This will be an open group, meaning that there will be space for men to join as we go. Application and interview are required prior to joining. We will begin with grounding, a short teaching and spend the vast majority of the time in process group therapy. This is dynamic, changing and powerful. Those that commit to the work will get the most out of the work.
Hosted by Kyle Petricek
Counselor, MA, LMHC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98112
You are likely seeking relief and clarity to thoughts, behaviors, and feelings that are not working for you. Simply put, something is stuck. I work with people to transform painful and frustrating experiences. For some, this looks like grief work. Others explore relationship struggles. I work with clients to bring awareness to their body, mind, and spirit to assist them in growing a deeper sense of their stories and desires. My ultimate goal is that you will have a growing sense of what it means for you to engage your world with a deepening sense of aliveness.
This group provides an affirming and supportive space for Queer identified men to discuss personal challenges and cultivate community. Members will have the opportunity to grow their connection with others by exploring their intersectional identities, practicing emotional support and vulnerability, and identifying ways to engage in self/community-care. This group is open to anyone who identifies as a man and holds a Queer identity (e.g., men who identify as a sexual and/or gender minority; GBTQIAP+).
Hosted by Alexander Shappie
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98103
Are you feeling stuck? Can’t break out of the cycle? Or maybe you recently experienced a loss, and you’d like help picking up the pieces to figure out what happened. Despite knowing that certain behaviors aren’t working anymore, it may be very difficult to change or interrupt painful, destructive patterns that seem to hijack our lives and relationships. This can leave folks feeling frustrated, helpless, hopeless, or just broken. Therapy can provide you with the experiences, tools, and insight to make meaningful changes in your life, in your relationships, and promote personal growth.
Tending the Fire Within: This is an on-going, facilitated process group where we embrace and explore issues that men often find themselves struggling with. Together we share and learn to work with our anger, shame, loneliness, fear, grief, and sense of power in order to create lives with more meaning, vitality, and connection. By telling our stories and supporting each other's experience, we delve more deeply into our own unique expressions of masculinity and learn how we can feel more alive by holding our issues with compassion and heart. Call for more details or to inquire about joining.
Hosted by Jordan K. Wolfe
Counselor, LMHC, CGP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98103
I specialize in helping couples, families, and men deal more effectively with their emotions and difficulties in their important relationships. I also offer executive coaching and support for leadership development and proactive personal growth. My style is warm, interactive, holistic and direct, and the strength of my approach rests on forging a genuine and trusting working relationship so that you can feel comfortable in getting real about what's happening with you. As your sense of trust and readiness deepens, we'll take stock of what changes are needed and find personal, realistic and creative ways to help you move forward.
This group explores what it means to be men, including messages received from culture, family, partners and ultimately ourselves. Together we explore how these relate to our own struggles in relationship, stress, work/life balance. Group also provides many opportunities to help one another heal, connect, and celebrate successes.
Hosted by David S Shen-Miller
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98103
I am passionate about helping you reach your potential. We accomplish this together through a psychoanalytic, interpersonal, mind-body-spirit integration that draws on your strengths and resources. I believe psychoanalysis and psychotherapy are not about fixing what is wrong, but about using what is working well for you and deepening your skills to increase your health, well-being, and overall freedom and flexibility. I care deeply about providing excellent care, and trying out new ways of relating and understanding yourself that will lead you to optimize your health and connections with others.
This is a psychotherapy process group for men who are erotically conflicted or who are struggling with Out of Control Sexual Behavior (aka "sex addiction").
Hosted by Carly Haeck Rappaport
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT, CST
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98122
Throughout my work, I have learned that many people feel confused, lost, alone and ashamed when it comes to sex. In particular, many people I work with feel conflicted about their porn and masturbation habits, paying for sex, or their ability to keep agreements with partners. As a certified sex therapist, I offer a non-judgmental space to help you identify which behaviors are no longer serving you, as well as to cultivate the kind of relationship you want to have with your sexuality. I am also qualified to treat sexual dysfunction issues (low desire, erectile dysfunction, premature ejaculation, sexual pain).
Men healing in a group of men: this may seem contradictory given the wounds that sometimes occur between fathers, sons, brothers. Yet through the sharing of stories with other men we gain perspective, compassion and the insight necessary to move forward in our lives. An outcome of belonging to a men's group is a greater capacity to relate more meaningfully to the men and women in one's life. Men who participate in a men's group often refer to it as one of the most powerful experiences in their lives in terms of growth and effectiveness.
Hosted by Paul Berkelhammer
Counselor, LMHC, CGP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98112
My style and manner are warm, thoughtful, considerate, and engaged. My intention as a therapist is to provide practical, useful, and effective help that you can easily understand and apply. I support and guide efforts toward understanding and reworking internalized family patterns, emotional experience, trauma, and default thinking that impedes life. I work with people seeking greater satisfaction in their relationships, as well as those negotiating loss and change in their lives.
