This meet-up group is aimed to provide a safe and comfortable environment for women who are ending or thinking of ending an intimate relationship. It is led by Dr. Alisa Mishayev, a Licensed Clinical Psychologist with private practice in Manhattan. Within the context of this group, individuals will be able to explore themselves and their inner strength when coping with the loss and ending of an intimate relationship. We will discuss topics such as grief, feelings about love and marriage, hope fo …

Diets don't work.....I know because I've tried them all! But I have found the key to creating a healthy relationship with food and losing weight. If you are tired of dieting, bingeing and restricting again, this is the group for you. Even if you just want to connect with people who have experienced similar situations and anxiety about their weight, please consider joining us. We will focus on mindful eating, learning about binge-eating disorder and talk about the reasons we eat. This is not a gr …

Here's your big chance to venture out with your baby and give the mom a much needed break!  User-friendly, baby-friendly place to hang out while she goes and does whatever she wants for an hour or so. That's right!  After several years,  I bet you can guess it's pretty popular by now.  In the past we've had Dad's with babies as young as 7 days and as old as 1 year join us. We've had crawlers and cruisers and twins and premies.  We are fully equipped with changing tables, comfortable couches  etc …

Come to our professionally run Parent Support Group for parents of children with ADHD. Parents share concerns with each other and hear of other's experiences, coping strategies and referral sources. Meetings also include a monthly topic for discussion with handouts, resources. Dr. Barbo, a licensed psychologist, has facilitated support groups for over 15 years in NJ and PA.

This is a social and networking group for professionals and graduate students in counseling, psychology, social work, marriage and family therapy, psychiatric nursing, school psychology, rehabilitation counseling, creative arts therapy, and other counseling related helping professions. This group should provide opportunities for networking, and hopefully a casual atmosphere for like minded individuals to get together. Please note: This group is only open to current post-graduate professionals an …

Welcome to the Psychedelic and Entheogenic Society of NYC! Our group is a safe place to discuss Entheogens and the expansion of consciousness. We discuss the work of such luminaries as Hofmann, McKenna, Pinchbeck, Abraham, Grey, Sheldrake, Leary, Grof, Lilly, the Shulgins and so much more. **Our group doesn't engage in or promote illegal activities during our Meetups. Don't join this group to get "hooked up" because you'll be removed if that's your sole intention. We are a mature, safe group.** …

The purpose of this group is to meet other people suffering from bipolar disorder. To discuss symptoms (and how they effect our jobs, activities and relationships), moods, medications, natural solutions, and treatments in a group that attempts to be as neutral and positive as possible. And maybe even make some new bipolar friends. I started this group because I was dissatisfied with other groups I had joined in the past. Certain discussions at such group(s) seemed to veer off into inappropriate …

Psychology Tomorrow Magazine was created to respond against the current trend in psychology towards medical or scientific explanations and of pathologizing human behavior. It explores the practice of psychology as an art in all its complex possibilities. The magazine goes a step further by looking at the relationship between psychology and contemporary visual arts, photography, fashion, writing, dance and film. Psychology Tomorrow Meetup will bring together NYC's art and psych communities to exp …

A space for psychologists, psychotherapists, philosophers, and those interested in a non-medicalized approach to psychology to dialogue about RD Laing, the eminent Scottish psychiatrist whose ideas--love them or hate them--about treating patients as humans and respecting their individual experiences revolutionized psychiatry and psychology. We will meet to discuss various aspects of his work in a collegial atmosphere of food, drink, and fun, the kind of gathering one hopes Laing would have wante …

Fascinated by psychology? We'll read books regarding cognitive psychology, behavioral economics, and discuss the power of neuroplasticity. Meet and talk to others who share the same interest in psychology as you do. We'll meet monthly and books will cover key areas in psychology such as: - Behavioral psychology - Decision-making - Behavioral economics - Organizational psychology - Positive psychology

When I was living in SF, I started a Therapist Happy Hour because most of my friends are therapists and it was an opportunity to see everyone. But, what I realized is that so much actually happened in the happy hour. We told one another about jobs coming available, good training to go to (and ones to avoid) and referrals for those in private practice. At this point, I know about 50 amazing therapists and love the idea of great people meeting, connecting and creating community. I hope you come ou …

The Families Civil Liberties Union is embarking on a campaign to significantly improve the family law process in America.  Ambitious?  You bet.  Attainable?  Absolutely.  The Families Civil Liberties Union is a professional, politically neutral, national activist organization headquartered in New York City. We refuse government funds. Our mission is to represent the thousands of disparate, autonomous fathers’ and mothers’ groups and millions of fathers and mothers that have been damaged by the f …

The Westchester Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy (WCSPP), located at Wainwright House in Rye, NY, is a vibrant professional and intellectual community of psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. In addition to our formal training programs in the psychoanalytically-based treatment of adults, children and couples, we host regular events such as conferences, presentations, movie nights, and workshops, many of which are open to the general public.

This is an ongoing weekly therapy/support group for people living with physical illness starting in the spring of 2010 run by Dr. David B. Younger, licensed psychologist and group therapist, specializing in working with people with physical illnesses and their loved ones.

A Course in Miracles is a metaphysical discipline which helps us heal our relationships by shifting our focus from duality and dissension to peace and acceptance. Join us for a new study group with MarciaGrace Tropin who has been leading groups on Long Island since 1982. She has studied with Dr. Ken Wapnick, considered a prime authority on the Course, having worked closely with the two psychologists who brought the material forth. In our weekly class we are reading from the Manual for Teachers …

If you want to gain insight while improving your level of fitness, then the "Walking Talking Cure" is for you!   Walk and talk with a psychologist!  Research documents that walking can be as effective as antidepressants and other psychotropic medications in helping to alleviate depression, stress and anxiety for many individuals.  Combined with talking, we create a healthy, safe experience where personal growth can blossom.  Come join me on the path to emotional and physical health!  Weather per …

As human beings walking on earth, we are divine essence in disguise. This is the Reality that we are now, after eons, beginning to wake up to. The planet with all that is on it, individually and collectively as a whole, is undergoing the transformation that we have been prepared for for a very long time. The purpose of this group work is to help facilitate this transformation and awakening. THE WORK we do here is the work of inner self. We do not just study spiritual truth only, although that c …

Join me, Dr. Diana Kirschner, recurring relationship expert on the Today show, best-selling author and psychologist as we explore the many facets of finding and keeping great love relationships.