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NEW: Group Therapy For Anxiety :
Los Angeles & West Hollywood
If you're looking for group therapy for anxiety, find out more about our new and effective group therapy treatment program launching soon in Los Angeles and West Hollywood.
Our groups have room for a max of 8 adults, and run for six weeks, and offers and innovative treatment based in LA.
Quick Links To Group Therapy For Anxiety Information
Does It Feel Like Your Anxiety Symptoms Run Your Life?
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Do you feel caught in a relentless cycle?
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The constant second-guessing fueled by comparison or doubt and worry?
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Social anxiety leaving you drained and frustrated?
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Sick of the exhausting need for certainty in an uncertain world?
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Totally over the search for more relaxation techniques or mindfulness skills?
Maybe it's time for a different approach: Become an Anxiety Rebel
As a therapist who has been working with people with anxiety for nearly a decade, my goal with this treatment for anxiety is to help clients start :
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shifting from defense to offense when it comes to anxiety
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seeing anxiety not as an overwhelming force, but as a predictable opponent whose rulebook you can learn to defy.
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give practical therapeutic approaches to social phobia, generalized anxiety or worry.
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understand the cognitive functions of anxiety, and experience shifts in how they respond.
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change their entire outlook on anxiety and how to manage it.
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Anxiety Focused Group Therapy: Los Angeles
.Our unique 6-Week Anxiety Rebel Group Course is designed specifically for people who are ready to fundamentally change their relationship with anxiety disorders, and find support as a group as they work through the program.
Our Anti-Anxiety Group Therapy Offers A Different Type Of Support.
Other programs may offer tools and techniques to participants, which is helpful and important, but more often than not people experience this as limited or not enough. Our goal is to help members learn effective tools but also a way to practice skills as part of a growing community.
We provide a strategic framework to shift anxiety that will include:
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Expose Anxiety's Game: Understand the patterns and 'rules' anxiety uses to keep you trapped in symptoms and disorders.
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Challenge the Process: Participants will learn powerful, clinically-informed paradoxical techniques to disrupt anxiety at its core, focusing on the how not just the what of your worries and related concerns.
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Embrace Discomfort (Strategically!): Discover how to willingly step towards uncertainty and discomfort, turning them into catalysts for growth instead of reasons to retreat.
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Reclaim Your Energy & Power: Move from feeling managed by anxiety to actively challenging it and taking back control of your social life and life in general.
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Connect with Fellow Rebels: Share the journey in a supportive, confidential group setting with other members who understand.
This Isn't About Eliminating Anxiety, It's About Changing the Game.
Built on effective therapeutic principles, this course empowers you and other participants with a new perspective and actionable tools. Stop being dictated to by anxiety's demands
How We Approach Treatment For Anxiety Is Different.
We're committed to lasting transformation—not just temporary relief. This means we approach things differently than you might have experienced before. Think of it less as breaking rules and more as choosing a path that actually leads somewhere meaningful.
What Makes Our Approach Different:
1. We Focus on Transformation, Not Just Coping
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What others often do: Offer an endless collection of coping techniques, relaxation techniques or progressive muscle relaxation meditations, believing that more tools equals less anxiety.
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What we do instead: While coping skills can be helpful rest stops, they're not the destination. Imagine trying to fix a car by constantly adding air fresheners—sure, it might smell better temporarily, but the engine still needs work.
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We help individuals with anxiety focus on changing your fundamental relationship with anxiety, not just managing its symptoms. That means cognitive-restructuring and more.
2. We Embrace Anxiety as a Signal, Not an Enemy
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What others often do: Focus primarily on making anxious feelings disappear completely.
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What we do instead: We recognize that constantly fighting anxiety often gives it more power—like struggling in quicksand. Anxiety is a human signal, and while we can't (and shouldn't) eliminate it entirely, we can help you stop taking orders from it. You'll learn to function powerfully even when anxiety shows up.
3. We Build Courage, Not Just Comfort
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What others often do: Suggest you need to feel completely safe and have control over anxiety symptoms, before taking action.
