Support Groups in San Francisco, CA
ADHD Support Groups
Our groups are supportive, collaborative spaces for adults to find community concerning ADHD and RSD struggles. In our ADHD support group, we discuss Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and what that really looks like in daily life. Our therapists will provide education ...
Hosted by Cecilia (Ceci) Walken
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94122
Our groups are supportive, collaborative spaces for adults to find community concerning ADHD and RSD struggles. In our ADHD support group, we discuss Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria and what that really looks like in daily life. Our therapists will provide education ...
General Adult Psychotherapy Group (Men & Women)
In my general adult psychotherapy groups, we create a warm and engaging climate to work on problems of personal growth and relationships.
These are ongoing dynamic groups that are especially effective in ameliorating long-standing conflicts and problems.
We also work to ...
Hosted by Justin B Hecht
Psychologist, PhD, CJA, CGP, FAGPA, MBA
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94115
In my general adult psychotherapy groups, we create a warm and engaging climate to work on problems of personal growth and relationships.
These are ongoing dynamic groups that are especially effective in ameliorating long-standing conflicts and problems.
We also work to ...
Rainbow Group for Teens and Tweens
An inclusive group to support our teens and tweens who identify in the LGBTQIA+ community. Led by a clinically trained psychotherapist to destigmatize and support our LGBTQIA+ teens and tweens!
Hosted by Brooke Bendix
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94118
An inclusive group to support our teens and tweens who identify in the LGBTQIA+ community. Led by a clinically trained psychotherapist to destigmatize and support our LGBTQIA+ teens and tweens!
Grief Recovery : Currently Recruiting
While grief is normal and natural, most of the information passed on within our society about dealing with grief is not normal, natural or helpful. Grief is the emotional response to loss but most of the information we have learned ...
Hosted by Tara Cronin
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, LPCC, ATR-BC, PATP
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94110
While grief is normal and natural, most of the information passed on within our society about dealing with grief is not normal, natural or helpful. Grief is the emotional response to loss but most of the information we have learned ...
Psychiatric Alternatives and Wellness Center
PAWC's provider group is among the largest in CA and includes only Board Certified or Licensed Practitioners. Our doctors focus on your needs and feelings, while PAWC administrative staff collaborates with you, your doctor and insurers to keep administration smooth ...
Hosted by David Hirchak
Psychiatrist, DO
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94118
PAWC's provider group is among the largest in CA and includes only Board Certified or Licensed Practitioners. Our doctors focus on your needs and feelings, while PAWC administrative staff collaborates with you, your doctor and insurers to keep administration smooth ...
Women's Interpersonal Process Group Wednesdays
Relationships can be complicated. This is an ongoing process group that focuses on examining significant relationships in all aspects of life; family, personal, partner, social, work, school, faith and spirit. The members are thoughtful and insightful, and support each other's ...
Hosted by Lois Friedlander
Marriage & Family Therapist, LMFT, CGP, MT-BC
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94118
Relationships can be complicated. This is an ongoing process group that focuses on examining significant relationships in all aspects of life; family, personal, partner, social, work, school, faith and spirit. The members are thoughtful and insightful, and support each other's ...
San Francisco Men's Group: Tending The Fire Within
"Tending the Fire Within:" A depth and intimacy-oriented group where we embrace and explore issues that men often find themselves struggling with. We share and learn to work with our anger, shame, loneliness, fear, grief and sense of power in ...
Hosted by Robert Schene
Marriage & Family Therapist, MFT, CGP
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94118
"Tending the Fire Within:" A depth and intimacy-oriented group where we embrace and explore issues that men often find themselves struggling with. We share and learn to work with our anger, shame, loneliness, fear, grief and sense of power in ...
Psychiatric Alternatives & Wellness Center (PAWC)
PAWC-affiliated doctors focus on your needs and feelings, while PAWC collaborates with you, your doctor, and insurers to keep administration smooth and easy. During your treatment, practitioners and staff work together well to create a seamless care experience, including support ...
Hosted by Sara Hansen
Psychiatrist, MD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94118
PAWC-affiliated doctors focus on your needs and feelings, while PAWC collaborates with you, your doctor, and insurers to keep administration smooth and easy. During your treatment, practitioners and staff work together well to create a seamless care experience, including support ...
Psychiatric Alternatives and Wellness Center
PAWC's provider group is among the largest in CA and includes only Board Certified or Licensed Practitioners. Our doctors focus on your needs and feelings, while PAWC collaborates with you, your doctor and insurers to keep administration smooth and easy. ...
