Find the Best Therapy Groups in New York
Therapy groups and support groups for DBT skills, addiction recovery, trauma, anxiety, and loss run by the best therapists and psychologists in New York
Women's Trauma Group
Group Therapist:
Victoria Navarro
Time:
Tuesdays 5-6:15pm
Description:
This remote women’s trauma group for NY residents provides a safe, supportive space to build trust and community in recovery. Members connect, share, and support each other’s healing journey.
DBT skills group (Virtual)
Group Therapist:
Michael Morgan
Time:
Tuesdays, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Description:
This DBT group is a supportive, skill-focused space where members learn strategies to manage emotions, reduce stress, and improve relationships. Through guided sessions members gain tools to navigate life’s challenges with resilience.
Burnout Skills and Support Group
Group Therapist:
Jessica Stern
Time:
Wednesdays at 1:00pm
Description:
This open-ended group is for those who are finding themselves burnt out from work, their personal responsibilities, and anything else.
ADHD x Anxiety Skills Group
Group Therapist:
Jessica Stern
Time:
Mondays at 1:00pm
Description:
This 16-session closed group is for those who are interested in working through the interaction between their anxiety and their ADHD.
Parenting Group for Moms: Managing Your Elementary School Age Child's ADHD
Group Therapist:
Michelle Casarella
Time:
Thursdays 12pm EST starting 2/13
Description:
Parenting group for moms w/ elementary school age ADHD children: manage their intense emotions, understand how their brain works, support them with school/friendships & manage unstructured holiday time. Facilitated by psychologist & mom of ADHD child.
LGBTQ Neurodivergent
Group Therapist:
Hudson Square Therapy
Time:
Mondays, Tuesday, Wednesdays, or Thursdays at 5pm (TBD)
Description:
This on-going therapy group is designed for LGBTQ neurodivergent individuals who need a supportive and affirming space to discuss the obstacles of being neurodivergent.
Empowered Healing: A Closed Group for Narcissistic Abuse Recovery
Group Therapist:
Knew You Psychotherapy
Time:
Fridays at 8:00pm
Description:
I’m excited to introduce Empowered Healing is a safe, supportive space designed specifically for individuals like you, who are ready to break free from the damaging effects of narcissistic abuse and reclaim their lives.
After Hours Art Club
Group Therapist:
Lauren Fabrizio
Time:
Fridays 7:00 - 8:15pm
Description:
Once monthly virtual art studio group.
Self Love Group
Group Therapist:
Nicole Nabors
Time:
Monday 7pm-8:30 pm
Description:
The 8-Week Self-Love Group is a supportive and transformative journey designed to help participants cultivate a deeper sense of self-acceptance, kindness, and personal empowerment. Each week focuses on a unique theme.
Overcoming People Pleasing & Cultivating Self-Trust
Group Therapist:
Alyssa Kushner
Time:
Tuesdays from 5:15-6:30 pm EST
Description:
This is a virtual group for adults in their 20s/30s in any state to work on overcoming people pleasing tendencies, perfectionism, & cultivating self-trust. Open discussion, journaling, handouts and education, skills building, & mindful selfcompassion.
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Sober Curious Support Group
Group Therapist:
Alyssa Kushner
Time:
TBD as group is still forming - flexible
Description:
This is a virtual group for anyone in any state looking for a space to explore their relationship with alcohol. For you if you interested in taking a break from alcohol use, cutting back, mindfully drinking, or contemplating going alcohol free.
Men's Processing Group
Group Therapist:
Roots and Branches Therapy
Time:
Monday 7:30 PM
Description:
In this in-person group you will have a safe and inviting space to share your stories and struggles with other men.
Trauma Processing Groups
Group Therapist:
Roots and Branches Therapy
Time:
TBD
Description:
The purpose of this group is to reduce your symptoms of PTSD and reduce feelings of shame by share your story in a safe space with other survivors.
