This ongoing support group meets online weekly every Tuesday night to help each other in living our best lives. This group focuses on education, skills building and thriving. Join us as we create a comfortable, safe, warm and welcoming community of women in recovery. (12 people maximum) Call /Txt Rachel 858-922-7337
I have post graduate training in EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, developmental trauma, and couples therapy (Gottman Level 2 and PACT).
This ongoing support group meets online weekly every Tuesday night to help each other in living our best lives. This group focuses on education, skills building and thriving. Join us as we create a comfortable, safe, warm and welcoming community of women in recovery. (12 people maximum) Call /Txt Rachel 858-922-7337
Ready to make significant progress in your trauma healing journey? EMDR Intensives offer a powerful, concentrated approach, allowing you to address deep-rooted challenges in just a few sessions. These personalized, half- or full-day sessions combine comprehensive preparation, focused trauma reprocessing, and tailored follow-up support to help you break through where traditional therapy may take longer. Ideal for those with busy schedules or seeking faster results, intensives provide a safe, supportive environment for profound change. Take the next step toward healing—reach out today to learn more or schedule your personalized EMDR Intensive.
Hosted by Amanda Whitehurst
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, SEP
Group meets in Alameda, CA 94501
Ready to make significant progress in your trauma healing journey? EMDR Intensives offer a powerful, concentrated approach, allowing you to address deep-rooted challenges in just a few sessions. These personalized, half- or full-day sessions combine comprehensive preparation, focused trauma reprocessing, and tailored follow-up support to help you break through where traditional therapy may take longer. Ideal for those with busy schedules or seeking faster results, intensives provide a safe, supportive environment for profound change. Take the next step toward healing—reach out today to learn more or schedule your personalized EMDR Intensive.
Our San Francisco Bay Area Family of Origin Retreat is called "Return to Self". At this codependency retreat in Marin we focus on helping adults facing codependency, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Adult Children of Narcissists and C- PTSD. At this comprehensive 7 day therapy retreat we create a relaxing, safe and supportive environment to explore the origins of codependency and help end the cycle of codependency in families. Adults who experienced physical, sexual or emotional abuse from age 0-18 are welcome. Cost $3540 www.thecodependencyclinic.com/retreats Call Rachel at 858-922-7337
I have post graduate training in EMDR, Somatic Experiencing, developmental trauma, and couples therapy (Gottman Level 2 and PACT).
Our San Francisco Bay Area Family of Origin Retreat is called "Return to Self". At this codependency retreat in Marin we focus on helping adults facing codependency, Adult Children of Alcoholics, Adult Children of Narcissists and C- PTSD. At this comprehensive 7 day therapy retreat we create a relaxing, safe and supportive environment to explore the origins of codependency and help end the cycle of codependency in families. Adults who experienced physical, sexual or emotional abuse from age 0-18 are welcome. Cost $3540 www.thecodependencyclinic.com/retreats Call Rachel at 858-922-7337
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Dealing with grief, trauma, depression or anxiety? Curious about using arts for healing, centering and self-discovery? In our Group we will: Rekindle your creativity and playfulness, learn tools to lower anxiety and build confidence, explore your personal stories through arts processes, create a safe community where we are nurtured and supported, find time to return to our equilibrium and rejuvenate through arts. Expressive Arts Therapy is an experiential form of psychotherapy, central to which is the belief that the process of art making can be healing in and of itself and is as important as the content it expresses.
Dealing with grief, trauma, depression or anxiety? Curious about using arts for healing, centering and self-discovery? In our Group we will: Rekindle your creativity and playfulness, learn tools to lower anxiety and build confidence, explore your personal stories through arts processes, create a safe community where we are nurtured and supported, find time to return to our equilibrium and rejuvenate through arts. Expressive Arts Therapy is an experiential form of psychotherapy, central to which is the belief that the process of art making can be healing in and of itself and is as important as the content it expresses.
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 not limited to anger, depression, emotional outbursts, addiction, low self-esteem, and social disconnectedness. This group is for adult survivors of (childhood) physical, sexual, and or emotional abuse. The purpose of the group is to provide an open, safe, and supportive space for survivors to process unresolved feelings and build connections and friendships while healing from childhood trauma together.
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 not limited to anger, depression, emotional outbursts, addiction, low self-esteem, and social disconnectedness. This group is for adult survivors of (childhood) physical, sexual, and or emotional abuse. The purpose of the group is to provide an open, safe, and supportive space for survivors to process unresolved feelings and build connections and friendships while healing from childhood trauma together.
Your past doesn’t define you. This 6-week trauma-processing group provides a safe space for adult survivors of childhood physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Through guided discussions, coping strategies, and inner child healing, you’ll gain tools to manage triggers, set boundaries, and build resilience. Connect with others who understand your journey and reclaim control over your life. You are stronger than you think. Reach out for a free diagnostic tool and a 20-minute consultation to see if this group is right for you. Healing is possible—you don’t have to do it alone.
