Group Therapy & Workshops
WE ARE CONTINUOUSLY DEVELOPING NEW GROUPS AND WORKSHOPS
Many groups have resumed in-person meetings, please see full descriptions for location details.
Living in Your Body: A Disordered Eating Process Group
Starting: Spring 2023 | Tuesday evenings | Meeting virtually w/Zoom
This 8-week therapy group will explore the challenges of living in your body in the face of diet culture and fatphobia. Participants will encounter new ways to connect and cope through peer-to-peer discussions and interactive group sharing. Conversations will be framed around a variety of topics to include: inner child work, dismantling diet culture, HAES approach to health and wellbeing, and self-compassion.
Mindful Anger Management
Starting: April 13, 2023 | Meeting in-person
Anger management is a 10-week curriculum-based group combining classic anger management skills and mindfulness. The group will explore the evolutionary role of anger, when anger is appropriate, the difference between assertiveness and aggressiveness, and how to differentiate between anger, fear, and frustration.
Recovery Dharma for Addictions
Ongoing: Monday evenings | Meeting in-person
Recovery Dharma (formerly called Refuge Recovery) is a non-theistic, Buddhist-inspired approach to recovery from addictions of all kinds. The meetings are peer-led and include guided meditations, readings, and group sharing and discussion.
This group has resumed in-person meetings at our Andersonville location as of Summer 2022. Registration is not required – all are welcome.
Email the Recovery Dharma – Andersonville group lead, Dan Ware, to ask questions: daniel.ware@gmail.com
Meetings are hosted at CMP (Andersonville location) but are run by Recovery Dharma
Transcending Gender
Starting: March 7, 2023 | 7:00pm-8:30pm | Meeting in-person
Looking for a place to talk about and deconstruct gender? This 12-week group will focus on making space for the nuances of gender, the diversity of gender experiences, and will explore gender’s expression. People of all gender identities and expressions are welcome to join!
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction (MBSR)
Note: February 2023’s MBSR course has been postponed.
Please email Jennifer Klein, LPC to get added to interest list: jklein@cmp.email
Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction is an 8-week evidence based curriculum targeted to learn meditation strategies to reduce stress, physical pain, and emotional suffering. In this class, we will learn and practice several forms of meditation, as well as integrate new skills of stress-reduction into our daily lives.
Weekly Virtual Meditation Group (via Facebook Live)
Weekly Virtual Meditation Group is CURRENTLY ON PAUSE via our CMP Facebook page on Wednesdays from 6:15-6:30pm CT. Visit our archive of Facebook Live meditation recordings featuring Jennifer Klein, LPC, NCC, NBC-HWC. Jennifer begins each meditation with minimal guidance followed by silent sitting for 10-15 minutes. No experience required.
Making Meaning: Using Stories to Heal, Broaden & Reclaim our Lives
This 5-week group is intended for those who are interested in writing, storytelling, activating meaning, creativity, and growth. Special emphasis on questioning normality, reclaiming and re-storying our lives in the face of trauma, and engaging with strengths and inner resources
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT)
Feeling overwhelmed and out of control? Years of research shows that Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is a powerful and proven intervention that provides you with real-life, take-home skills in 4 areas: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, and Interpersonal Effectiveness.