Exciting news- SBWG will soon be offering a Sandtray Group led by Raquel Sadler- a certified Sandtray trainer! Looking for a powerful and creative way to process emotions, build insight, and feel seen—without needing to find the “perfect” words? Our Sandtray Therapy Group provides a safe, expressive space where you can use miniatures, sand, and metaphor to explore your inner world and connect with others on a deeper level. This group is ideal for adults navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, life transitions, or relationship challenges. No artistic skill is required—just openness to exploration. Please reach out for additional information.
Exciting news- SBWG will soon be offering a Sandtray Group led by Raquel Sadler- a certified Sandtray trainer! Looking for a powerful and creative way to process emotions, build insight, and feel seen—without needing to find the “perfect” words? Our Sandtray Therapy Group provides a safe, expressive space where you can use miniatures, sand, and metaphor to explore your inner world and connect with others on a deeper level. This group is ideal for adults navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, life transitions, or relationship challenges. No artistic skill is required—just openness to exploration. Please reach out for additional information.
Looking for a powerful and creative way to process emotions, build insight, and feel seen—without needing to find the “perfect” words? Our Sandtray Therapy Group provides a safe, expressive space where you can use miniatures, sand, and metaphor to explore your inner world and connect with others on a deeper level. This group is ideal for adults navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, life transitions, or relationship challenges. No artistic skill is required—just openness to exploration.
Looking for a powerful and creative way to process emotions, build insight, and feel seen—without needing to find the “perfect” words? Our Sandtray Therapy Group provides a safe, expressive space where you can use miniatures, sand, and metaphor to explore your inner world and connect with others on a deeper level. This group is ideal for adults navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, life transitions, or relationship challenges. No artistic skill is required—just openness to exploration.
Looking for a powerful and creative way to process emotions, build insight, and feel seen—without needing to find the “perfect” words? Our Sandtray Therapy Group provides a safe, expressive space where you can use miniatures, sand, and metaphor to explore your inner world and connect with others on a deeper level. This group is ideal for adults navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, life transitions, or relationship challenges. No artistic skill is required—just openness to exploration.
Looking for a powerful and creative way to process emotions, build insight, and feel seen—without needing to find the “perfect” words? Our Sandtray Therapy Group provides a safe, expressive space where you can use miniatures, sand, and metaphor to explore your inner world and connect with others on a deeper level. This group is ideal for adults navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, life transitions, or relationship challenges. No artistic skill is required—just openness to exploration.
Exciting news- SBWG will soon be offering a Sandtray Group led by Raquel Sadler- a certified Sandtray trainer! Looking for a powerful and creative way to process emotions, build insight, and feel seen—without needing to find the “perfect” words? Our Sandtray Therapy Group provides a safe, expressive space where you can use miniatures, sand, and metaphor to explore your inner world and connect with others on a deeper level. This group is ideal for adults navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, life transitions, or relationship challenges. No artistic skill is required—just openness to exploration. Please reach out for additional information.
Hosted by Sadler-Bridges Wellness Group
Licensed Mental Health Counselor, MS, LMHC, NCC
Group meets in Edmonds, WA 98020
I work with young-adults and adults who struggle with depression, anxiety, self-esteem and confidence, trauma and abuse, grief and loss, substance use concerns, loneliness, relationship difficulties, and more.
Exciting news- SBWG will soon be offering a Sandtray Group led by Raquel Sadler- a certified Sandtray trainer! Looking for a powerful and creative way to process emotions, build insight, and feel seen—without needing to find the “perfect” words? Our Sandtray Therapy Group provides a safe, expressive space where you can use miniatures, sand, and metaphor to explore your inner world and connect with others on a deeper level. This group is ideal for adults navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, life transitions, or relationship challenges. No artistic skill is required—just openness to exploration. Please reach out for additional information.
Exciting news, SBWG will soon be offering a Sandtray Group led by a certified sandtray trainer! Please reach out to us for additional information. Looking for a powerful and creative way to process emotions, build insight, and feel seen—without needing to find the “perfect” words? Our Sandtray Therapy Group provides a safe, expressive space where you can use miniatures, sand, and metaphor to explore your inner world and connect with others on a deeper level. This group is ideal for adults navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, life transitions, or relationship challenges. No artistic skill is required—just openness to exploration.
Hosted by Sadler-Bridges Wellness Group
Mental Health Counselor, MA, LMHC
Group meets in Edmonds, WA 98020
Exciting news, SBWG will soon be offering a Sandtray Group led by a certified sandtray trainer! Please reach out to us for additional information. Looking for a powerful and creative way to process emotions, build insight, and feel seen—without needing to find the “perfect” words? Our Sandtray Therapy Group provides a safe, expressive space where you can use miniatures, sand, and metaphor to explore your inner world and connect with others on a deeper level. This group is ideal for adults navigating anxiety, trauma, grief, life transitions, or relationship challenges. No artistic skill is required—just openness to exploration.
