Ignite creative fire, undomesticated courage, and cohesive wholeness through a 4-D Wheel intensive for women with depth psychologist Roxanne Partridge. This workshop is happening August 30-September 4, 2026. See link for details and registration: https://embodyperiod.com/wilddare-omega/
Ignite creative fire, undomesticated courage, and cohesive wholeness through a 4-D Wheel intensive for women with depth psychologist Roxanne Partridge. This workshop is happening August 30-September 4, 2026. See link for details and registration: https://embodyperiod.com/wilddare-omega/
Postpartum can be a lonely, isolating time for many moms, despite having help at home. Build Your Village is a support group designed to expand your network to others in similar stages of life, who can truly connect with you and say, "yes, me too, I get that." The relief of seeing others in the same boat, or those who have weathered similar storms and made it to calmer waters can be the boost you need to make it through too. Join us to celebrate the wins, commiserate the woes, and acknowledge this incredible journey you're on. Babies welcome!
Postpartum can be a lonely, isolating time for many moms, despite having help at home. Build Your Village is a support group designed to expand your network to others in similar stages of life, who can truly connect with you and say, "yes, me too, I get that." The relief of seeing others in the same boat, or those who have weathered similar storms and made it to calmer waters can be the boost you need to make it through too. Join us to celebrate the wins, commiserate the woes, and acknowledge this incredible journey you're on. Babies welcome!
Throughout all ages and cultures, traditional circle dances were used to honor the divine, to heal, to affirm connection to the earth and each other, to build community and celebrate rites of passages and life transitions. The danced patterns illuminate the web of these connections. It is where personal and universal healing can occur. We will use the traditional dances as a platform for heightening awareness of body/self, self to community and self to cosmos. The expressive and improvisational aspects of Dance/Movement Therapy will support further exploration.
Throughout all ages and cultures, traditional circle dances were used to honor the divine, to heal, to affirm connection to the earth and each other, to build community and celebrate rites of passages and life transitions. The danced patterns illuminate the web of these connections. It is where personal and universal healing can occur. We will use the traditional dances as a platform for heightening awareness of body/self, self to community and self to cosmos. The expressive and improvisational aspects of Dance/Movement Therapy will support further exploration.
While change is inevitable, it can be a challenge to face on one's own. Being part of a personal growth group helps people feel less isolated, more understood as they realize they have commonalities with others, enables participants to practice communication skills and give and receive support. This experiential therapy group is designed to help group members access their spontaneity and creativity so that they can more skillfully adapt to the challenges and opportunities they are facing.
While change is inevitable, it can be a challenge to face on one's own. Being part of a personal growth group helps people feel less isolated, more understood as they realize they have commonalities with others, enables participants to practice communication skills and give and receive support. This experiential therapy group is designed to help group members access their spontaneity and creativity so that they can more skillfully adapt to the challenges and opportunities they are facing.
An 8 week group series providing empowering support for girls’ health and wellbeing - body, mind, and spirit - during the amazing and challenging journey into adolescence and young womanhood. The focus of this group will be on cultivating positive body image, building inner strength, emotional/ physical/spiritual/social health and wellbeing, healthy sexuality, creative expression, and self respect. Dance/movement therapy and other creative art concepts will be at the core. Through a playful and safe atmosphere we will engage in a variety of activities-including dance & creative arts, rights of passage, journal writing/ drawing, beading, guided imagery, and ecotherapy.
An 8 week group series providing empowering support for girls’ health and wellbeing - body, mind, and spirit - during the amazing and challenging journey into adolescence and young womanhood. The focus of this group will be on cultivating positive body image, building inner strength, emotional/ physical/spiritual/social health and wellbeing, healthy sexuality, creative expression, and self respect. Dance/movement therapy and other creative art concepts will be at the core. Through a playful and safe atmosphere we will engage in a variety of activities-including dance & creative arts, rights of passage, journal writing/ drawing, beading, guided imagery, and ecotherapy.
