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Alvord, Baker & Associates, LLC is a unique, caring, and innovative psychotherapy practice founded by Drs. Mary Alvord and Patricia Baker in 1983. Our practice offers therapy options for children, adolescents, adults, couples, and families, as well as group opportunities for all ages.
Our practice offers a variety of groups. Please see our website for more detailed information.
-The Resilience Builder Program® (RBP) is a group therapy program based on a CBT framework, which teaches skills that help children strengthen their social competence and self-regulation.
-CBT for Anxiety Group is rooted on the principles of cognitive behavioral therapy, which is the gold-standard treatment for anxiety disorders (generalized, social, panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive) in adolescents. As such, the group’s aim will be to change adolescents’ inaccurate/unhelpful thoughts along with unhealthy behaviors that inadvertently maintain the anxiety.
-Emotion Detectives Group [Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders in Children (UP-C)] is a group treatment program for children who present with symptoms or diagnoses of depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder, and/or difficulties regulating strong emotions. The UP-C is an evidence-based treatment that promotes change by reducing intense negative emotion states that present across emotional disorders. Child-focused techniques include emotion-focused education, awareness techniques, cognitive strategies, problem-solving, exposure to feared stimuli, and behavioral activation. Parents will also learn these skills as well as specific parenting techniques to help their child tolerate and reduce negative emotions.
-The Supportive Parenting for Anxious Childhood Emotions (SPACE) Group works with parents to address childhood or adolescent anxiety and/or OCD. While the child is the patient, it is the parent who attends the therapy sessions, learning to identify family accommodations that may inadvertently be contributing to their child’s anxiety. Participants will practice these skills in a personalized way in-between sessions to facilitate immediate change in household routines leading to anxiety reduction for their child. -
Capital Youth Services offers multiple single gender and coed groups for middle school, high school, and post high school. Our groups are skillfully and run by seasoned and experienced therapists. Winner of best group therapy for teens by Washingtonian magazine.
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Interactive, relationship based therapy groups for children and adolescents with parent groups for each active group.
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Expressive Therapy Center offers various ongoing weekly groups. Our groups are held on weekdays in the afternoon/evenings or on the weekends. The groups for children/teens are classified by age, grade level, and presenting issues. The concerns can include ADHD, anxiety, depression, ASD, social skills, adjustment issues, among others. These groups can incorporate a variety of skill building such as problem solving, social skills, emotional regulation, interpersonal skills, and distress tolerance. We also offer skills development groups for young adults and support groups for adults focusing on grief, divorce, mindfulness, and parenting.
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Growing Minds offers expertise in social-emotional development, specializing in early childhood through adolescence as well as parent support, with whole-person focus through individual, family, and group therapy modalities, along with collaboration with schools, specialists, and community resources.
Growing Minds is a safe and affirming space for families in every form and of all cultural backgrounds as well as the LGBTQ, BIPOC, and neurodivergent communities.
Our child therapy groups, low-cost early childhood groups, and interest-based daytime and after school classes are designed to provide facilitated play, art, movement, and feelings literacy to practice skills and tools for promoting social-emotional development, self-insight, growth mindset, and joyful interactions!Parent groups provide psychoeducation, compassionate support, and connection to a community of parents who can relate!
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The clinicians at McLean Psychotherapy Practices offer numerous ongoing Social Skills groups for children of varying ages and developmental levels. Each group is specifically tailored to address the challenges faced by the group members. We use a variety of therapeutic interventions, including expressive, art and play techniques. Groups typically run from September to June, with additional summer groups offered as well. In addition, we work collaboratively with parents, schools, and other treatment providers to ensure positive treatment outcomes. The primary goals of adolescent groups are to provide a safe environment for preadolescents and adolescents to talk about peer pressure, process their feelings about social interactions, develop and maintain friendships, increase self-esteem, and improve family relationships. These groups are tailored to address specific issues raised by group members.
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All the therapists in our practice are trained in group therapy and our practice focuses on children and adolescent groups working on social skills. We have curriculum that we build to meet the needs of each individual groups needs. Our curriculums are not boiler plate. Instead the therapists think of what each individual needs in the group and then works to integrate all the skills into the curriculum to best help foster growth and development in the areas most needed by the group members. Our groups run at 12-week increments, with two (2) parent individual meetings to help the parent reinforce what their child is learning in group. Our group therapy sessions typically run for 60 minutes. Our current groups include Elementary-Mixed Gender, Middle School Boys, Middle School Girls, High School Boys, and High School Girls.)
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The Center for Family Well-Being prioritizes premier holistic, whole-person care for individuals, couples, and families. Our highly trained therapists are ready to help you feel happier, make lasting change, and grow the foundations of well-being in your life! The Center for Family Well-Being’s In Tune™ group therapy program — now in its 15th year — offers mindfulness-based and relationship-focused clinical groups for kids, teens, young adults, and new parents. The benefits of combining psychotherapy with mindful awareness are clear: reduced anxiety, increased focus and attention, happier relationships, and greater calm, creativity, and well-being.
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The Ross Center is a multidisciplinary outpatient center offering a full spectrum of mental health services to children, teens and adults. This includes group and individual therapy, medication management, and a comprehensive testing and assessment program. Current group offerings for kids and parents include a Resilience Builder Program for elementary aged kids, SPACE groups for parents, and a Comprehensive DBT Program for teens aged 14-17.
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The Sibley Group is a team of over 20 specialized therapists who provide positive psychotherapy for families, adults and couples in the DC area. We offer groups for parents, children, teenagers, and young adults.