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Psychodrama is a trauma-informed, action-oriented therapy that uses creative play to help adults overcome trauma. Often described as "kindergarten for adults," it enables participants to experiment with new roles and behaviors in a supportive, non-judgmental environment. Group members act as healing agents, using personal strengths to foster a healing community. This therapy is experiential, allowing expression through visual and concrete methods like props or role-playing. Groups meet weekly for two hours, require a three-month commitment, and I charge a flat fee of 260 per month. Individual pre-sessions ensure fit and therapeutic goals.
Psychodrama is a trauma-informed, action-oriented therapy that uses creative play to help adults overcome trauma. Often described as "kindergarten for adults," it enables participants to experiment with new roles and behaviors in a supportive, non-judgmental environment. Group members act as healing agents, using personal strengths to foster a healing community. This therapy is experiential, allowing expression through visual and concrete methods like props or role-playing. Groups meet weekly for two hours, require a three-month commitment, and I charge a flat fee of 260 per month. Individual pre-sessions ensure fit and therapeutic goals.
Grief is meant to be felt and witnessed, not fixed. In this group, we explore our unique relationship to grief with curiosity and compassion. Together we create a container that is brave enough and strong enough to hold grief in all its expressions and forms. Over the course of two months, we gently deepen into an apprenticeship with grief using The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller as our guide. Each meeting provides a somatic grounding practice, journal prompts, personal sharing and witnessing, poetry, and an integration ritual. our next cohort gathers September-October.
Hosted by Rachael Coccia
Mental Health Counselor Associate, MA, LMHCA
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98125
In my clinical experience, two underlying themes are commonly at the core of most mental distress - fear and grief.
Grief is meant to be felt and witnessed, not fixed. In this group, we explore our unique relationship to grief with curiosity and compassion. Together we create a container that is brave enough and strong enough to hold grief in all its expressions and forms. Over the course of two months, we gently deepen into an apprenticeship with grief using The Wild Edge of Sorrow by Francis Weller as our guide. Each meeting provides a somatic grounding practice, journal prompts, personal sharing and witnessing, poetry, and an integration ritual. our next cohort gathers September-October.
Creating possibilities, nurturing self discovering, and partnering on the path to recovery. Since 2011, Mindful Therapy Group has offered diverse, accessible, and quality mental health services. Each licensed mental health professional that is a member of Mindful Therapy Group is a separate, independent business.
Hosted by LifeJourneyCounselingPLLC
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LSWAIC
Group meets in Mountlake Terrace, WA 98043
Creating possibilities, nurturing self discovering, and partnering on the path to recovery. Since 2011, Mindful Therapy Group has offered diverse, accessible, and quality mental health services. Each licensed mental health professional that is a member of Mindful Therapy Group is a separate, independent business.
This drop-in virtual art-based therapy group includes guided mindfulness exercises and art prompts, time for individual art making, and optional sharing of your process/creations with the group.
Hosted by Katrina Herzog
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98112
This drop-in virtual art-based therapy group includes guided mindfulness exercises and art prompts, time for individual art making, and optional sharing of your process/creations with the group.
Ready to face the fight within? Join us for a life-changing immersion designed for men committed to deep psychological and physiological release. This experience offers expert therapeutic tools to honor pain, process repressed emotions, and deepen self-awareness. If you are struggling with the silent pain of your past, the ache of disconnection, or living without definitive purpose, this retreat is for you. Step out of isolation and into somatic integrity and authentic power. Establish an unshakeable, grounded presence by facing the systemic losses that have compromised your life. You are ready to engage in this restorative work.
Ready to face the fight within? Join us for a life-changing immersion designed for men committed to deep psychological and physiological release. This experience offers expert therapeutic tools to honor pain, process repressed emotions, and deepen self-awareness. If you are struggling with the silent pain of your past, the ache of disconnection, or living without definitive purpose, this retreat is for you. Step out of isolation and into somatic integrity and authentic power. Establish an unshakeable, grounded presence by facing the systemic losses that have compromised your life. You are ready to engage in this restorative work.
Journey Through Grief is a free, supportive space for adults navigating loss. Whether it’s the death of a loved one, divorce, miscarriage, job loss, or a major life change. Over eight virtual weekly sessions, we’ll share, reflect, and heal with others who truly understand. Each session offers room to talk, learn about grief, and explore healthy ways to cope. Whether your loss is recent or something you've carried for years, you don’t have to face it alone. This group is here to help you find comfort, connection, and a way forward.
I work with clients moving through trauma, grief, neurodivergence, and times of transition or disconnection.
