This will be an ongoing study group consisting of four members interested in the non-dual teachings of eastern spiritual traditions. We will meet once a week for an hour and a half in my home office. Day and hours to be arranged.
This will be an ongoing study group consisting of four members interested in the non-dual teachings of eastern spiritual traditions. We will meet once a week for an hour and a half in my home office. Day and hours to be arranged.
These groups for women are held in peaceful and stunningly beautiful outdoor locations. Groups range in length from 1 day to 3 day retreats, to a yearlong women's circle. These groups are ideal for women who want deeper meaning and clearer vision for their life, and deep connection to themselves and other women. Participants are taught to cultivate a transformative relationship with the natural world, for personal growth and healing. Go to www.OneNatureTherapy.com for details.
These groups for women are held in peaceful and stunningly beautiful outdoor locations. Groups range in length from 1 day to 3 day retreats, to a yearlong women's circle. These groups are ideal for women who want deeper meaning and clearer vision for their life, and deep connection to themselves and other women. Participants are taught to cultivate a transformative relationship with the natural world, for personal growth and healing. Go to www.OneNatureTherapy.com for details.
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Prioritizing Self-care through Creativity: "Wild women are the love we seek" A 9-Month weekly group in which we work in the flow of movement, writing, painting (drawing), sounding, poetry, clay, natural elements, touch, and storytelling to embody the stories of our souls we want to live rather than our conditioned selves. We will explore old stories that hold you back and write new ones that align with your soul. We will connect with our bodies to de-shame and empower our sensuality and reclaim our connection to the earth in the safety of women coming together.
Prioritizing Self-care through Creativity: "Wild women are the love we seek" A 9-Month weekly group in which we work in the flow of movement, writing, painting (drawing), sounding, poetry, clay, natural elements, touch, and storytelling to embody the stories of our souls we want to live rather than our conditioned selves. We will explore old stories that hold you back and write new ones that align with your soul. We will connect with our bodies to de-shame and empower our sensuality and reclaim our connection to the earth in the safety of women coming together.
Have you ever wondered about your life purpose, or the grand themes of your life? Come explore your biography to date with a group of fellow seekers. We will discuss each stage of life, its challenges and gifts, and explore our own destinies. We will share, draw, and use experiential learning. Materials provided. Anthroposophic biography work is the main modality. We will discuss turning points, discover special moments that impacted our own trajectory, and explore karma and life purpose. Bring your curiosity, your self, and your memories! Groups form in the Fall and Spring. Call for a free intake interview.
Your culture, spirituality, and lifestyle choises are welcome.
Have you ever wondered about your life purpose, or the grand themes of your life? Come explore your biography to date with a group of fellow seekers. We will discuss each stage of life, its challenges and gifts, and explore our own destinies. We will share, draw, and use experiential learning. Materials provided. Anthroposophic biography work is the main modality. We will discuss turning points, discover special moments that impacted our own trajectory, and explore karma and life purpose. Bring your curiosity, your self, and your memories! Groups form in the Fall and Spring. Call for a free intake interview.
For South Asian & Middle Eastern Women. How do Eastern women return to richness of our culture, especially with the western influence infiltrating world wide? How do we release what wasn't working for us as Eastern women, but reclaim the goodness that we experienced from our traditions? Often the goodness is forgotten by us, as we "threw out the baby with the bath water". If you would like to explore and ignite again what is YOURS and find your own unique path back to your richness and beauty, join us for this introductory online workshop. www.ruchikamehta.com/sign-up.
Hosted by Ruchika Mehta
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94105
My approach to therapy is based on integrating knowledge of psychology and spirituality including the body, which offers a more holistic way of understanding of who we are and to understand what we're going through or to give us direction in our lives.
For South Asian & Middle Eastern Women. How do Eastern women return to richness of our culture, especially with the western influence infiltrating world wide? How do we release what wasn't working for us as Eastern women, but reclaim the goodness that we experienced from our traditions? Often the goodness is forgotten by us, as we "threw out the baby with the bath water". If you would like to explore and ignite again what is YOURS and find your own unique path back to your richness and beauty, join us for this introductory online workshop. www.ruchikamehta.com/sign-up.
Join us for a relaxing and rejuvenating online meditation session. Feel free to do your own meditation practice, or basic meditation instructions will be given in the beginning of the meditation. We will sit for 25 minutes. Free to attend. This is not a therapy group. Sign up at www.ruchikamehta.com/sign-up to get email updates about this and other groups.