Your past doesn’t define you. This 6-week trauma-processing group provides a safe space for adult survivors of childhood physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Through guided discussions, coping strategies, and inner child healing, you’ll gain tools to manage triggers, set boundaries, and build resilience. Connect with others who understand your journey and reclaim control over your life. You are stronger than you think. Reach out for a free diagnostic tool and a 20-minute consultation to see if this group is right for you. Healing is possible—you don’t have to do it alone.
This group offers guided process, support, and community for highly sensitive people (HSPs), gifted souls, empaths, and intuitives. Topics will include boundary setting and communication, increasing energy and preventing exhaustion, relationship dynamics, working with your intuition, and infusing life with a greater sense of purpose. If you would like to understand yourself better, make sense of spiritual experiences, and develop your gifts, this may be your group. We meet every other Sunday over Zoom.
Hosted by Vesna L. Westbrook. CPTSD, autism, HSP, giftedness
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94114
I bring a transgenerational lens to my work with complex trauma and PTSD.
This group offers guided process, support, and community for highly sensitive people (HSPs), gifted souls, empaths, and intuitives. Topics will include boundary setting and communication, increasing energy and preventing exhaustion, relationship dynamics, working with your intuition, and infusing life with a greater sense of purpose. If you would like to understand yourself better, make sense of spiritual experiences, and develop your gifts, this may be your group. We meet every other Sunday over Zoom.
We provide highly confidential and effective individual therapy and counseling services to high stressed professionals. Whether you are navigating the corporate world, working in STEM fields, starting your own business, or working in health care, we have a therapist for you.
We provide highly confidential and effective individual therapy and counseling services to high stressed professionals. Whether you are navigating the corporate world, working in STEM fields, starting your own business, or working in health care, we have a therapist for you.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) offers structured support for emotional regulation, stress coping, and improved relationships in individuals struggling with various issues, including depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, and personality disorders. This group can assist you in learning effective mindfulness practices, distress tolerance, and communication skills. Group sessions focus on sharing experiences, validating each other, and learning DBT techniques. The group setting encourages connection, empowerment, and consistent practice of therapeutic tools. The eight-session program covers various DBT skills, ultimately aiming to promote healing and reclaiming a sense of self-control.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) offers structured support for emotional regulation, stress coping, and improved relationships in individuals struggling with various issues, including depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, and personality disorders. This group can assist you in learning effective mindfulness practices, distress tolerance, and communication skills. Group sessions focus on sharing experiences, validating each other, and learning DBT techniques. The group setting encourages connection, empowerment, and consistent practice of therapeutic tools. The eight-session program covers various DBT skills, ultimately aiming to promote healing and reclaiming a sense of self-control.
Your past doesn’t define you. This 6-week trauma-processing group provides a safe space for adult survivors of childhood physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Through guided discussions, coping strategies, and inner child healing, you’ll gain tools to manage triggers, set boundaries, and build resilience. Connect with others who understand your journey and reclaim control over your life. You are stronger than you think. Reach out for a free diagnostic tool and a 20-minute consultation to see if this group is right for you. Healing is possible—you don’t have to do it alone.
Your past doesn’t define you. This 6-week trauma-processing group provides a safe space for adult survivors of childhood physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Through guided discussions, coping strategies, and inner child healing, you’ll gain tools to manage triggers, set boundaries, and build resilience. Connect with others who understand your journey and reclaim control over your life. You are stronger than you think. Reach out for a free diagnostic tool and a 20-minute consultation to see if this group is right for you. Healing is possible—you don’t have to do it alone.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) offers structured support for emotional regulation, stress coping, and improved relationships in individuals struggling with various issues, including depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, and personality disorders. This group can assist you in learning effective mindfulness practices, distress tolerance, and communication skills. Group sessions focus on sharing experiences, validating each other, and learning DBT techniques. The group setting encourages connection, empowerment, and consistent practice of therapeutic tools. The eight-session program covers various DBT skills, ultimately aiming to promote healing and reclaiming a sense of self-control.
Hosted by Elizabeth Huck
Associate Clinical Social Worker, EMDR, DBT, IFS
Group meets in Palo Alto, CA 94301
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) offers structured support for emotional regulation, stress coping, and improved relationships in individuals struggling with various issues, including depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, and personality disorders. This group can assist you in learning effective mindfulness practices, distress tolerance, and communication skills. Group sessions focus on sharing experiences, validating each other, and learning DBT techniques. The group setting encourages connection, empowerment, and consistent practice of therapeutic tools. The eight-session program covers various DBT skills, ultimately aiming to promote healing and reclaiming a sense of self-control.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) offers structured support for emotional regulation, stress coping, and improved relationships in individuals struggling with various issues, including depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, and personality disorders. This group can assist you in learning effective mindfulness practices, distress tolerance, and communication skills. Group sessions focus on sharing experiences, validating each other, and learning DBT techniques. The group setting encourages connection, empowerment, and consistent practice of therapeutic tools. The eight-session program covers various DBT skills, ultimately aiming to promote healing and reclaiming a sense of self-control.