Gottman’s 7-Principles for Couplehood
Group Therapist:
Roots and Branches Therapy
Time:
TBD
Description:
Gottman’s 7-Principles for Couplehood is a group based on John Gottman’s 30 years of research into what makes relationships work and the Gottman Method (a form of couples therapy) developed by Dr. Gottman and, his wife, Dr. Julie Gottman.
DBT Skills Support Group (Level II)
Group Therapist:
Roots and Branches Therapy
Time:
Wednesdays 7:00pm-8:30pm
Description:
This group was created as an extension of our DBT Skills Training Group in response to our client's wish to have continued group support in utilizing their skills. Clients share with the group each week when they felt they had a skill win and challenge.
Nicole Gonzalez
Group Therapist:
Roots and Branches Therapy
Time:
Mondays at 6:30pm
Description:
This group is a welcoming space where asexual & aromantic individuals share their experiences, struggles, and stories, and receive support, empathy, validation and guidance in processing their lived experience and exploring their identity.
New York Mental Health Club: A Relational Process Group
Group Therapist:
Grace Dickman
Time:
Mondays 7-8:30pm
Description:
This is a group for New Yorkers ages 25-45 who are looking to foster meaningful relationships with themselves and others.
New York Mental Health Club: A Relational Process Group
Group Therapist:
Alana Durand
Time:
Mondays 7-8:30pm
Description:
An intentional, relational, trauma-informed group designed to help participants process relationship challenges, build somatic awareness, practice boundary setting, and create meaningful connections with others.
Trauma Centered Post Partum Support Group for Birthing Parents
Group Therapist:
Amanecer Feminist Counseling Services
Time:
Wednesdays. 11am-12:00pm
Description:
This is a trauma informed process group, designed to support mutual aid between parents who are experiencing stress, anxiety and isolation post partum.
DBT Skills Training Group (Level I)
Group Therapist:
Roots and Branches Therapy
Time:
Tuesdays 7:00-8:30PM
Description:
DBT was created by Martha Linehan to treat people struggling with Borderline Personality Disorder, which had previously been deemed untreatable. We find that DBT skills are useful to everyone. Including us!
Empowering Creatives Through Recovery
Group Therapist:
Wholeview Direct
Time:
Wednesdays 3:00pm-4:00pm
Description:
Empowering Creatives Through Recovery is a specialized process group tailored for individuals with substance use disorders who are creative professionals (artists, writers, musicians, designers, etc.) or self-identify as creatives.
Group for Millennial Black Women
Group Therapist:
Fanny Tristan
Time:
Wednesdays 7:30-9pm
Description:
A weekly virtual processing group for Black women ages 25-40 in NY/NJ seeking space to explore topics of the various Black female millennial experiences.
Grief and Loss
Group Therapist:
Wholeview Direct
Time:
Thursdays 1:00pm-2:00pm
Description:
The Grief Processing Group allows you to come together with other individuals to share the difficulties of the grieving process.
Supportive Expressive Therapy (Set)
Group Therapist:
Wholeview Direct
Time:
Thursdays 11:00am-12:00pm
Description:
Supportive-Expressive Therapy is an evidence-based treatment for a variety of mental health problems including substance use disorders. At Wholeview, we provide a specific manualized form of SET group based on the Harvard Cocaine Recovery Project.
Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Night Group
Group Therapist:
Wholeview Direct
Time:
Wednesdays 6:00pm-7:00pm
Description:
This group helps patients understand and effectively communicate and utilize difficult emotions and thoughts through skill building.
Men in Recovery
Group Therapist:
Wholeview Direct
Time:
Wednesdays 3:00pm-4:00pm
Description:
If you’re a male-identified individual seeking a safe, affirming group to share and support in their recovery, this group is for you. We cover challenges for men in recovery - including seeking help, vulnerability, loneliness, anger, and shame.
Skin Deep
Group Therapist:
Wholeview Direct
Time:
Wednesdays 11:00am-12:00pm
Description:
This group aims to provide a safe and secure atmosphere for you to share similar problems or concerns as it pertains to being POC in the United States.