Online Groups
Women are natural nurturers and are devoted to taking care of others. Yet in the process of living and being nurturers, many women struggle to balance caring for their own needs. In this group, we will explore the real meaning of self love/ self-care, identify self-care traps, practice somatic exercises, find healthy ways to break free and creating a new normal.
Women are natural nurturers and are devoted to taking care of others. Yet in the process of living and being nurturers, many women struggle to balance caring for their own needs. In this group, we will explore the real meaning of self love/ self-care, identify self-care traps, practice somatic exercises, find healthy ways to break free and creating a new normal.
Suffolk Health Psychology Services, PLLC offers comprehensive evaluations & evidence-based treatment for children, adolescents, and adults. HIPAA-HITECH-compliant video conferencing software allows you to attend all appointments from the comfort and convenience of your own home! Our areas of focus include: sleep problems, anxiety, chronic medical illnesses, life-altering injuries, college stress, relaxation training, physical activity, depression / postpartum depression, PTSD, Worker’s Compensation, & Independent Medical Examinations, Our compassionate approach ensures that every individual feels valued and supported throughout their therapeutic journey. Our tailored strategies are designed to foster resilience and a renewed sense of purpose in your life.
Suffolk Health Psychology Services, PLLC offers comprehensive evaluations & evidence-based treatment for children, adolescents, and adults. HIPAA-HITECH-compliant video conferencing software allows you to attend all appointments from the comfort and convenience of your own home! Our areas of focus include: sleep problems, anxiety, chronic medical illnesses, life-altering injuries, college stress, relaxation training, physical activity, depression / postpartum depression, PTSD, Worker’s Compensation, & Independent Medical Examinations, Our compassionate approach ensures that every individual feels valued and supported throughout their therapeutic journey. Our tailored strategies are designed to foster resilience and a renewed sense of purpose in your life.
This virtual group is for women in their 30s/40s who feel stuck in patterns of people-pleasing, over-functioning, anxiety, and self-doubt - especially those with a history of family trauma, enmeshment, or parentification. As a group, we explore boundaries, self-trust, letting go of responsibility for others emotions, fawning, & how to stop abandoning yourself in relationships. Each group includes teaching, journaling, and real-time processing with like minded women in a supportive space. You'll leave with insight, tools, and deeper connection to yourself & others. Open to women in NY, NJ, DC, and MD. New members on an ongoing basis.
This virtual group is for women in their 30s/40s who feel stuck in patterns of people-pleasing, over-functioning, anxiety, and self-doubt - especially those with a history of family trauma, enmeshment, or parentification. As a group, we explore boundaries, self-trust, letting go of responsibility for others emotions, fawning, & how to stop abandoning yourself in relationships. Each group includes teaching, journaling, and real-time processing with like minded women in a supportive space. You'll leave with insight, tools, and deeper connection to yourself & others. Open to women in NY, NJ, DC, and MD. New members on an ongoing basis.
This weekly group provides a safe space in which women can explore issues such as loss, stress, relationships, sadness/anxiety, and spirituality. The meeting is particularly relevant for Black women who have an interest in examining how the intersecting dynamics of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation impact one's personal identity, interpersonal relationships, and sense of the world.
This weekly group provides a safe space in which women can explore issues such as loss, stress, relationships, sadness/anxiety, and spirituality. The meeting is particularly relevant for Black women who have an interest in examining how the intersecting dynamics of race, gender, class, and sexual orientation impact one's personal identity, interpersonal relationships, and sense of the world.
Group starting this Fall. Would you like to foster your connection to your connection to your creative spirit? Has everyday life and it's demands left you feel like you are running on empty? Do you want to jump start your imagination and find out what your soul would like to express? Would you like to develop or enhance your own creative practice? Come and learn some simple tools to reboot your energy, nourish your artistic self. As we support one another as women , we find a joyful way forward.