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.
Hosted by Christopher Skaggs
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98144
I work with people individually, and in relationships that struggle to effectively communicate their needs. Because of how they were brought up, or conditioned through experience, they might have vastly different ways of showing up in relationships, especially through conflict. We all want to work on what drives our behavior so that we can better understand ourselves and each other. This allows us to be vulnerable with one another and experience our real selves, so we can connect and love on a much deeper and more meaningful and satisfying level.
https://www.bu-evolution.com/ Zoom We're delighted to open up weekly men's discussion groups with Dr Wayne Carr. Men, consider these dimensions so that our group can: 1) Truly stay “open” 2) Prevent the dangerous “diseases” of “hardening of the categories”, arrested development, and rigidification. Practicing “Speaking From” one's heart, the gut, the balls, the wisdom of the head, and moreover speaking from the integration of the head, the heart, the gut, the balls etc. Creating a conscious formative, energetic group “field” or autonomous “we-space” To give space for healthy hierarchy, consensus and majority rule when called for.
Hosted by Wayne E Carr
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98109
Dr. Carr uses a unique blend of Cognitive-Behavioral, Gestalt, Integral, Primal, Transpersonal & Family Coaching techniques to focus on natural growth & healing thus expanding the common central emphasis on disorders & symptom reduction. Clients change as they heal their pain, get emotionally nourished, recognize what is toxic and become authentically themselves.
Next group starts on 9/8/24: This is a therapeutic process group for men struggling with compulsive sexual behavior. Each session includes topic discussion, peer feedback, and psychoeducation. Topics include the cycle of addiction, early childhood history of abuse/neglect, the dangers of pornography, self-care, shame and guilt reduction, relapse prevention, 12-step recovery, codependency, family of origin, forgiveness, and much more. It’s proven that healing amongst peers promotes long term sobriety. Intake session required prior to joining.
Hosted by DJ Burr - Addiction, Codependency & Trauma
MA, LMHC, CCTP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98121
Do you find yourself having intrusive thoughts about sex throughout the day that you can't stop? Are you spending too much time pursuing your sexual desires and fantasies? Are these thoughts starting to impact your relationships with your friends and family? Do you feel responsibility for the happiness of the other people in your life? Are you able to handle the thought of someone not liking you? Have you experienced trauma? Do you struggle with anxiety, depression, insomnia, or other emotions that make life feel unmanageable? With the right tools, you can live a more balanced life. I look forward to hearing your story.
6-person men's group. 9 weeks from 9/24 - 11/19. Meet Tuesdays at 7pm-8:30pm. Groups will have a theme that builds onto each other. Members can build connections through vulnerability, and share experiences that create barriers in their lives and relationships. Groups focus on improving effective communication and assertive boundary setting, cultivating authenticity in our identity, learning how to implement more compassionate perspectives in our lives and more. Payment options to be discussed during the registration process. Insurance not accepted, 'Superbill’ provided upon request, please inquire with insurance what your Out-of-Network coverage may be for group therapy.
Hosted by Konstantin Sheftelevich
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98103
8/26/24 - Accepting new clients/Immediate openings: In-person Monday-Friday in Fremont and telehealth available as well. I offer a free, 15-minute video call to make sure we feel like a good therapeutic fit. My goal is to help you process your experiences and to support you in achieving the best version of yourself. I provide therapy to individuals and couples using a collaborative, strengths-based, whole-person approach. By learning, practicing, and incorporating various therapeutic tools, we will rediscover the value in life, increase your sense of self-worth, and empower you to live life abundantly. Licensed in UT and MA states
Exploration, accountability, and connection I have a deep passion for menswork, and am an active long-time participant in ManKind Project meetings and weekends. I lead mens' groups as part of my practice, as a way for men to connect and explore their deeper selves and hold themselves accountable in a culture that encourages them to disconnect from their emotions, devalue authentic friendships, objectify and degrade women, and resolve conflicts through violence. Groups are held weekly. A three month commitment is required to join, so we can build connection and trust within the cohort.
Hosted by Woody Pollock
Counselor, MA, LMHC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98126
The client-therapist connection is one of trust and empathy and is central to the healing and growing process, forming the container for change. Together we create a collaborative therapeutic relationship where each client has the opportunity to explore their true self, reflect on possibilities, and gain insight that leads to action. Our goal together is to build more authentic connections, with yourself and others, which will allow deeper insight into your experience and define the action needed to move forward.
Many men express feeling busy but not 100% fulfilled & may ask themselves: Am I feeling satisfied and successful in the important areas of my life? This group is a place to find support around relationship concerns and professional challenges. Group members help one another gain insight into what is getting in the way of achieving one's goals and improving self esteem. Most participants remark they have friends but don’t usually talk with them about personal topics. This is a unique opportunity to practice giving and receiving helpful feedback with motivated men who are ready to grow together.