My approach to therapy is based on integrating knowledge of psychology and spirituality including the body, which offers a more holistic way of understanding of who we are and to understand what we're going through or to give us direction in our lives.
Join us for a relaxing and rejuvenating online meditation session. Feel free to do your own meditation practice, or basic meditation instructions will be given in the beginning of the meditation. We will sit for 25 minutes. Free to attend. This is not a therapy group. Sign up at www.ruchikamehta.com/sign-up to get email updates about this and other groups.
This group offers guided process, support, and community for highly sensitive people (HSPs), 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 Lubina Westbrook
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94114
As a transpersonal depth therapist, I consider your understanding of spirituality and existential themes an essential resource in the healing process.
This group offers guided process, support, and community for highly sensitive people (HSPs), 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.
This circle is a co-created space, a container to explore the internal landscapes that were explored through psychedelic medicine space. Whether this exploration was recent or in the past, in a circle, individually, with a partner, or in a group, with a guide, solo, or facilitated. Psychedelic experiences need and take time to integrate the psyche and the spirit through the soma. An interview is necessary prior to entry into the group to increase safety.
This circle is a co-created space, a container to explore the internal landscapes that were explored through psychedelic medicine space. Whether this exploration was recent or in the past, in a circle, individually, with a partner, or in a group, with a guide, solo, or facilitated. Psychedelic experiences need and take time to integrate the psyche and the spirit through the soma. An interview is necessary prior to entry into the group to increase safety.
As psychotherapists, we have little formal training in recognizing and attending to states of experience that go beyond our usual psychological boundaries. Together we will gain awareness and knowledge of the spiritual dimension and it's wise integration into the psychotherapy hour. Grounded in a psychodynamic, intersubjective framework, we will discover how the dynamic field expands to include the Totality of our clients and ourselves.. Topics we will explore are: Meditation practices, understanding spirituality as a resource and as a defense, the somatic self, the Essential domain, nondual dimensions, attachment strategies and their impact on the spiritual experience. Call for more information: 415-460-5393.
As psychotherapists, we have little formal training in recognizing and attending to states of experience that go beyond our usual psychological boundaries. Together we will gain awareness and knowledge of the spiritual dimension and it's wise integration into the psychotherapy hour. Grounded in a psychodynamic, intersubjective framework, we will discover how the dynamic field expands to include the Totality of our clients and ourselves.. Topics we will explore are: Meditation practices, understanding spirituality as a resource and as a defense, the somatic self, the Essential domain, nondual dimensions, attachment strategies and their impact on the spiritual experience. Call for more information: 415-460-5393.
Throughout history, women have gathered in sacred circles. Be it around a fire in prehistoric times, within hushed monasteries of the Middle Ages, in consciousness-raising groups in 1970’s living rooms, or online groups in the digital age, women have long congregated to laugh, share, heal, grieve, and spiritually connect in community. In such gatherings, women can experience a deep authenticity within themselves – a truth or ‘realness’ that is often lacking as we tend to our day-to-day lives and its multitude of roles and responsibilities. Join me weekly to connect together in a safe, sacred space.
Throughout history, women have gathered in sacred circles. Be it around a fire in prehistoric times, within hushed monasteries of the Middle Ages, in consciousness-raising groups in 1970’s living rooms, or online groups in the digital age, women have long congregated to laugh, share, heal, grieve, and spiritually connect in community. In such gatherings, women can experience a deep authenticity within themselves – a truth or ‘realness’ that is often lacking as we tend to our day-to-day lives and its multitude of roles and responsibilities. Join me weekly to connect together in a safe, sacred space.
Trauma-informed certificate program. Self-inquiry and self-discovery that leads to profound change in a short time. SMGI® weaves in the missing pieces that cause many modalities to fall short. For those who've tried “everything.” The process is guided and regulated by the larger part of you, activating your spiritual nature, to heal at your own pace, in the most beneficial ways for you. SMGI® makes it easy to connect as deeply as you need to, to get free of old patterns, get connected to new capacities. For helping professionals and those who'd like to be.
