Online Somatic Anxiety-Reduction Group for Women

A Somatic Route to Calmer Days

Start retraining your nervous system for ease

Victoria Wallace Schlicht, LMFT and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, offering online therapy in Orange County, California. Informal headshot with a warm expression and colorful geometric-patterned background.

Women, come join me for a somatically informed anxiety reduction group and find out what makes group therapy such a powerful engine for personal growth. After running over 1,200 therapy groups in PHP/IOP settings, I’m finally offering a group experience through my private practice.

Group Therapy Offers a Unique Growth Opportunity

I offer effective, online somatic groups for women in California

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Group therapy, by its very nature and function, highlights the fact you are not alone in your experience of anxiety. You are not alone in any of your experiences, in fact. Group work puts this front and center. So often, and particularly with the experience of high anxiety, we feel alone and isolated. No one looks as anxious as we feel. Group allows you to hear, again and again, the degree to which your internal experience of anxiety and distress is a common one. The comfort and safety of a guided experience group affords the opportunity to build a supportive community, learning and growing together. Group allows you to witness the growth of others over time and see this reflected in your own growth and development.

Why is group therapy an ideal therapy for anxiety reduction

So often, our anxiety has a significant social component. We are more anxious around people. Afraid of being judged. Afraid of saying the wrong thing. Wracked with self conscious judgements and thoughts. You know what? People with anxiety get better when they focus on learning how to unlearn their anxious responses. Group learning and practicing somatic exercises together becomes a hopeful experience as we bear witness to the growth in one another. We can learn to navigate these waters together.

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What makes this group unique—utilizing somatic skills

This is a somatically informed group. What does that even mean? As a Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), I have been trained to work with your nervous system to facilitate the release of trauma and develop an increased ability to self-regulate. For almost two decades, I have specialized in working with highly anxious adults and find the ability to self-regulate, self-soothe, and increase one's sense of well-being is a primary requirement for creating and sustaining improvement

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For highly anxious folks, our anxious symptoms and sensations may have become so overwhelming that the body can become our enemy. Using specific forms of mindful awareness and somatic support for your nervous system, you can become friends with your body again, lower your level of anxious symptoms over time, learn new ways to work with both your thoughts and your nervous system.

Enrolling members now with an eye to launching this summer

I am in the process of forming an anxiety reduction process group for women in Orange County. As a psychotherapist and Somatic Experiencing Practitioner (SEP), I incorporate body awareness while working with either individuals, couples, or groups. Somatic awareness is a vital tool for anxiety reduction, self soothing, creating increased self-awareness and self-regulation, becoming more in touch with our emotions, and building resiliency.

I have space for 8 to 10 women dedicated to personal growth through a twice monthly group therapy. Come find out what makes group work such a dynamic way to experience growth, on its own or as an adjunct to your individual work. Call me at 714-914-5565 or contact me for more information.

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Already in therapy now—no problem

While group therapy is a powerful model and can stand on its own, it is also a terrific compliment to your individual work. What I have observed in the long-term groups I have run is those who engage in both group and individual work grow faster. Individual therapy and group support promote self-development in different ways. Your deep one-on-one work remains ideal for your individual therapy--there's rarely time for that in a group setting--while we can work in group with everything else.

Wondering if this group might be a good fit for you

If you haven't participated in group therapy before, and most people haven't, you may have a lot of questions. I am happy to answer them for your. Contact me and we’ll set up a time to address your inquiries and figuring out together if this group seems like a good match for you and your current needs.

You already know group is your thing and you want to know when we're getting going? Give me a call. I will be spending some time on the phone with all prospective group members, getting a good sense of your needs and making sure this group is your ideal landing spot.

"MAY YOU BE WELL.
MAY YOU BE HAPPY.
MAY YOU BE FREE OF SUFFERING."
~TIBETAN HEART MEDITATION