Berkeley, CA 94702
This group is for men who want to learn opening up and navigating better their emotions. Even for men, men can be scary, especially when considering opening up to our vulnerabilities and weaknesses. This is a trauma aware, somatically focus processing group where we will practice giving and receiving support. For more info, email me or check jadotnicolastherapy.com/mens-work
You might find after some time in recovery, challenges come up in navigating an often stressful world, that could sabotage your clean days. Sharing your challenges as well as your successes with other like minded people, problem solving together while fostering further support, can make the difference. This is a psycho-educational group with empathize on relapse prevention. Regular attendance, is required.
You might find after some time in recovery, challenges come up in navigating an often stressful world, that could sabotage your clean days. Sharing your challenges as well as your successes with other like minded people, problem solving together while fostering further support, can make the difference. This is a psycho-educational group with empathize on relapse prevention. Regular attendance, is required.
If someone else's behaviors are driving you crazy, and others don't seem to understand and you're not getting the compassion you need, then this is a group for you. Often individuals who are close to someone with addictive behaviors, find it is effecting them more than the one with the disease. You learn that you didn't cause it, you can't control or cure it-where does that leave you? I invite you to regain your peace of mind, with support of others like yourself, guided by a professional. This is a psycho-educational group
If someone else's behaviors are driving you crazy, and others don't seem to understand and you're not getting the compassion you need, then this is a group for you. Often individuals who are close to someone with addictive behaviors, find it is effecting them more than the one with the disease. You learn that you didn't cause it, you can't control or cure it-where does that leave you? I invite you to regain your peace of mind, with support of others like yourself, guided by a professional. This is a psycho-educational group
Are other people encouraging you to seek help, but you're not sure you need it? Maybe you just want to prove them wrong, or perhaps you'd like to find out if your behaviors or bad habits are impacting your life negatively-then learn how to change them. This could be your group. Many gain insight from peers, guided by a professional, or hear about consequences from other members, deciding they don't want to go down that road. Some decide after attending groups to continue seeking help. Motivational Enhancement Therapy is the underpinning of groups.
Are other people encouraging you to seek help, but you're not sure you need it? Maybe you just want to prove them wrong, or perhaps you'd like to find out if your behaviors or bad habits are impacting your life negatively-then learn how to change them. This could be your group. Many gain insight from peers, guided by a professional, or hear about consequences from other members, deciding they don't want to go down that road. Some decide after attending groups to continue seeking help. Motivational Enhancement Therapy is the underpinning of groups.
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Addiction Support Groups
What is the best therapy for addiction?
Addiction treatment will be tailored to the individual. People seeking help for addiction—whether with a psychotherapist, in an outpatient clinic, or in a residential program—should expect to engage in multiple types of treatments, sometimes including medication. For anyone recovering from addiction, avoiding situations in which one has typically used a substance is essential, as is the support of close connections. Since substance use disorders tend to co-occur with underlying mental health conditions such as anxiety or depression, those must also be addressed as part of any recovery plan.
How long does therapy for addiction take?
There is no set timeline for recovery from addiction. Patients and their families should expect the work to last several months, if not longer. Residential treatment programs may be based on a stay of 30, 60, or 90 days, with continuing work after release, but only about 1 percent of people are treated in such facilities. Ceasing use is just the first step; therapy to help maintain abstinence and effect behavior change must follow. The process of recovery, neuroscience has shown, involves brain cells recovering the capacity to respond to natural sources of reward and restore control over the impulse to use. Another definition of recovery is restoring voluntary control over one’s substance use and retaking all of one’s previous responsibilities.
How effective is drug addiction treatment?
Substance use disorders are treatable and remission is achievable for many who seek recovery; by some estimates, more than three-quarters of people who become addicted to alcohol or drugs recover. But that success rarely occurs quickly or on a set timeline; relapse is not only common, but many therapists and clinicians view it as a normal part of the process—not always a sign that a person has returned to addiction, but a signal that their treatment should be adjusted to help them regain control. Overall, research suggests, five years after the end of substance use, one’s risk of relapse is no greater than that of others who had not faced addiction. Other experts believe that complete abstinence is not the only measure of recovery, and that, through effective treatment, many people can learn to control their use.
How can you get addiction treatment for someone?
The most important factor in recovery from addiction is widely understood to be an individual’s commitment to change. For that reason,“interventions” in which friends and family gather to urge or force someone to begin immediate treatment often backfire; even when such efforts do lead someone to begin treatment, they may be less likely to stay than those who are self-driven. Still, family members can play an important role in supporting an individual who seeks help and can take part in family therapy as one element of a loved one’s treatment.