Trauma-informed certificate program. Self-inquiry and self-discovery that leads to profound change in a short time. SMGI® weaves in the missing pieces that cause many modalities to fall short. For those who've tried “everything.” The process is guided and regulated by the larger part of you, activating your spiritual nature, to heal at your own pace, in the most beneficial ways for you. SMGI® makes it easy to connect as deeply as you need to, to get free of old patterns, get connected to new capacities. For helping professionals and those who'd like to be.
Highly Sensitive Women who are seeking community and ready to grow. Mindfulness, spirituality, expressive arts, writing, group process. Guiding principles: When it's hard, it's hard, & we work hard to move through. Make the right thing easy and the wrong thing difficult. Sensitivity is a superpower--our task: Harness it. Everything is easier with some faith. Nature is home/healing/ spirituality. Boundaries are key with leadership over ourselves we'll find/express them. Registration link: https://www.alanefreund.com/events/
Hosted by Alane Freund
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, MA, LMFT, ICHS
Group meets in Woodacre, CA 94973
Highly Sensitive Women who are seeking community and ready to grow. Mindfulness, spirituality, expressive arts, writing, group process. Guiding principles: When it's hard, it's hard, & we work hard to move through. Make the right thing easy and the wrong thing difficult. Sensitivity is a superpower--our task: Harness it. Everything is easier with some faith. Nature is home/healing/ spirituality. Boundaries are key with leadership over ourselves we'll find/express them. Registration link: https://www.alanefreund.com/events/
This is a closed group at this time.
You are welcome to join us for an online, weekly, drop in mindfulness meditation group. Self compassion and awareness instruction and support, guidance for growing through challenging times, group support Every Tuesday noon-1pm. Email me for a Zoom link.
This is a closed group at this time.
You are welcome to join us for an online, weekly, drop in mindfulness meditation group. Self compassion and awareness instruction and support, guidance for growing through challenging times, group support Every Tuesday noon-1pm. Email me for a Zoom link.
Mature women sharing and discovering new opportunities for growth, fulfillment, creativity and healing.
Mature women sharing and discovering new opportunities for growth, fulfillment, creativity and healing.
Stress, being emotionally overwhelmed and pain are uninvited guests in our daily lives; however, they are part of the human condition. Stress and pain may have you feeling irritable, tense, depressed and anxious, which impacts your entire life. The KEY to regaining balance is responding to these stressors with mindful, non-judgmental awareness. Impossible? Research has shown that mindfulness-based approaches to healing the body and mind are highly effective and can even change our brain.
Stress, being emotionally overwhelmed and pain are uninvited guests in our daily lives; however, they are part of the human condition. Stress and pain may have you feeling irritable, tense, depressed and anxious, which impacts your entire life. The KEY to regaining balance is responding to these stressors with mindful, non-judgmental awareness. Impossible? Research has shown that mindfulness-based approaches to healing the body and mind are highly effective and can even change our brain.
Welcome Beloved Grievers! This experiential compassion and heart-centered group will explore the mystery of your grieving heart. We will use mindfulness-based listening, along with poetry, journaling, guided meditation and expressive arts. I offer a group of 4-8 participants, to gather online in Fall 2023. Participants are recommended to read Francis Weller's book “The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of a Grief“. Please call 415.483.933 for more details and information.
Hosted by Buddhist Therapy Center
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Group meets in Woodacre, CA 94973
Welcome Beloved Grievers! This experiential compassion and heart-centered group will explore the mystery of your grieving heart. We will use mindfulness-based listening, along with poetry, journaling, guided meditation and expressive arts. I offer a group of 4-8 participants, to gather online in Fall 2023. Participants are recommended to read Francis Weller's book “The Wild Edge of Sorrow: Rituals of Renewal and the Sacred Work of a Grief“. Please call 415.483.933 for more details and information.
Provides psychological consultation, workshops, diversity and inclusion training for groups, businesses, academic, and religious institution on leadership, motivation, healthy lifestyle changes, spirituality, preventive health, and multicultural humility.
Provides psychological consultation, workshops, diversity and inclusion training for groups, businesses, academic, and religious institution on leadership, motivation, healthy lifestyle changes, spirituality, preventive health, and multicultural humility.