Stages of Change
Group Therapist:
Wholeview Direct
Time:
Tuesdays 1:00pm-2:00pm
Description:
This group’s focus is based on a range of evidence-based psychological theories and approaches to understanding and measuring how people change.
Safe and Secure
Group Therapist:
Wholeview Direct
Time:
Mondays 6:00pm-7:00pm
Description:
The group focuses on helping you eliminate substance use, reduce trauma/mental health symptoms, and increase safety from high-risk behaviors.
Emotion Regulation (Anger Management)
Group Therapist:
Wholeview Direct
Time:
Mondays 1:00pm-2:00pm
Description:
This group aims to help you have a healthier relationship with anger. In doing so, you can gain more self-confidence and self-control while also relieving substance use symptoms and improving relationships, communication skills, and conflict management.
Support Group for People that Identify as an Artist
Group Therapist:
The Empowerment Opportunity
Time:
6-7pm Thursdays beginning the first week of September
Description:
Working as an artist can be very challenging and at times lonely. Our support group will consist of professional/aspiring artists of all types (visual, performing, etc.) and offer resources and both therapeutic and practical support.
Queer Identifying Group
Group Therapist:
Rose Hill Psychological Services
Time:
Wednesdays 5:00pm-6:00pm
Description:
Join an intimate group to connect with people from LGBTQ+ community who are interested to listen to the shared vulnerabilities that are within the queer identity and everything beyond.
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Virtual DBT Skills Group
Group Therapist:
Lauren Laguna
Time:
Thursdays 7pm-8:30pm
Description:
Join Lauren Laguna, LCSW, for an engaging and supportive virtual DBT skills group. This group is for adults who identify as women, trans, or nonbinary and are seeking practical tools to manage their emotional reactions in their daily lives.
Early Career Clinician Consultation and Countertransference Group
Group Therapist:
Brittany (Becker) Kravat
Time:
Every Other Tuesday from 2:00-3:00 PM EST
Description:
This is a safe space for mental health providers to process difficult topics that arise both personally and professionally in relation to the work they do to support others.
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Codependency Resiliency Support Group
Group Therapist:
Alyssa Kushner
Time:
Wednesdays from 4:00-5:15pm EST
Description:
This virtual group is for anyone in any state that is struggling with codependency. This is a safe, compassionate, and intimate group that meets weekly at an ongoing basis. Handouts, journal prompts, skills, and open discussion are included.
DBT-Lite for High-Achieving/Perfectionistic Adults
Group Therapist:
Brooke Schwartz
Time:
TBD
Description:
8 week skill-based group for adults experiencing -Perfectionism -High levels of anxiety -High expectations for performance -Difficulty with intense emotions -Difficulty with openness and flexibility -Trouble with self-compassion
Good Mourning Grief Support Group
Group Therapist:
Closetless Mental Health Counseling
Time:
Tuesdays 7pm-8:30pm and Wednesdays 7pm-8:30pm
Description:
This is a support group for those who have suffered the loss of a loved one.
Fear of Flying Group
Group Therapist:
Alan Jacobson
Time:
Several
Description:
This fear of flying group is for those afraid to fly or don't fly and experience severe anticipatory fears and/or anxiety while in flight. I use a variety of clinical techniques, and you get excellent group support. The results have been very positive.
Conscious Mindset is the Foundation: Group Therapy for Eliminating Money Mindset Blocks for Ambitious Female Business Owners
Group Therapist:
Kat Vollono
Time:
Wednesdays 6-7:30pm
Description:
The sad truth is… no one is going to change your relationship with money but YOU. Together, we will help you move through limiting beliefs and emotions like shame, anxiety, fear, and guilt that are stopping you from growing your service-based business.
Grief and Bereavement Group
Group Therapist:
Melissa Walker
Time:
Thursdays 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.
Description:
This is a 12-week group for those coping with the loss of a loved one. Members will have an opportunity to share their experience and seek connection with others who are also experiencing grief.
