Therapy Groups and Workshops

Parenting

DBT Group for Parents and Teens

This is a skill-building group for families that want less conflict in their relationships. In this group, you will learn to feel successful handling conflict, control the feelings that want to control you, live through your lows without going lower, and discover the middle path in your family. Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is a psycho-educational approach which builds competence in emotion regulation, distress tolerance, interpersonal effectiveness, mindfulness, and walking the middle path. These skills are uniquely suited for the kinds of difficulties facing parents and teenagers. DBT can be used in conjunction with individual therapy.
Call for dates and times.
Therapists: Elizabeth Barton, Ph.D., L.C.S.W. (720) 384-6212
and Jean Rosmarin, Ph.D. (303) 829-5882

Love and Logic Early Childhood Parenting Made Fun! Creating Happy Families and Responsible Kids®

This class is for parents of kids ages birth to 6. Learn how to meet your child’s needs so you can have secure, well-adjusted, happy kids. Learn how to set limits on their wants, so you will not have spoiled, entitled self-indulgent kids. This parenting program teaches effective techniques and methods for raising healthy, self-confident and responsible children. Ongoing classes.
Please see www.REALparenting.net or call for current class information.
Child care sometimes available.
Size: variable. Day and evening times available.
Therapist: Stephanie Bryan, L.C.S.W., C.A.C.III, Certified Parent Coach
(303) 397-0646

Active Parenting for Step-families

Active Parenting for Step-families is a video-based discussion program to help parents and stepparents raise children in the challenging step-family environment. The program also teaches how to use powerful communication and negotiation skills to strengthen marriage and family. Designed for both parents and stepparents, this program is also helpful for foster parents, adoptive parents, single parents and others affected by loss and change. Ongoing classes. Please see www.REALparenting.net or call for current class information. Size: variable. Day and evening times available.
Therapist: Stephanie Bryan, L.C.S.W., C.A.C.III, Certified Parent Coach
(303) 397-0646

REAL Parenting® (Respect, Empathy, Appreciation and Love)

Enhance your parenting skills. Improve your relationship. Learn how to become a coach to your kids. REAL Parenting classes give you specific skills to help you maintain your relationship with your kids as they move into the teen years. Ongoing classes. Please see www.REALparenting.net or call for current class information.
Size: variable. Day and evening times available.
Therapist: Stephanie Bryan, L.C.S.W., C.A.C.III, Certified Parent Coach
(303) 397-0646

Siblings Without Rivalry: How to Help Your Children Live Together So You Can Live Too

The goal of the Siblings Without Rivalry group workshop is to help you to help your children learn how to live together. Each session sensitizes parents to what it is that increases hostility between children and the attitude and the language that decrease hostility. During each session, parents will learn and practice specific skills that help to reduce friction and make harmony possible. Topics include: Helping Siblings Deal with Their Feelings About Each Other, When the Kids Fight, and Problem Solving. Ongoing classes. Please see www.REALparenting.net or call for current class information. 
Size: variable. Day and evening times available.
Therapist: Stephanie Bryan, L.C.S.W., C.A.C.III, Certified Parent Coach
(303) 397-0646

Becoming a Love and Logic Parent®

Love allows children to grow through their mistakes. Logic allows them to live with the consequences of their choices. This parenting program teaches effective techniques and methods for raising healthy, self-confident and responsible children. Ongoing classes. Please see www.REALparenting.net or call for current class information. 
Size: variable. Day and evening times available.
Therapist: Stephanie Bryan, L.C.S.W., C.A.C.III, Certified Parent Coach
(303) 397-0646

Adolescents

Stop the Drama!

Stop the Drama is designed to give young girls the opportunity to find healthy ways of dealing with their emotions before they create unhealthy coping skills. Young people turn to alcohol, drugs, food, and other excesses in an effort to help them cope with their emotions and numb their pain. The goal is to educate our youth before they begin to turn to these unhealthy behaviors.

Stop the Drama will help your teenager:

- Become aware of their emotions before they spiral out of control
- Learn how emotions can get in their way
- Create space between emotions and reactions
- Realize the influence that self-esteem has on their moods
- Discover how their mood influences interactions with others
- Create skills to get through a difficult moment
- Understand how thoughts and judgments influence moods
- Learn coping skills and be able to implement them before
their moods spiral

Call Susan Caso, L.P.C. at (303) 646-7394 or visit www.susancaso.com.

