Group Therapy
Los Angeles Group Therapy Sessions
Group therapy sessions in Los Angeles, CA are an integral part of the Inneractions Program. The group setting accomplishes a few things: First, it provides the community and support that clients need while navigating the recovery process. Second, groups gives clients the opportunity to tackle complex subjects in front of peers and family. And third, clients practice cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) techniques, mindfulness and breathing exercises, and acupuncture all in a group setting.
Each group therapy session is guided by our trained facilitators and is focused around a specific topic. We offer three one hour sessions per day and all clients are required to attend three out of four days per week (Mon-Thurs). Special groups like our Family Programming Group and Acupuncture Group meet bi-weekly or monthly.
Monthly Group Meetings
Family Programming Group
When: Last Friday of every month
Duration: 3 hrs
Description: Family members and significant others are offered the opportunity to participate in client/family sessions with other families, program therapist and counselor.
Sobriety Groups
When: Monthly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: Come join other women in recovery who want to feel nurtured, understood and guided in their busy lives. It can be daunting to balance the multiple roles that many women play, while trying to remain healthy and grounded.
Bi-Weekly Group Meetings
Codependency Group
When: Bi-weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: Come join others in learning how to have healthier and more fulfilling relationships by relinquishing the imaginary ability you may believe you have to keep our loved ones safe. Codependent relationships are a struggle for many. Adopting new methods of demonstrating compassion while at the same time setting healthy boundaries, can free you of the painful burden of feeling you are responsible for your loved ones recovery at the cost of your own emotional and physical health.
Acupuncture Group
When: Bi-weekly Duration: 1 hr Description: Our licensed acupuncturist specializes in helping the mind and body achieve a sense of calm and healing during recovery.
When: Bi-weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: Our licensed acupuncturist specializes in helping the mind and body achieve a sense of calm and healing during recovery.
Men's Group
When: Bi-Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: We provide a cognitive/behavioral approach to helping men recapture their personal power. We create an environment where their sense of direction is regained and their careers, relationships and financial successes are re-actualized.
Testimonials
When walking into Inneractions, you are immediately greeted with one of the most influential and dynamic clinical directors in the field, Loree Cohen. She has a vast amount of knowledge and skills working with complex and dynamic issues.
Her goal is to help provide people with the tools to create self-sufficiency and healing from the inside out. She exudes love, warmth, and compassion with an innate ability to connect.
Substance abuse, recovery, mental health, and trauma can be difficult to walk through. You are not alone when walking through these challenges at Inneractions. They are organized, efficient, and successful at providing individualized care and making each client feel like they are a priority.
The staff are exceptionally devoted and trained to facilitate sustainable change in someone’s life. The therapists are absolutely wonderful and extremely passionate about what they do. I highly recommend Inneractions for anyone seeking help in their lives.
Rachel Kove
Inneractions is hands down the best iop in the valley. The staff is handpicked, skilled and dynamic. The clients experience dynamic group therapies as well as weekly or bi weekly individual therapy targeting issues such as depression, anxiety, low self esteem and anger management.
Loree Cohen
This place is simply amazing!!!
Inneractions' therapists and counselors genuinely cared about my recovery and well-being. Jess, Rick, and Loree are especially wonderful.
Thank you!!!
Tasha Wilson
The group facilitators are knowledgeable and considerate. I’m a difficult person to work with and they still tried. Jess is a great 1-on-1 therapist that works through Inneractions. My favorite facilitators were Shane, Rick, and Bethany. The other group facilitators were great too. Just like anything, one will get out of IOP what they put into it.
Gibson White
Inneractions saved my life, no joke. I love you all so much, thank you for helping me find a way in life again...
George Montoya
Weekly Group Meetings
Mindfulness Group
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: The link between stress and addiction is well-known. Stress increases the likelihood of alcohol and drug use, and can precipitate relapses following treatment. The goal of this group is to assist our clients in replacing substance use with healthy coping skills when confronted with the inevitable stressors that threaten sobriety.
Reaching for Recovery
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: While everyone faces stress, it is important for those in recovery to find new ways to cope with it, as the risk of relapse is very high. Our Reaching for Recovery group provides many tools to manage daily and underlying stressors so clients can learn to manage life in a more successful manner.
Creative Expressions Group
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: An experiential group providing each client with the opportunity to explore their sense of self through artistic expression, movement, and group insight.
It's Where I Come From
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This group provides clients with the opportunity to explore family of origin and the types of beliefs and behaviors which become part of their ongoing story.
Living Sober
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This group is run as a gender specific group which explores recovery and how it relates to your way of living within the Twelve Principles. We teach the importance of applying recovery, personal values within the concept of these Principles and joy for life. This is an opportunity to learn the principles behind the steps as they are played out through lifestyle, work, money, sex and intimacy. Our goal is to assist you in attaining personal goals in living a life that offers balance, focus and harmony.