Sisterhood Empowered: Nurturing Wellness for Black Women
Group Therapist:
Shawn James
Time:
6:00pm-7:30pm
Description:
This virtual group focuses on nurturing mental, spiritual, physical, and emotional well-being through supportive discussions and therapeutic exercises, fostering a sense of sisterhood and empowerment.
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Dreamwork Art Therapy Group
Group Therapist:
Maggi Colwell
Time:
Wednesdays at 6-7:30pm
Description:
Dreamwork group provides education about understanding your dreams and how to use them to gain insight and make changes in your life. We utilize art materials to better understand the symbolism. Group discussion and support.
6 week, Somatic Inner Child Healing Group
Group Therapist:
Moira Casalino
Time:
November 26th
Description:
Inner Child wounds is usually the root of out anxiety, attachment issues and how we relate to others and the world around us. I will help you identify your wounds and teach you tangible tools to heal them.
Adult Process Group for All Backgrounds
Group Therapist:
Rose Hill Psychological Services
Time:
Tuesdays 6:00-7:00pm
Description:
Group therapy offers a rewarding opportunity for those who wish to feel connected with others and struggle with a sense of isolation. It supports you to expand individual development to regain passion, creativity and love.
Stress Management for Parenting Fathers
Group Therapist:
Joe Atanasio
Time:
Every other Monday from 6:00pm-7:00pm
Description:
Fathers will learn coping skills to engage in self-care and manage anxiety/stress while still being present for their families. Peers will be able to provide support and advice in helping with parenting challenges and every-day stress events.
Teen Girls Group Living with Chronic Illness
Group Therapist:
Kelsey Bates
Time:
Wednesdays 6:00-7:15 PM for 8 weeks
Description:
Online therapy group for teen girls aged 13-17 navigating chronic illness such as endometriosis, long covid, HSD/EDS and dysautonomia/POTS. Available in Washington DC, Virginia, Maryland & New York.
Women's Therapy Group for Chronic Pain & Chronic Illness
Group Therapist:
Kelsey Bates
Time:
Tuesdays 6:00pm-7:15pm for 8 weeks
Description:
Online support group designed to provide tools and hope for women navigating chronic pain or chronic illness such as endometriosis, fibromyalgia, Ehlers-Danlos Syndrome/HSD, pelvic pain, adenomyosis, long covid and autoimmune disorders.
HERstory: Healing and Empowerment in Recovery
Group Therapist:
Wholeview Direct
Time:
Mondays 11:00am-12:00pm
Description:
Recovery is an opportunity to get know yourself intimately and find the space to step into your full self. Too often, gender does not get the attention it deserves. This group provides that space for folk who identify as women.
Dungeons and Dragons Adult Social Skills and Anxiety Management Group
Group Therapist:
Joe Atanasio
Time:
Every other Monday 6:00pm-7:30pm
Description:
Combining group talk therapy and game therapy, this group utilizes the table top game Dungeons and Dragons to help members work as a team while building their communication, self-confidence building, critical thinking, and conflict management skills.
Panic/Anxiety Group
Group Therapist:
Merav Gur
Time:
Mondays 5:15pm-6:15pm
Description:
This 4-session group uses a combination of ACT (acceptance & commitment therapy), CBT, and psycho-education principles to help clients struggling with panic/anxiety better manage their symptoms and triggers.
Wellness While Sheltering in Place
Group Therapist:
Aurora Center NYC
Time:
Tuesdays at 7:30pm
Description:
Wellness While Sheltering Place is an online therapy group designed to support and teach participants skills, tools, tips, techniques, and activities to better cope with the current quarantine conditions imposed by COVID-19.
Yoga Therapy Group
Group Therapist:
Aurora Center NYC
Time:
Tuesdays at 5pm & Fridays at 11am
Description:
This twice-weekly online yoga therapy group aims to create connection and foster wellbeing during the COVID-19 pandemic.
