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Traumatic and severely stressful events can trigger anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress, and lead to unhelpful ways of coping with the overwhelming effects of such major life crises. Post Traumatic Growth involves an intentional attempt to understand and assign meaning to traumatic events, transforming negative effects into positive meanings and change. This group works to facilitate post-traumatic growth and promote improved adjustment in a newly defined and valued life.
Members re-examine events through different cognitive perspectives to reconstruct core beliefs about one’s self, the world, and the future, which are frequently disrupted in the aftermath of trauma. Exploring and eliciting post-traumatic growth can serve as a springboard for survivors to find positive aspects of having endured adversity and to take positive steps in their lives.
The group focus is to enhance positive change in life to rise to a higher level of functioning, including:
Appreciation of life
Positive relationships with others
New possibilities in life
Personal strength
Spiritual change
Lifestyle changes
Increased compassion for self and others
Facilitated by Christine Valdez, PhD
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Focus on increasing confidence within relationships of all kinds.
Explore nutrition, physical activity, sleep, stress reduction, and mindfulness in the Healthy Living Group.
Embrace mindful awareness and the effectiveness of mindfulness-based approaches in healing both the body and mind.
Focus on the underlying drivers of unhealthy, possibly harmful, coping strategies in order to create a new way of managing life and its difficulties.
A safe, non-judgmental place for women to develop greater self-awareness, and explore such topics as setting boundaries in relationships, asking for help, trauma, taking good care of oneself, detaching from emotional pain, mindfulness, and developing self-compassion.
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Building Strong Relationships starts with understanding what makes healthy relationships work. Social support is one of the most important resiliency factors in managing mental health, coping with addiction, and even
Developing coping skills and self-soothing techniques for anger, sadness, and guilt and shame.
The Coping with Triggers group is a process-oriented group that helps clients learn to identify the people, places, things, and situations in their lives that trigger them to engage in
Effectively manage your emotions Emotional regulation is an awareness and understanding of one’s emotions and their impact on behavior, and the ability to manage those emotions positively. This group will
Taking Charge is an open discussion group where individuals share successes and struggles in their efforts to get unstuck.