This is an interpersonal process group that focuses on facilitating self-understanding, awareness of relationship patterns, and learning new ways of relating to one's self and others. Group members will learn about themselves, identify and expand their own interpersonal patterns, try new behaviors, and clarify feelings within a supportive and growth producing atmosphere. Group will allow for the opportunity to provide and receive honest feedback in a therapeutic setting. Members guide session focus and may choose to explore personal struggles, current and past important relationships, unresolved concerns, communication, emotional support or expression, and social perceptions.
Hosted by Charlottesville Empowerment
Psychologist, PsyD, LP
Group meets in Charlottesville, VA 22903
This is an interpersonal process group that focuses on facilitating self-understanding, awareness of relationship patterns, and learning new ways of relating to one's self and others. Group members will learn about themselves, identify and expand their own interpersonal patterns, try new behaviors, and clarify feelings within a supportive and growth producing atmosphere. Group will allow for the opportunity to provide and receive honest feedback in a therapeutic setting. Members guide session focus and may choose to explore personal struggles, current and past important relationships, unresolved concerns, communication, emotional support or expression, and social perceptions.
Join a group of women supporting each other through separation, divorce, and beyond, in a safe, supportive, non-judgmental, and confidential space. Lean on others as you navigate the often overwhelming emotions and practical considerations of all stages, including contemplation and rebuilding. We discuss common themes, such as grief, fears, boundaries, emotional regulation, self-care, and more, as we move toward a new beginning. This is a weekly, in-person, ongoing group facilitated by Kamilla Schenck, LCSW, a therapist with Dr. Lewis Weber & Associates. Reach out to learn more!
Hosted by Kamilla Schenck
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Group meets in Charlottesville, VA 22901
Join a group of women supporting each other through separation, divorce, and beyond, in a safe, supportive, non-judgmental, and confidential space. Lean on others as you navigate the often overwhelming emotions and practical considerations of all stages, including contemplation and rebuilding. We discuss common themes, such as grief, fears, boundaries, emotional regulation, self-care, and more, as we move toward a new beginning. This is a weekly, in-person, ongoing group facilitated by Kamilla Schenck, LCSW, a therapist with Dr. Lewis Weber & Associates. Reach out to learn more!
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Do you struggle with overwhelm during the day? Dysregulation can affect you being able to effectively complete tasks & just be your best version. Virtual Midday guided calming & grounding technques will foster a calm body so you finish the day strong. Take a lunch break & set yourself up for success; guided in Somatic, Mindfulness & Presence building skills. Begin regulating your emotions & responding rather than reacting during stressful situations. Positive results, as a Psychotherapist & personally, has led me to offer these supportive techniques in group settings virtually. Contact Nicole Cameron, LPC text 5406095580 Virtual group starts July 1st; $25/week & pkgs
Hosted by Nicole Cameron
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, CCTP
Group meets in Verona, VA 24482
Do you struggle with overwhelm during the day? Dysregulation can affect you being able to effectively complete tasks & just be your best version. Virtual Midday guided calming & grounding technques will foster a calm body so you finish the day strong. Take a lunch break & set yourself up for success; guided in Somatic, Mindfulness & Presence building skills. Begin regulating your emotions & responding rather than reacting during stressful situations. Positive results, as a Psychotherapist & personally, has led me to offer these supportive techniques in group settings virtually. Contact Nicole Cameron, LPC text 5406095580 Virtual group starts July 1st; $25/week & pkgs
Does overwhelm occur during the day? It may even affect you being able to focus & effectively complete tasks. Beginning the day in a calm body will begin to shift these patterns. Set yourself up for success! We will start the day with Vagus nerve conditioning through a Somatic approach in a virtual setting. Close your office door & start the day off in a calm body. It’s a great way to begin regulating your emotions & responding rather than reacting in stressful circumstances. contact Nicole Cameron, LPC text 5406095580 Virtual group starts July 1st; $25/week & package
Hosted by Nicole Cameron
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC, CCTP
Group meets in Verona, VA 24482
Does overwhelm occur during the day? It may even affect you being able to focus & effectively complete tasks. Beginning the day in a calm body will begin to shift these patterns. Set yourself up for success! We will start the day with Vagus nerve conditioning through a Somatic approach in a virtual setting. Close your office door & start the day off in a calm body. It’s a great way to begin regulating your emotions & responding rather than reacting in stressful circumstances. contact Nicole Cameron, LPC text 5406095580 Virtual group starts July 1st; $25/week & package
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This support group is helpful for anyone going through the adjustment to motherhood, post partum depression or anxiety. We will come together weekly to offer communal encouragement, comfort and coping in a safe setting. Because support groups happen in an inclusive environment, they help those affected by postpartum feel accepted, understood and validated in their struggles.
