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Mindset & Intentions in Recovery, Monique Chambers

By regularly setting intentions, participants gain clarity and focus, helping them to align their actions with their recovery goals. This practice promotes mindfulness, encouraging individuals to stay present and make conscious decisions that support their sobriety. Intention setting fosters a sense of purpose and motivation, which can be particularly empowering during challenging times. Additionally, the group dynamic provides a supportive environment where members can share their intentions and hold each other accountable, strengthening their commitment to recovery. Overall, this practice enhances self-awareness, emotional regulation, and resilience, contributing to a more robust and sustained recovery journey.

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Fostering Mind Body Connection Kundalini Yoga, Monique Chambers 

A therapeutic yoga group designed to support individuals in substance use recovery. This group provides a compassionate, non-judgmental space where participants can explore the benefits of mindfulness, physical movement, and intentional breathing to aid in emotional and physical healing. Using yoga practices tailored for recovery, participants will learn tools to reconnect with their bodies, enhance emotional resilience, and cultivate self-awareness, which are all critical components for long-term recovery and well-being. Sessions will incorporate guided yoga practices that emphasize gentle movement, grounding techniques, and breathing exercises, aimed at helping participants develop coping mechanisms for managing stress, cravings, and emotional discomfort. By encouraging a greater sense of presence and inner calm, this group seeks to empower individuals to regain trust in their bodies and establish healthier patterns of self-care and self-regulation.

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Four Agreements, Bethany Dwyer

In this group, clients read the book, The Four Agreements, and have a discussion to process, make connections, and co-create ways to integrate the agreements into their daily lives. By practicing these agreements, individuals can reduce unnecessary suffering and increase their joy and personal empowerment.

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Sex & Love, Dan Fronzac, PsyD

This group offers practical tools and strategies to help you build healthier, more meaningful relationships while prioritizing your recovery. In a safe and confidential space, we will explore essential topics like communication, overcoming codependency, fostering healthy intimacy, navigating dating in recovery, and strengthening connections in a way that supports your personal growth. Designed to empower you with skills for sustaining fulfilling relationships, this group is an opportunity to create stronger, more resilient connections that align with your recovery journey.

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Internal Family Systems (IFS) Befriending our Parts, Gabriel Konsker

These group sessions involve psychoeducation on the IFS model, guided exercises to connect with the core Self, and structured exploration of parts through sharing and dialogue. Participants will gain insight into their internal conflicts, develop healthier coping mechanisms, and support each other in the healing process. By accessing their compassionate and calm Self, members can take a leadership role in their internal system, fostering lasting recovery and emotional well-being.

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Existential Process Group, Emanuela Rostovtsev

In an existential process group, we explore the fundamental questions of existence and personal meaning in a supportive and reflective environment. Through open dialogue and shared experiences, we will discuss what it means to live authentically, face life’s uncertainties, and discover true passions and values.

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Self-Led Life, Alex Shohet, RADT & PADHiA
This is a group for entrepreneurs, self-starters, and/or those looking to learn skills to design the life of their choosing; this session offers individuals a weekly prompt to discuss and reflect upon. Ideas can range from Growth Mindset to Conscious Life Design, Future Self Work, and Cultivating Self-Worth - evaluating our lives beyond just professional goals and accomplishments. This group offers participants, at any stage of professional or personal development, a supportive community to assist in bringing our visions and projects to life as well as the ability to better understand ourselves and our unique talents. This highly attended group embraces the nuances of each individual to learn, grow, and express openly to one another, offering strength and deeper, greater insights from shared experiences.

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Waves of Recovery, RJ Senior, RADT

Each session is held on the beach, utilizing the natural, calming setting to support relapse prevention by promoting self-reflection, emotional regulation, and resilience in recovery. Activities focus on skill-building strategies for managing cravings, recognizing early warning signs of relapse, and strengthening coping mechanisms for high-risk situations. The beach setting facilitates grounding exercises that increase mindfulness and self-awareness, which are crucial for recognizing emotional triggers and stressors. Physical engagement with activities builds mental resilience and endurance, reinforcing participants' commitment to maintaining sobriety through adaptive strategies and stress management techniques.

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(H) 9:00 Mindset & Intentions in Recovery w/Bennet Personious, RADT

By regularly setting intentions, participants gain clarity and focus, helping them to align their actions with their recovery goals. This practice promotes mindfulness, encouraging individuals to stay present and make conscious decisions that support their sobriety. Intention setting fosters a sense of purpose and motivation, which can be particularly empowering during challenging times. Additionally, the group dynamic provides a supportive environment where members can share their intentions and hold each other accountable, strengthening their commitment to recovery. Overall, this practice enhances self-awareness, emotional regulation, and resilience, contributing to a more robust and sustained recovery journey.

