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Visions of Change : a group for women
Who Should Participate: This group is for women who are READY for Change. Their anxiety or depression is making it hard to be a mother, a wife, a good friend or get their job done. They have hit their limit, feel alone with their problems and want to get energized to move on with their lives. They have problems with trusting people or trusting people too much and feeling taken advantage of. They sacrifice their needs for others and then are angry and hurt when others are selfish or inconsiderate. They may feel out of control with food, credit cards, shoplifting, holding grudges or overwhelming memories of abuse and violence that will not give them a moment's peace. This group is for women who have taken steps to change on their own but can't seem to stick with it or find a way that helps them feel better. They are interested in a support group because they don't want to be alone. They have heard about how support groups can be more effective than individual therapy. You don't have to talk all the time and you can learn from listening to other's working through their problems and learning from their successes. And Group therapy is CHEAPER!
Dates/Times Offered: Wednesdays 7-8:30 PM
Fee: $15
Facilitator qualifications: Mayda Taney M.A., M.Ed.
LMHC, ATR-BC
Contact: Mayda Taney (206) 304-1954
[ Email Mayda (Madeleine) Taney ]
Circle Of Healing from Abuse
Who Should Participate: Circle of Healing is a group in Seattle for optimizing the healing process of people who have experienced chronic verbal and other emotional abuse and who may have also experienced incidences of sexual and/or physical abuse.
Did you grow up in a family where there was chronic Verbal Abuse? Have you been in a partnership with someone who was Emotionally Abusive? Like many others, you may be experiencing some of the following PTSD symptoms: depression and/or anxiety (maybe mild and recurrent), flashbacks, marked distress or phobia of stimuli related to the abuse, intrusive thoughts of abuse, numbing, isolation, anger management or other behavioral control issues, difficulties concentrating, exaggerated startle response, and sense of diminished future.
Group therapy provides support for survivors of abusive relationships, who tend to feel isolated in their distress. The Circle of Healing is a group that provides members with a ToolKit for managing and alleviating symptoms of abuse. The symptoms require a specific set of skills. The most efficient way of learning these skills is in a group setting. Without the skills needed to alleviate PTSD symptoms, progress is very slow and uneven. See Group Therapy at http://www.CircleOfHealing.us for details on subjects covered.
Dates/Times Offered: Wednesday Evening Group Forming
Tuesday Evening Group
Screening Fee: $100
Fee: $35-60 per week
Facilitator qualifications: Noreen Wedman, M.S., R.C.
Contact: Noreen Wedman (206) 428-8512
[ Email Noreen Wedman ]
"Up a Creek With Lots of Paddles"
Who Should Participate: Weekly gathering for women struggling with unexpected life changes resulting in feelings of isolation and bereavement. 90 minute sessions $40 per session group limit 6. We are open weekly to new members.
Dates/Times Offered: Please call for free information meeting schedule
Fee: $40.00
Facilitator qualifications: Marian L Maynard, MA, LMFt
Contact: Marian Maynard (425) 337-6699
[ Email Marian Maynard ]
Co-Ed Personal Development Groups
Who Should Participate: We are a longtime, well-married, highly experienced co-therapist team. Our groups can help with “emotional and social intelligence” both critical to personal and career success. These high functioning co-ed groups ideally consist of four men and four women, matched to life stage and educational level & the two of us as co-leaders. They are exciting, challenging and fun. Each person learns from everyone else, and the opportunities to acquire the art of intimate, authentic communication are unrivaled.
We work hard to achieve an atmosphere of safety, caring, intimacy, acceptance, introspection, and interpersonal transparency and honesty.