Couples

"Getting the Love You Want' Couples' Workshop

In this powerful workshop, you will learn a variety of skills to develop better communication, resolve conflicts, and enhance your relationship. Through lectures, demonstrations, and experiential practice, you will learn how to develop a TRULY loving relationship. Based on the work of Harville Hendrix, Ph.D., author of Getting the Love You Want. For more information and workshop schedule, see web page at www.boulder-imago.com.
Size: 8-12 couples
Therapist: Ben Cohen, Ph.D. (303) 717-5651
Call for upcoming dates.

Premarital Counseling Groups

This four-week group is designed to help couples build a strong foundation for their marriage. Drawing from over 20 years of therapeutic work with couples, we will examine the following issues: characteristics of a healthy marriage; developing basic communication and conflict resolution skills; balancing the often conflicting needs of ME and WE; the importance and value of the Vows; and keeping love alive for the long haul.
Size: 3-6 couples
Therapist: Lynne Foote, L.P.C. (303) 447-2987
Go to Upcoming Programs on www.LynneFoote.com for more information and a workshop schedule.

Men and Women

Mixed-Gender Relationships

Ongoing groups composed of men and women with a variety of issues and concerns. The developing and ongoing relationships between group members provide the material to explore the interpersonal aspects of the problems people bring to the group.
W - 7:00-8:30 am
Therapist: Robert Unger, L.C.S.W., Ph.D., C.A.C.III (303) 938-9494

Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy Program for Depression/Anxiety/Self-Esteem Issues

Individuals who are struggling with issues such as depression, anxiety and/or low self-esteem have experienced positive and encouraging results with Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. MBCT integrates cognitive therapy principles and practice into a mindfulness framework. The program offers one-on-one therapy each week in conjunction with personalized e-mails. This unique approach provides clients with additional support and guidance by maintaining positive reinforcement in focusing on their goals. Dealing with depression, anxiety, or low self-esteem can be debilitating. Additional support is available and can compliment your once-a-week session without you leaving your home. Call for a free initial phone consultation.
Therapist: Susan Caso, M.A., L.P.C. (303) 646-7394

Exploring “Spacious Presence”

Meditation that happens by itself: the ultimate practice of no practice. In this group, we will learn to access and deepen the experience of ‘unconditioned awareness’ (pure consciousness, emptiness, spirit, pure presence, ‘the ultimate medicine’), bring this presence into our day-to-day life and share it with others. When resting in ‘unconditioned awareness’, there is a sense of complete fulfillment - there are no problems or solutions because nothing is missing. There is nowhere further to go.
Size: 15 adults. Every other M - 7:00 - 9:00 pm
Therapist: Elinor Nygren Szapiro, M.A., L.P.C. (303) 530-5391

“Highly Sensitive Person” Support Group

Being especially sensitive is actually a gift - although it doesn’t always feel that way. This eight-week group provides an opportunity to connect on a meaningful level with other “Highly Sensitive People”. We will work with the challenges of being ‘Highly Sensitive’, as well as explore our potential gifts. Various aspects of life will be addressed, including: sensory and environmental sensitivity; emotional sensitivity; social and relational sensitivity; spiritual depth; intuition; decision-making, creativity and life purpose. The maximum group size is 10 people, and we will meet weekly for 8 weeks on Wednesdays from 5:30-7:3 pm..
Therapist: Elinor Nygren Szapiro, M.A., L.P.C. (303) 530-5391 elly@nilenet.com

Mixed-Gender Therapy Groups

Each group is composed of men and women who have been in individual therapy and wish to expand their skills in relating to others. The group provides a safe environment in which to learn new ways to share feelings and form healthy relationships.
Size: 8 adults (two groups) T - 12:00-1:30 pm or W - 4:30-6:00 pm
Therapists: Fredlyn Zitter-Smith, L.C.S.W. (303) 443-9008,
David Yeats, L.C.S.W. (303) 335-9170

Women

Rebalancing Your Relationship With Food

A Mindfulness Based/Solution Focused Group for Women with Binge Eating Issues and weight maintenance concerns. Do you feel unbalanced in your relationship your food? Do you experience episodes of “out of control,” “hyper-eating”? Are you ready to make lasting incremental changes? In this group, you will: learn to understand and appreciate your relationship with food; cultivate a basic mindfulness approach to eating and nourishment in order to go beyond the trap of hopeless, self-defeating habits and broken resolutions; develop and practice specific tools keyed to your particular emotional and habitual triggers; apply pattern interruption methods, self-hypnosis and other proven methods to reinforce your commitment to a more satisfying way of life.
Size: 6-8 women. Times and day to be arranged.
Therapist: Kate M. Marshall, Ph.D. (303) 443-5811 www.drkatemarshall.com