Hosted by Tina M Johnston
Licensed Professional Counselor, MEd, EdS, LPC
Group meets in Winchester, VA 22601
This support group is helpful for anyone going through the adjustment to motherhood, post partum depression or anxiety. We will come together weekly to offer communal encouragement, comfort and coping in a safe setting. Because support groups happen in an inclusive environment, they help those affected by postpartum feel accepted, understood and validated in their struggles.
This group provides an environment where you can explore your needs and mental well being without judgment. The group will provide tools to strengthen your skills with emotional regulation, healthy relationships, and coping skills during the tough times. The Overwhelmed Achiever's Process Group will also enable discussion and peer support through out the 6 week program.
Hosted by Hannah Shahabi
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, NCC
Group meets in Alexandria, VA 22304
This group provides an environment where you can explore your needs and mental well being without judgment. The group will provide tools to strengthen your skills with emotional regulation, healthy relationships, and coping skills during the tough times. The Overwhelmed Achiever's Process Group will also enable discussion and peer support through out the 6 week program.
An empowerment & support group open to women 30+ who are facing or contemplating an ending, change, or transition in their lives and are seeking a safe, supportive, therapeutic group where they can share & process their experiences, receive support & feedback, & learn self-care practices, tools, & strategies to help them navigate through the discomfort of change, process their grief & loss, and feel empowered to design, create, & embrace their own unique Next Chapter. Group will meet every Monday, 6:30 - 8 pm @ The Healing Arts Center of Richmond. Pre-Registration is Required. $50/session. Please contact Katherine Meyersohn, LCSW & Facilitator to Register. Visit: TheHealingArtsCenter.com for more information.
Hosted by Katherine Meyersohn
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW, ERYT500, Reiki
Group meets in Richmond, VA 23220
An empowerment & support group open to women 30+ who are facing or contemplating an ending, change, or transition in their lives and are seeking a safe, supportive, therapeutic group where they can share & process their experiences, receive support & feedback, & learn self-care practices, tools, & strategies to help them navigate through the discomfort of change, process their grief & loss, and feel empowered to design, create, & embrace their own unique Next Chapter. Group will meet every Monday, 6:30 - 8 pm @ The Healing Arts Center of Richmond. Pre-Registration is Required. $50/session. Please contact Katherine Meyersohn, LCSW & Facilitator to Register. Visit: TheHealingArtsCenter.com for more information.
A boutique group practice providing personalized, high-quality mental health care from the comfort of your home. We specialize in helping adults manage anxiety, build coping skills, and create meaningful change. Our clinicians support clients through emotional, social, and developmental challenges, with focused care on women’s issues, including life transitions, stress, and self-worth. We offer compassionate grief counseling, allowing clients to process loss at their own pace, and address sleep concerns as a key part of well-being. Teletherapy is our primary service, with in-person neurofeedback therapy available for brain-based support and regulation.
Hosted by Ashley Mitchell
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, BCN, CCTP, NCC
Group meets in Burke, VA 22015
A boutique group practice providing personalized, high-quality mental health care from the comfort of your home. We specialize in helping adults manage anxiety, build coping skills, and create meaningful change. Our clinicians support clients through emotional, social, and developmental challenges, with focused care on women’s issues, including life transitions, stress, and self-worth. We offer compassionate grief counseling, allowing clients to process loss at their own pace, and address sleep concerns as a key part of well-being. Teletherapy is our primary service, with in-person neurofeedback therapy available for brain-based support and regulation.
Do you feel caught between your family's expectations and your own needs? Are you the translator, the caretaker, the one who "made it" — and quietly exhausted by all of it? Raíces & Alas is a virtual 8-session support group for first-generation Latinas navigating identity, familismo, and mental health. Sessions are bilingual (English & Spanish), culturally affirming, and led by a Latina LPC & LSATP with 19 years of experience. This is the space you've been looking for. Enrollment is limited — reach out today.
Hosted by Sonia Vanessa Zorrilla-Zuniga
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, LSATP
Group meets in Arlington, VA 22204
Do you feel caught between your family's expectations and your own needs? Are you the translator, the caretaker, the one who "made it" — and quietly exhausted by all of it? Raíces & Alas is a virtual 8-session support group for first-generation Latinas navigating identity, familismo, and mental health. Sessions are bilingual (English & Spanish), culturally affirming, and led by a Latina LPC & LSATP with 19 years of experience. This is the space you've been looking for. Enrollment is limited — reach out today.