Are you under the spell of self-abandonment, of overworking, over-caretaking? Have you been crowned Queen of Self Denial? We have been conditioned to fear self-attunement and to embrace self-abandonment. Maybe it’s time to play with mythic symbols like Frankenstein, Dumbling and the Ant and the Grasshopper to challenge the cultural taboo against “selfishness.” By creating our own fairy tales we can listen to what our symptoms are trying to tell us, and break that spell of self-abandonment to reclaim the lost treasures of our true needs. Join us in May 2023 for 6 sessions
Are you under the spell of self-abandonment, of overworking, over-caretaking? Have you been crowned Queen of Self Denial? We have been conditioned to fear self-attunement and to embrace self-abandonment. Maybe it’s time to play with mythic symbols like Frankenstein, Dumbling and the Ant and the Grasshopper to challenge the cultural taboo against “selfishness.” By creating our own fairy tales we can listen to what our symptoms are trying to tell us, and break that spell of self-abandonment to reclaim the lost treasures of our true needs. Join us in May 2023 for 6 sessions
While therapists do not recommend or prescribe psychedelic treatments, we are able to provide emotional support around the preparation and integration of psychedelic experiences. While Ketamine assisted therapy has already become a legal treatment in the united states, other treatments are not yet legal or recommended by the FDA. This group is a space to prepare for upcoming journeys and integrate altered states of mind with holotropic breathwork, ketamine assisted therapy work, and medicine journeys. Psychotherapy groups are confidential and intimate spaces to explore the unconscious mind and to make conscious what may arise. Check www.biancaaarons.com/integration-group.
Hosted by Bianca Aarons Integrative Psychotherapy
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94114
While therapists do not recommend or prescribe psychedelic treatments, we are able to provide emotional support around the preparation and integration of psychedelic experiences. While Ketamine assisted therapy has already become a legal treatment in the united states, other treatments are not yet legal or recommended by the FDA. This group is a space to prepare for upcoming journeys and integrate altered states of mind with holotropic breathwork, ketamine assisted therapy work, and medicine journeys. Psychotherapy groups are confidential and intimate spaces to explore the unconscious mind and to make conscious what may arise. Check www.biancaaarons.com/integration-group.
"Tending the Fire Within:" A depth and intimacy-oriented group where we embrace and explore issues that men often find themselves struggling with. We share and learn to work with our anger, shame, loneliness, fear, grief and sense of power in order to create lives with more passion and connection. By supporting each other's experience, we dive more deeply into our own unique expression of masculinity and learn how we can feel more alive by holding our issues with compassion and heart. This group is co-facilitated by Jordan Wolfe.
Hosted by Robert Schene
Marriage & Family Therapist, MFT, CGP
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94102
"Tending the Fire Within:" A depth and intimacy-oriented group where we embrace and explore issues that men often find themselves struggling with. We share and learn to work with our anger, shame, loneliness, fear, grief and sense of power in order to create lives with more passion and connection. By supporting each other's experience, we dive more deeply into our own unique expression of masculinity and learn how we can feel more alive by holding our issues with compassion and heart. This group is co-facilitated by Jordan Wolfe.
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Spirituality Support Groups
What should I expect from therapy that incorporates a focus on spirituality?
Spirituality can mean different things to different individuals, depending on their experiences, beliefs, and life histories. Some individuals focus on strengthening their belief system, while others experience spirituality in secular ways, such as through meditation, yoga, or by spending time in nature. Clients can expect a therapist to help guide and grow their spirituality through any of these techniques, encouraging the individual to cope with the challenges they face and develop strategies to build resilience and purpose to improve their outlook in life.
What are the most common treatments that include spirituality?
There are several treatments that incorporate spirituality. Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) helps a person examine and reframe their negative thoughts and behaviors. Acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) focuses on emotional acceptance and psychological flexibility. Existential therapy is most often used to address anxiety, depression, grief, loneliness, apathy, despair, questions of identity, and feelings of purposelessness and existential dread. Transpersonal therapy focuses on a client’s spirituality and meaning in life and may incorporate techniques including meditation, visualization, hypnotherapy, dream analysis, and or breathwork.
Can therapy incorporating spirituality help atheistic or agnostic individuals?
Yes. For non-believers, spirituality can offer benefits including a greater sense of connection to others and to the natural world. An interest in spirituality may also spur individuals to pursue mindfulness practices, or to contemplate their purpose in life and how to achieve it.
How effective is spirituality as a therapeutic remedy?
Research suggests spirituality is generally beneficial for individuals. It is correlated with better health habits, such as less substance use, and an improved capacity to cope with stress and other mental health challenges. Increased spirituality can lead individuals to become more empathic and less materialistic, as well.