Over the course of many years, Adele has started and successfully led a myriad of important and interesting groups, some lasting over a decade! Group vision and leadership is an area of expertise and a great passion. Psychoeducational Support Groups are empowering, fun, and a different way to share ideas, experiences, growth and help others right alongside you. Groups are a useful tool and timeless approach to mental health wellness… and a natural way to cope with isolation and loneliness.

• GROUP OASIS: (Status: Active, one opening) This amazing group, over a decade old, is for adults with chronic illness/chronic pain, and different disabilities, including invisible disabilities. This is a place to share, in a confidential space, the enormous challenges we face, the isolation and how societal norms can affect belief systems, mood, and opportunities in a world we are a part of. Meets bi-weekly.

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• The H.I.P. Group: “Humans in Pain” — For those who live with chronic pain and illness, intractable pain and discomfort, and the challenges of mental health issues that arise in the complicated web of the medicalized world, a system that often breaks, and our own advocacy to survive. Now that’s HIP! Meets bi-weekly.

• PRO H.I.P. Group: For “Professional Humans in Pain” — For professionals in any field who struggle with chronic pain/illness, who sometimes have to hide symptoms, pain, dark thoughts, distress, depression. This is a private group where professionals can share their experiences in a confidential, safe and meaningful way. Here we can say the “un-say-able,” about pain and marginalization. Empowering ourselves as Pro HIPS. Meets bi-weekly.

• Spirituality Together, A-La-Carte Group: A psychoeducational support group where members mix and match their own resources to create and discover unique versions — and wisdom — to cultivate a life that includes spirituality. We’ll share diverse cultural wisdom, ancient ideas and knowledge, bibliotherapy, writing, and meditative tools, and experiment with finding the internal and external balance we all need. Goals will be to minimize anxiety, depressive symptoms, and the pressures of our chaotic, rapidly changing modern world. Meets bi-weekly.