GROUP PROGRAMS

Explore our tailored evidence-based clinical and research-based educational group programs for children, tweens, teens, and parents. 

Clinical Programs

Clinical programs are led by our licensed therapists and billed as mental health intervention. The clinical group programs offer participants the opportunity to work on and troubleshoot specific areas of challenge to support therapeutic growth.

Clinical services are reimbursable by PPO healthcare insurance, FSA, or HSA.

Our Current Offerings

  • In Mighty Minds, our skilled clinicians and experienced support staff utilize evidence-based cognitive behavioral strategies that support kid’s ability to regulate their emotions. We help them learn how their thoughts, feelings, and behaviors are connected and practice mindfully paying attention to what is going on in their bodies and minds, noticing and labeling emotions as they occur. We integrate research-based emotional regulation skills with fun, experiential games and activities that connect kids’ interests to make the material compelling and engaging. Learn more

  • Mighty Minds 2 builds upon the skills kids develop in Mighty Minds. Our skilled clinicians and experienced support staff utilize evidence-based cognitive behavioral strategies to help Mighty Minds alumni renew practice with emotion regulation and mindful awareness. With new experiential games and activities, kids will rediscover how their thoughts, feelings and behaviors are connected. They will develop more strategies for mindfully paying attention to what is going on in their bodies and minds, and continue noticing and labeling emotions in the company of alumni peers. Learn more

  • The Middle School Series: Navigating Social Dynamics aims to help you understand how social relationships affect us and how we can affect our own social relationships.

    Our discussions cover various types of social relationships, provide tips on making and keeping friendships, and recognize healthy versus unhealthy friendship characteristics. Learn more

  • This yoga-based group is designed for teens coping with the inevitable anxiety that accompanies the many life transitions they are navigating in high school.

    Drawing on gentle movement, yoga, and other mindfulness-based tools, we will work with both body and mind to support participants in feeling more grounded as they move through changes in their bodies, lives, friendships, and more. Learn more

  • Let’s face it: having a child struggling with inattention, distractibility, or hyperactivity/impulsivity can be TOUGH. If you feel like you’re constantly giving your child a million reminders or telling them what NOT to do, the Behavioral Parenting Group may be for you!

    Clinical research generally suggests that the most effective way to intervene around challenging behaviors in these categories (inattention, distractibility, hyperactivity/impulsivity) is to help parents scaffold the environment in a way that will help decrease the behaviors you DON’T want to see, and increase the behaviors you DO want to see (i.e., behavioral parenting or super parenting!!). Learn more

Educational Programs

Educational programs are designed to be educational in nature (not therapy or treatment) and offer lower-cost opportunities to learn and practice life skills related to emotional well-being.

Educational programs may be led by either our licensed therapists or other staff members who are not licensed mental healthcare professionals.

Programs in this category do not serve as or substitute for therapeutic intervention and costs of these program consequently do not qualify as an eligible expense for insurance reimbursement.

Our Current Offerings

  • Mistakes happen! And sometimes mistakes feel like a big deal. The thoughts we tell ourselves are so powerful, they can change the way we rebound from a mistake. Our thoughts have the power to stop us in our tracks, or even give up. But our thoughts can also motivate us to keep going, experiment and try again.

    When we persevere through a mistake, it can feel like discovering a superpower! And it kind of is. Mistakes are a natural part of learning something new, sometimes by total surprise. Some of the world’s most awesome inventions were created by mistake. The chocolate chip cookie? A mistake. The popsicle? A mistake. Play-doh? Oops. Learn More

  • Are you a parent wishing you knew more about best practices with technology use for kids and teens? Join Practice San Francisco licensed psychologist Joe Tarantino, PhD (CA PSY 33972) for an insightful workshop designed to help you as parents learn more about how best to support your kids in managing screens and technology skillfully (and with minimal conflict!). Learn more

  • On-Demand Webinar with Dr. Nina Kaiser

    As parents, it is TOUGH to watch our kids struggling with anxiety. And it’s also hard to know exactly how best to help! Dr. Nina Kaiser provides a road map around HOW to support your child-- both in terms of how to respond to kids in the moments that they are anxious, and also in terms of how to talk about and plan for anxiety proactively in order to make it more likely that kids build the skills they need to navigate new anxiety-provoking situations as they come up. Learn more

  • On-Demand Webinar with Dr. Nina Kaiser

    Hey, if you’re a parent to an elementary school-aged kid with big feelings, this webinar is for you! Learn research-based skills around how we as parents can most effectively respond to our kids in the moments that they are losing it… and also strategies that can help kids build emotion regulation skills over time. Learn more

  • On-Demand Webinar with Dr. Stephanie Rooney

    Join Dr. Stephanie Rooney, expert adolescent psychologist and mom, for a 45-minute webinar in which you’ll get the quick download on the six common mistakes parents make with anxious teens… and how to avoid (or repair!) them! Dr. Stephanie’s direct and punchy style will provide you with a no-nonsense guide to supporting your anxious teen, including concrete strategies and resources. Designed for the busy parent, this lunch hour webinar provides the “how-to” basics of parenting anxious teens with steps that can be taken immediately. Learn more

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