Journey Through Grief is a free, supportive space for adults navigating loss. Whether it’s the death of a loved one, divorce, miscarriage, job loss, or a major life change. Over eight virtual weekly sessions, we’ll share, reflect, and heal with others who truly understand. Each session offers room to talk, learn about grief, and explore healthy ways to cope. Whether your loss is recent or something you've carried for years, you don’t have to face it alone. This group is here to help you find comfort, connection, and a way forward.
Gay & Gray is a 10-week support group intended to increase satisfaction in self and engagement in community. This group works to help its participants to address fears and myths about connection, belonging, and aging as a gay individual today.
Gay & Gray is a 10-week support group intended to increase satisfaction in self and engagement in community. This group works to help its participants to address fears and myths about connection, belonging, and aging as a gay individual today.
This is an intentional space to connect and explore shared experiences with grief and transition at the end of a meaningful relationship. Group participants form community, give and receive support, and make room to imagine how they might grow through heartbreak. In this group, all genders, identities, and relationship styles are welcome. This group is for adults to process divorce, breakups, separations; if you are in the midst of an ending, you're welcome here. We trust that the shared experiences of grief and relational transition are sufficient to create a meaningful connection and group experience.
This is an intentional space to connect and explore shared experiences with grief and transition at the end of a meaningful relationship. Group participants form community, give and receive support, and make room to imagine how they might grow through heartbreak. In this group, all genders, identities, and relationship styles are welcome. This group is for adults to process divorce, breakups, separations; if you are in the midst of an ending, you're welcome here. We trust that the shared experiences of grief and relational transition are sufficient to create a meaningful connection and group experience.
The Uninvited Guest is a therapy group designed for adults managing forms of chronic illnesses, with dual diagnosis of grief, anxiety, and depression . Having such illnesses feels isolating as you try to create a new sense of balance in your lifestyle. With this group, you do not have to feel alone in your condition. In this program, you will learn skills from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to reclaim your lives, even when you cannot reclaim your health. The hope is to change your ideology from "surviving" with your condition to "living" and thriving with it.
The Uninvited Guest is a therapy group designed for adults managing forms of chronic illnesses, with dual diagnosis of grief, anxiety, and depression . Having such illnesses feels isolating as you try to create a new sense of balance in your lifestyle. With this group, you do not have to feel alone in your condition. In this program, you will learn skills from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Cognitive Behavioral Therapy to reclaim your lives, even when you cannot reclaim your health. The hope is to change your ideology from "surviving" with your condition to "living" and thriving with it.
Psychodrama is a somatic based therapy where people create a safe and nurturing environment to enact and witness past, present, future, and imaginary moments in people's lives. Group members benefit from the shared resources within the group to help the protagonist (the member creating the enactment) come up with creative solutions to resolve a variety of issues. Groups explore: Belonging, conflict, work issues, family of origin issues, relationships, trauma, grief, vulnerability, and stories about ourselves that need to be updated or rewritten altogether. By sharing resource (abundance), instead of competing (scarcity), we can create a healthy and thriving community.
Psychodrama is a somatic based therapy where people create a safe and nurturing environment to enact and witness past, present, future, and imaginary moments in people's lives. Group members benefit from the shared resources within the group to help the protagonist (the member creating the enactment) come up with creative solutions to resolve a variety of issues. Groups explore: Belonging, conflict, work issues, family of origin issues, relationships, trauma, grief, vulnerability, and stories about ourselves that need to be updated or rewritten altogether. By sharing resource (abundance), instead of competing (scarcity), we can create a healthy and thriving community.
During times of challenge and change we understand the stress, confusion, isolation, grief and perhaps even joy that may arise. As trained therapists, Nancy Kessler and I are committed to facilitating a safe space to process what is happening, share cultural traditions and rituals for coping, and develop individualized tools to cope and maybe even thrive going forward. Additionally, the group will serve as a mutual resource with the option to continue as a self-facilitated group after our 8 weeks online together. For now the group is on pause, we welcome you to reach out with any questions or with any future interest.
During times of challenge and change we understand the stress, confusion, isolation, grief and perhaps even joy that may arise. As trained therapists, Nancy Kessler and I are committed to facilitating a safe space to process what is happening, share cultural traditions and rituals for coping, and develop individualized tools to cope and maybe even thrive going forward. Additionally, the group will serve as a mutual resource with the option to continue as a self-facilitated group after our 8 weeks online together. For now the group is on pause, we welcome you to reach out with any questions or with any future interest.
Navigating fertility can feel isolating, exhausting, and emotionally complex. This therapist-led support group offers a compassionate, confidential space to connect with others who truly understand. Together, we share, listen, and make room for grief, hope, uncertainty, and resilience—without pressure to “stay positive” or explain yourself.
Hosted by Alanna Sherstad-Ray
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW, PMH-C
Group meets in Port Townsend, WA 98368
Navigating fertility can feel isolating, exhausting, and emotionally complex. This therapist-led support group offers a compassionate, confidential space to connect with others who truly understand. Together, we share, listen, and make room for grief, hope, uncertainty, and resilience—without pressure to “stay positive” or explain yourself.
