Services - Groups
Pregnancy and Beyond
Mondays 7:00 to 8:00 PM or
Mondays 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM
This weekly group is to maximize your mental health during your pregnancy to insure a happy and healthy pregnancy, and wonderful bonding time with your newborn. At the Women’s Therapy Service, we have found that having a personal history of depression or anxiety, an eating disorder or recent history of, a personal or familial history of postpartum depression, or a personal history with abuse or trauma, can all be risk factors for Post-Partum Depression.
The intent of this weekly pregnancy group is to focus on the joys of pregnancy and the rewards of pending motherhood, and to shore up one’s coping skills that will be necessary in the first months with your newborn. This group is intended to be a safe and supportive environment, to express the range of feelings and moods that you will experience in pregnancy, and to experience support from other mothers-to-be.
To schedule your initial consultation, and to inquire about group fees, please call Barbara Reese, LCSW, at (973) 783-2292.
The group psychotherapy fees may be reimbursable by the mental health portion of your health insurance, under CPT code # 90853 for Group Psychotherapy.
The INNER IMAGE Group Program
For Eating and Body Image Concerns
Never satisfied with your body?
Feeling out of control around food? Or controlled by food?
Obsessions with body size and diets, restricting, binging/purging, or compulsive overeating…can jeopardize your mental and physical health. Our INNER IMAGE group program addresses the cultural and personal issues related to food and weight in the ongoing context of one’s life.
The INNER IMAGE weekly group program has 3 integral components:
- Girl’s or Women’s Supportive Therapy – with a focus on healing from Anorexia/Bulimia or Emotional Overeating, and improving upon personal coping with one’s feeling states. You will learn to find your “voice” for communication and self-assertion.
- Conscious Eating – specific techniques for developing conscious, healthy behaviors around eating behaviors and intake.
- Body Image – to increase self-esteem and body acceptance, we will be using experiential modalities such as guided imagery, journal writing, and art expression.
Reconnect with your body and self and express your real needs in a safe supportive environment. Feel empowered at any size!
Improve your body image
Your relationship with food
And your self-esteem!
Overcoming Emotional Eating
“How can I feed my heart and soul?”
“What am I really craving?”
10-Week Introductory Group
Tuesday or Thursdays 7:00 – 8:15 PM
This 10-Week introductory INNER IMAGE group for adult women struggling with emotional overeating and body image struggles Group uses the concepts of the non-diet approach and mindfulness to heal from compulsive overeating or binge eating disorder. Learn how to translate the behavior and language of overeating and body dissatisfaction into true understanding and satisfaction of your real needs.
Ongoing Group
Every other Sunday, 9:15 to 10:45 AM
This INNER IMAGE group is for women who have already been utilizing the non-diet approach and feel the need for ongoing support.
Both groups utilizes the 3 integral components of The INNER IMAGE Group Program: 1) Women’s Issues 2) Concious Eating, and 3) Body Image. Both groups utilize workbooks and experiential modalities, such as journal writing, relaxation/guided imagery, and art, to improve coping mechanisms and discover their truths.
Call Barbara Reese (973) 783-2292 to schedule your intake interview, and inquire about group fees and next start date for the 10-Week group.
INNER IMAGE group sessions may be reimbursable by your mental health benefits of your insurance under Group Psychotherapy, CPT #90853.
Young Teen’s Inner Image Group
Tuesdays or Thursdays 6:00 – 7:00 PM
10 -Week cycles
Eating disorders for young teens often result in increased social isolation. This INNER IMAGE therapy group is for girls 12-15 years of age (approximately) to support their efforts to recover from Anorexia and Bulimia and get support from their peers who understand. The purpose of the group is to provide a safe place to express the underlying feelings and thoughts that are beneath the symptoms of the eating disorder and body dissatisfaction. The goal is to increase coping for the girls with their stresses and challenges, with peers, academics, sports, and family, and resume their normal developmental path.
Expressive modalities such as journal writing, relaxation techniques, and art will be utilized to help increase their ability to identify and articulate feeling states.
Group members must be in concurrent individual therapy. To schedule your daughter’s intake interview, inquire about group fees and next start date, call Barbara Reese at (973) 783-2292
Improve your body image,
Your relationship with food,
And your self-esteem!
