Depression Support Groups in Lancaster County, NE

Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an 8 week group program employing meditation, light yoga, and group discussion to teach participants how to minimize their stress and effectively manage the stress that remains. Participants learn to skillfully manage medical, psychological, and interpersonal conditions while promoting their own general well-being. MBSR is not group therapy and is not insurance reimbursable, but it may be covered by select medical flexible spending accounts. Check with your account manager.
Photo of Drew Buss, Counselor, MSEd, LIMHP, LPC
Hosted by Drew Buss
Counselor, MSEd, LIMHP, LPC
Group meets in Lincoln, NE 68506
I work with clients dealing with anxiety, anger, depression, grief, pain, you know
Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction (MBSR) is an 8 week group program employing meditation, light yoga, and group discussion to teach participants how to minimize their stress and effectively manage the stress that remains. Participants learn to skillfully manage medical, psychological, and interpersonal conditions while promoting their own general well-being. MBSR is not group therapy and is not insurance reimbursable, but it may be covered by select medical flexible spending accounts. Check with your account manager.
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This is a therapeutic group treatment that addresses mental health and substance use issues. The focus is to reduce negative symptoms which are causing distress in one or more areas of life. Groups are held weekly online and you will meet with your individual therapist once weekly in conjunction with the group treatment. We provide psychoeducation on various topics and utilize a cognitive behavioral approach to facilitating change through collaborative treatment plans.
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Hosted by Intentions Psychotherapy, PC
Counselor, LIMHP, NCC, CSC
Group meets in Lincoln, NE 68510
We work with people who may be struggling with life transitions, depression, anxiety, past or present traumas, relationship issues, ADHD/ASD, behavioral concerns in children, family conflicts, substance use/abuse evals.
This is a therapeutic group treatment that addresses mental health and substance use issues. The focus is to reduce negative symptoms which are causing distress in one or more areas of life. Groups are held weekly online and you will meet with your individual therapist once weekly in conjunction with the group treatment. We provide psychoeducation on various topics and utilize a cognitive behavioral approach to facilitating change through collaborative treatment plans.
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Our mental health therapy services are here to help. We offer a safe and supportive environment for children, adolescents, adults, and families to work through their challenges. Our experienced therapists are trained to help you overcome anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues and more. We believe that everyone deserves access to quality mental health care and therapy services.
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Hosted by Sarah J Thompson
Counselor, MA, LIMHP
Group meets in Lincoln, NE 68506
I work with clients who may be struggling with anxiety, trauma, depression, or family conflict.
Our mental health therapy services are here to help. We offer a safe and supportive environment for children, adolescents, adults, and families to work through their challenges. Our experienced therapists are trained to help you overcome anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues and more. We believe that everyone deserves access to quality mental health care and therapy services.
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The focus of the group is to help participants develop coping skills and provide a platform for self-expression through various formats. The group also aims to educate participants on trauma and its effects on the mind and body. Participants will learn hands-on coping skills and develop a better sense of self through experiential therapies. This is a person-centered processing group. Each group session will include an activity. Each group will also have a psychoeducational component. One does not have to be good at art to participate. This is a safe and encouraging environment to learn and grow.
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Hosted by Johna Stephens
Counselor, LIMHP, LADC
Group meets in Lincoln, NE 68506
The focus of the group is to help participants develop coping skills and provide a platform for self-expression through various formats. The group also aims to educate participants on trauma and its effects on the mind and body. Participants will learn hands-on coping skills and develop a better sense of self through experiential therapies. This is a person-centered processing group. Each group session will include an activity. Each group will also have a psychoeducational component. One does not have to be good at art to participate. This is a safe and encouraging environment to learn and grow.
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Study the "self" that you have inside through this group by experiencing others. With patience and practice, we can all provide confidential and safe feedback for one another in this group. Knowledge of common emotions is suggested before joining. Ability to give positive feedback is helpful. Experience with art is not required. Please call ahead for times and availability. 402-217-0600
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Hosted by Jolene John-Beckstrom
Counselor, MA, LIMHP, LPC
Group meets in Lincoln, NE 68516
Study the "self" that you have inside through this group by experiencing others. With patience and practice, we can all provide confidential and safe feedback for one another in this group. Knowledge of common emotions is suggested before joining. Ability to give positive feedback is helpful. Experience with art is not required. Please call ahead for times and availability. 402-217-0600
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DBT Skills Informed group at Remedy Counseling and Assessment is a 24-week open group meeting 4-6 PM every Monday for adults (18+). We are currently meeting via tele-health and in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Group members will learn and implement the four modules of Marsha Linehan’s DBT skills including Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. This is meant to be a supplemental group that can coexist along with individual, couples, or family counseling.