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Psychodrama, Brett Simon, AMFT & Sasha Feldman, AMFT

Psychodrama involves participants enacting scenarios from their lives, with the support of group members, to gain insight, process emotions, and explore new ways of coping and relating. Psychodrama helps individuals gain a deeper understanding of their behaviors, emotions, and relationships. This insight can be crucial for recognizing patterns that contribute to substance use and identifying healthier coping mechanisms. Sharing and witnessing each other’s stories fosters a sense of connection and support among group members, reducing feelings of isolation and enhancing the therapeutic community.

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Family Systems: Internal & External, Danielle Birrittella, LMFT

​​Family dynamics play an integral role in our development and how we act and view the world. In Family Systems: Internal + External, Danielle explores the different ways in which your family upbringing, relationship with family members, and the perspectives and impact the family unit plays on our overall development and mental health. Exploring themes around the ways we were raised, and the belief systems that shaped us, Danielle guides clients through ways to better understand themselves, the issues and struggles within themselves, and offers tools and compassion for supporting people with their goals for creating and maintaining better family relationships.

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Adult Children of Dysfunctional Families, Emanuela Rostovtsev, AMFT

In this group, we explore the impact of trauma passed down through generations. Using psychoeducation and open dialogue, participants are able to gain insight into how past family experiences influence present behaviors and emotions. This group provides a safe and compassionate space to break the cycle of trauma.

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Group Fitness, Chris Petch

This group workout is designed to support individuals in their journey of relapse prevention by incorporating physical activity with mindful reflection. These sessions will focus on building strength, both physically and mentally, fostering a sense of control, and enhancing stress management skills that can help prevent relapse. Through group exercise, participants will also benefit from the therapeutic power of connection, mutual support, and accountability.

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Self Empowerment, Bethany Dwyer

The Empowerment Workout- in this group we explore the different tools, exercises, and behavior/thought changes to build self-esteem, self-worth, and empower yourself. If you were born into this world you already have everything you need to unleash this power, you just need to practice! Join this group to learn how to love and accept yourself so loud, everyone can hear you.

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Somatic Writing, Rachel Nagelberg

Writing is about opening up to the new and unknown. The paradox is that it both comes from inside of you and is out of your control! This group bridges the worlds of somatics (mind-body connective practice), creative writing ,and recovery. It proposes the ritual of writing as a path to engaging consciousness and ventral vagal activation versus the ritual of addiction as a path to unconsciousness and sympathetic activation and/or dorsal vagal (collapse). We read excerpts from experimental, confessional, and auto-fiction writers and poets and begin to feel into words by writing in the present tense and moment. Each group consists of writing instruction and a creative prompt, a 15-minute auto-focused writing exercise, group sharing, and time and space for individual and group processing. 

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Women's Process Group, Rachel Sillamn, LMFT

This group promotes a safe and nurturing environment for clients to process mental and emotional challenges arising in their recovery with the support of other women and those identifying as non-binary. This group utilizes somatic tools, and mindfulness and facilitates intuitive connections to allow for deeper connection to ourselves and other group members and allows access to a sense of community and connection. 

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When Things Fall Apart Grief Group, Rachel Nagelberg

Examining Buddhist nun Pema Chodron’s When Things Fall Apart as a map to navigating the slipperiness of grief. Grief manifests in our bodies in all different shapes and sizes, can look like any and every emotion, thought, and/or sensation - can sneak up on us and overwhelm us in the moment before we even notice. Pema asks us, What happens when we invite in what we usually avoid?  This group is a safe space to show up with our grief and move a little closer towards it, instead of running away. Making friends with our own demons and their accompanying insecurity leads to a very simple, understated relaxation and joy, she writes. This group is a safe space to be with our grief as it's showing up, and an opportunity to, as a group, read through Pema's masterpiece on grief and loss, examining our own relationships to grief and learning how to stay with ourselves in every moment. 

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Relationship Process Group, Emanuela Rostovstev, AMFT

This group considers the complexities and difficulties of relationship struggles, including romantic, friendship, and familial connections. In a supportive environment, participants share experiences, explore emotional challenges, and gain insights into patterns that affect their relationships.

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Somatic Processing for Nervous System Regulation, Danielle Birrittella, LMFT

Our Nervous System impacts everything we do, think, feel, and experience on a daily basis. In this group, Danielle leads clients through a guided somatic experience, to assist in and get in touch with your nervous system, and provides tools and resources to help ground your system. When our nervous system gets stuck in fight, flight, freeze, or fawn - we simply cannot be at our best, or produce the best outcomes for ourselves. By demonstrating ways in which we can better meet and regulate our feelings and thoughts, and how they impact the rest of our lives, we gain more clarity and control over our nervous system and the ways we can show up for ourselves in the world.  

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Sex and Love in Recovery, Brett Simon, AMFT

 In this group we will collaboratively explore our desires, sexual and romantic histories, and the impact of upbringing, trauma, identity, and substance use on our sex and love lives. The group will choose topics based on client interests and needs, including but not limited to chemsex, dating while sober, sexual or social anorexia, tantra, kink, and attachment. In a supportive, informative, playful, and affirming space, group members will explore how they wish to improve their relationship to sex, love, pleasure, and relationships, within the context of their recovery.