Specializing in Women's Issues, Life Transitions, Assertiveness Training, and Trauma-Focused Treatment. Serving all of Virginia through Teletherapy Services.
Specializing in Women's Issues, Life Transitions, Assertiveness Training, and Trauma-Focused Treatment. Serving all of Virginia through Teletherapy Services.
Connection through creativity and community. Come join our ongoing women’s therapeutic art group every other Wednesday starting March 25. This is a space for women to connect with themselves and others through art making and discussion. Some topics we might cover are boundaries, connecting in relationships, work-life balance, rest, and the mind-body connection. Superbills for out-of-network benefits will be provided. Please reach out with questions or go to our website to register https://www.kaleidoscope-arttherapy.com/
Connection through creativity and community. Come join our ongoing women’s therapeutic art group every other Wednesday starting March 25. This is a space for women to connect with themselves and others through art making and discussion. Some topics we might cover are boundaries, connecting in relationships, work-life balance, rest, and the mind-body connection. Superbills for out-of-network benefits will be provided. Please reach out with questions or go to our website to register https://www.kaleidoscope-arttherapy.com/
Our adult women's group offers a nurturing space where women heal and grow. Together we process life transitions, past trauma, relationship challenges, and self-doubt. Through support, empowerment, and practical coping strategies, participants build resilience, improve self-esteem, and foster healthy connections with others.
Hosted by Inner Tranquility Counseling Group, LLC
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC-S
Group meets in Alexandria, VA 22314
Our adult women's group offers a nurturing space where women heal and grow. Together we process life transitions, past trauma, relationship challenges, and self-doubt. Through support, empowerment, and practical coping strategies, participants build resilience, improve self-esteem, and foster healthy connections with others.
A year-long journey of monthly Brainspotting experiences to release what holds you back and realign with your best self. You should sign up if you… Feel like you’re always “too much” or carrying too much. Need a space to release what your body has been holding. Want clarity, grounding, and inner alignment each month. Are craving a deeper reconnection with your best, truest self. Are ready to accelerate your healing in a gentle, nervous-system–supportive way. THIS IS A VIRTUAL GROUP
A year-long journey of monthly Brainspotting experiences to release what holds you back and realign with your best self. You should sign up if you… Feel like you’re always “too much” or carrying too much. Need a space to release what your body has been holding. Want clarity, grounding, and inner alignment each month. Are craving a deeper reconnection with your best, truest self. Are ready to accelerate your healing in a gentle, nervous-system–supportive way. THIS IS A VIRTUAL GROUP
Our Virginia certified domestic violence intervention program provides trauma-informed care for voluntary and court-ordered participants. Rather than a ons-size-fits-all approach, our program is tiered from 24 to 52 weeks. We offer a sliding fee scale, based upon household income. Program graduates may continue attending free of charge. Our acceptance-based program fosters healthy boundaries, effective communication, mindfulness training, conflict resolution, emotional regulation, parenting skills, attachment security, healthy coping strategies, and personal agency. Participant workbooks are available on Amazon: EMAP: Emotionally Intelligent Mindful Acceptance-Based Program and Mindful Workbook for Women
Our Virginia certified domestic violence intervention program provides trauma-informed care for voluntary and court-ordered participants. Rather than a ons-size-fits-all approach, our program is tiered from 24 to 52 weeks. We offer a sliding fee scale, based upon household income. Program graduates may continue attending free of charge. Our acceptance-based program fosters healthy boundaries, effective communication, mindfulness training, conflict resolution, emotional regulation, parenting skills, attachment security, healthy coping strategies, and personal agency. Participant workbooks are available on Amazon: EMAP: Emotionally Intelligent Mindful Acceptance-Based Program and Mindful Workbook for Women
This is a place for Single/Young Adult Muslim women to process common issues they face in their day to day lives. Dealing with family relationships, career decisions, dating/finding spouse, etc. This will be a supportive place for them to process their challenges and feelings, and receive validation from others in similar situations.
This is a place for Single/Young Adult Muslim women to process common issues they face in their day to day lives. Dealing with family relationships, career decisions, dating/finding spouse, etc. This will be a supportive place for them to process their challenges and feelings, and receive validation from others in similar situations.
