Group Therapy

Individual therapy has its place. There are depths to your healing that are best supported by exploration in an intimate 1:1 container. We believe this wholeheartedly, which is why we offer a range of services catered to depth-oriented work.

And - we also believe in the importance of community. Growing alongside others, being witnessed, and seeing your experience represented in others is what our group offerings are all about.

Current Group Therapy Offering:

Slow Sundays

Softening Into You: Making 2026 a Year of Intention & Authenticity

Gathering in Mindful Presence & Self-Inquiry

Slow Sundays is an 8-week women’s program to support you in cultivating more presence and intention to enjoy a life that feels like yours. This group is a soft place to be in connection with yourself and a like-minded community.

This group might be for you if you…

• want to slow down & simplify

• are feeling scattered, burnt out, or overwhelmed

• year for more meaningful connections with other women

• struggle to make decisions and connect with your intuition

• want to begin the new year with more intention

• feel called to live a more embodied, present life aligned with the rhythms of the natural world

Together, we’ll explore:

• mindfulness & the art of noticing

• listening to your body

• living with intention

• values & rituals

• knowing what you want

• connection with nature

Participating in the group can complement or replace your individual therapy.

WHAT TO EXPECT: TYPICAL SESSION FLOW

• An Opening Poem – Each session begins with a poem to orient us toward presence.

• Meditation – Shared silent sit.

• Movement – Letting the body speak.

• Self-attunement – Practicing the art of noticing.

• Invitation  – Guided reflective inquiry or offering, unique to each week (Example topics include values, rituals, and listening to your body).

• Connection – Opportunity to share, listen, and witness each other in 1:1 and group formats.

• Closing intention – We’ll close with a simple space for each voice, sharing an intention for the week ahead.

Meet your guide

This group is held by Marina Mendes, Associate Professional Clinical Counselor #15511, Certified Nature Therapy Guide, Registered Yoga Teacher, and Level 2 Sound Practitioner. In addition, Marina has completed training for Level 1 Internal Family Systems (IFS Institute) and Somatic Coaching (Body-Based Breakthrough). She is supervised by Sharon Yu, LMFT #50028

Seasoned in creating safe spaces, Marina serves as a compassionate guide to meeting all of life with loving presence. She specializes in supporting young adult women toward deeper connection with themselves, others, and the world around them through an intuitive weaving of mindfulness practices, parts work, and somatic movement. Her healing containers are guided by the wisdom of nature and held with the intention to honor the expansiveness of the human experience. Marina is fully devoted to this sacred path, having previously worked as a wilderness guide, climate policy advocate, teacher, and youth mentor. At the heart of all her offerings lies an invitation to love and dance with life.

Curious if this might be for you?

I invite you to take a few moments to yourself. Plant your feet on the ground and notice the contact points where your body meets the earth – or the chair, bed, couch, or floor beneath you. 

Take a long, slow inhale through the nose, followed by a longer, slower exhale out the mouth.

Now close your eyes and visualize a person, activity, or place that you love without question. Give this image some color - what does it look like, smell like, sound like, feel like? Take a few more deep breaths, holding this in your awareness. How does this feel in your body?

Finally, from this place of love, consider why you would sign up for a group like this. What is your why? And as that comes to the surface, consider if your why aligns with the energy you hope to engage with and embody in the new year.