Grief often leaves us carrying thoughts, memories, questions, and emotions that can be difficult to express in everyday life. Writing offers a gentle way to slow down, listen inwardly, and make space for what needs attention. Join us for a supportive 45-minute guided writing experience designed for anyone navigating grief, loss, or change. During our time together, I will offer a grief-focused writing prompt, create a supportive space to write privately, and allow time for optional sharing at the end. We meet online through Google Meet.
Hosted by Angel Thomson
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, MS, LMFTA
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98144
As a Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, I help individuals and couples 1) process grief, anxiety, trauma, dishonesty, infidelity, and betrayals, 2) shift out of anxious and avoidant attachment patterns 3) feel more confident in themselves, and more connected and secure in their relationships.
Grief often leaves us carrying thoughts, memories, questions, and emotions that can be difficult to express in everyday life. Writing offers a gentle way to slow down, listen inwardly, and make space for what needs attention. Join us for a supportive 45-minute guided writing experience designed for anyone navigating grief, loss, or change. During our time together, I will offer a grief-focused writing prompt, create a supportive space to write privately, and allow time for optional sharing at the end. We meet online through Google Meet.
For such a common experience, those going through divorce often feel isolated and misunderstood. Not only do I run "Life After Divorce" workshops, but I also offer community-oriented, sliding-scale groups to create more space for connection and support. These groups are open to folks no matter where you are in the transition of divorce — discernment, in the thick of it, or even a few years out. This therapy support group offers drop-in times, which means you can come once or to many sessions.
Hosted by Coburn Kirby Childs
Mental Health Counselor Associate , LMHCA
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98134
For such a common experience, those going through divorce often feel isolated and misunderstood. Not only do I run "Life After Divorce" workshops, but I also offer community-oriented, sliding-scale groups to create more space for connection and support. These groups are open to folks no matter where you are in the transition of divorce — discernment, in the thick of it, or even a few years out. This therapy support group offers drop-in times, which means you can come once or to many sessions.
This group focuses on those in relationship with someone who has betrayed their trust. This is a non-denominational group: all are welcome. Group sessions assist partners and spouses to release obsessions and anxieties. Whether members choose to remain in or depart from current relationships, the group will support your autonomy and integrity as you heal from betrayal. Our goal is recovery of your peace of mind. Group topics include love addiction, prodependency, grief and loss, betrayal, trauma healing, boundaries, and self-care. Members receive clinical and peer group support to establish autonomy while learning to enjoy rewarding lives.
Hosted by Amy Bloom LICSW
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LICSW, CSAT, CMAT, CCBRT
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98109
This group focuses on those in relationship with someone who has betrayed their trust. This is a non-denominational group: all are welcome. Group sessions assist partners and spouses to release obsessions and anxieties. Whether members choose to remain in or depart from current relationships, the group will support your autonomy and integrity as you heal from betrayal. Our goal is recovery of your peace of mind. Group topics include love addiction, prodependency, grief and loss, betrayal, trauma healing, boundaries, and self-care. Members receive clinical and peer group support to establish autonomy while learning to enjoy rewarding lives.
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Grief Support Groups
How long does therapy take for grief?
There is no exact timeline for grief counseling. Some people may start to feel better after just a few sessions, while others may take months or longer to feel relief. Some specific approaches, including some types of CBT, may involve a set number of sessions, or therapy may be open-ended until the patient determines they are ready to wrap up. Just as there is no right or wrong way to grieve, there is no right or wrong way to seek therapy for grief.
When should you seek therapy for grief?
Many people mistakenly believe that their grief needs to be debilitating or all-encompassing to warrant therapy. This is not the case. While people who experience severe, prolonged grief—particularly those who are considering self-harm or engaging in unhealthy substance use—are especially likely to benefit from therapy, so too are people whose grief is less intense but still interfering with well-being or daily functioning. In practice, almost anyone struggling to process a loss could benefit from grief counseling.
Can grief be managed without therapy?
Oftentimes, yes. Grief is a near-universal part of being human, and many find that their grief, while profound, does not stop them from participating in day-to-day life and steadily eases over time without outside help. For others, however, the harsh pain of early grief persists for months or years or leaves them unable to function. This group is especially likely to benefit from seeing a therapist, who can guide them through their grief and help them reconnect with the world.
What happens if grief is left untreated?
Because grief does not in itself necessitate therapy, untreated grief will often resolve on its own. However, for some people—particularly those who would qualify for a diagnosis of prolonged grief disorder—untreated grief can be a source of seemingly endless pain or lead them to withdraw from the world. In such cases, treatment can be indispensable, as it can help an individual adapt to the loss and start living again.