Self-Hypnosis for Weight Control and Management

Self-hypnosis can be a helpful tool for weight management and control. In these meetings, you can learn to stay on track with your weight management efforts, reinforce and develop healthy eating habits, nurture existing motivations to live a healthy lifestyle, self-induce hypnotic states, and develop your own helpful self-hypnotic states and images. This group is not a substitute for a physician-monitored weight loss program and is meant to bolster already existing programs. Screening interview required.
Size: 8-10 adults. T - 6:00-8:00 pm
Therapist: Kate M. Marshall, Ph.D. (303) 443-5811

Circle of Women: Aging Well (Part One)

By rejecting the degrading stereotypes that our popular culture assigns women over fifty, we can redefine the elder phase of life as one of vitality and creativity. Along with recognizing the losses, disappointments, and terrors of aging, we can celebrate our growing wisdom and inner beauty. We can do this together, for it is in our togetherness that we will find strength. In our Circle of Women, we will explore our becoming older through meditations, creative activities, stories, myths, archetypes, and recent research on aging. The prerequisite for this group is fifty years of life experience.
Size: 5 women. Date and time to be arranged.
Therapist: Evi Bassoff, Ph.D. (303) 449-5833

When A Pregnancy Ends

This group is for women healing from childbearing losses and preparing for a future pregnancy. Through unique creative tools using your dreams, art, and journaling, your healing is supported while your loss is made visible in a safe environment. This support group will follow your grieving process, allow you to meet other women, and document your journey as one of the most important times in your life.
Size: 4-6 women. Date/time to be arranged.
Therapist: Nora Swan-Foster, M.A., L.P.C. (303) 440-4000

Threshold: A Personal Growth and Art-making Experience for Women

This 8-week group is designed to be both an inner exploration and an outer art-making experience. Using a guided visualization process, we will dive into an aspect of our unique personal story and then transform this story into pages of a handmade, illustrated book. Using techniques such as collage, stamping, embellishments and paper quilting, we will allow our inner child to play and create a special treasure. Join with other women on an adventurous, enriching, creative journey. No previous experience necessary.  Size: variable.
Therapist: Lynne Foote, L.P.C. (303) 447-2987
Go to Upcoming Programs on www.LynneFoote.com for more information and a workshop schedule.

Purpose and Prosperity

This is a group of very special women who are after moving into clarity about life purpose and who have the drive and desire to live an abundant life! We are helping each other to discover our strongest gifts and how to use them in a world in need. There are exercises and processes for discovery and clarity about purpose and transformative ways to consider the role of money and prosperity in our lives.
Size: 6 women. M - 6:00-7:30 pm
Therapist: Anne Cowardin, Ph.D. , ACHt (720) 839-4741

Energy and Authentic Power for Women

Feeling a little sluggish these days? Wanting to be more in touch with your own creativity? This group is designed for women who want to make a difference and are looking for other women who are on the same journey. Defining our mission/purpose and moving toward it increases energy, excitement and power in our everyday life. Sound like what you want? Please call!
Size: 8 women. Date and time to be arranged
Therapist: Anne Cowardin, Ph.D. (720) 839-4741

Relationship Group for Women

This is a group for women interested in growing in relationship to themselves and others and looking to be able to increase the intimacy in their lives. Bringing women together can be a deeply healing experience awakening confidence, creativity and energy for life.
Size: 6-8 women. Date and time to be determined
Therapist: Anne Cowardin, Ph.D., ACHt (720) 839-4741

Men

Gay Men--Relationship Issues

Ongoing therapy group for gay men interested in exploring relationship issues. Co-sponsored through Boulder County Aids Project.

