Parenting

The Holding Space: A Group for Moms to Build Emotional Resilience

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The Holding Space is a 12-week group therapy for moms with postpartum anxiety and depression. We strive to offer a space of hope and healing where mothers’ feelings can be held with compassion, acceptance, and non-judgment. Designed by a psychiatrist and a psychologist with decades of experience treating mothers with anxiety and depression, the group helps participants learn to:

Reduce anxiety
Decrease self-criticism
Manage emotional triggers
Increase self-acceptance
Be more present with themselves and their kids
2021 – 2022 groups will be held online via zoom with two group leaders (either Dr. Pollack or Dr. Broudy and a therapist co-leader). Group sessions will be once a week for 90 minutes for 12 weeks.

Participants will be asked to complete several brief interviews and questionnaires, all online, so that we can study the effectiveness of the group.

To participate in the group you must:
Be 18+ years old
Have current symptoms of anxiety and/or depression that started or worsened within one year postpartum
Have one or more children under 5 years old
Have internet access to participate in online group sessions
Further eligibility will be determined over a screening interview

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Deborah Pollack

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Raising children can be one of the most joyous parts of life, but it’s also filled with many challenges. Our kids evoke complex and powerful feelings in us, often right in the moment when we need to act fast to figure out how to respond. Parenting books and classes give helpful strategies, but strong emotions can cloud our judgment and our abilities to put those strategies into practice. This is why we believe that many parents can benefit from therapy designed to help them work through and better manage their feelings.

Our program offers both individual and group therapy for parents who are struggling with feelings towards their children and in their role as parents.

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Theresa Soltzberg

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I am honored to support your healing and growth in the next phase of your personal development. No matter where you are in your life journey and what challenges have brought you to therapy, I believe that you have the inner resources and wisdom to move forward and realize your goals and potential. I am here to provide a safe and nurturing place for you to explore your internal world, relationships and whole self as you move forward.

I am a Marriage and Family Therapist Trainee currently completing the Master of Arts in Psychology – Holistic program at JFK University. I chose this program because I believe that growth depends on bringing together all aspects of who we are. We carry past wounds in our bodies and in the younger parts of ourselves that often did not have the words yet to make sense of our story. We can heal these parts of ourselves by paying attention to and accepting ourselves exactly where we are, and by using our creativity, imagination and higher selves to help navigate our inner world and change our everyday lives.

I offer a variety of tools and approaches based on what works for you and what fits you best. Some of the tools I’ve learned and have benefitted from personally include Hakomi, Internal Family Systems, narrative and writing, mindfulness, developmental trauma and attachment informed therapy, expressive arts therapy, movement, and ecopsychology. I work mainly with adults and young adults in life transition, bringing to my work over 20 years of experience in the field of corporate adult learning and development.

Congratulations on taking this next important step and may your journey bring you everything you need and want from life.

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Susan Regan

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I have been a licensed Marriage & Family Therapist since 1994 and for over 25 years, I have had a clinical practice and served hundreds of couples and individuals of all ages, and from many different backgrounds, lifestyles, cultures. I have led groups that have helped people find the balance between their own fulfillment and connection to each other.

As a trained mediator, I also provide co-parenting counseling and mediation with couples and parents, who are in the process of separating. I facilitate groups in both Berkeley and San Francisco in the areas of separation and divorce and couples, family and relationship therapy.

Understanding that people are often blocked in life, due to trauma, I also help these clients by using the EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing) technique, and other somatic-based therapies. In addition, I have in-depth training in Narrative, Family Systems, Attachment-Based Therapy and Enneagram.

Enneagram tests are an excellent way to discover more of what your personality type does and how you connect with another person’s strengths and weaknesses whether it be work, friendships, home, or intimate relationships. 

I specialize in many creative methods to work with a variety of clients.

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Co-Parenting Support Group

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Co-Parenting can be very isolating and challenging as you navigate the new world of household transitions and seemingly bigger compromises. 

Are you struggling with your co-parent?

  • Have you been trying to parent your kids separately in two separate homes?
  • Do you have different parenting styles that really create stress and conflictual conversations every time you talk?
  • Is your child feeling the tension?
  • Are you in a living nightmare where you feel like you’re never going to get away from your ex because you have to parent together?

Perhaps it’s time to join a group where you can learn different strategies to overcome these challenges — with others, who are going through them as well.

Who is it for?

This is an online ongoing group for people who are going through a separation, while learning how to co-parent where there may be huge parenting-style differences.

Discussions in the Group are topic-oriented and topic-suggested. I will be presenting both psychological themes and strategies to deal with difficult co-parenting situations (e.g., Are/were you married to a narcissist? What if you hate your ex’s extended family? Is your parenting style different and are you seeing those differences making your kids feel insecure? How do you deal with your kid not wanting to go to your ex’s home?).

Requirements & Fees

  • 15-minute Inquiry Call: to answer questions and schedule your intake meeting
  • First Session/Intake Appointment: $200
  • Monthly Fee:
    • Option (1): $590
      • One private coaching session per month
      • Four 90-minute, weekly sessions
    • Option (2): $340
      • Four 90-minute, weekly sessions

Payment: All clients have an active credit card on file to reserve their appointments and to hold their place in the group.

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