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Hosted by Audrey Cornish
Counselor, MA, LIMHP, PLADC
Group meets in Lincoln, NE 68508
DBT Skills Informed group at Remedy Counseling and Assessment is a 24-week open group meeting 4-6 PM every Monday for adults (18+). We are currently meeting via tele-health and in person due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Group members will learn and implement the four modules of Marsha Linehan’s DBT skills including Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness. This is meant to be a supplemental group that can coexist along with individual, couples, or family counseling.
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DBT Informed skills training group at Remedy Counseling and Assessment is a 24-week open group meeting 4-5:30 on Tuesdays for adolescents (13- 17). This is meant to be a supplemental group along with individual or family counseling. Group members will learn and implement the modified modules of Marsha Linehan’s DBT skills including Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Walking the Middle Path,
Photo of Audrey Cornish, Counselor, MA, LIMHP, PLADC
Hosted by Audrey Cornish
Counselor, MA, LIMHP, PLADC
Group meets in Lincoln, NE 68508
DBT Informed skills training group at Remedy Counseling and Assessment is a 24-week open group meeting 4-5:30 on Tuesdays for adolescents (13- 17). This is meant to be a supplemental group along with individual or family counseling. Group members will learn and implement the modified modules of Marsha Linehan’s DBT skills including Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotional Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and Walking the Middle Path,
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Online Groups

Utilizing the 10 steps from LaUra Schmidt's book, "How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet", we will examine individual and collective feelings of the planet and systems we find ourselves inhabiting. Learn tools to regulate your emotions and escape from the harmful effects of dysregulation (anxiety, stress, anger, depression, irritability, etc.). The PolyCrisis will be examined through these four lenses: Ecological Overshoot and Capitalism, Socio-Political Instability, Wealth Disparity Gap, and Existential thoughts about humanity and our place in the world.
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Hosted by Beverly Lahlum Taylor
Provisional Mental Health Practitioner, PLMHP
Group meets in Bellevue, NE 68005
Utilizing the 10 steps from LaUra Schmidt's book, "How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet", we will examine individual and collective feelings of the planet and systems we find ourselves inhabiting. Learn tools to regulate your emotions and escape from the harmful effects of dysregulation (anxiety, stress, anger, depression, irritability, etc.). The PolyCrisis will be examined through these four lenses: Ecological Overshoot and Capitalism, Socio-Political Instability, Wealth Disparity Gap, and Existential thoughts about humanity and our place in the world.
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Our professionals offer support for clients ranging from 3 years old to older adult. We offer medication management, EMDR, couples therapy, play therapy, PCIT, addiction services, sports psychology, and family therapy. Compassionate Minds Therapy offers a welcoming environment for all ages. We aim to empower our clients in a supportive environment while offering them compassionate care. We understand that many people have reluctance about mental health and addiction treatment, so we created a versatile environment to guide you through your therapeutic journey.
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Hosted by Compassionate Minds Therapy
Counselor, LMHP, LADC, APRN, LIMHP
Group meets in Omaha, NE 68154
Our professionals offer support for clients ranging from 3 years old to older adult. We offer medication management, EMDR, couples therapy, play therapy, PCIT, addiction services, sports psychology, and family therapy. Compassionate Minds Therapy offers a welcoming environment for all ages. We aim to empower our clients in a supportive environment while offering them compassionate care. We understand that many people have reluctance about mental health and addiction treatment, so we created a versatile environment to guide you through your therapeutic journey.
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Utilizing the 10 steps from LaUra Schmidt's book, "How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet", we will examine individual and collective feelings of the planet and systems we find ourselves inhabiting. Learn tools to regulate your emotions and escape from the harmful effects of dysregulation (anxiety, stress, anger, depression, irritability, etc.). The PolyCrisis will be examined through these four lenses: Ecological Overshoot and Capitalism, Socio-Political Instability, Wealth Disparity Gap, and Existential thoughts about humanity and our place in the world.
