Groups and Classes

Process Art for Troubling Times – Free Community Workshop

Let’s gather as a community to gently notice the feelings that come up during these times. We’ll create process art together, exploring how uncertainty feels in our bodies and finding ways to hold and give expression to these emotions. Making…
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Beyond Loss: A Men’s Group for Processing Grief

Grief can feel heavy and overwhelming. Yet, too often, men are expected to carry it alone, in silence, without asking for help and while staying strong for others. Whether you’re mourning the loss of a loved one, a relationship, or…
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Process Art for Love & Loss

We’ve all had to let go of something we have loved, whether it is cherished dreams, relationships, places or people. Let’s take a moment to honor our losses through heartfelt art-making. Bring your own supplies or utilize the materials provided…
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Group: ADHD Affirmative Lab

Does this match your experience of yourself? Get very upset at the slightest signs of rejection Extreme productivity changes with not being able to do anything at all Thinking can be very fast and creative, but can also ruminate and…
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Process Art – Free Community Workshop

This creative gathering invites you to engage in introspective art-making, exploring the depths of your psyche. Connect with yourself and others in a supportive space as you express yourself through a variety of art materials. Bring your own supplies or…
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Group: Processing Grief through Art

This group is an invitation to allow and give expression to all our emotions, thoughts and feelings around loss through art-making. We will use drawing, painting, clay-making and other mediums to invite each person’s unique expression while offering and inviting…
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February 2025 The Gut-Brain Axis: Improving Gut Health in Supporting Optimal Well-Being

Free Community Workshop The human gut microbiome is comprised of a vast collection of bacteria, fungi, and viruses. The makeup of the gut microbiome influences human physical and emotional health via the gut-brain axis. A flourishing gut microbiome contributes to…
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Process Art for New Beginnings

When does our REAL life begin? Do yearly “resolutions” reflect our inner selves on this journey? We invite you to join us for process art in exploration of the space between the past and the future – this PRESENT golden…
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Process Art for the Incoming Light at the End of the Year

You are invited to join us for process art on what is being activated and experienced at this years’ end. As we approach the end of 2024 and move towards 2025, what is emerging? How do we experience winding the…
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Process Art for Parts: Unlocking our Relationship to Food

This month we’re focusing on the parts attuned to nourishing ourselves – and unresolved processes that may result in “emotional” over-eating, binging, purging/rejecting, and/or “with-holding” food and feelings. How are our relationship and actions around food an expression of our parts/selves…
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Process Art for Parts

Get to know more of your parts of your Self and express them through different art mediums. Date/Time: September 25th, 2024 from 4pm-6pm PT Location: Process Therapy Institute 1760 The Alameda, Suite 100, San Jose CA 95126 Cost: Free Contact…
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Archived: Collaging the Timeline of Our Lives

Creating a timeline with art supplies and collage including a secondary element of looking forward from where you are now into the future. This workshop is meant for therapists or anyone curious about looking at key points in their lives…
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Archived: DIY Therapeutic Interventions for Child/Teen Development

This workshop offers teachers, educators, and fellow therapists a toolbox of process interventions to use in working with children and teenagers. Workshop includes an experiential learning format with demonstrations of various expressive arts interventions that promote identity formation, awareness, and…
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Archived: December 2023 Free Community Workshop: The Gut-Brain Axis: Improving Gut Health in Supporting Optimal Well-Being

The human gut microbiome is comprised of a vast collection of bacteria, fungi, and viruses. The makeup of the gut microbiome influences human physical and emotional health via the gut-brain axis. A flourishing gut microbiome contributes to better health and…
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Archived: August 2023 Free Community Workshop: Relationships

Are you interested in improving your relationship? Learn and practice new relational skills? PTI is offering a new therapy group for relationship skills building. Come find out more at our next Free Community Workshop! Date/Time: Monday, August 21st 2023 from…
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Group: Successful Relationships

“You may not have the relationship you want. But you can have the relationship you make.” We will meet every Wednesday from 7-8:30 pm to practice relationship skills, process your relationship needs, and share and support each other. You can…
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Archived: July 2023 Free Community Workshop: Stress Release Yoga and Mindfulness

As a high performer, are you feeling stressed from work and relationships? I can help you there. As a form of low-impact exercise, yoga has been shown to lower stress hormones in our bodies while increasing beneficial brain chemicals like…
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Online Group: Stress Release Yoga and Mindfulness

Stress Release Yoga and Mindfulness Online Group As a high performer, are you feeling stressed from work and relationships? I can help you there. As a form of low-impact exercise, yoga has been shown to lower stress hormones in our…
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Group: Stress Release Yoga and Mindfulness

Stress Release Yoga and Mindfulness Group As a high performer, are you feeling stressed from work and relationships? I can help you there. As a form of low-impact exercise, yoga has been shown to lower stress hormones in our bodies…
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Group: Social Skills Therapy Group for Teens

This group is for young teens, ages 11-14. It will focus on expressing feelings, effective communication, conflict resolution, and boundaries. Attendees will share their own process, as well as hear from and relate to others. Engaging activities and role plays…
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Group: Divorce Support & Therapy Group for Teens

This group is for young teens, ages 11-14, who live between two homes. It will offer a sense of belonging, connection, and shared experience. Attendees will share their own process, as well as hear and relate to others on challenges…
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Archived: March 2023 Free Community Workshop: Relationship issues: Windows to personal healing

Communication is the most common problem people bring to couples counseling. And it’s true that effective, honest communication is essential to relationship success. Yet, it’s only a first step to unraveling deeper issues that each of us brings into a…
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Archived: April 2023 Free Community Workshop: Spring Cleaning 2.0: Inviting Flow

As Spring approaches, we may be tempted to revisit Marie Kondo’s “The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up” or any other individual compass we turn to in hopes of letting go of more things that accumulated over the year(s). We may…
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Archived: May 2023 Free Community Workshop: Introduction to Enneagram

I will introduce you to the Enneagram system of personality typing that describes patterns in how people interpret the world and manage their emotions. The Enneagram describes nine personality types and maps each of these types on a nine-pointed diagram…
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Online Group: Grief and Loss Support Group

Welcome. If you have lost a loved one and are looking for help to move through your grief, this online group is for you. It is a space to share, process, and learn in a compassionate, safe environment. Facilitation is…
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Archived: Jan 2023 Free Community Workshop: Somatic ways to help your anxiety in the moment

Knowledge is power. Take control back from anxiety and reduce your reaction to stress! Come learn about anxiety and how it works in you brain! Learn about flight or fight responses as well as the vagal nerve and the effects…
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Archived: Nov 2022 Free Community Workshop:
Home For The Holidays? Support & Self Care for Adult Children from Difficult Families

Many adults are now finding themselves heading back into an all too familiar situation: spending time with family members who don’t really “see them,” who fail to respect their boundaries, are often critical or unkind, have a pattern of belittling or…
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