Step Work Group
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: Clients use this time to explore the steps in depth in a group format, where there is opportunity for discussion, debate and exploration. Discussions, presentations and exploration of the disease of addiction and important issues relating to recovery.
Gender Specific Group
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This group provides clients with a gender specific environment to address sensitive or specific issues which arise during early recovery. These are safe and intimate groups where space is made to look at deeper issues which affect their relationships, self-image, and sexuality.
Reaching for Recovery
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This group addresses the underlying issues which manifest while continuing the journey towards recovery and sobriety. This is an in-depth, process group which allows the clients to look at the past motivations for using substances and the new tools they can adopt to manage their pain.
Healing Core Pain
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This group provides a safe environment to address and understand trauma. It is run by a trauma specialist who helps create the safety needed to untangle the past pain which infiltrates many aspects of their lives.
Digging In Group
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This group addresses the underlying issues which manifest while continuing the journey towards recovery and sobriety. This is an in-depth, process group that allows clients to delve even deeper into exploring the real pain that lies at the center of their addiction while developing specific and individualized techniques for coping.
Anything Goes Group
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This group is a process group allowing clients to review the week’s work and the way in which they will integrate their knowledge and their behavior to effect change.
Jump Into Recovery
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This group has been designed to provide a container for the client to begin to construct their own recovery and to utilize principles of recovery to craft their lives.
Principles of Expression
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This group invites the clients to connect with and explore their conscious and unconscious emotions in an activity based group.
Addiction Psychoeducation
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: Discussions, presentations and exploration of the disease of addiction and important issues relating to recovery.
Gratitude Group
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This group demonstrates the power of gratitude and allows clients to utilize mindfulness to recognize at the very least, one behavior, relationship, insight, event, opportunity or feeling to complete their IOP week
Anger & Stress Management
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This is a structured group that we will be implementing soon but in the meantime, these issues are addressed albeit less formally in the other groups.
The Four Agreements
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: A copy of Four Agreements by Don Miguel are given to clients upon admission and the concepts are used in a group setting to help clients gain a better understanding of the etiology of their beliefs, their behaviors and their feelings. Within this structure clients begin to challenge old beliefs and replace them with ones that are more productive, nurturing and that will allow for personal growth.
Monday Madness with Rick
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: Monday Madness is the first group of the week that allows and encourages clients to discuss their weekend, plans, and goals for the week and the way in which it pertains to their recovery program. The counselor or as we often refer to him, the cheerleader, provides advice, encouragement, promotes self-awareness, and utilizes humor to help re-frame and redefine unproductive thoughts, feelings beliefs.
It’s Where I Come From
with Shane
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This Group discusses and processes the signs and symptoms of dysregulation and the relationship to addictive behavior patterns. Group explores mindfulness techniques to establish safety and stabilization in early recovery. Groups often explore topics such as love-avoidance/ love-addiction, intimacy, as well as codependency. This group provides clients with the opportunity to explore family of origin and the types of beliefs and behaviors which become part of their ongoing story.
Worldly Expressions
with Danielle
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: In this group, clients explore their inner and outer worlds through the experience of creative writing. Using a mindfulness approach to writing, clients are encouraged to express from their stream of consciousness in order to connect with and process their feelings and experiences. Moving from everyday expectations into the realm of imagination and creativity, clients are able to access deeper parts of themselves and experience the accomplishment of art-making.
Beginnings, The Child Inside, and Let’s Talk, Not Text…and Listen with Rachel
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: Be prepared to cry. Be prepared to feel. This group helps clients explore uncomfortable emotions, faulty belief systems, and for some, identify early trauma. Learn how to empathize with peers. This group helps clients name their emotional experiences, thoughts, and feelings that underlie distress and learn how to self-regulate in a healthy way. Group will include dialogue, somatic movement, writing, and psychodrama exercises to assist with the process of reparenting and connecting with others and the child within.
DeFINE Seeking Awareness with Mike
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This group is a didactic informational process group. The overarching focus centers around metacognition, and the control that comes, when metacognition is a routine of reaching long-term sobriety. Clients discuss the “cost-benefit analysis”, and how being aware of these analyses in day-to-day life could help the clients stay vigilant regarding their sobriety. Within this framework of measuring cost vs benefit, the clients can then personalize the analysis, and realize that the cost of their own addictions outweighs the benefit of what they think they gain. Delving into this framework, allowing for the discussions of everything from, family, work, finances, health, and relapse prevention.
The focus of the group discussion is centered around distinguishing terms, sometimes thought to be synonymous, and breaking down the “under the surface” meaning of these terms. A client comparing and contrasting terms such as “forgiveness” and “acceptance,” is an example of the type of words to be analyzed. Clients will be able to personalize definitions, internalize their viewpoint(s), and this analysis will ultimately give them the best chance at living a centered and balanced life of sobriety.
