Laine Demetria, LMFT and Mind Body Mend

04/01/2020

Thrivers Women's Trauma Therapy Group STARTING 1 WEEK LATER

*Online to respond to the need during this Covid 19 Crisis*

Starting APRIL 14TH, 2020
8-week series
6-7:30pm Tuesdays

Thrivers is a comprehensive women’s trauma therapy group comprised of three distinct group therapy components. Phase I is trauma and resilience education combined with developing our strength-based trauma recovery toolkit. Phase II is “Telling Our Trauma Stories.” Phase III is an interpersonal process group in which we understand how our trauma story affects our present day relationships. Each group is 8 weeks long and sequentially builds on the previous group.

Thrivers Phase I: Getting the Trauma Tools

The focus is on trauma and resilience education taking us beyond survival to true healing. We work on finding and nurturing the part inside that's never been harmed - the part that is whole, perfect and complete. We acquire and develop tools to connect and integrate our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and somatic experiences. This prepares us to release the pain and shame that binds us to the past. We use mindfulness, CBT, EMDR, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), body mind healing modalities. We also read trauma literature together.

Email lainedemetria@gmail.com
or
Go to mindbodymend.net for more information.

03/22/2020

FREE Covid19 Care for Mothers
Support Workshops

I am hosting two free support workshops during mom friendly hours:
March 25th, 6-7:30am and
March 26th, 8-9:30pm.

These offerings will focus on homeschool innovation, anxiety management, resource development for equanimity within the household, and overall support to lessen personal and family disruption.

Upcoming ongoing 8 week support group
REDUCED FEE $40 per 1.5 hour session
Thursday evenings, two time options
5-6:30pm or
6:45-8:15pm
Beginning mid-April, 2020

Email lainedemetria@gmail.com
or
Go to mindbodymend.net for more information

03/21/2020

Thrivers Women's Trauma Therapy Group

*Online to respond to the need during this Covid 19 Crisis*

Starting April 7th
8-week series
6-7:30pm Tuesdays

Thrivers is a comprehensive women’s trauma therapy group comprised of three distinct group therapy components. Phase I is trauma and resilience education combined with developing our strength-based trauma recovery toolkit. Phase II is “Telling Our Trauma Stories.” Phase III is an interpersonal process group in which we understand how our trauma story affects our present day relationships. Each group is 8 weeks long and sequentially builds on the previous group.

Thrivers Phase I: Getting the Trauma Tools

The focus is on trauma and resilience education taking us beyond survival to true healing. We work on finding and nurturing the part inside that's never been harmed - the part that is whole, perfect and complete. We acquire and develop tools to connect and integrate our thoughts, feelings, beliefs, and somatic experiences. This prepares us to release the pain and shame that binds us to the past. We use mindfulness, CBT, EMDR, Nonviolent Communication (NVC), body mind healing modalities. We also read trauma literature together.

Email lainedemetria@gmail.com
or
Go to mindbodymend.net for more information.

08/22/2018

07/10/2018

03/16/2018

03/16/2018

03/08/2018

For those of you who are group therapists and want to check out a great trainer! Lets bridge cultural differences!
https://www.tpi-berkeley.org/continuing-education/gttp-symposium-2018

02/20/2018

2 spaces left! Launch Women's Support Group. 12-week series 2-3:30pm Thursdays in Albany. Launch is a support group for moms who are launching themselves and their college-age kids. Gain inspiration, support, and self-care strategies in this new era without kids. Launch helps moms come into full empowerment as humans, not just as moms. Read more about Launch here: http://www.mindbodymend.net/launch

01/17/2018

Extracting metaphors in everything we do. Can't help it y'all. It's how my mind works!

Bear with me, but I find I can make endless metaphoric connections with what happens in yoga class to what happens off the mat, out in the world. For those of you who frequent sweaty yoga studios, perhaps you can find resonance in what I am about to say. Warrior 2. That strong, yang-generating sid

01/16/2018

Courage to acknowledge your pain...

I know it takes a lot of courage to acknowledge your pain. To say to yourself, "Something is not right. I can't pretend anymore. I need help and I don't think I can do it on my own." There is so much pressure in our society to fix our problems on our own and to not air out our dirty laundr

01/05/2018

In need of a healing space or a sweet balm...

Thrivers is a support group starting back up again this winter. Open to women suffering from the effects of a traumatic event(s) such as: An accident Sexual assault or harassment Medical trauma, such as surgery or disease Su***de and unexpected death Witnessing an accident, crime or difficult event

01/02/2018

You are not alone.
Here’s how to join Tarana Burke’s work in the movement.

