Therapy Groups and Workshops

Parenting Groups

Attachment-focused Therapy Group for mothers with infants and toddlers.

Would you like to learn to communicate and develop acceptance and understanding of your newborn baby?
And more about:
*  The first relationships. Child egocentrism
*  How to be a good mother
*  How to start building trust between you and your baby
*  Early emotional development of a healthy infant
*  What the mental activity of the infant begins with
*  The infant's ability to form connections with the outside world
Understanding and helping to develop the emotional world of the child is as important as understanding and helping him or her develop physical skills and the ability to learn. A child’s personality is plastic and extremely sensitive. Even if, as an adult, he forgets about his experiences in the first year of life, they will still reflect in his personality. You can be certain that he or she will be affected by restrictions of freedom of expression experienced in infant life, such as lack of love or tenderness. Parents can educate mechanically, according to strict rules and laws, or, alternatively, they can open before the child a friendly, loving and happy world.

This group is designed for mothers with children ages 0 to 5, and is limited to 6 participants. Pre-registration required.

Register today!
Cost of one group session: $75.00
When: Mondays, 1:00-2:00pm
To register: Contact Yelena Dvoskina, MA, LPC, EMDR Certified Therapist. Call me to set up a consultation to find out how you can benefit from group therapy.

RSVP: Phone: (720)381-7491
E-mail: Yelena@DenverPsychotherapy4u.com
Office is located at: 4450 Lexi Circle, Broomfield, CO, 80023
More information about workshops, individual consultations, supervisions www.DenverPsychotherapy4u.com

If you are concerned about how conflicts in your relationship are affecting your children, come in for an individual consultation.  

 

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.
Therapist: Stephanie Bryan, L.C.S.W., C.A.C.III, Certified Parent Coach
(303) 397-0646 Size: variable Day and evening times available.

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.
Therapist: Stephanie Bryan, L.C.S.W., C.A.C.III,
Certified Parent Coach (303) 397-0646
Size: variable Day and evening times available

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.
Therapist: Stephanie Bryan, L.C.S.W., C.A.C.III,
Certified Parent Coach (303) 397-0646 Size: variable Day and evening times available

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.
Therapist: Stephanie Bryan, L.C.S.W., C.A.C.III,
Certified Parent Coach (303) 397-0646
Size: variable Day and evening times available

Active Parenting for Stepfamilies is a video-based discussion program to help parents and stepparents raise children in the challenging stepfamily 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.
Therapist: Stephanie Bryan, L.C.S.W., C.A.C.III, Certified Parent Coach
(303) 397-0646
Size: variable Day and evening times available

Active Parenting for Stepfamilies in 3 is an abridged version of Active Parenting for Stepfamilies. It uses many of the same elements of the original program, but it is only three sessions and focuses mainly on topics specific to stepfamilies. Ongoing classes. Please see www.REALparenting.net or call for current class information.
Therapist: Stephanie Bryan, L.C.S.W., C.A.C.III, Certified Parent Coach
(303) 397-0646
Size: variable Day and evening times available

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

Adolescents Groups

Stop The Drama! Program 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 judgements influence moods; learn coping skills and be able to implement them before their moods spiral!
Therapist: Susan Caso, L.P.C. (303) 646-7394 or visit www.susancaso.com

Women's Groups

Threshold: A Personal Growth and Artmaking Experience for Women This 8-week group is designed to be both an inner exploration and an outer artmaking 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.
Therapist: Lynne Foote, L.P.C. (303) 447-2987
Size: variable
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.
Therapist: Anne Cowardin, Ph.D., ACHt (720) 839-4741
Size: 6 women Date and time to be arranged

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.
Therapist: Anne Cowardin, Ph.D., ACHt (720) 839-4741
Size: 6-8 women Date and time to be determined

Pregnancy as an Initiation Childbearing issues offer women a unique opportunity to enter into a deeper relationship with their unconscious and creative instinct. Through dreams, art, and the archetype of initiation, this workshop will offer women both a didactic and experiential approach to pregnancy as a personal journey and insight into the healing role of the creative process. A recent article published in the Journal of Prenatal and Perinatal Psychology and Health will provide the basis for this personal exploration for this time-limited group.
Therapist: Nora Swan-Foster, ATR-BC, LPC, Jungian Analyst (303) 440-4000
Date and time to be determined. Go to www.swanfoster.com for more information.