Hosted by Aileen Walsh
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, Aileen Walsh
Group meets in Saugerties, NY 12477
Group starting this Fall. Would you like to foster your connection to your connection to your creative spirit? Has everyday life and it's demands left you feel like you are running on empty? Do you want to jump start your imagination and find out what your soul would like to express? Would you like to develop or enhance your own creative practice? Come and learn some simple tools to reboot your energy, nourish your artistic self. As we support one another as women , we find a joyful way forward.
Young Adult Women 20-30 years old. This group is geared towards helping woman 18 and up of all races, ethnicities, and sexualities in navigating their complex interpersonal relationships. Members will learn how to form & maintain healthy relationships in a supportive and empowering environment. (Most insurance accepted * Please note, clients are not required to be attending individual therapy at Nassau Psychology, PC in order to participate in group therapy at our practice. A one time intake evaluation is required prior to being admitted into group therapy to ensure we are a good fit for the client's needs and to meet the group leader.)
Hosted by Mary Silverman
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Group meets in Rockville Centre, NY 11570
Young Adult Women 20-30 years old. This group is geared towards helping woman 18 and up of all races, ethnicities, and sexualities in navigating their complex interpersonal relationships. Members will learn how to form & maintain healthy relationships in a supportive and empowering environment. (Most insurance accepted * Please note, clients are not required to be attending individual therapy at Nassau Psychology, PC in order to participate in group therapy at our practice. A one time intake evaluation is required prior to being admitted into group therapy to ensure we are a good fit for the client's needs and to meet the group leader.)
Do you find yourself in familiar patterns with others over and over? Do you have difficulties making your wishes and needs be known? Do you find it hard to get connected with others? There is help! I run three coed groups that deal with these issues and help you interact differently with others, and one women's group. Call or email me now so we can have you started in the group that is best for you right away.
Hosted by Grunblatt Psychology & Counseling Offices
Psychologist, PhD, CGP, FAGPA, RPT-S, Diplom
Group meets in Kingston, NY 12401
Do you find yourself in familiar patterns with others over and over? Do you have difficulties making your wishes and needs be known? Do you find it hard to get connected with others? There is help! I run three coed groups that deal with these issues and help you interact differently with others, and one women's group. Call or email me now so we can have you started in the group that is best for you right away.
Women Discovering ADHD in Adulthood Through Art & Community is an art therapy–based support group for women who learned they have ADHD later in life. The group focuses on building community and connection while holding both the grief and relief that can follow a late diagnosis. Through art-making and discussion, participants will explore challenges, process emotions, and cultivate insight and self-compassion.
Hosted by Jennifer Atlas
Art Therapist, MA, MFA, LCAT, CLAT, ATR-BC
Group meets in East Norwich, NY 11732
Women Discovering ADHD in Adulthood Through Art & Community is an art therapy–based support group for women who learned they have ADHD later in life. The group focuses on building community and connection while holding both the grief and relief that can follow a late diagnosis. Through art-making and discussion, participants will explore challenges, process emotions, and cultivate insight and self-compassion.
A supportive space for adult women in New York City seeking healing, connection, and growth through both faith and shared experience. This group integrates Christian, biblical values with evidence-based therapeutic practices, offering a safe and compassionate environment to explore life’s challenges, strengthen emotional well-being, and deepen spiritual resilience alongside others on a similar journey. This group is scheduled to start in September 2026. Please email me directly marbledmindtherapy@gmail.com if you'd like to be added to the group. Looking forward to meeting you soon!
A supportive space for adult women in New York City seeking healing, connection, and growth through both faith and shared experience. This group integrates Christian, biblical values with evidence-based therapeutic practices, offering a safe and compassionate environment to explore life’s challenges, strengthen emotional well-being, and deepen spiritual resilience alongside others on a similar journey. This group is scheduled to start in September 2026. Please email me directly marbledmindtherapy@gmail.com if you'd like to be added to the group. Looking forward to meeting you soon!