Therapist: Robert Unger, L.C.S.W., Ph.D.
(303) 938-9494
Size: 10 men
F - 7:30-9:00 am

Men's Therapy/Process Group

This is not specifically a problem-focused group, but psychodynamically-oriented; that is, primary mode will be working in the here-and-now, with the formation of ongoing relationships between group members and an entry to working with each members individual concerns.
Size: 8 men
M - 12:30-2:00 pm Additional times to be arranged

Therapist: Robert Unger, L.C.S.W., Ph.D., C.A.C.III
(303) 938-9494

For Therapists Only--Supervision & Education

Introduction to Psychodrama and Sociometry Training

Psychodrama is a deep action method in which a person is helped to enact a problem rather than just talk about it. It converts the urge for “acting-out” into the constructive channel of “acting-in” to encourage spontaneity, creativity and insight.  This training group will enhance your clinical skills for working with individuals and groups. Develop ways to explore the dynamics of a group in action, making the covert more overt; learn the power of doubling, role reversal and mirroring. You will also learn valuable tools to increase your own and your client’s spontaneity, creativity, and resources. Karen has 15 years of experience in the use of experience in the use of experiential methods and teaches Group Dynamics at Naropa University.
Therapist: Karen Drucker, Psy.D., TEP (303) 442-2561
La Luna Center. Professional rate: $95/session ($380 for series)
Student rate: $80/session ($320 for series)

Supervision and Consultation Group for Hypnotherapists

This group is a consultation and peer supervision group for therapists using heart-centered hypnotherapy or interested in learning more about it. It is also a follow-up to the initial intensive training in heart centered hypnotherapy which was held in Denver, June 25-30, 2009.
Therapist: Anne Cowardin, Ph.D., ACHt (720) 839-4741

Growing Your Private Practice

Group for psychotherapists who wish to build their private practice with or without using insurance. Includes ways to market and network. Specifics will be decided based on need. Day and time to be determined.
Therapist: Melanie Young, Psy.D. (303) 444-5330 or info@melanieyoungpsyd.com

Supervision / Consultation

Over 30 years experience providing group and individual supervision to M.A. and Ph.D. level student interns, and counselors seeking hours for licensure as an L.P.C. Also provides consultation to counselors/psychotherapists. Helps counselors discover and fine tune their abilities and areas of expertise. Group supervision may be offered if enough interest.
Therapist: Roz Bard, Psy.D., L.P.C. (303) 752-6711 rozbard@infionline.net

Supervision / Consultation

Individual supervision for therapists interested in expanding their areas of expertise or needing support around challenging therapeutic issues. Provides supervision to M.A., Ph.D. and Psy.D. level students seeking hours towards licensure. Expertise includes working with adolescents, adults, and seniors. Runs consultation groups for psychotherapists who are trained in Brainspotting. Also consults with and coaches psychotherapists, individually or in a group setting, about building their private practices. Has office time in Boulder.
Therapist: Melanie Young, Psy.D., Licensed Clinical Psychologist
(303) 444-5330 or info@melanieyoungpsyd.com

Action Supervision Group

In this supervision group, you will have an opportunity to enhance your knowledge and skills for working with eating disorders and other complex issues, use role training to practice therapeutic interventions, identify and explore counter-transference issues in a supportive environment, and explore difficult cases using experiential methods, including Gestalt and psychodrama.
Therapist: Karen Drucker, Psy.D., TEP (303) 442-2561
Location: La Luna Center. 6 participants
Second Monday of the month, 3:00-5:00 pm
$60.00 for two hours of supervision; counts towards Licensure hours (six-month commitment)

Supervision / Consultation

A group for therapists focusing on understanding the therapist-client relationship; includes issues of resistance, transference-countertransference, boundaries, influence, acting out, and goal orientation. Group also available specifically for group therapists..
Therapist: Robert Unger, L.C.S.W., Ph.D., C.A.C.III (303) 938-9494 Size: 3-6 therapists
M - 9:00-10:30 am (every other week), M - 2:30-4:00 pm (every other week)
or T - 9:30-11:00 am (every other week); additional times to be arranged

Brainspotting Consultation Group (for Level 1 and Level 2 Brainspotting Graduates)

Refine and expand your skills in consultation with an experienced Brainspotting clinician. Bring challenging cases and questions to this interactive group format. Learn to use BSP with difficult issues such as physical pain, reticent clients, and more. Integrate Brainspotting with other modalities such as EMDR and mindfulness. Demonstrations will be offered upon group request. Elinor has over 25 years of clinical experience and has completed Brainspotting Levels 1 and 2 and the 5 day Intensive training with David Grand and worked with Brainspotting extensively in her practice for several years. I look forward to working with you! Cost is $45/meeting.
Therapist: Elinor Nygren Szapiro, M.A., L.P.C. (303) 530-5391 Option for telephone participation.
One Thursday per month, 1:00 - 2:30 pm