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Online support groups are always available and open for participation 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Please choose any group(s) from below. Once you register, you will be e-mailed the confidential password to gain access to the Support Room. If you do not like to type, or just prefer a human voice, we invite you to consider participating in our Telephone Support Groups.
 
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Although groups are therapeutic by nature, ours are NOT therapy, and should not be considered as such.

If you feel suicidal or are experiencing a crises beyond the supportive nature of these groups, please contact a 24-hour Crises Hotline, usually found in the front of most telephone books. You can also type in Suicide Hotline in your browser’s search field; or contact your local police or public emergency line (9-1-1 in the U.S.)


All our groups are free, However if you feel you would like or need more personal attention than you can get in a one hour telephone support group, therapists on our site are available on a fee-for-service basis. If you would like to meet with a therapist or attend a support group in-person in or near your own community, please visit our site’s Counseling and Support Group Resource section.

  Adult Loss Of A Parent
 

You knew it was coming, but you could only anticipate what the loss of your mother, father or step-parent means. Get new perspectives on that relationship you had, even now.


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 Group Facilitator:
Alexandra Kennedy, MA,
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  Alcohol and Drug Addiction
 

There are definitely better things you could be doing with your life – you realize that now. But you leave behind a habit and you leave behind people and scenes that fed those addictions. Here’s a place to get with other people who are swimming in the same direction as you, just as hard.
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Group Facilitator:
Marc Sadoff, (MSW,
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  Alzheimer's and Dementia
 

Seeing someone you love lose the capacity and self-sufficiency they prided themselves on is frustrating for you, frustrating for them. But as dementia progresses, the frustrations are less shared and more of a wall between you. Together with others who understand, you can share your loss and gain support and ideas for coping with the days ahead.


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 Group Facilitator:
Sandi Garron, Gerontology
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  Anger Management
 

Do you want to find solutions to your rage? Our psychotherapist facilitator has been where you may be now. He had been fired, divorced and depressed and once lived a long history of rage problems which set him on many paths looking for solutions. He pounded pillows for years and meditated daily for over a decade – to no avail. He expressed himself and lived by Anger, Blame and Criticism. These ABCs could not support him or his relationships. Since 1994 he has been happily married and life is good. He is committed to bringing a message of hope to those who are angry, helping them: learn to Abstain, Believe and Communicate. These are the true ABCs of anger resolution, for life! We’re here to support you as you make changes to create a happy, healthy life for yourself.
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Group Facilitator:
Newton Hightower, LMSW
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  Depression, Anxiety, Phobias, Mental Illness
 

A support group may not be the only help you should get, but it’s one way to work with others and a facilitator to help you sort out and see the landscape around you.


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 Group Facilitator:
Stephanie Eldringhoff, M.A.
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  Eating Disorders
 

It may be that a group of people like yourself, outside your immediate community, and help each other out of the strange and somehow natural urges you have struggled with.
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Group Facilitator:
Howard Weithorn, Clinical
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  Facing a Life Threatening Illness or Disability
 

What once seemed so remote presents itself to you now full face. The diminishing ability to manage on your own and perhaps even the prospect of your own mortality. How can anyone know the feelings you have? By having nearly the same set of challenges before them.


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 Group Facilitator:
Robert (Bob) Deits, Master
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  General Grief
 

This may be your gateway to the walk you must take through your loss. There are simply approaches you must discover to facing up to that walk, and to those first steps toward the other side of grief. Our general support group can prepare you. Later, perhaps other groups can escort you along if you so desire.
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Group Facilitator:
Hanna Chusid, Ed.D,
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  Loss of a Child (Baby, Child, Teen, Miscarriage, Stillbirth)
 

What injustice could be greater? It is easy to feel guilt, regret, anger and overwhelming sadness. Come and reach those more difficult feelings. You may never forgive fate, but perhaps you can approach reconciliation and learn that there is life after loss.


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 Group Facilitator:
Brenda Penepent, LPN
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  Loss of a Spouse or Partner
 

Those feelings of longing are not unique to you, you know that. You have known others who have lost their “other half,” even if they are not people you feel comfortable confiding in. Online or by phone, many of the barriers to sharing brea
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Group Facilitator:
Rachel Weinstein, MS,
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  Loss of an Adult Son or Daughter
 

Their life was out of your hands, but never out of your heart.


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 Group Facilitator:
Rocco Marino, Clinical
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  Loss of Same Sex Spouse/Partner
 

This may be a more welcoming place than the general spouse/partner loss group for issues of how a larger community recognizes your grief and your needs. In these dynamic times of greater recognition of same-sex couples, there are new and evolving ways to find the support you need.
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Group Facilitator:
Jill Denton, LMFT,
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  Men’s Grief
 

It comes in a different wrapper, oftentimes an air-tight wrapper. Venting may seem to fan emotional fires within a man, but it also helps burn up the fuel. Men who may not be used to this kind of sharing can pool their grief anonymously, gradually if they like. It’s a man’s way to attack the suffering within.


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 Group Facilitator:
Ron Petrie, MS,
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  Problem Relationships
 

If things are ever to work their way out of a problem cycle in your important relationship, it won’t be by continuing in that cycle alone.
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Group Facilitator:
Sylvia Weishaus, Clinical
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  Suicide Survivors
 

Could anyone have known this would happen? You may be more able to separate yourself from feelings of guilt and questions of cause when you see that you are feeling something that is common and natural in this situation, but something that you don’t have to carry forever.


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 Group Facilitator:
Susan Gittleman Davies, MSW,
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  Weight Loss Support
 

Our facilitator, Karen Russell, knows the pain of what you are going through. She once weighed 225 pounds and the size 6 she currently wears seemed an impossible dream. But achieving a healthy weight IS possible, and this group will help you get there. We'll explore what it takes--from meal planning and nutritional issues, to mindset and tips to get you there. We'll support you as you become the healthy person you dream of.
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Group Facilitator:
Karen Russell, MA
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  When Children Grieve
 

Within smaller, tender frames the shockwaves of loss hit very hard. There are few other experiences in young lives to cushion the blow. As a caring parent, family member or friend, perspective is hard to come by. Does grief seem to be turning your world upside-down, along with your child’s? Not sure what to do or say? Support is at hand as you help small hearts with big hurts.


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 Group Facilitator:
Virginia Simpson, Ph.D.,
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