Hosted by Jiyoung Kim
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, EMDR, IFS
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94132
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) offers structured support for emotional regulation, stress coping, and improved relationships in individuals struggling with various issues, including depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, and personality disorders. This group can assist you in learning effective mindfulness practices, distress tolerance, and communication skills. Group sessions focus on sharing experiences, validating each other, and learning DBT techniques. The group setting encourages connection, empowerment, and consistent practice of therapeutic tools. The eight-session program covers various DBT skills, ultimately aiming to promote healing and reclaiming a sense of self-control.
Your past doesn’t define you. This 6-week trauma-processing group provides a safe space for adult survivors of childhood physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Through guided discussions, coping strategies, and inner child healing, you’ll gain tools to manage triggers, set boundaries, and build resilience. Connect with others who understand your journey and reclaim control over your life. You are stronger than you think. Reach out for a free diagnostic tool and a 20-minute consultation to see if this group is right for you. Healing is possible—you don’t have to do it alone.
Your past doesn’t define you. This 6-week trauma-processing group provides a safe space for adult survivors of childhood physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Through guided discussions, coping strategies, and inner child healing, you’ll gain tools to manage triggers, set boundaries, and build resilience. Connect with others who understand your journey and reclaim control over your life. You are stronger than you think. Reach out for a free diagnostic tool and a 20-minute consultation to see if this group is right for you. Healing is possible—you don’t have to do it alone.
This group will focus on: individuals learning to track and regulate their nervous systems and the creation of and participation in a coherent group/social nervous system. These elements aim to support group participants in: increasing emotional and physiological regulation; decreasing stress; and increasing capacity to feel connected, alive, and steady with life’s challenges. Each group member will have an opportunity to work with their own material and be witnessed by the group. The group will take place in Wildcat Canyon in Richmond, connecting the coherence of the natural environment with human healing work.
I work with adult women at all stages and ages to resolve chronic stress and trauma, which encompasses most psychological "diagnoses," including anxiety and depression.
This group will focus on: individuals learning to track and regulate their nervous systems and the creation of and participation in a coherent group/social nervous system. These elements aim to support group participants in: increasing emotional and physiological regulation; decreasing stress; and increasing capacity to feel connected, alive, and steady with life’s challenges. Each group member will have an opportunity to work with their own material and be witnessed by the group. The group will take place in Wildcat Canyon in Richmond, connecting the coherence of the natural environment with human healing work.
Your past doesn’t define you. This 6-week trauma-processing group provides a safe space for adult survivors of childhood physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Through guided discussions, coping strategies, and inner child healing, you’ll gain tools to manage triggers, set boundaries, and build resilience. Connect with others who understand your journey and reclaim control over your life. You are stronger than you think. Reach out for a free diagnostic tool and a 20-minute consultation to see if this group is right for you. Healing is possible—you don’t have to do it alone.
Hosted by Jiyoung Kim
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, EMDR, IFS
Group meets in Palo Alto, CA 94301
Your past doesn’t define you. This 6-week trauma-processing group provides a safe space for adult survivors of childhood physical, emotional, or sexual abuse. Through guided discussions, coping strategies, and inner child healing, you’ll gain tools to manage triggers, set boundaries, and build resilience. Connect with others who understand your journey and reclaim control over your life. You are stronger than you think. Reach out for a free diagnostic tool and a 20-minute consultation to see if this group is right for you. Healing is possible—you don’t have to do it alone.
Join our 8-week Brainspotting Group to heal from trauma and reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, relationship issues, avoidance, nightmares, and flashbacks. Using Brainspotting, a somatic therapy that targets where trauma is stored in the brain, you’ll process deep emotional pain that talk therapy often can’t reach. Each session blends psychoeducation, group discussions, and Brainspotting exercises to help alleviate trauma symptoms and activate the brain’s natural healing abilities. Connect with others on a similar journey, share experiences, and work through challenges in a safe, supportive environment. Experience the transformative power of trauma healing and recovery.
Join our 8-week Brainspotting Group to heal from trauma and reduce symptoms like anxiety, depression, relationship issues, avoidance, nightmares, and flashbacks. Using Brainspotting, a somatic therapy that targets where trauma is stored in the brain, you’ll process deep emotional pain that talk therapy often can’t reach. Each session blends psychoeducation, group discussions, and Brainspotting exercises to help alleviate trauma symptoms and activate the brain’s natural healing abilities. Connect with others on a similar journey, share experiences, and work through challenges in a safe, supportive environment. Experience the transformative power of trauma healing and recovery.