Improv Healing and Rants with Bethany
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: In this group the clients will actively learn how to speak in front of others, self-expression, listening skills, trust, performance, sense of self, awareness of others, control of emotions, coping skills, confidence, quick thinking, finding their voice, and working together as a team all under the umbrella of the 12 step program. The skills acquired by practicing impromptu role-playing and being in the moment will help the clients in every aspect of their lives.
In this group, the clients will practice the art of “ranting” (sharing) about something they feel strongly about that day, a suggested feeling or something affecting them lately, and present it to the group in a timed capacity. The group will talk openly about the feeling and process. Ranting allows the Client to open up, feel comfortable sharing in meetings and self-expression. Open communication helps clients hear from their peers and hear new perspectives.
Breathwork
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This group is a psychotherapeutic discussion about breathwork and its application in the recovery process and an explanation of the benefits of voluntary regulated breathing practices then engaged in a mindfulness breathwork exercise designed to help them learn to tolerate distress and regulate emotion. Clients are guided into a body-centered meditation utilizing a breathing technique- inhaling thru their nose and long exhalation out thru the mouth, to potentially assist with relaxing their body and calming their mind. Clients engage in a 2 step active breathing practice, to help clients become in touch with any feelings, thoughts, images, or sensations in their body. Clients then have a chance to share their experiences at the end of the session.
The Work of Byron Katie with Danielle
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: The Work is a self-inquiry methodology that outlines exactly how to identify and question any thought that keeps us from experiencing peace and freedom. In this group, clients explore the stressful thoughts which cause negative emotions by writing them down on paper and being guided through a four-question cognitive-behavioral practice with the facilitator. By investigating core beliefs they lose their power and greater perspective, insight, and possibility emerges.
Relational Integration
with Hannah
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This is a didactic as well as process group that allows clients to explore relationships both current and past that have been productive and healthy as well as those that have been unhealthy and destructive. Clients begin to see themselves as a relationship that requires time and attention while developing a positive and healthy dialogue. Clients learn about co-dependency, boundaries, and productive ways of communication.
Real Talk with Rick
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This process group invites clients to examine the struggles and emotions that are affecting their everyday life and recovery program. The client can expect to be challenged while exploring new perspectives. As in most groups, the facilitator prompts insight and peer feedback while directing the flow of discussion and feedback.
MindSET for Recovery
with DaMarcus
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: While everyone faces stress, it is important for those in recovery to find new ways to cope with it, as the risk of relapse is very high. Our MindSet for Recovery group provides many tools to manage daily and underlying stressors so clients can learn to manage life in a more successful manner
Thys-Functional Family
with Rachel
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: The Work is a self-inquiry methodology that outlines exactly how to identify and question any thought that keeps us from experiencing peace and freedom. In this group, clients explore the stressful thoughts which cause negative emotions by writing them down on paper and being guided through a four-question cognitive-behavioral practice with the facilitator. By investigating core beliefs they lose their power and greater perspective, insight, and possibility emerges.
Process Group with Lauren
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: The link between stress and addiction is well-known. Stress increases the likelihood of alcohol and drug use and can precipitate relapses following treatment. The goal of this group is to assist our clients in replacing substance use with healthy coping skills when confronted with the inevitable stressors that threaten sobriety
Nutrition with Natasha
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: Groups begin with a body scan and grounding experience to increase awareness. Clients learn the basics of nutrition and how it impacts their physical and emotional well-being. Patterns of behavior are identified that correlates with the client’s sense of self or lack thereof and create a space where one can check in with their body.
Core Beliefs with Natasha
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This group addresses the underlying issues which manifest while continuing the journey towards recovery and sobriety. This is an in-depth, process group that allows clients to delve even deeper into exploring the real pain that lies at the center of their addiction while developing specific and individualized techniques for coping.
Into Recovery with Noah
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: This group explores recovery and how it relates to living within the principles behind twelve-step models as they apply to the therapeutic process. We teach the importance of applying recovery, personal values within the concept of these Principles, and joy for life. Our goal is to assist clients in attaining personal goals in living a life that offers balance, focus, and harmony. Clients are encouraged to explore in what ways their recovery journey has conformed to well-known change models and to present a vision of their aspirational self. Clients explore the concepts of spiritual disease, spiritual growth, and wellbeing.
Hypnotherapy
When: Weekly
Duration: 1 hr
Description: Hypnotherapy work is done as a group, creating focused attention and intense concentration to achieve a heightened state of awareness. The hypnotic state allows a person to be more receptive to suggestions. It can improve the success of treatment such as sleep disorder, depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress, fears, and phobias, etc. During hypnosis, the hypnotherapist induces a state of focused attention via verbal cues and repetition. During the state of hypnosis, a person feels calm and physically and mentally relaxed, which creates deep focus and receptiveness of the mind to focus more deeply on the problem in order to create the desired change.