Group for mothers whose daughters struggle with eating/body image issues. Provides safe, non-judgmental space for members to empower themselves so they can support their daughters, helping members challenge the powerlessness and helplessness that accompany parenting a daughter with an eating disorder. Members explore their reactions triggered by their daughters. Group works toward strengthening each mother's anti-eating disorder voice. These voices can be mobilized to help daughters challenge destructive eating practices, challenge culturally based toxic ideas about body/food, offering new ways of thinking about living freely in a female body in our thinness obsessed culture.
Hosted by Jody Porter
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LCSW-R
Group meets in Mount Kisco, NY 10549
Group for mothers whose daughters struggle with eating/body image issues. Provides safe, non-judgmental space for members to empower themselves so they can support their daughters, helping members challenge the powerlessness and helplessness that accompany parenting a daughter with an eating disorder. Members explore their reactions triggered by their daughters. Group works toward strengthening each mother's anti-eating disorder voice. These voices can be mobilized to help daughters challenge destructive eating practices, challenge culturally based toxic ideas about body/food, offering new ways of thinking about living freely in a female body in our thinness obsessed culture.
Seminarios Especiales y Modernos del Arte y la Ciencia de Amar ("ars amandi") para PAREJAS en Crisis, Esposos y Esposas, Novios y Novias, Compañeros y Compañeros, y para el público en general que estén en PAREJAS. INICIO EN ESTE PRIMAVERA: TBA. El costo es de $99 por 10 clases (Estudiantes con Carnet o ID pagan solo $49)
Seminarios Especiales y Modernos del Arte y la Ciencia de Amar ("ars amandi") para PAREJAS en Crisis, Esposos y Esposas, Novios y Novias, Compañeros y Compañeros, y para el público en general que estén en PAREJAS. INICIO EN ESTE PRIMAVERA: TBA. El costo es de $99 por 10 clases (Estudiantes con Carnet o ID pagan solo $49)
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow.'" The path along the journey of fertility comes with challenges and stressors unearthing feelings such as heartache, excitement, confusion, anxiety, grief, defeat, exhaustion and much more. While each experience differs, the emotions are often shared. Participants can feel understood in a nonjudgmental & compassionate circle. Talk therapy and mindfulness experiences will support the process of easing the stress. This VIRTUAL circle is for any female identifying person navigating fertility. Join ITS mind/body therapist, Jacque McNally for 6 weeks starting February 21.
Hosted by Integrating the Self - Mental Health & Wellness
Creative Arts Therapist, LCAT
Group meets in Newburgh, NY 12550
"Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying 'I will try again tomorrow.'" The path along the journey of fertility comes with challenges and stressors unearthing feelings such as heartache, excitement, confusion, anxiety, grief, defeat, exhaustion and much more. While each experience differs, the emotions are often shared. Participants can feel understood in a nonjudgmental & compassionate circle. Talk therapy and mindfulness experiences will support the process of easing the stress. This VIRTUAL circle is for any female identifying person navigating fertility. Join ITS mind/body therapist, Jacque McNally for 6 weeks starting February 21.
Are you ready to break free from the cycle of disappointing dates and emotional disconnect? If you feel stuck in an anxious-avoidant trap, our “Secure Love” therapy group provides the clarity you need. At Gateway to Solutions in Downtown NYC, we guide you through a 12-week journey to reshape your attachment style and build lasting, healthy relationships. We focus on cultivating self-worth, mastering clear communication, and setting firm, non-negotiable boundaries. It is time to move past the burnout and start dating with intention. Stop settling for uncertainty. Contact our team today to schedule an intake.
Are you ready to break free from the cycle of disappointing dates and emotional disconnect? If you feel stuck in an anxious-avoidant trap, our “Secure Love” therapy group provides the clarity you need. At Gateway to Solutions in Downtown NYC, we guide you through a 12-week journey to reshape your attachment style and build lasting, healthy relationships. We focus on cultivating self-worth, mastering clear communication, and setting firm, non-negotiable boundaries. It is time to move past the burnout and start dating with intention. Stop settling for uncertainty. Contact our team today to schedule an intake.