These groups are for people seriously interested in improving their personal lives AND their interpersonal relationships. Additionally they can help with:
• Building the true foundations of your self-esteem
• Establishing appropriate boundaries
• Forming a clear and confident identity
• Living your deepest values & principles
• Developing the skills of healthy and happy living
• Creating intimacy and independence in your romantic relationships
• Establishing meaning & integrity in your work life
• Managing your thinking, moods, & behavior
• Learning excellent communication skills
• Solving problems of daily living
• Alleviating social anxiety
Free initial get acquainted interview. Please call 206-367-0756
Dates/Times Offered: Bi-Monthly
Screening Fee: Sliding Scale
Fee: Sliding Scale
Facilitator qualifications: S. John McDonald, M.A.,LMHC & Agnés J. Forrás, LMHC
Contact: S. John McDonald (206) 367-0756
Contact: Agnés J. Forrás (206) 367-0756 forrasmcdonald@comcast.net
[ Email John McDonald ]
Co-ed psychotherapy group
(ongoing, continuous)
Who Should Participate: Groups members vary in age, gender and issues. Some of the issues that bring people to therapy are depression, anger, anxiety, codependency, victimization, poor self esteem, addictions, boundary issues, relationship issues, trauma, and loss. Through the therapy process clients learn to let go of the past and stop worrying about the future. They form new healthy beliefs about themselves and the world and learn to stop self sabotaging behaviors. Clients will do preparatory work with one of us prior to starting group.
Dates/Times Offered: Tuesday 6:00-8:30 p.m.
Fee: $320/month
Facilitator qualifications: Karuna Poole, MN, ARNP
Kathleen Lawrence, MA
Contact: Karuna Poole (206) 722-0878
Contact: Kathleen Lawrence (425) 445-1462 katslaw@comcast.net
[ Email Karuna Poole ]
Healing Relationships
Who Should Participate: This group is for individuals who value their significant relationships, but all too often find themselves in unproductive and painful patterns. (UPCOMMING SIX WEEK TRAINING GROUP - dates to be announced - please see website). Approach is educational and interactive. Participants will gain new skills in how to identify and work with potential problem areas such as differences in communication styles, mismatched agendas, ways in which we impact one another, boundary issues, and sharing personal issues such as depression, anxiety, loss, anger, shame, low self esteem and family of origin issues. In a safe, facilitated setting, participants learn to listen to others and express themselves in new ways that enhance empathy, reciprocity, personal meaningfulness, and healing of old wounds.
Dates/Times Offered:Tuesday Evenings, 7:00 to 8:15, Dates to be announced
Fee: $120 for 6 sessions
Facilitator qualifications: Harland Curtis, MS,LMHC
Contact: Harland Curtis (206) 306-9030 or (425) 771-6025
[ to counselor - therapist website ]
[ Email Harland Curtis ]
Insightful Parenting
Who Should Participate: Insightful Parenting is a therapeutic support group for parents (moms and dads, grandparents, guardians, birth, foster, and adoptive) who want to dig deeper into their own process. Insightful Parenting offers parents a safe space and time to explore how their strengths and vulnerablities affect their parenting and how the joys and challenges of parenting affect them as individuals.Facilitated by two licensed mental health counselors and experienced parents, Karen Noble-Newman, MA, LMHC and Carolyn Carlson, MA, LMHC. Small group size, 5-8 adults and reasonable fee. Please give us a call to talk about the possibilities. We would be delighted to speak with you. For more information, check out our websites: www.carolyncarlsontherapy.com and www.karennoblenewman.com
Dates/Times Offered: Mondays, 6:30pm to 8:00pm
beginning soon!
Screening Fee: $45 one time initial individual consultation fee
Fee: $45 per session, paid monthly
Facilitator qualifications: Karen Noble-Newman, MA, LMHC and Carolyn Carlson, MA, LMHC
Contact: Carolyn Carlson (206) 679-6776
[ Email Karen Noble-Newman ]
Reclaiming Your Life As A Motherless Daughter
Who Should Participate: This 12 week group is designed for motherless daughters. Using Hope Edelman's book as a guide participants explore who their mothers were as women, how mother loss has affected their lives and how to bring their mother's presence back into their lives.
Dates/Times Offered: Thursday Evenings 7:30 -8:30 and Monday Evenings 7:30-8:30
Screening Fee: 25.00
Fee: $25.00 per session
Facilitator qualifications: Paige Tangney M.Ed.
R.C.
Contact: Paige Tangney (206) 227-6294
[ Email Paige Tangney ]
Cinema Therapy Group for Adults
Who Should Participate: Are you a single adult that enjoys movies? Interested in exploring your life and relationships through the powerful metaphors of the silver screen?
Dates/Times Offered: This group will meet every Wednesday, 7-9 p.m., for 12 sessions starting April 8th, 2009. To participate, please contact us by April 1st, 2009. Limited spaces available.
