Rewriting the stories you have aligned with that are negatively affecting your views of yourself, others, and the world in which you live. This Group is created to help people who are dealing with life challenges including but not limited to: Grief, Breakups, Life Changes, Anxiety, Depression, Physical Illness, New Diagnosis, Loss, Work-Related Stress, Parents, Spouse, Children, & Pets.
Hosted by Shannon Kaye Fanucchi
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, SH, CHT
Group meets in Bakersfield, CA 93301
Rewriting the stories you have aligned with that are negatively affecting your views of yourself, others, and the world in which you live. This Group is created to help people who are dealing with life challenges including but not limited to: Grief, Breakups, Life Changes, Anxiety, Depression, Physical Illness, New Diagnosis, Loss, Work-Related Stress, Parents, Spouse, Children, & Pets.
Welcome to Mindful You Psychotherapy! We are a group of like-minded psychotherapists who's sole purpose is to help individuals, children, couples and families along their journey towards healing. Call us to set up an appointment!
Hosted by Yessica Avancena
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, MBA, CMT
Group meets in Bakersfield, CA 93301
Welcome to Mindful You Psychotherapy! We are a group of like-minded psychotherapists who's sole purpose is to help individuals, children, couples and families along their journey towards healing. Call us to set up an appointment!
CBT group that emphasizes ones need to have a healthy thought pattern to have a healthy life. This group brings fun and excitement to mental health and is filled with education, laughter, deep questions, and personal challenges all aimed at helping you gain healthier thought patterns. This group is facilitated and by nature is peer engaging. You will hear different views and perspectives and our facilitator ensures the healthy and respectful exchange of ideas. As with all of our groups and treatment, the information presented in this group is founded on truth and logic.
I help treat issues such as anxiety, depression, and relationship concerns.
CBT group that emphasizes ones need to have a healthy thought pattern to have a healthy life. This group brings fun and excitement to mental health and is filled with education, laughter, deep questions, and personal challenges all aimed at helping you gain healthier thought patterns. This group is facilitated and by nature is peer engaging. You will hear different views and perspectives and our facilitator ensures the healthy and respectful exchange of ideas. As with all of our groups and treatment, the information presented in this group is founded on truth and logic.
This group is designed to education, training, and support for those looking to learn more about how to improve their overall mental health. In this group we will explore how to identify and overcome the obstacles that are standing in the way of progress and growth. Each member will have their own individual assessments completed within the group but will have the opportunity to brain storm solutions in a safe and supportive environment. The group is lead by licensed practitioners and follow evidence-based approaches. The goal is to have each member feel confident in their own skills after their complete their group.
Hosted by STONE Mental Health Services
Marriage & Family Therapist, Ed D, LMFT
Group meets in Bakersfield, CA 93306
This group is designed to education, training, and support for those looking to learn more about how to improve their overall mental health. In this group we will explore how to identify and overcome the obstacles that are standing in the way of progress and growth. Each member will have their own individual assessments completed within the group but will have the opportunity to brain storm solutions in a safe and supportive environment. The group is lead by licensed practitioners and follow evidence-based approaches. The goal is to have each member feel confident in their own skills after their complete their group.
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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.