This is a group designed for patients of Alpha Allied Mental Health. A place to vent positively, work cohesively to manage areas of mental health that you may have needed support. This is not a group to ask for refills on medications or comment on any negative factors of treatment. This is designed to be a place where I will moderate the group and together, we work on problem/resolution techniques. Please call to sign up for this group. 217-257-0740, we meet by video conference for now.
Hosted by Alpha Allied Treatment Center
Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, PMHNP
Group meets in Des Moines, IA 50309
This is a group designed for patients of Alpha Allied Mental Health. A place to vent positively, work cohesively to manage areas of mental health that you may have needed support. This is not a group to ask for refills on medications or comment on any negative factors of treatment. This is designed to be a place where I will moderate the group and together, we work on problem/resolution techniques. Please call to sign up for this group. 217-257-0740, we meet by video conference for now.
No person should feel helpless or alone when it comes to their mental health. Through in-person or virtual sessions, LSI Therapy Services empower Iowans along the way to a healthier and happier future. Ready to get started? Fill out your initial referral form https://lsiowa.org/intake-form/ or call us at 888.457.4692 today!
No person should feel helpless or alone when it comes to their mental health. Through in-person or virtual sessions, LSI Therapy Services empower Iowans along the way to a healthier and happier future. Ready to get started? Fill out your initial referral form https://lsiowa.org/intake-form/ or call us at 888.457.4692 today!
Visit my website to check out upcoming yoga and meditation series. These events offer the opportunity for self-reflection, group discussion, yoga movement and meditation.
Hosted by Jamie L. Nelson-Kirby
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, RYT-500
Group meets in Des Moines, IA 50312
Visit my website to check out upcoming yoga and meditation series. These events offer the opportunity for self-reflection, group discussion, yoga movement and meditation.
Hosted by Jennifer Haidar
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LISW, MEd
Group meets in Des Moines, IA 50312
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is designed to transform your relationship with stress, improve your health, and increase your energy and enthusiasm for life. Learn to lower stress, manage chronic pain, and decrease stress-related illnesses like anxiety, anger, depression, headaches, high blood pressure, obesity, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal problems. MBSR is a highly acclaimed, scientifically proven program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Featured on "60 Minutes" and in the New York Times and Time Magazine, MBSR is taught at hospitals, universities, and corporations around the world. Please visit www.prairiewellness.com for more information about this class.
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is designed to transform your relationship with stress, improve your health, and increase your energy and enthusiasm for life. Learn to lower stress, manage chronic pain, and decrease stress-related illnesses like anxiety, anger, depression, headaches, high blood pressure, obesity, sleep disturbances, and gastrointestinal problems. MBSR is a highly acclaimed, scientifically proven program developed by Jon Kabat-Zinn. Featured on "60 Minutes" and in the New York Times and Time Magazine, MBSR is taught at hospitals, universities, and corporations around the world. Please visit www.prairiewellness.com for more information about this class.
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Healing Collective exists to be a safe place for individuals in Iowa to grow, heal old wounds, and create a thriving and meaningful life. We understand how difficult and scary your first therapy appointment with a new provider can be, in fact, everyone in our practice has been to therapy ourselves. We hope to make your first visit comfortable with cozy offices, free coffee/tea and snacks, and a welcoming and understanding environment. We are truly honored to meet everyone who enters our offices and we hope to be a support for whatever you may need on your journey.
Hosted by Healing Collective Counseling
Counselor, MA, LMHC
Group meets in West Des Moines, IA 50266
Healing Collective exists to be a safe place for individuals in Iowa to grow, heal old wounds, and create a thriving and meaningful life. We understand how difficult and scary your first therapy appointment with a new provider can be, in fact, everyone in our practice has been to therapy ourselves. We hope to make your first visit comfortable with cozy offices, free coffee/tea and snacks, and a welcoming and understanding environment. We are truly honored to meet everyone who enters our offices and we hope to be a support for whatever you may need on your journey.
We are a team of licensed psychologists serving Ames, Iowa and surrounding communities. We understand that life can be very challenging and take unexpected turns. It takes a lot of courage to be vulnerable and explore your struggles with others. We strongly believe in the importance of offering a safe, nonjudgmental, and inviting space. We would love the opportunity to walk beside you on your journey towards growth and healing.
We are a team of licensed psychologists serving Ames, Iowa and surrounding communities. We understand that life can be very challenging and take unexpected turns. It takes a lot of courage to be vulnerable and explore your struggles with others. We strongly believe in the importance of offering a safe, nonjudgmental, and inviting space. We would love the opportunity to walk beside you on your journey towards growth and healing.
From emotional overwhelm to inner steadiness: If your emotions often feel big, deep, or hard to manage, you’re not alone. This supportive therapy group helps you build awareness, find calm in the waves, and strengthen your ability to navigate emotional surges with clarity and confidence.
Hosted by 515 Therapy and Consulting
Counselor, LMHC, LISW, LMFT, ARNP, LP
Group meets in West Des Moines, IA 50266
From emotional overwhelm to inner steadiness: If your emotions often feel big, deep, or hard to manage, you’re not alone. This supportive therapy group helps you build awareness, find calm in the waves, and strengthen your ability to navigate emotional surges with clarity and confidence.
The group helps to increase self worth, learn what self love is in terms of mental health and maintaining relationships. Mindfulness and relaxation techniques included during each group.
Hosted by Emberly J. Lashley
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, MS, NCC, LMHC
Group meets in Urbandale, IA 50322
The group helps to increase self worth, learn what self love is in terms of mental health and maintaining relationships. Mindfulness and relaxation techniques included during each 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.