Online support groups are affordable and convenient ways to protect your mental health during a time of social distancing.
Therapists you can match with on Mental Health Match are offering a variety of online groups that can help you find calm and community.
Check back for frequent updates to the support groups available to you:
Stress Reduction Skills for Healthcare Workers
- Open to: Healthcare Employees
- Cost: Free
- Meets: Tuesdays, 7-8:15 pm
- Led by: Suzanne Kamfar
- Click here for more information.
A supportive environment for social distancing
We believe in the beauty and strength of community and will offer FREE virtual meet-ups online during the pandemic. People feel socially isolated and anxious right now, and our human nature drives our desire for connection with others. Our online group is not therapy but a supportive environment for social distancing.
- Open to: Adults
- Cost: Free
- Meets: varying times throughout the week
- Led by: Rebecca Ray
- Click here for more information.
Process / Coping Skills
Part process group, part skill-building group, this group provides opportunities for people to share whatever is going on for them in a safe, non-judgemental space and to gain support and insight from others. The second portion of the group includes education on coping strategies, practice of skills, and/or more structured exercises for self-care and growth during this time.
- Open to: Adults 18+
- Cost: Pay what you can, with a minimum $5 investment per group
- Meets: Thursdays 4pm-6pm
- Led by: Allison Marek
- For more information, click here to email Allison.
COVID-19 Support Group
This is a group for anyone experiencing anxiety, loneliness, stress, or depression due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
- Open to: Individuals
- Cost: Donation based
- Meets: Mondays, 6:30-8:00pm
- Led by: Becky Reiter
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Open support-psychotherapy
Open support-psychotherapy group for those struggling with the effects of COVID-19. This group is open to anyone aged 18 or older, and is led by a licensed mental health professional.
- Open to: Adults 18+; 10 people max (first come, first served)
- Cost: Pay what you’re able
- Meets: Thursdays 10am-12pm
- Led by: Skeetz Edinger
Staying Connected and Grounded During a Pandemic
This pandemic has been disorienting for many of us. Houston Therapy clinicians, Veronica Welch and Emily Netherton are excited about providing a space of support for the next 8 weeks as we navigate this time of change together.
This virtual group is designed to provide support during this season of change. A mix between a process and support group, the online space will be a unique way to cultivate connection, flexibility and groundedness through the process of relationship.
We come together as humans first to share our current inner experiences and navigate them in an intentional context with a commitment to stepping into our possibilities individually and as a collective.
- Open to: All
- Cost: $75 per session
- Meets: Mondays 1pm- 2:30pm (8 week minimum commitment)
- Led by: Veronica Welch
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Body acceptance
Body Acceptance group is a process group for all folx interested in exploring their relationship with their body, dieting and movement.
- Open to: All folx, LGBTQ+ affirming and fat affirming
- Cost: $40
- Meets: weekly – Friday’s from 6 pm- 7:30 pm
- Led by: Brianna Ramon
- For more information, click here to email Brianna.
DBT Skills Therapy Group
- Open to: Adults
- Cost: $75
- Meets: Tuesdays, 6pm – 7:30pm
- Led by: Alexandra Marshall
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New moms peer support group
This is a peer support group to support mothers of infants and young children. It offers support for postpartum depression, anxiety, isolation, and more. It is open to every mother in Texas who wants support/community from other moms.
- Open to: Women in Texas who have had a baby within the past 2 years
- Cost: No fee. Always no cost.
- Meets: 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month, 1pm
- Led by: Kathryn Tipton
- Click here for more information.
Teen and Tween Girls
Truth Tribe groups for girls are a mixture of mindful movement, meaningful conversation and creative expression to help girls get out of their head and into their life powerfully. We believe every girl has everything she already needs inside of her, we’re just here to support her through the challenges of cleaning out mental clutter and perfectionism so she can know who she is at her core before she launches out into adulthood.
Benefits to teens:
- Truth sets you free
- Relate well
- Uniqueness is your gift
- Thrive in all areas
- Helping others humbles us
- Open to: Teen and Tween Girls
- Cost: $75
- Meets:
- Middle school group: Tuesdays 2:30-4pm.
- High school group: Thursdays 5:30-7:30pm
- Led by: Jill Tucker
- Click here for more information.
Parent of Teens and Tweens
Supporting parents of Teens and Tweens through the challenges of parenting teen girls through adolescence. Through this group you’ll:
- Learn tools to effectively communicate and connect with your kids
- Build confidence in your parenting
- Clarify what matters most for your kids to get while they are under your roof.
- Get real time answers to your toughest questions
- Open to: Parents of Teens and Tweens
- Cost: $50
- Meets: Thursdays, 11am-12:30pm
- Led by: Jill Tucker
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Female Survivors of Sexual Trauma (ages 18+) Virtual Group.
- Open to: Women only Ages 18+ (Adult survivors of childhood Sexual Abuse AND/OR Sexual Trauma in Adulthood)
- Cost: $30 per group
- Meets: Wednesdays 6:30p.m. to 8:00p.m.
- Led by: Briana Lefman
- Click here for more information.