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Recovery Tool Kit w/Dan Fronzac, PsyD

This group provides a safe, confidential space to share experiences, challenges, and successes while learning practical tools to support your recovery journey. Participants explore strategies for managing triggers, preventing relapse, building a strong support network, coping with using dreams, managing stress, and finding joy in a substance-free life. Incorporating methods from both traditional 12-step programs and secular approaches like SMART Recovery and Refuge Recovery, this group empowers you with proven techniques to navigate sobriety. Together, we create a supportive environment focused on fostering resilience, growth, and sustainable recovery.

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Trauma Support w/Berni Fried, LMFT

This group is designed to offer compassionate support and practical coping skills in a nurturing environment where individuals can share their stories and connect with others on similar journeys. Members learn techniques for managing stress and anxiety as well as psychoeducation on trauma and the brain. Group discussions focus on understanding trauma, its impact on mental health, and ways to foster resilience. Through shared experiences and mutual support, participants build a sense of community, reducing feelings of isolation. The group encourages personal growth and empowers members to take steps towards healing and recovery, creating a foundation for a healthier, more balanced life.

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Core Values w/Charles Cook, RADT

This group emphasizes how core values can serve as a compass, guiding each participant toward a life aligned with their goals, aspirations, and authentic selves. Through shared experiences and facilitated discussions, the group will reflect on how adhering to these values can help prevent relapse, improve self-esteem, and counteract past destructive behaviors. Participants will be encouraged to identify values that resonate deeply with their recovery and explore ways to integrate them into daily actions. By building a supportive environment where core values are honored and practiced, this group aims to empower each individual to strengthen their recovery foundation and create a fulfilling, values-driven life.

(IP) 4:00 Group Fitness (Tue/Wed/Fri) w/Chris Petch: This group workout is designed to support individuals in their journey of relapse prevention by incorporating physical activity with mindful reflection. These sessions will focus on building strength, both physically and mentally, fostering a sense of control, and enhancing stress management skills that can help prevent relapse. Through group exercise, participants will also benefit from the therapeutic power of connection, mutual support, and accountability.

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Mindfulness-Based Relapse Prevention, Blake Shields

This group utilizes mindfulness meditation, neuroscience, and psychology to embrace the full spectrum of the human experience, guiding students to turn toward their stuck places with honesty and compassion, begin unwinding somatically held emotional energy, and disrupt addictive patterns. Blake employs mindfulness, neuroscience, psychology, and the power of poetry to galvanize healing and development. The space he facilitates is intended for sincere seekers who are tired of surface approaches and grandiose promises. This is an invitation into a deep, skills-based training, not a guarantee of overnight transformation. It's about patience and painstaking kindness. It's about the courage to feel. It's about turning toward vulnerable dimensions of our humanity and learning finally to love them. If these practices do what I have a reasonable expectation they will, then over the next few months, you will notice:
- Some genuine reduction in your overall suffering.
- Some increase in your overall fulfillment

- Increased enjoyment of the living present moment
- Increased mastery over your behavior and words and reduction of compulsive, unskillful conduct
- Better day-to-day alignment with pursuits you find meaningful
- A basic psychoeducation on the legacy of childhood experiences
- Kinder, more fulfilling relationships

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This group is for those recovering from addiction. In addition to the traditional 12-step model, he also incorporates tools from secular recovery programs such as SMART Recovery and Refuge Recovery. Using these tried and true methods, Dan leads clients through their sobriety with compassion and kindness, offering them a safe place to discuss their personal struggles, and offering guidance to stay on their desired path. 

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Interpersonal Effectiveness in Community w/Charles Cook, RADT

This group is designed to strengthen relationships and improve communication skills within our community. Key goals include fostering effective communication by building assertiveness, practicing active listening, and learning strategies to express needs and set boundaries clearly. Participants will develop conflict resolution skills to manage disagreements constructively, work toward solutions, and sustain positive relationships. The group will also focus on building empathy by encouraging a deeper understanding of others' perspectives and emotions. Additionally, members will enhance social skills to help initiate and sustain meaningful connections in various social settings.

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Perseverance through Creative Writing, Brett Simon, AMFT

A writing/creativity process group (emotional, spirituality, purpose). This group draws on deep self-inquiry and exploration to find stories that “only you could tell.” Draws on personal history and limitations to fuel creativity, looks at the unique psychological burdens of a “creative life,” and uses creativity for personal growth and transformation. 

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Overcoming Anxiety, Sasha Feldman, AMFT

This group is designed to help individuals develop a new relationship with failure and anxiety via creative expression. Share and discuss your challenges and experiences in a non-judgmental environment. Gain insights from peers and learn new strategies to cope with everyday pressures. Our sessions incorporate various creative exercises to boost your creativity, and spontaneity, and help you embrace a fearless attitude toward your recovery and triggers. .

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