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.
*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*
DBT Group For High School Aged Teens (In-person only) Does your teen have issues with managing: •Anxiety • Depression • Panic attacks • Mood swings • Avoidance • Anger • Substance abuse • Truancy Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is not a “talk therapy” style group that tends to make teens feel uncomfortable. DBT is a confidential, easy-going class that focuses on developing coping skills to manage the problems of everyday life. With DBT skills your teen will: • Handle stress without making impulsive or destructive choices • Understanding and manage their uncomfortable emotions • Effectively communicate with adults and peers • Schedule a complimentary 20-minute parent consultation.
Hosted by Laura Michelle Eklund
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Group meets in Pleasanton, CA 94566
DBT Group For High School Aged Teens (In-person only) Does your teen have issues with managing: •Anxiety • Depression • Panic attacks • Mood swings • Avoidance • Anger • Substance abuse • Truancy Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is not a “talk therapy” style group that tends to make teens feel uncomfortable. DBT is a confidential, easy-going class that focuses on developing coping skills to manage the problems of everyday life. With DBT skills your teen will: • Handle stress without making impulsive or destructive choices • Understanding and manage their uncomfortable emotions • Effectively communicate with adults and peers • Schedule a complimentary 20-minute parent consultation.
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
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.
To Be Arranged. Currently working psychotherapist or those in training consult with me concerning individual clients. Our focus is basically from the perspective of the psychology of CG JUNG. More directly our work incorporates the theory and practice of Integrative Analytic Psychology as developed by Jon Platania PhD.
To Be Arranged. Currently working psychotherapist or those in training consult with me concerning individual clients. Our focus is basically from the perspective of the psychology of CG JUNG. More directly our work incorporates the theory and practice of Integrative Analytic Psychology as developed by Jon Platania PhD.
Education for clients and/ or family members impacted by substance abuse. Addresses the science of addiction and how substances change the brain, impacts relationships, behavior, self concept, and values. Education topics cover: PAW (Post Acute Withdraw), relapse prevention, cross addiction, coping skills for cravings, stages of change, family roles, communication skills, understanding emotions, trust, boundaries, anger, shame, self-soothing mindfulness techniques, uniting to fight "the dragon" of addiction (not each other) and embarking on a recovery journey. Attendance of Education Group suggested concurrently or prior to process group participation. Call for schedule, sign up, or to plan a seminar.
Education for clients and/ or family members impacted by substance abuse. Addresses the science of addiction and how substances change the brain, impacts relationships, behavior, self concept, and values. Education topics cover: PAW (Post Acute Withdraw), relapse prevention, cross addiction, coping skills for cravings, stages of change, family roles, communication skills, understanding emotions, trust, boundaries, anger, shame, self-soothing mindfulness techniques, uniting to fight "the dragon" of addiction (not each other) and embarking on a recovery journey. Attendance of Education Group suggested concurrently or prior to process group participation. Call for schedule, sign up, or to plan a seminar.
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills training is a weekly group, run like a class, which teaches adolescents skills across four main topics: mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance skills. Clients are required to complete homework assignments in which they practice the skills taught during the weekly lesson. It is taught by DBT certified and nationally recognized clinical psychologist Dr. Christine Dickson This 1-hour weekly course meets online for 20 weeks.
Hosted by Dr. Christine E. Dickson Pleasanton - San Francisco
Psychologist, PhD, MS, MA, LP
Group meets in Pleasanton, CA 94566
Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) skills training is a weekly group, run like a class, which teaches adolescents skills across four main topics: mindfulness, interpersonal effectiveness, emotion regulation, and distress tolerance skills. Clients are required to complete homework assignments in which they practice the skills taught during the weekly lesson. It is taught by DBT certified and nationally recognized clinical psychologist Dr. Christine Dickson This 1-hour weekly course meets online for 20 weeks.
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Substance Use Support Groups
How do substance and drug recovery or rehabilitation programs work?
In inpatient programs, individuals live in a facility with other clients in recovery; in outpatient programs, individuals reside at home. These facilities are staffed with healthcare professionals including physicians, nurses, psychologists, counselors, and psychotherapists. Staff often also includes people who have recovered themselves, serving as mentors and guides. These programs may use abstinence, harm reduction, detoxification, psychotherapy, and other methods.
How do 12-step programs combined with psychotherapy work?
Members of 12-step programs help each other reach abstinence and work to maintain it. These programs promote complete change in the individual’s emotional, mental, physical, and even spiritual perspectives. Some programs require that new members attend 90 meetings in 90 days. Many people do attend these programs in conjunction with their work in psychotherapy; the combination of therapy along with 12-step can be extremely effective.
How does harm reduction combined with psychotherapy work?
According to the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration, harm reduction prevents death, injury, disease, overdose, and substance misuse. People who choose harm reduction for substance use reduce the amount of drugs they consume. It is not abstinence-based like a 12-step program, but combining harm reduction with psychotherapy proves to be effective for many people.
Are there specific medications for substance and drug use?
There are medications approved to treat substance use disorder—such as buprenorphine, methadone, naltrexone, and acamprosate. These medications do help people cope with substance use as well as avoid the problem of relapse. Naltrexone can help reduce cravings, methadone is an opioid medication used to treat severe pain, and acamprosate may help ease symptoms like poor sleep and anxious feelings.