COVID-19 College Student Support Group
Group Therapist:
Aurora Center NYC
Time:
Wednesdays at 7:30pm
Description:
This weekly online group provides a space for college students to process the challenges posed by the COVID-19 pandemic with other peers who are also adjusting to this new normal.
Recovery in Color
Group Therapist:
Aurora Center NYC
Time:
Mondays at 7pm
Description:
Recovery In Color is an online support group providing a safe space for individuals of color to discuss and process their personal experiences with disordered eating and eating disorder treatment.
Binge Eating Disorder Group
Group Therapist:
Aurora Center NYC
Time:
Mondays at 6:45pm
Description:
This 4-week group offers support and strategies for individuals struggling with binge eating disorder during these uncertain times.
Acceptance and Commitment Therapy for Substance Use
Group Therapist:
James Benton
Time:
Saturdays 12:00pm
Description:
This weekly group utilizes acceptance and commitment therapy to help participants explore the triggers that lead to avoidant behaviors and develop the willingness to act in a way in-line with personal values and goals.
Divorce Support Group for Mothers
Group Therapist:
Babita Spinelli
Time:
Thursdays and Saturdays (Time TBD)
Description:
This virtual group provides a space for recently separated or divorced mothers to work through their emotions and share experiences with other women going through similar challenges.
Support Group for Parents of Neurodiverse Children
Group Therapist:
Hili Tsarfati
Time:
Every other week 3/25/20-07/01/20
Description:
This 8-week group aims to connect parents of special needs children to other parents facing the same joy and challenges that come with parenting their child.
DBT Skills Group for Professionals in Business, Technology, Law, Healthcare, the Arts & Education
Group Therapist:
Matthew Mandelbaum
Time:
Mondays at 7:30pm-8:30pm beginning 1/27/20; Wednesdays at 1:30pm beginning TBD
Description:
This 10-week group is for professionals looking to improve their interpersonal effectiveness, self-understanding, and stress management skills using evidence-based DBT.
Reclaiming Sexual Intimacy: A 2-Part Workshop for Trauma Survivors
Group Therapist:
Sarah Betz
Time:
November 9 and November 16 from 2pm-4pm
Description:
This two-part workshop for female-identified trauma survivors provides participants with information about trauma and consent in addition to offering skills for dealing with triggers in sexually intimate contexts.
Breakup Therapy Group
Group Therapist:
Sarah Gundle
Time:
Wednesdays from 5:30pm-6:30pm
Description:
This 4-week group run by Dr. Sarah Gundle, PsyD provides compassionate support for individuals going through a traumatic breakup or divorce.
Let's Talk Mindful Sobriety
Group Therapist:
Talking for Wellness
Time:
Mondays 5:15pm– 6:30pm
Description:
This weekly group offers individuals in recovery from substance use a chance to receive support from peers and learn relapse prevention strategies for long-term recovery.
Let's Talk Dating Mastery
Group Therapist:
Talking for Wellness
Time:
Thursdays 5:00pm-6:15pm
Description:
This weekly group helps participants address personal boundaries to successful relationships by gaining insight to internal patterns of fear, awkwardness, and low-confidence.
Men's Addiction, Recovery, and Relapse Prevention group
Group Therapist:
Uptown Therapy and Wellness
Time:
Tuesdays at 6:00pm (tentative); start date TBD
Description:
This weekly group for men in recovery from substance use (as well as for those curious about recovery and pursuing sobriety) offers skill-based sessions to prevent relapse, increase resiliency, and provide support.
Navigating Loss: A Grief & Bereavement Support Group
Group Therapist:
Anna Zelig
Time:
Thursdays from 4:30-5:30pm
Description:
This 8-week group provides a supportive and understanding environment for those who have just experienced a loss and wish to move forward in their lives while also exploring different ways of memorializing their loved one.
Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT) Skills Class
Group Therapist:
Maggie Ritnour
Time:
Wednesdays from 6:00pm-7:30pm
Description:
Are you feeling emotionally lonely or struggling to connect? Come to RO Skills Class to learn skills for increasing connection!