Photo of Beverly Lahlum Taylor, Provisional Mental Health Practitioner, PLMHP
Hosted by Beverly Lahlum Taylor
Provisional Mental Health Practitioner, PLMHP
Group meets in Bellevue, NE 68005
Utilizing the 10 steps from LaUra Schmidt's book, "How to Live in a Chaotic Climate: 10 Steps to Reconnect with Ourselves, Our Communities, and Our Planet", we will examine individual and collective feelings of the planet and systems we find ourselves inhabiting. Learn tools to regulate your emotions and escape from the harmful effects of dysregulation (anxiety, stress, anger, depression, irritability, etc.). The PolyCrisis will be examined through these four lenses: Ecological Overshoot and Capitalism, Socio-Political Instability, Wealth Disparity Gap, and Existential thoughts about humanity and our place in the world.
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I work with clients exclusively online. While it can feel a little unfamiliar at first, most people quickly realize how much easier it makes life—no traffic, no parking hassles, just convenient support that fits seamlessly into their schedule.
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Hosted by Erin Thomas
Counselor, MS, LIMHP
Group meets in Omaha, NE 68154
My training and practice have especially focused on anxiety and depressive disorders, allowing me to help individuals understand their symptoms and develop effective coping strategies.
I work with clients exclusively online. While it can feel a little unfamiliar at first, most people quickly realize how much easier it makes life—no traffic, no parking hassles, just convenient support that fits seamlessly into their schedule.
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Find the light today, start healing tomorrow. Mental Health care the way it should be.
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Hosted by Meghan R Herek
Counselor, LIMHP, LICSW
Group meets in Omaha, NE 68154
Find the light today, start healing tomorrow. Mental Health care the way it should be.
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The country has experienced significant political upheaval in the past decade, triggering concerns about human rights restrictions and increased polarization between communities, neighbors, and even family members. Locally or nationally, the rippling effects on legislative and personal levels can be overwhelming. This is a 10 week online group for adults in NE & IA to seek assistance, provide psychoeducation, therapeutic guidance, understanding, and support in a safe and respectful environment. This group is for mental health and support, not promotion of political ideology. Private pay only. Further details and contact may be found on my website www.MonifMH.com.
Photo of Celine Monif, Counselor, LMHP, LMHC, LPC, NCC
Hosted by Celine Monif
Counselor, LMHP, LMHC, LPC, NCC
Group meets in Bellevue, NE 68005
The country has experienced significant political upheaval in the past decade, triggering concerns about human rights restrictions and increased polarization between communities, neighbors, and even family members. Locally or nationally, the rippling effects on legislative and personal levels can be overwhelming. This is a 10 week online group for adults in NE & IA to seek assistance, provide psychoeducation, therapeutic guidance, understanding, and support in a safe and respectful environment. This group is for mental health and support, not promotion of political ideology. Private pay only. Further details and contact may be found on my website www.MonifMH.com.
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RO DBT is a new evidence-based treatment that targets over-controlled behavior. Excessive self control often leads to social isolation, emotional loneliness, chronic depression, treatment resistant anxiety, anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive, avoidant & paranoid personality disorders and autism spectrum disorders. 30 week class (ongoing and open), can start anywhere in the cycle. 3-4 individual preparation appts are required before starting the class. Your own individual therapy needs to be maintained throughout participation in this class. Contact either Ellie Fields ellie@atcnebraska.com for an appt. To learn more about this model; www.radicallyopen.net
Hosted by The Attachment & Trauma Center of Nebraska
Counselor
Group meets in Omaha, NE 68164
RO DBT is a new evidence-based treatment that targets over-controlled behavior. Excessive self control often leads to social isolation, emotional loneliness, chronic depression, treatment resistant anxiety, anorexia nervosa, obsessive-compulsive, avoidant & paranoid personality disorders and autism spectrum disorders. 30 week class (ongoing and open), can start anywhere in the cycle. 3-4 individual preparation appts are required before starting the class. Your own individual therapy needs to be maintained throughout participation in this class. Contact either Ellie Fields ellie@atcnebraska.com for an appt. To learn more about this model; www.radicallyopen.net
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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.