Hosted by Ela Aguilar Donis
Psychiatrist, MD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94118
PAWC's provider group is among the largest in CA and includes only Board Certified or Licensed Practitioners. Our doctors focus on your needs and feelings, while PAWC collaborates with you, your doctor and insurers to keep administration smooth and easy. ...
Emotional Brain Training for Anger/Weight/Mood/Add
Emotional Brain Training .. Unwanted behaviors, mood states, anger/hostility, relationship patterns are all responses to stress. EBT, Emotional Brain Training addresses the root causes of stress and retrains the emotional brain in efficient and effective ways to be resilient and ...
Hosted by Barbara Gabriel
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, MFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94123
Emotional Brain Training .. Unwanted behaviors, mood states, anger/hostility, relationship patterns are all responses to stress. EBT, Emotional Brain Training addresses the root causes of stress and retrains the emotional brain in efficient and effective ways to be resilient and ...
Women's Wellness
Hosted by Justine Byk
Psychologist, PsyD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94123
Providers Resourcing Online Support (PROS)
With open enrollment in every two months, PROS is a virtual group supporting adult industry professionals seeking to process and accomplish professional goals. After years of supporting sex workers as a trauma-informed psychotherapist, I created this group to fill the ...
Hosted by The Therapist for Sexual Rebels
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94110
With open enrollment in every two months, PROS is a virtual group supporting adult industry professionals seeking to process and accomplish professional goals. After years of supporting sex workers as a trauma-informed psychotherapist, I created this group to fill the ...
Accountability Group
This is a coaching group that meets weekly for 60 - 90 min in order to support each other in attainable goal setting and accountability. We start out learning about SMART goals and decide what we are, as individuals, going ...
Hosted by Stacey Kolsrud
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94102
This is a coaching group that meets weekly for 60 - 90 min in order to support each other in attainable goal setting and accountability. We start out learning about SMART goals and decide what we are, as individuals, going ...
Expressive Arts Process Group
An online interpersonal process group with the goal of helping participants therapeutically process experiences, deepen insight, and gain practice in the art of self expression. Group sessions allow participants the opportunity to explore topics of personal significance through the use ...
Hosted by Liz Vines
Marriage & Family Therapist, MA, LMFT, EMDR
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94110
An online interpersonal process group with the goal of helping participants therapeutically process experiences, deepen insight, and gain practice in the art of self expression. Group sessions allow participants the opportunity to explore topics of personal significance through the use ...
Living Beyond Breast Cancer
Once the treatment has ended patients are left alone often feel very alone with their experience without the support of the treatment team they have come to know and rely on for a year or more. This group provides a ...
Hosted by Sandrah Susan Henry
Marriage & Family Therapist, MS, LMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94118
Once the treatment has ended patients are left alone often feel very alone with their experience without the support of the treatment team they have come to know and rely on for a year or more. This group provides a ...
Psychiatric Alternatives and Wellness Center
Psychiatric Alternatives' intake process matches your needs with the right practitioner or referral. Setting up insurance payment with patient copay is a breeze, in most cases. During your treatment, practitioners and staff work together well to create a seamless care ...
Hosted by Noreen Rana
Psychiatrist, MD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94118
Psychiatric Alternatives' intake process matches your needs with the right practitioner or referral. Setting up insurance payment with patient copay is a breeze, in most cases. During your treatment, practitioners and staff work together well to create a seamless care ...
The MPI Cycle-Breaker Course Community
This 12-week course and community is designed specifically for Black Women and Women of Color; geared toward helping its members heal from experiences of relational trauma, ditch perfectionism, and effectively combat their impostor syndrome narratives and triggers. As we know, ...
Hosted by Carmelle Ellison
Clinical Social Work/Therapist, LCSW
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94115
This 12-week course and community is designed specifically for Black Women and Women of Color; geared toward helping its members heal from experiences of relational trauma, ditch perfectionism, and effectively combat their impostor syndrome narratives and triggers. As we know, ...
Psychiatric Alternatives and Wellness Center
PAWC's provider group is among the largest in CA and includes only Board Certified or Licensed Practitioners. Our doctors focus on your needs and feelings, while PAWC administrative staff collaborates with you, your doctor and insurers to keep administration smooth ...
Hosted by Benjamin Elswick
Psychiatrist, MD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94118
PAWC's provider group is among the largest in CA and includes only Board Certified or Licensed Practitioners. Our doctors focus on your needs and feelings, while PAWC administrative staff collaborates with you, your doctor and insurers to keep administration smooth ...
Body Harmony: Healing Body Image & Food Relations
Virtual Group! "Body Harmony": Healing Body Image & Food Relationships. Our transformative therapy group offers a supportive space to improve your body image and heal your connection with food. I will guide you through evidence-based techniques, self-reflection exercises, and empowering ...