Fee: $25
Facilitator qualifications: Shawn Adams, MA. and Benjamin Solheim, MA, MHP
Contact: Shawn Adams (206) 914-1962
[ Email Shawn Adams ]
Sexual Assault Therapy Group
Who Should Participate: This is a group for young women and adults dealing with recent or past incest, sexual abuse or rape. Other issues may include cutting/self-injury, promiscuity, substance use, truancy, conflicted relationships, prostitution, and dating violence.
Survivors often describe a loss of connection to others and feel misunderstood. Many find it difficult to re-establish a sense of safety or security in the world. Often, the abuser was a once-trusted friend or family member, which compounds feelings of self-doubt and confusion. Victims need to have their voice heard and their story believed to regain a sense of personal empowerment.
Dates/Times Offered: Day: Tues, Wed or Thurs.
Time: TBA Pending Registration
Fee: $50 Per Session
Facilitator qualifications: Danielle Dufault, MA, LMFT
Contact: Danielle Dufault (206) 390-1417
[ Email Danielle Dufault ]
Healing from sexual assault after being drugged
Who Should Participate: How can I face what I can't remember? This group is specifically for those who have been unknowingly drugged and have woken up the next day confused and unsure whether they were assaulted. As time passes you still can’t remember all of what happened but small flashbacks and pain to your body makes you more certain you were assaulted. Meeting weekly this group will provide a safe place to talk with others who have experienced your unique trauma and together we will discover healing through discussions and community. A pre-screening session is required to see if this group is right for you and the timing of your healing process. Groups will be run in 6 week sessions.
Dates/Times Offered: Tuesday's 7-8:30pm
Screening Fee: $50.00
Facilitator qualifications: LICSW
Contact: Doris Bartel, LICSW (206) 683-2742
[ Email Doris Bartel ]
Follow Your Dreams Support Group
Who Should Participate: Believe in positive thinking?
Want to see more dramatic results?
Need help with stress, relationships, loss, boundaries, confidence, transitions or
feeling stuck?
Need more confidence reaching your goals?
Trying to live a happier, healthier, more prosperous life?
Interested in Law of Attraction, Eckhart Tolle, mindfulness or meditation?
You are not alone! Enjoy the support of a safe, positive open-minded group. Learn a method that combines psychological, contemplative and positive-thinking principles.
You will get support with:
1. Clarifying your goals and understanding what’s getting in the way
2. Changing the story you tell about your life to match your desires
3. Making peace with the past and worrying less about the future
4. Finding Joy in the present moment
5. Noticing and changing your thoughts to match your goals
6. Increasing your belief that you deserve what you want
7. Maintain your gains despite what others say or do
Led by a psychotherapist Justine Joslyn, MA, Registered Counselor, with over ten experience as a life coach and counselor.
Groups are ongoing and continuous and held on weeknights and weekends.
Office/cell: (206) 697-6206 or justinejoslyn@gmail.com
Dates/Times Offered: Monday and Wednesday evenings 7-9 PM
Weekend times to be determined
Fee: $ Sliding Scale
Facilitator qualifications: Justine Joslyn, M.A.
Contact: Justine Joslyn (206) 697-6206
[ Email Justine Joslyn ]
SUCCESS STORIES
Free Life Coaching Support Group
Who Should Participate: Believe in positive thinking?
Want to see more dramatic results?
Need help with stress, relationships, loss, boundaries, confidence, transitions or
feeling stuck?
Trying to live a happier, healthier, more prosperous life?
Interested in Law of Attraction, Eckhart Tolle, mindfulness or meditation?
You are not alone! Enjoy the support of a safe, positive open-minded group. Learn techniques that combine psychological, contemplative and positive-thinking principles.
You will get support with:
1. Clarifying your goals and understanding what’s getting in the way
2. Changing the story you tell about your life to match your desires
3. Making peace with the past and worrying less about the future
4. Finding Joy in the present moment
5. Noticing and changing your thoughts to match your goals
6. Increasing your belief that you deserve what you want
7. Maintain your gains despite what others say or do.
Led by a psychotherapist Justine Joslyn, MA, Registered Counselor, with over fifteen years counseling and research experience. Practice specialties include individual and couples counseling, life transitions, trauma, and spiritual life coaching.
