Support Groups

Tyler Woods, Ph.D. has over ten years experience facilitating support groups. She is the director and facilitator for Tucson Survivors of Suicide. She provides a mind body spirit approach to a variety of issues and topics. By using the mind body spirit approach to these support groups, participants enhance their recovery, feel much better for longer periods, and are able to integrate everything they learn into their life on a daily basis. If you are interested in any of these groups, please feel free to contact Tyler Woods at 520-861-6632

Tyler’s Workshops Catalog

Grief and Loss
This class can be given as a 2-hour workshop or a 4-week course and covers; stages of grief and loss, change, how we shy away from pain, ways we avoid grief, guilt, shame, anger, letting go, forgiveness, and starting new.

Self-Esteem
This class has been offered as a 2-hour workshop and currently is being taught as a 4-week class for women in rehab. It covers such topics as; what is self-esteem, belief systems and self-esteem, negative thinking, listening to the positive, fear, courage, self-confidence, and developing positive self-esteem.

Suicide Prevention and Postvention
As director and facilitator of Survivors of Suicide, Tyler offers a comprehensive training on suicide prevention and postvention.

Crisis Intervention
Working at a crisis center, Tyler trained hundreds of interns and staff on crisis intervention. She now offers this 2-hour training to small businesses, agencies, and schools.

Compassion Fatigue
This workshop is for all those who are in the helping professions or caretakers. Learn the signs and symptoms of compassion fatigue and how to cope with it. What once used to be called job burnout is now being looked at as compassion fatigue. This class teaches people how to understand and address it.

Stress and Anxiety
Tyler offers a 2-hour workshop on stress, what causes it, how to avoid it, and holistic approaches to cope with it.

Depression
In American society so many people experience depression that it has been called the "common cold of emotional illness." Learn about the types of depression, how it effects us and others and our work environment. Learn some positive coping strategies.

Fear
There are two kinds of fear in our lives: the natural kind that protects us from physical danger, and the un-natural kind that exist only in our mind. It is the one in our mind that stops us from truly living our life in complete authenticity. This workshop can be given as 2-hour workshop or a 4-week course and covers; becoming aware of our fears, how fear stops us and how to cope with fear.

Holistic Mental Health
A holistic approach to mental-health care is one that emphasizes the interrelationship between mind, body, and spirit. This class can be given as a 2-hour workshop or a 4-week course and covers; supplements, relaxations, foods for moods, and a variety of alternative treatments for mental health concerns.

Emotional Well-being
This workshop helps people maintain good emotion health. It focuses on how to deal with feelings, ways to maintain emotional well-being, and building self-confidence.

Relapse Prevention and Postvention
This class teaches relapse prevention by looking for high risks, finding a connection with higher self, and learning how to look for the triggers in our life.

Giving Emotions Words
Sometimes, people do not know how to express their emotions and they keep them pent up creating resentment, anger, frustration, depression, and even illness. This class explores emotions with creative and simple writing exercises that help move people into processing their emotions and feelings.

Forgiveness
Forgiveness! It prevents us from moving forward if we cannot forgive. It creates anger, fear, and resentment. It is the most important process that brings peace to our mind our body and our soul and harmony to our life. Learn how forgiveness effects us and techniques that can help us begin to forgive so we can move on.

Law of Attraction
Tyler offers a training on how to manifest what we need to make our lives happy and healthy. She has a published workbook that goes with these sessions.

Self-Abuse
This workshop has been given in agencies and public schools to help people learn the basics about self-abuse and ways to help prevent it.

Living with Someone Mentally Ill
This class is very helpful if you have a relative or friend with a serious mental illness and would like to have a better understanding of the illness and be better equipped to deal with it and learn how to take better care of self.






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