Groups are open to current Baywell patients and the community. If you are interested in signing up, please contact our front desk at [email protected] or call 415-922-9122.
Empowering Women with ADHD: Skills and Support group
Facilitated by Dr. Olesya Pokorna
Start date: Monday, April 21st
12 sessions meeting weekly on Mondays, 5-6pm
We are inviting you to join a safe and supportive space for women navigating life with ADHD. This group will provide education, practical strategies for managing symptoms, and the opportunity to connect with others who understand your experiences.
Living with ADHD as a woman can present unique challenges, and this group aims to address those directly. We’ll explore topics such as:
- Evidence-based information about neurobiology of executive dysfunction
- Understanding the impact of hormonal changes on ADHD symptoms
- Learning effective organizational and time management skills
- Managing emotional dysregulation and impulsivity
- Navigating societal expectations and gender roles with ADHD
- Building self-compassion and overcoming self-criticism
- Strengthening relationships and communication skills.
It takes time and continuity to build a cohesive, supportive, and effective group. This is why we hope you can commit to the entire program, and we are not offering a drop-in option at this time.
If you are interested in signing up for this group, please contact our front desk staff at [email protected] or call 415-922-9122.
Active Hope Group: Support for climate distress in a rapidly changing world
Facilitated by Dr. Chantal Forfota, Dr. Rebecca Watters, and Dr. Carson Brown
“Our times confront us with realities that are painful to face, difficult to take in, and confusing to live with. Our approach is to see this as the starting point of an amazing journey that strengthens us and deepens our aliveness.”
—Joanna Macy
If you feel overwhelmed by fear, anger, despair, and grief amid climate change and the related social and political crises, you are not alone.
Each week, we will read and discuss a section of Joanna Macy’s book Active Hope and experience practices from her Work That Reconnects, including conversation prompts, guided visualizations, centering techniques, stories, rituals, and reflective exercises. In a supportive community, this process generates the resilient, creative responses that our world needs.
Dr. Macy, a scholar of Buddhism, systems theory, and deep ecology, reminds us that climate distress is a healthy and necessary response to what is happening around us, and she offers new perspectives that support wellbeing while working for change.
This group will be held over ten sessions on Zoom, dates and times to be announced. A diagnosis is required to bill insurance for those with in-network benefits; anyone who prefers to circumvent diagnosis may use the self-pay option.
If you are interested in joining the group, please contact the Baywell office. You are welcome to schedule a 15-minute introductory call with one of the facilitators to answer any questions.
We look forward to engaging our deepest humanity to face the challenges of our time and find joy and connection in the process.
If you are interested in signing up for this group, please contact our front desk staff at [email protected] or call 415-922-9122.
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If you are interested in signing up for any of these groups, please contact our front desk staff at [email protected] or call 415-922-9122.