Hosted by Lilac Kenner
Marriage & Family Therapist Associate, AMFT
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94104
Virtual Group! "Body Harmony": Healing Body Image & Food Relationships. Our transformative therapy group offers a supportive space to improve your body image and heal your connection with food. I will guide you through evidence-based techniques, self-reflection exercises, and empowering ...
Psychiatric Alternatives and Wellness Center
PAWC's provider group is among the largest in CA and includes only Board Certified or Licensed Practitioners. Our doctors focus on your needs and feelings, while PAWC administrative staff collaborates with you, your doctor and insurers to keep administration smooth ...
Hosted by Thomas Letourneau
Psychiatrist, MD
Verified Verified
Group meets in San Francisco, CA 94118
PAWC's provider group is among the largest in CA and includes only Board Certified or Licensed Practitioners. Our doctors focus on your needs and feelings, while PAWC administrative staff collaborates with you, your doctor and insurers to keep administration smooth ...
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FAQs - About Group Therapy and Support Groups
How can I find a support group in San Francisco?
Search for nearby support groups by inputting your city, zip code, or the name of the group into the search bar. From there, you can filter to find a group that suits your needs, whether you are looking for support for a teenager, a group that focuses on a specific issue, such as depression, or a particular program type, such as one geared toward developing social skills. To navigate between locations within the same country, enter a new city or zip code into the search bar.
How does group therapy work?
Therapy groups are led by one or more therapists and serve to help people process their experiences and learn from others who understand their challenges firsthand. They can be based on a specific issue, such as addiction, grief, physical illnesses, parenting, and caregiving. They can involve a specific type of program or therapy, such as a social skills group or CBT group. They can also be specific to a particular population or community, such as teens or LGBTQ.
Support groups, like Alcoholics Anonymous, also focus on a specific issue, but are typically led by members with lived experiences and are less structured than therapy groups. Most therapy groups will meet for a fixed length of time with a consistent group of members, while many support groups meet for an indefinite period of time with members coming and going.
Support groups, like Alcoholics Anonymous, also focus on a specific issue, but are typically led by members with lived experiences and are less structured than therapy groups. Most therapy groups will meet for a fixed length of time with a consistent group of members, while many support groups meet for an indefinite period of time with members coming and going.
What are the benefits of group therapy?
Support groups help connect people with shared challenges or physical and mental health conditions. In a group setting, participants can receive support and feedback from peers and can acquire new skills, strategies and perspectives by listening to one another. Discussing your experience with someone who also has a cancer diagnosis, or whose son also struggles with addiction, for example, can help you feel less alone, reduce distress, find empathy and connection, and learn practical or medical information that has helped others. Group therapy can also be a more affordable option than individual therapy and just as effective.
Is group therapy as effective as individual therapy?
Support groups can be deeply valuable for both emotional support and/or treatment outcomes. It’s difficult to make a blanket statement on efficacy due to the many different types of support groups and conditions treated, but group therapy has been found to be just as effective as individual therapy in establishing long-term abstinence for conditions such as substance abuse, addiction and alcohol abuse.
How much does group therapy cost?
Group counseling is typically less expensive than individual counseling, with each session costing on average between $60 to $75. Meanwhile, individual therapy sessions can run anywhere from $100 to $200 and up, even after insurance. It is possible to find low-cost group therapy options and many therapists offer group sessions free of charge.
Does insurance cover group therapy?
As with individual therapy, many insurance companies do offer coverage for group therapy sessions. However, the coverage varies based on your insurance plan details and whether you choose an in-network or out-of-network mental healthcare provider. Individuals are encouraged to check with their insurance providers to verify coverage.
How long does group therapy last?
The length of a support group session is often one hour but can fall anywhere between 45 minutes and two hours. The amount of time that people remain in a support group varies based on their specific needs and goals and the type of therapy. Some individuals may seek a shorter-term group, such as a bereavement group, that may last between six and 20 weeks. Some may seek a longer-term group that lasts for a year or indefinitely.
What are the limitations of support groups?
Support groups have many benefits, but there are a few limitations as well. Support groups do not constitute formal therapeutic or medical treatment, and are not run by licensed mental health professionals, so some people may opt for group therapy or individual therapy instead. Additionally, support groups can depend on the other participants, so a disruptive individual has the potential to mar the group dynamic, and the anecdotal information shared may sometimes be unhelpful or inaccurate. Because it is a group setting, confidentiality can be more difficult to guard and participants receive less personalized attention than they would in an individual therapy session.