Supportive and welcoming gathering of like- minded women looking to make changes and bring greater wellbeing into their lives. The circle is somewhere between a support group and workshop. We meet biweekly in the evenings. Facilitated by a registered, board certified art therapist. First workshop is free to all new participants. Group limited to 6 people, advanced registration is required. Please visit our website for more information and to register, www.sagehousearttherapy.com
Hosted by Kate Tedeschi
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, ATR-BC, LPC
Group meets in Reston, VA 20190
Supportive and welcoming gathering of like- minded women looking to make changes and bring greater wellbeing into their lives. The circle is somewhere between a support group and workshop. We meet biweekly in the evenings. Facilitated by a registered, board certified art therapist. First workshop is free to all new participants. Group limited to 6 people, advanced registration is required. Please visit our website for more information and to register, www.sagehousearttherapy.com
This group is designed to help women that are having issues with self-esteem, self-worth and self encouragement. The age group ranges from 18 and up. In this group we utilize many techniques to address real life events to help each women improve their current situations. These sessions have helped strengthen women of all ages and backgrounds. These sessions help women recognize how to prioritize and put their needs first.
Hosted by Sharmaine F Randle
Resident in Counseling, MA, LMHP, CPC
Group meets in Fredericksburg, VA 22407
This group is designed to help women that are having issues with self-esteem, self-worth and self encouragement. The age group ranges from 18 and up. In this group we utilize many techniques to address real life events to help each women improve their current situations. These sessions have helped strengthen women of all ages and backgrounds. These sessions help women recognize how to prioritize and put their needs first.
We are a professional counseling agency that seeks to serve the community by helping those who are hurting, emotionally distraught, suffering, and feeling lost or overwhelmed by life. We work with clients who struggle with Marriage, Aging, Grief, Men's issues, Women's issues, Sex Addiction, Mood and Anxiety Disorders. We do this by providing guidance for our clients as they learn and discover skills to walk into a life filled with hope.
Hosted by Mark A Saunders Sr
Marriage & Family Therapist, PhD, LMFT-S, LPC-S
Group meets in Glen Allen, VA 23060
We are a professional counseling agency that seeks to serve the community by helping those who are hurting, emotionally distraught, suffering, and feeling lost or overwhelmed by life. We work with clients who struggle with Marriage, Aging, Grief, Men's issues, Women's issues, Sex Addiction, Mood and Anxiety Disorders. We do this by providing guidance for our clients as they learn and discover skills to walk into a life filled with hope.
¿Te sientes sola y que nadie te entiende pues no viven lo mismo que estás viviendo tú? ¿Sientes que no has podido cerrar algún ciclo en tu vida y eso te impide avanzar? Te invitamos a unirte a nuestro grupo de apoyo en el cual mediante creatividad y compartir podrás crear conciencia y sanar heridas. REGLAS Para participar en este grupo te pedimos: Comprometerte a asistir puntualmente a las sesiones Mostrar una actitud abierta - Practicar la empatía evitando juzgar o emitir juicios - Participar y compartir - Respeto. Inscripciones: 956-438-2805 Inicio: 7/01
Hosted by Dr. Cynthia Catchings Emotional Wellness Center
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, PhD, LCSW-S, CFTP, EMDR, LCSWC
Group meets in Alexandria, VA 22314
¿Te sientes sola y que nadie te entiende pues no viven lo mismo que estás viviendo tú? ¿Sientes que no has podido cerrar algún ciclo en tu vida y eso te impide avanzar? Te invitamos a unirte a nuestro grupo de apoyo en el cual mediante creatividad y compartir podrás crear conciencia y sanar heridas. REGLAS Para participar en este grupo te pedimos: Comprometerte a asistir puntualmente a las sesiones Mostrar una actitud abierta - Practicar la empatía evitando juzgar o emitir juicios - Participar y compartir - Respeto. Inscripciones: 956-438-2805 Inicio: 7/01
We are proud to introduce H4TG Counseling. This program is designed to provide compassionate and accessible mental health support to individuals diagnosed with cancer and their support system. At the heart of our mission is a commitment to creating a safe, non-judgmental space where you feel seen, heard, and supported. Through this initiative, we strive to empower each person we serve by offering: Hope, Engagement, Resources and, Empowerment using trauma informed practices. Together, we are HERE—with you and for you—every step of the way. We offer two locations in both Richmond and Williamsburg Virginia.
We are proud to introduce H4TG Counseling. This program is designed to provide compassionate and accessible mental health support to individuals diagnosed with cancer and their support system. At the heart of our mission is a commitment to creating a safe, non-judgmental space where you feel seen, heard, and supported. Through this initiative, we strive to empower each person we serve by offering: Hope, Engagement, Resources and, Empowerment using trauma informed practices. Together, we are HERE—with you and for you—every step of the way. We offer two locations in both Richmond and Williamsburg Virginia.
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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.