Women’s Dream and Art Journal Group Are you looking for a fresh approach to personal depth work that can enhance your therapeutic journey? Do you wonder what to do with your dreams? This group will offer creative approaches and suggestions on how to create a working journal that includes images emerging from dreams and active imagination. Jungian psychology and expressive arts therapy offer the basis for this fun, day-long workshop. No art or journaling experience is necessary - only a willingness to explore.
Therapist: Nora Swan-Foster, ATR-BC, LPC, Jungian Analyst
(303) 440-4000 Date and time to be determined.
Go to www.swanfoster.com for more information.

Women’s Jungian Book Group Many have read the popular book “Women Who Run With the Wolves”, but few have had the opportunity to work on this material within an ongoing group that honors personal associations and includes creative time to respond to the stories. While this is not a traditional therapy group, the reading material will nurture deep and meaningful discussions along with an opportunity to expand one’s knowledge of Jungian psychology. This is a closed group and being in individual therapy during the group is a requirement. .
Therapist: Nora Swan-Foster, ATR-BC, LPC, Jungian Analyst (303) 440-4000
Size: 4 - 8 participants. Date and time to be determined.
Go to www.swanfoster.com for more information.

Men's Groups

Gay Men - Relationship Issues Ongoing therapy group (20 years) for gay men interested in exploring relationship issues. Low-cost group. Co-sponsored through Boulder County Aids Project.
Therapist: Robert Unger, L.C.S.W., Ph.D., C.A.C.III (303) 938-9494
Size: 10 men F - 7:30-9:00 am

True North Enterprises You have to be over 55 and male to join this group. It’s that exclusive! If you do join, you agree to be part of a process that’s designed to get you on course. Many men who retire soon feel like they just lost a part of their identity at a time when there isn’t all that much time left. There’s an awareness that the clock, in fact, is running. If you have enough health and money, you can travel, but for today’s boomer generation, that just may not be the answer. What is the answer? Or is there one? This group will set you back $125/month and will get you together with others who are interested in running a good race and finishing strong. Meets weekly for 90 minutes.
Therapist: Stew Brown, Ph.D. (303) 449-2996
Date and time: TBD

Couples Groups

“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.
Therapist: Ben Cohen, Ph.D. (303) 717-5651
Size: 8-12 couples 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.
Therapist: Lynne Foote, L.P.C. (303) 447-2987 Size: 3-6 couples
Go to Upcoming Programs on www.LynneFoote.com for more information and a workshop schedule.

Mixed Gender Groups

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

Mixed Gender Relational Group This is a group of 6-8 people who want to explore relationship patterns. One-on-one therapy limits your therapist from seeing how you really interact with others, and in most social situations, we just don’t tell each other about either strengths or liabilities. Consequently, we have difficulty figuring out what we are doing that promotes the same old unwanted outcomes with relationships. This group is designed to provide new awareness in an atmosphere of safety that will encourage risk taking and new behavior. Meets weekly for 90 minutes.
Therapist: Stew Brown, Ph.D. (303) 449-2996
Date and time: TBD

Mixed-Gender Relationships Ongoing groups (20 years) 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.
Therapist: Robert Unger, L.C.S.W., Ph.D., C.A.C.III
(303) 938-9494 W - 7:00-8:30 am

“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.
Therapist: Elinor Nygren Szapiro, M.A., L.P.C. (303) 530-5391
elly@nilenet.com 8 weeks W - 5:30 - 7:00 pm