Groups are ongoing and continuous and held on weeknights in Wallingford and Downtown Seattle. A 20 minute phone screening is required and can be scheduled by emailing or calling:
Office/cell: (206) 697-6206 or justinejoslyn@gmail.com.
Dates/Times Offered: Wednesday evenings 6-8 PM
Wallingford and Downtown Seattle
Screening Fee: free
Fee: free
Facilitator qualifications: Justine Joslyn, M.A., Psychotherapist and Life Coach
Contact: Justine Joslyn (206) 697-6206
[ Email Justine Joslyn ]
Social Skills
Who Should Participate: Children and Youth including Teens with Asperger's Syndrome, ADHD and other similar issues. Children youth and teens learn how to understand social thinking which is the foundation of social skills. They learn how to be "social detectives" and figure out what behaviors are "expected" in social situations and how "unexpected" behaviors affect how people think about them. They learn the importance of perspective taking and how to use that to have conversations. Learning how to understand body language and indirect language is also emphasized. Instruction and group activities are based on the work of Michele Garcia Winner.
Dates/Times Offered: Saturdays, 10-11 for elementary school age, 1-2 for middle school and 2-3 for teens.
Screening Fee: $75.00
Fee: $60.00
Facilitator qualifications: Paige Tangney M.Ed. R.C.and Patricia Dawson LMHC
Contact: Paige Tangney (206) 227-6294 [ Email Paige Tangney ]
Anxiety Management for Children
Who Should Participate: Children ages 8-12 with anxiety issues. Participants will learn to identify their anxious thought patterns and understand the connection between thoughts and feelings. Children participating will also learn how to recognize when they are anxious and learn relaxation techniques and coping strategies. Sessions will include a short parent education session at the end of each session with written materials included.
Dates/Times Offered: 5:30 on Thursdays
Screening Fee: $25.00
Fee: $60.00
Facilitator qualifications: Paige Tangney M.Ed. R.C.
Contact: Paige Tangney (206) 227-6294
[ Email Paige Tangney ]
ADHD Adults
Who Should Participate: Treatment would assist adults with ADHD on dealing with boredom, simplifying day to day life,
evaluating their decision making strategies, getting their environments organized and dealing with overcommitment.
Dates/Times Offered: Thursdays at 6:30 p.m.
Screening Fee: $25.00
Fee: $60.00
Facilitator qualifications: Paige Tangney M.Ed. R.C.
Contact: Paige Tangney (206) 227-6294 [ Email Paige Tangney ]
Groups designated as "ongoing and
continuous" groups admit new members periodically and members
leave when they feel they've accomplished their therapy goals.
Groups designated as "educational" or "closed' meet for a
indicated time period. This site offers information regarding
groups, group therapy, and group therapy professionals
throughout the State of Washington. Nothing here
should be construed as a suggestion regarding treatment nor as
an endorsement of a professional or therapeutic method. Contact
the provider regarding their professional qualifications, fees,
theoretical orientation, and the appropriateness of the process
for the treatment you are seeking.
On Telephone Calls to
Therapists
As a webmaster, I frequently
call counselors and I am caught off balance when I don't get an
answering machine. I say, "Excuse me, I was expecting to talk to a
machine and wasn't expecting to talk to a real person!"
Counselors in private practice
are small business people--really small--and usually have no employees.
Counselors usually handle the telephone, counsel individual clients and
groups, get the mail, write the letters, do the bookkeeping, market their
practices, do the taxes and everything else that needs to be done to stay in business.
Counselors in private practice often see clients in the evening, so it is
usually better to call in the morning.
All this to explain that when
you finally decide to call a counselor and see about joining a therapy
group, you will probably get an answering machine. It may take a
couple of days for the counselor to get back to you. Even if they
call you back immediately, if there is another voice on your
answering machine they may be afraid that they will be violating your
confidentiality if they leave a message for you where someone else may
hear them. So they may have to hang up without leaving a message.
Be sure when you leave your message that you tell the counselor whether
it's all right to leave a message when he or she calls back.
And finally, if you don't hear
back--please call again. Leave your name and telephone number.
Say the number slowly and distinctly and say it twice. I can
remember listening to messages as many as twelve times trying to identify
all the numbers; Counselors really try, but you've got to do your
part too. Thanks.
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