Hosted by Scott Shiebler
Psychologist, PhD, LICSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98103
Welcome to my therapy practice. As a licensed psychologist and clinical social worker, it has been my privilege to have served clients from a wide range of backgrounds for almost three decades. I focus my work on helping clients reach their potential in their self-worth, close relationships, and work roles. I specialize in encouraging clients to gain a greater sense of purpose as they create a life that is in alignment with their values. Drawing on an eclectic array of research-based best practices, I see myself as a consultant and companion as my clients pursue meaningful changes in their thoughts, actions, and connections.
This group is designed for men working through difficult times in their lives, with a particular focus on grief and loss. Together, we explore issues of grief and loss in the context of masculinity and what it means to be men, including messages received from culture, family, partners and peers. Group also provides many opportunities to help one another heal, connect, and celebrate successes.
Hosted by Cascades Wellness Center
Psychologist, PsyD, PhD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98103
We are committed to restoring you to your best. Using an individualized, client-centered approach, we work with you to identify strengths and deepen relationships for sustainable and holistic change. At Cascades Wellness Center, our team offers extensive experience as well as a holistic approach to mental health and wellness. Through awareness, compassion, and acceptance, we work with our clients to return you to the life you want and deserve. For us, therapy is not about fixing what is wrong, but about recapturing your capacities to increase your overall health, well-being, and sense of connection in the world.
This group is open to men over 50. In weekly meetings we will explore what it means to be men who have reached middle age and/or beyond. Topics include health, wellbeing, vitality, illness, mortality, relationships, and issues related to work, family, and love. Through our work, we will include messages from culture, family, partners and ourselves about who we should be as men, as well as who we want to be. Group also provides many opportunities to help one another heal, connect, and celebrate successes.
Hosted by David S Shen-Miller
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98103
I am passionate about helping you reach your potential. We accomplish this together through a psychoanalytic, interpersonal, mind-body-spirit integration that draws on your strengths and resources. I believe psychoanalysis and psychotherapy are not about fixing what is wrong, but about using what is working well for you and deepening your skills to increase your health, well-being, and overall freedom and flexibility. I care deeply about providing excellent care, and trying out new ways of relating and understanding yourself that will lead you to optimize your health and connections with others.
This multi-part workshop will be a somatic and mindful expansion pack of helpful tools for male-identifying people to enhance the effectiveness of their communication and explore issues related to their lived experience. Through interactive activities with other men, we will collectively explore deep listening (both to others and ourselves), non-violent communication techniques, and experiential exercises that increase our somatic awareness of our feelings, our bodies, and our expressions. This workshop is recommended for men suffering from depression, anxiety, trauma, social isolation, and those who want to expand their interpersonal connections with others and themselves. Tuesdays in October.
Hosted by Chris Lott
Counselor, LMHCA
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98134
Something within you has led you here. Something yearning for understanding, change, or acceptance. Maybe you feel anxious, overwhelmed, stuck in holding patterns, tending old wounds or wondering "What's next?" Whatever is present for you, it is my honor to meet you where you are, as you are, with compassion and curiosity. My goal as a counselor is to create a nonjudgmental, supportive space for you to connect with your truth. All of us are already whole, and therapy is a way to return to that knowing. I'm inspired by my clients' wisdom and creativity as they explore the highs and lows of their experience and find a way forward.
The men's groups are for anyone who identifies as a man and has the desire to test the boundaries of what exactly that means. The group work includes rediscovering the aspects of your emotional life (joy, compassion, empathy, etc.) that you were told you weren't allowed to feel or express, and how to integrate those pieces into your life. The group format provides a setting to get the perspective of others, make connections, and build a community.
Hosted by Patrick Donley
Counselor, LMHC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98107
Life is about connection with ourselves, with others, and with the world around us. Unfortunately, not all of us were raised in ways that makes it easy to make those connections, leaving us feeling distant, numb, anxious, confused, or frustrated. Therapy provides the space for you to say what you really think and feel, in confidence, and without the fear of judgment. It’s the holding of this space, and the development of different life-skills that allows us to build the connections you're looking for in your life.
Tending the Fire Within: This is an on-going, facilitated process group where we embrace and explore issues that men often find themselves struggling with. Together we share and learn to work with our anger, shame, loneliness, fear, grief, and sense of power in order to create lives with more meaning, vitality, and connection. By telling our stories and supporting each other's experience, we delve more deeply into our own unique expressions of masculinity and learn how we can feel more alive by holding our issues with compassion and heart. Call for more details or to inquire about joining.