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.
Therapists: Fredlyn Zitter-Smith, L.C.S.W. (303) 443-9008,
David Yeats, L.C.S.W. (303) 444-8064
Size: 8 adults (2 groups) T - 12:00-1:30 pm or W - 4:30-6:00 pm

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.
Therapist: Elinor Nygren Szapiro, M.A., L.P.C. (303) 530-5391
Size: 15 adults Every other M - 7:00 - 9:00 pm

For Therapists Only

For mental health professionals:

Workshops for psychotherapists and counselors who work with patients with Borderline Personality Disorder in medical settings and/ or in private practice.

“The Structure of Borderline Personality”

This workshop offers the following curriculum for mental health professionals to develop comprehension of the particularly challenging conditions known as borderline disorders or borderline personalities. Many patients with these disorders struggle not only with symptoms such as depression, anxieties, obsessions or phobias for which help is typically sought, but also with control of emotion and aggression, understanding of self, and tolerance of the treatment process.

Curriculum
You will learn:

• The Nature of Borderline Personality Disorder.

(Symptoms, defenses, reality testing, moral values, aggression)
The discussion leads you through diagnosis, focusing on history and symptoms, and possible causes, treatments and outcomes.

• Clinical approaches for treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.

(Cognitive-behavioral approach, interpersonal psychotherapy, transference-focused, dialectical behavioral, supportive, and integrated psychodynamic psychotherapy)

Also, you will see:
Videos - how leading contemporary therapists conduct a first interview with a middle-aged man suffering from personality disorder and how different schools apply different strategies and techniques in their approach to the same patient.

Workshop requires 7 sessions. (One session per week)
Cost of one session: 75.00
Dates:
1)December 6th - January,17th 2012-13 Thursdays,4:30-7:30pm
2)January,14th -February,25th 2013 Tuesdays, 4:30-7:30pm

Register Early! The workshop will be limited to 8 participants due to the time constraints for viewing video sessions and discussions.

Location and Contact Information:

Office is located at
4450 Lexi Circle, Broomfield, CO, 80023

RSVP:
Phone: (720)381-7491
E-mail: Yelena@DenverPsychotherapy4u.com

For more information about workshops, individual consultations, supervisions, visit www.DenverPsychotherapy4u.com

For Therapists Only--Supervision & Education

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

Psychodrama and Sociometry Training: This yearlong training group will enhance your clinical skills for working with individuals and groups. Develop ways to explore the dynamics of a group in action, make the covert overt, and 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 ability to trust yourself in the moment. Karen has 18 years of experience in the use of psychodrama and 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)
One Friday per month, Fall 2012: 9/14, 10/19, 11/16. 12/14

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 Tuesday of the month, 9:30 - 11:30 am
$60.00 for two hours of supervision; counts towards Licensure hours (six-month commitment)

Analytical Psychology: Clinical Consultation Group This time-limited consultation group provides an introduction to specific clinical fundamentals of Jungian psychology, including Jung’s work with complex theory and the role of archetypes. Dreams offer a particular doorway into revealing therapeutic considerations with trauma, a two-person model of therapy, and the value of metaphor and symbol. When working on case material, we will hold in mind thoughts on trauma, field therapy, self states, attachment models, and neuropsychology., as well as what emerges within the group.
Therapists: Nora Swan-Foster, ATR-BC, LPC, Jungian Analyst
Stephen Foster, LPC, Jungian Analyst
(303) 440-4000 or www.swanfoster.com
Size: 4-6 participants Fall and Spring dates and times to be determined.

Supervision / Consultation Groups for therapists focusing on understanding the therapist-client relationship; includes issues of resistance, transference-countertransference, boundaries, influence, acting out, and goal orientation and professional issues. Groups have been ongoing for 15-20 years.
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

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.
Therapist: Anne Cowardin, Ph.D., ACHt (720) 839-4741

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