Upcoming Groups and Workshops

Empty Nesters/Free Birders starting late October 2025

Mindful Parenting for Anxiety November 2025 and Jan 2026

Women in Midlife starting Jan 2026

All groups are offered in San Rafael and online. Email krissamft@gmail.com or text 415-729-4802 for dates/times and more information. See below for detailed descriptions of each group.

Empty Nesters/ Free Birders Support Groups

For parents of recently graduated high school seniors, this group will include education, reflection, and process in a supportive community. This group will provide:

  • Emotional support including space to process feelings of pride, loss, and uncertainty

  • Tools to navigate identity shifts as daily parenting roles change and personal purpose is redefined

  • Guidance on strengthening relationships including rekindling connection with a partner and adjusting to new dynamics with adult children

  • Reflection to rediscover personal passions and interests that may have been set aside while raising children

  • A sense of community and shared experience with others going through similar life changes

  • Encouragement to celebrate this new life phase as a time of growth, freedom, and accomplishment

  • Strategies for creating a meaningful and fulfilling post-parenting chapter in life

Mindful Parenting for Anxiety

A 1.5-Hour Experiential Workshop for Parents

Parenting a child who struggles with anxiety—or navigating your own anxiety as a parent—can feel overwhelming, isolating, and emotionally draining. This one-time, 90-minute workshop is designed to offer immediate support, connection, and practical tools to help you respond with greater calm, clarity, and confidence.

Whether your child is a toddler, teen, or adult, this workshop is open to parents of all ages and stages.

In this workshop, you will:

  • Identify the patterns and triggers that fuel anxiety in both you and your child

  • Learn how to track and regulate your own nervous system, so you can stay grounded during stressful moments

  • Explore mindful parenting techniques that promote emotional connection and reduce reactivity

  • Practice simple, concrete strategies you can use right away to support your child—and yourself—when anxiety shows up

  • Gain a sense of community and shared understanding with other parents facing similar challenges

This workshop is ideal for parents seeking practical, compassionate tools for navigating anxiety in the parent-child relationship. No previous mindfulness or therapy experience required.

Women in Midlife

A Therapy Group for Connection, Clarity & Renewal

Midlife is a powerful, often complex chapter of life—full of transitions, questions, and opportunities for growth. This supportive therapy group is designed for women navigating the unique emotional, relational, and identity shifts that can arise in this season.

Whether you're facing changes in relationships, career, parenting, health, or purpose, you're not alone.

In this group, you will:

  • Connect with other women experiencing the challenges of midlife

  • Explore identity shifts, including questions around purpose, aging, and self-worth

  • Process life transitions, such as growing children, career changes, menopause, or relationship shifts

  • Gain clarity on your values and direction for the next chapter of life

  • Strengthen self-compassion and break free from perfectionism or people-pleasing

  • Find meaning and empowerment in your evolving story

This group offers a warm, non-judgmental space to be seen, heard, and supported. Join us to reconnect with yourself and step into midlife with renewed strength, insight, and community.