When a child dies parents are faced with enduring complex traumatic grief that can sometimes persist indefinitely. Trauma related symptoms include shock, disbelief, inconsolable pain, and distressed relationships, and a debilitating ways to cope with overwhelming sadness. This group offers coping skills and knowledge based psychotherapy; both are critical components of your healing process. Research shows that shared experience with other bereaved parents provides critical support. This group meets live on Tuesday evenings November 19 through December 17 5:00-6:45 PM. Preregistration is required.
Hosted by Dr. Pamela Margaret Ashkenazy
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT
Group meets in Corte Madera, CA 94925
I hold certification in trauma treatment from the Brookline MA Trauma treatment Institute founded by Dr.
When a child dies parents are faced with enduring complex traumatic grief that can sometimes persist indefinitely. Trauma related symptoms include shock, disbelief, inconsolable pain, and distressed relationships, and a debilitating ways to cope with overwhelming sadness. This group offers coping skills and knowledge based psychotherapy; both are critical components of your healing process. Research shows that shared experience with other bereaved parents provides critical support. This group meets live on Tuesday evenings November 19 through December 17 5:00-6:45 PM. Preregistration is required.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) offers structured support for emotional regulation, stress coping, and improved relationships in individuals struggling with various issues, including depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, and personality disorders. This group can assist you in learning effective mindfulness practices, distress tolerance, and communication skills. Group sessions focus on sharing experiences, validating each other, and learning DBT techniques. The group setting encourages connection, empowerment, and consistent practice of therapeutic tools. The eight-session program covers various DBT skills, ultimately aiming to promote healing and reclaiming a sense of self-control.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) offers structured support for emotional regulation, stress coping, and improved relationships in individuals struggling with various issues, including depression, anxiety, trauma, OCD, and personality disorders. This group can assist you in learning effective mindfulness practices, distress tolerance, and communication skills. Group sessions focus on sharing experiences, validating each other, and learning DBT techniques. The group setting encourages connection, empowerment, and consistent practice of therapeutic tools. The eight-session program covers various DBT skills, ultimately aiming to promote healing and reclaiming a sense of self-control.
In this supportive and engaging therapy group, children ages 6-10 build emotional resilience, develop healthy coping skills, and boost their confidence through creative expression, mindfulness, and therapeutic play. Using evidence-based approaches of EMDR and play therapy, this group helps kids navigate everyday stressors and big emotions in a fun, age-appropriate way.
Hosted by Spark All Wellness
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, MSW
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94115
Our practice specializes childhood and complex trauma and we utilize several evidence based practices to help clients navigate their healing process.
In this supportive and engaging therapy group, children ages 6-10 build emotional resilience, develop healthy coping skills, and boost their confidence through creative expression, mindfulness, and therapeutic play. Using evidence-based approaches of EMDR and play therapy, this group helps kids navigate everyday stressors and big emotions in a fun, age-appropriate way.
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.
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When should I seek treatment for trauma?
Not everyone who undergoes trauma needs therapy to heal, but many do. If, after experiencing a traumatic event, you find yourself struggling with symptoms such as nightmares, dissociation, irritability, or emotional numbness—especially if these symptoms last more than a month and are severe enough to interfere with your daily functioning—you may benefit from seeking out therapy with a trauma-informed provider.
How long does trauma therapy take?
Different types of therapy for trauma unfold on different timelines. Prolonged exposure therapy and cognitive processing therapy, for example, each take about three months, while trauma-informed CBT may last anywhere from 8 to 25 sessions. Other approaches, especially those that are less structured or that incorporate elements from multiple modalities, may be more open-ended, though many patients report feeling better within the first few months of treatment.
What happens if trauma is left untreated?
Unaddressed trauma can have serious—even devastating—effects on relationships, career, and day-to-day functioning. Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) can lead people to distrust or lash out at others, making it difficult to maintain intimate relationships; it can also trigger symptoms such as flashbacks or hyperreactivity that can interfere with a person’s ability to function effectively, personally and/or professionally. Some sufferers turn to drugs to find relief. Symptoms may lessen on their own with time, but there is no guarantee that PTSD will resolve on its own.
Can PTSD come back after treatment?
It is possible for PTSD symptoms to recur months or years after successful treatment. This is because, like most mental health disorders, it is not possible to “cure” PTSD, and stressful life events may cause symptoms to recur in even the most resilient individuals. There is no shame in re-experiencing PTSD symptoms nor in returning to therapy when such relapses occur; indeed, many forms of trauma therapy explicitly encourage periodic “maintenance sessions” to reinforce coping skills and ensure that symptoms stay manageable.