17,700,000 women have reported a sexual assault since 1998. Join the movement to support survivors and end sexual violence.

12/30/2017

Thank you Tarana Burke for your decade plus worth of work!

“No matter how much I keep talking about power and privilege, they keep bringing it back to individuals […]. It defeats the purpose to not have those folks centered—I’m talking black and brown girls, q***r folks. There’s no conversation in this whole thing about transgender folks and sexual violence. There’s no conversation in this about people with disabilities and sexual violence. We need to talk about Native Americans, who have the highest rate of sexual violence in this country. So no, I can’t take my focus on marginalized people.”

Tarana Burke, Senior Director of Girls for Gender Equity and founder of the Movement

An interview with the woman who launched the Me Too campaign over a decade ago.

12/30/2017

2 spaces left! Winter Session begins in February! Launch Women's Support Group. 12-week series 2-3:30pm Thursdays in Albany. Launch is a support group for moms who are launching themselves and their college-age kids. Gain inspiration, support, and self-care strategies in this new era without kids. Launch helps moms come into full empowerment as humans, not just as moms. Read more about Launch here: http://www.mindbodymend.net/launch

12/30/2017

2 more spaces left! Winter Session Thrivers Women's Trauma Support Group. 12-week series 7-8:30 PM Tuesdays in San Francisco. Learn new tools for emotional regulation, gain support, validation and hope to heal from trauma.
http://www.mindbodymend.net/thrivers

10/10/2017

Fall Session begins in October! Launch Women's Support Group. 8-week series 5-6:30pm Wednesdays in Albany. Launch is a support group for moms who are launching themselves and their college-age kids. Launch provides a support team of like-minded moms who offer advice, inspiration, and self-care strategies in this new era without kids. Launch helps moms come into full empowerment as humans, not just as moms. Read more about Launch here: http://www.mindbodymend.net/launch

10/05/2017

Fall Session begins in October! Thrivers Women's Trauma Support Group. 8-week series 7-8:30pm Tuesdays in San Francisco. Learn new tools for emotional regulation, gain support, validation and hope from other women to heal from trauma.
http://www.mindbodymend.net/thrivers

06/02/2017

Summer, y'all! If not yoga, then yoyo or any other way you like to move your body!

http://www.mindbodymend.net/new-blog/2017/1/3/smooth-everything-out

Yoga tends to smooth everything out. Balance the mood, the brain and perhaps the hormones. I love yoga. I prescribe it to my patients and practice it on the daily. I also get bored and cranky at times in my practice. I become forgetful to be mindful and grateful. But just even doing a s

06/02/2017

Summer Session begins in June! Thrivers Women's Trauma Support Group. Weekly 7-8:30pm Tuesdays in San Francisco. Learn new tools for emotional regulation, gain support, validation and hope from other women to heal from trauma.
http://www.mindbodymend.net/thrivers/

03/16/2017

What does soup have to do with therapy? Here's my connection, perhaps a reach, but everything is interwoven in some way or another!

http://www.mindbodymend.net/new-blog/2017/1/3/hot-homemade-soup-and-fresh-bread

01/20/2017

Beginning Feb 2017! Thrivers Women's Trauma Support Group. Weekly 7-8:30pm Tuesdays in San Francisco. Learn new tools for emotional regulation, gain support, validation and hope from other women to heal from trauma.
http://www.mindbodymend.net/thrivers/

12/12/2016

Hats off to existentialism! So true, but so hard to fathom...especially in light of our collective grief from the Oakland fire.

http://www.mindbodymend.net/new-blog/2016/10/13/only-six-ways-to-go

Everything we enter into will end. In relationships, romantic or otherwise, I have worked out that there are only six endings. This is the existential truth of all of our lives. Every relationship we enter into will end. There are no happy Hollywood endings; there are merely endings. Deaths. Sayi...

12/07/2016

Beginning in January 2017 in Albany (12-1:30pm Thursdays)! Launch is a support group for moms who are launching themselves and their college age kids. Launch provides a support team of like-minded moms who can offer advice and inspire ways to develop self-care in this new era without kids. Launch also helps moms come into our full empowerment as humans, not just as moms. Read more about Launch here: http://www.mindbodymend.net/empty-nest-full-best/

12/07/2016

Beginning January 2017! Thrivers Women's Trauma Support Group. Weekly 7-8:30pm Tuesdays in San Francisco and bi-weekly 5:30-7:30pm Fridays in Albany. Learn new tools for emotional regulation, get validation from other women and heal from trauma.
http://www.mindbodymend.net/thrivers/

10/29/2016