Living with an invisible illness is loudly feeling the tremendous intensity of inward symptoms while visibly forcing yourself to quietly adapt. While each experience differs, emotions such as anger; denial; confusion; defeat; exhaustions; hopelessness (much more) are often shared. Group members can feel seen, heard, & understood in a nonjudgmental & compassionate circle all the while identifying how to create a relationship of self-love with a changing, possibly unfamiliar body. Talk therapy, mindfulness, and body-based interventions will support the processing of physical symptoms and facilitate an empowered mind/body connection. Virtual Sessions run for 6 weeks starting April 24 @ 6pm.
Hosted by Integrating the Self - Mental Health & Wellness
Creative Arts Therapist, LCAT
Group meets in Newburgh, NY 12550
Living with an invisible illness is loudly feeling the tremendous intensity of inward symptoms while visibly forcing yourself to quietly adapt. While each experience differs, emotions such as anger; denial; confusion; defeat; exhaustions; hopelessness (much more) are often shared. Group members can feel seen, heard, & understood in a nonjudgmental & compassionate circle all the while identifying how to create a relationship of self-love with a changing, possibly unfamiliar body. Talk therapy, mindfulness, and body-based interventions will support the processing of physical symptoms and facilitate an empowered mind/body connection. Virtual Sessions run for 6 weeks starting April 24 @ 6pm.
Beginning Thurs, March 12th -- Meetings Held Virtually -- This 8 week, skills-based therapy group is designed for queer cis and trans women in creative fields who want practical tools for emotional regulation and nervous system awareness to better navigate perfectionism and creative burnout. The group supports participants in understanding how stress, pressure, and identity-related experiences live in the body — and how those patterns can impact creative work. Through structured skill-building, guided reflection, and relational support, participants will learn ways to regulate overwhelm, soften self-criticism, and reconnect with creativity in more sustainable, compassionate ways.
Beginning Thurs, March 12th -- Meetings Held Virtually -- This 8 week, skills-based therapy group is designed for queer cis and trans women in creative fields who want practical tools for emotional regulation and nervous system awareness to better navigate perfectionism and creative burnout. The group supports participants in understanding how stress, pressure, and identity-related experiences live in the body — and how those patterns can impact creative work. Through structured skill-building, guided reflection, and relational support, participants will learn ways to regulate overwhelm, soften self-criticism, and reconnect with creativity in more sustainable, compassionate ways.
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Women's Issues Support Groups
How do you encourage a woman to go to therapy?
It’s helpful to express concern and love for the person while framing therapy as a tool for improving their life. Offering specific examples of how an individual may be suffering, and what effects it has on them, should be done with compassion and with empathy. It may be useful to devise a game plan—breaking the process down into parts, such as finding a therapist, making appointments, and looking into insurance coverage.
How can women prepare for therapy?
Women can prepare for therapy by being willing to talk about their past experiences and their private thoughts. Before a session, an individual may want to reflect on how they’ve felt since the last session and what’s happened in their lives. Between sessions, it can be useful to write down notes about their reaction to a given event or how they felt at a particular time.
How long does therapy for women’s issues often last?
As with any type of therapy, sessions depend on the individual and the challenges they face. Therapy types like Cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), Prolonged exposure therapy (PET), and Eye movement desensitization and reprocessing (EMDR) can be brief, most often ranging from between 5 and 20 sessions. In some cases, such as for women with eating disorders, residential treatment may be recommended for an individual who is judged to be at high risk of self-harm. For any therapy, the duration will depend on the progress made and results realized.
How can women overcome stigma around specific challenges in order to seek therapy?
Women dealing with domestic abuse, sexual assault, eating disorders, and any other number of troubles may feel a stigma around seeking help. It’s important to remember that these issues are not uncommon and there is no shame in getting help for them. Therapy is confidential, and women can talk about their experiences without fear of judgment. Seeking therapy can be a courageous and liberating act, and an important step toward healing and recovery.