Hosted by Jordan K. Wolfe
Counselor, LMHC, CGP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98103
I specialize in helping couples, families, and men deal more effectively with their emotions and difficulties in their important relationships. I also offer executive coaching and support for leadership development and proactive personal growth. My style is warm, interactive, holistic and direct, and the strength of my approach rests on forging a genuine and trusting working relationship so that you can feel comfortable in getting real about what's happening with you. As your sense of trust and readiness deepens, we'll take stock of what changes are needed and find personal, realistic and creative ways to help you move forward.
WAITLISTED: Metta-Men is a web/mindfulness-based psychoeducational peer support group that is Anti-Ableist, Gender-Queer, Anti-Racist, Body-Kink-Sex-Positive; for male-identifying persons, committed to deconstructing internalized supremacy around gender, sexual and racial identity and expression, including broader relationship models and consent. Committed to cultivating wise attention, deep meaning, and fiercely compassionate ways of being male in the world as the foundations for transformation, loving interconnection and well-being. Limited to 20 participants. Please contact Bartja (emfmbartja@gmail.com" with “Metta-Men” in the subject header for a brief on-line consultation
Hosted by B. Bartja Wachtel
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, MSW, LICSW, QCSW, MHP
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98103
Times Available: WED 01:00PM PT/10AM HST. Prior to contact, please check the in-network insurance list below. I am honored to work with people who are ready to consensually make therapy the priority as they face challenges in chronic illness (ALS, early on-set Dementias, MS, Parkinson's, TBI, Stroke, Cancer), end of life, caregiver burnout, finding meaning, depression/anxiety, non-dominant gender, romantic and sexual orientations, trauma, toxic masculinity and Sex-Positivity.
Next group starts on 9/15/24: This is a therapeutic process group for men struggling with compulsive sexual behavior. Each session includes topic discussion, peer feedback, and psychoeducation. Topics include the cycle of addiction, early childhood history of abuse/neglect, the dangers of pornography, self-care, shame and guilt reduction, relapse prevention, 12-step recovery, codependency, family of origin, forgiveness, and much more. It’s proven that healing amongst peers promotes long-term sobriety. An intake session is required prior to joining.
Hosted by DJ Burr—Addiction, Codependency & Trauma
Licensed Professional Counselor, MA, LPC
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98121
Do you find yourself having intrusive thoughts about sex throughout the day that you can't stop? Are you spending too much time pursuing your sexual desires and fantasies? Are these thoughts starting to impact your relationships with your friends and family? Do you feel responsibility for the happiness of the other people in your life? Are you able to handle the thought of someone not liking you? Have you experienced trauma? Do you struggle with anxiety, depression, insomnia, or other emotions that make life feel unmanageable? With the right tools, you can live a more balanced life. I look forward to supporting you on this journey.
This group focuses on interpersonal communication, paying attention to how old relationships and family patterns affect your thoughts and feelings and impact the quality and depth of relationships today. We work together to pay attention to the thoughts and feelings that arise within the group, developing new patterns to decrease anxiety, increase confidence and move in the direction of the kinds of relationships you want. Open to people who identify as men.
Hosted by David S Shen-Miller
Psychologist, PhD
Verified Verified
Group meets in Seattle, WA 98103
I am passionate about helping you reach your potential. We accomplish this together through a psychoanalytic, interpersonal, mind-body-spirit integration that draws on your strengths and resources. I believe psychoanalysis and psychotherapy are not about fixing what is wrong, but about using what is working well for you and deepening your skills to increase your health, well-being, and overall freedom and flexibility. I care deeply about providing excellent care, and trying out new ways of relating and understanding yourself that will lead you to optimize your health and connections with others.
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Men's Issues Support Groups
Is therapy for men different than it is for women?
Therapeutic treatments and types are the same for men as they are for women, with the same protocols followed and the same strategies employed. Discussing one’s feelings and emotions is an integral part of most therapies, and some men find doing so more challenging. Therapists can help clients through the process; some specialize in treating men for this reason.
How do you encourage a man to go to therapy?
It’s helpful to express your concern and love for the person while framing therapy as a tool for improving their life. Offering specific examples of how an individual’s behavior affected either himself or others 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 men prepare for therapy?
Men can prepare for therapy by approaching the process with an open mind, being willing to talk about their challenges, and giving treatment the time to work. 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. It can be useful for men who struggle to recall their emotional states to write down notes between sessions about their response to a given event or how they were feeling at a particular time.
What should men know about the process of therapy?
One of the most common reasons men don’t seek therapy is the notion that there’s something wrong with them if they do. Men should know that just because they’re seeking therapy doesn’t mean they’re mentally ill or damaged in some way. In the same way people work on their bodies through exercise or a craft through practice, therapy can be a way to improve the mental and emotional skills needed to be productive and effective partners, employees, and people in all realms of life.