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What we do instead: We know that waiting for perfect certainty means missing out on life. Like learning to swim, you can't master it from the poolside.
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We teach you to tolerate uncertainty and the feelings of anxiety, but actually get you to welcome discomfort when it serves your values—building genuine resilience, not false safety.
4. We Question Thoughts, Not Just Accept Them
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What others often do: Treat every anxious thought as an important warning to heed or process.
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Mental health professionals, myself included, can get caught up in problem solving, but effective mental health treatment needs to go deeper.
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What we do instead: We create a supportive space to help you become curious about your thoughts rather than controlled by them.
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You'll develop the skills of a scientist, detective, and judge—observing, investigating, and evaluating your internal experience. Feelings are valid, but they're not always accurate reporters of reality.
Anxiety Group Therapy: A Supportive Path to Managing Worry
Are you looking for effective treatment options to help manage persistent anxiety?
Anxiety group therapy offers a unique and powerful approach to improving your mental health in a supportive environment. Led by an experienced therapist, this form of therapy brings together individuals who share similar challenges, creating a space where you feel understood and less alone.
Unlike individual therapy, anxiety group therapy provides the added benefit of shared experience. Hearing from others navigating similar social situations or internal struggles can be incredibly validating.
Our groups often incorporate principles from evidence-based approaches like cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), focusing not just on theory but on practical skills development. We help you understand the common patterns anxiety uses – what we sometimes call the 'anxiety hijack' – where anxious thoughts trigger alarms and lead to unhelpful reactions like avoidance or excessive worry.
In our safe environment, you'll learn to recognize these cycles of fears and worry and develop healthier coping strategies alongside your peers.
This group setting provides real-time opportunities to practice new ways of relating to anxiety, improving your social anxiety, and understanding symptoms of generalized anxiety.
Our anxiety treatment group is designed to help people move beyond short-term coping strategies and instead build long-term, evidence-based skills for managing anxiety. This isn’t just about symptom relief—it’s about reshaping how you respond to stress, uncertainty, and fear. Group members learn to step out of the anxiety cycle by understanding how avoidance and over-control often backfire.
This supportive mental health program helps individuals shift their focus from what they're anxious about to how anxiety works in their lives. Through a CBT (cognitive behavioral) informed approach, we support group members to recognize anxiety’s patterns, manage uncomfortable feelings, and reduce the mental exhaustion that comes from overthinking social interactions or perceived threats.
In our sessions, members will:
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Practice recognizing anxiety’s rules and how they affect daily relationships and decisions as adults.
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Understand why trying to suppress thoughts or control outcomes often makes things worse
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Learn to respond with willingness and flexibility, even in uncertain situations
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Develop skills to manage stress and emotions using proven psychological principles
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Connect with others who share similar experiences in a safe, supportive group environment
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Gain confidence navigating social situations and internal challenges alike
This is not about eliminating anxiety—it’s about reclaiming your mental space and making choices that support your growth, well-being, and connection to others.
Group Therapy In Los Angeles
Group therapy offers numerous benefits by providing individuals with a supportive environment to explore personal issues alongside others facing similar challenges. Unlike sessions with an individual therapist, group settings allow people to meet and connect, fostering a sense of belonging and reducing feelings of isolation.
This social environment helps individuals learn from each other's experiences, offering diverse perspectives and coping strategies. Participants have the opportunity to practice social skills in real-time, receiving immediate feedback that can enhance self-awareness and interpersonal effectiveness. Moreover, group therapy can complement individual therapy, as insights gained in one setting can enrich progress in the other.
Overall, group therapy empowers individuals to address their concerns collectively, promoting personal growth and resilience through shared understanding and mutual support.
Read more at The Anxiety Blog
Certified Group Psychotherapist: Oliver Drakeford LMFT, CGP
I'm a Licensed Marriage and Family Therapist, and a Certified Group Psychotherapist, which means I've gone above and beyond the requirements of my Master's Degree in Clinical Psychology to study group process and group facilitation. The certification is through AGPA - an outstanding organization aimed at helping and training group therapists across the world.