Groups and Workshops

 Bold Moves Group for Teens: Process Group for Anxiety

Similar to the adult Bold Moves Group above, this group offers teens a practical, highly interactive, and flexible 8-session group using ACT Therapy and Mindful practices.

Teens have their own unique challenges, including difficulty fitting in at school and home, tough academics, figuring out their future, and who they really are in the world. Especially now with remote learning!

This is great for teens that are having a tough time engaging with peers or at school, for example, and yet they want help. This group will provide them with accessible, well-researched exercises and practices, as well as accountability and guidance, to step back into their life in an intentional way.

The first step involves setting up a free discovery call with your facilitator to determine if this is a good fit for you, at which point she will advise of the next group start date. It is typically held on zoom, 2 hours weekly, for 8 weeks.

Call our office to register today! (951) 271-0397

Evoke Excellence Consultations

We offer the private, public, and not-for-profit sector organizational well-being checks, team-building skills, and leadership trainings grounded in a strengths-based, experiential approach.

We focus on helping teams achieve transparency and clarity of their vision in order to help build trust, safety, and enhanced results. We use a combined background of management in the banking, public, and mental health program sectors to provide quality service for our clients.

Each program is customized for the client to meet the dynamics of the group as well as produce the client’s desired outcomes. Contact our office if interested. 

Women’s Circle of Intimacy

Join other women in an eight-week facilitated discussion and support group for women wanting to explore their sexual needs and desires.

Whether you experience low desire, want it all the time, or something in between, together you will share about your sexual identity, including any challenges you may be dealing with sexually.

We will use a combination of journaling, meditations, dyad, and group activities while walking through Dr. Nygoski’s book Come as You Are. You will have the chance to share your own story, as well as learn from and gain support from other women.

Imagine the chance to ask questions that you’d normally blush about or maybe discuss things you always wanted to try yet didn’t know who to ask.

If sex isn’t easy for you or you find yourself pushing off your partner’s advances, come learn why this may be and strategies to help you ask for what would help foster a context where you might feel more open.

You will be encouraged to set an intention or goal that you would be happy and inspired to create by the end of the eight weeks.

This group fills up fast, so be sure to reach out today if you would like to take on redefining the way you relate sexually in 2020!

Open to women of any sexual orientation, single or in relationship.

Call today to find out more about this group.

Interested in hosting or attending a couples retreat?

Is it time to improve your relationship and learn how to communicate in new ways that promote better understanding and closeness?

Would you like to feel more accepted by your partner and have less conflict in your relationship?

Would you like to feel like your partner is more accessible, responsive and engaged with you?

Dr. Estrella offers a variety of workshops throughout the year to help couples clarify vision and affirm strengths for your relationship, including intimacy.

Come get unstuck from repeating patterns of arguing or silent distancing that cause frustration and pain, and make sense of the strong emotions and needs that can surprise both of you in the relationship.

Begin the process of repairing relationship injuries, even old ones, and understand how to move forward and forgive. 

Together, we will increase feelings of trust and intimacy, playfulness, and fun. Learn how to take the great conversations you start at the workshop and keep them going at home!

“How We Love” Workshop

The How We Love group is designed to help you understand your attachment or “love” style in your marriage or dating relationship.  Through a faith-based and attachment lens, we will explore and discover what went wrong in your previous or current relationship so that you don’t repeat the same mistakes.

We all learned love lessons from our families, and these inform how we deal with our adult romantic partner when we are not getting our needs met or are distressed. By becoming aware of the ways you may be acting out your past wounds, you will gain the awareness and coaching needed to break the cycle and make room for intimacy to blossom.

This workshop is built around DVD footage, discussion, and skill building developed by Kay and Milan Yerkovich and based on their best-selling book, How We Love: Discover your love style, enhance your marriage. From the beginning, we will show you how to bring the Comfort circle to life. This is a unique tool designed to help couples create resolution and interrupt the old dance that only tore them apart.

Next How We Love Retreat: TBA

Cost: $320 (includes workshop, lodging, food, and book)

Enroll online at info@livelifeboldgroup.com.

Calling in “The One” Online Group Coaching

Join our online group led by Dr. Julie Estrella, relationship and love coach, designed to walk you through an 8-week process to help you uncover the ways you are unconsciously getting in your own way and instead turn on that homing beacon for fulfilling love.

Using the curriculum of Katherine Woodward Thomas, MA, MFT, licensed psychotherapist and New York Times bestselling author of Calling in “The One,” together we will help you identify your blocks and barriers to love, as well as provide you a safe environment to begin creating a new vision for love and how you would get to be to create that in your life.

Discover unresolved baggage and stories that may be covertly sabotaging your chances for love.

Till the Soil of Your Heart Thoroughly

You will have access to a daily lesson, corresponding practice, mediation, and journaling exercises that will help you bring that lesson to life. With the support of others committed to making bold moves in their lives, you will clarify your life’s purpose, a life worth living, and how to shift from a “me” to “we” mindset.

What’s Included in the Group Coaching?

The group coaching will meet online weekly for 8 sessions and include a variety of additional useful resources that will be made available through the group’s online Facebook group.

The cost does not include the cost of the book, Calling in “The One,” by Katherine Woodward Thomas.

Meet Your Coach

You will be given support to walk you through this trusted process by a coach who spent just over a decade striking out in love before she did similar work.

I’m Julie – Love enthusiast and committed partner with you in this journey!

In my late 20s, I attended a leadership workshop that I thought was supposed to help me be a better leader in my work and instead found myself bawling my eyes out the first night when the exercise called for sharing our vision for our future.

My Story: I’m Too Much

All I could think about was how much I wanted to be married. But also how jaded I was about marriage and my ability to find a man who could handle my “strong personality,” as one male friend teased me.

The work didn’t matter, not really; I was on track for managing my own department. Instead, what became so clear was how scared I was to trust men and how marriage seemed like a trap for women who dared to dream – all compliments of my early love lessons.

I Chose to Trust and My Blindfolds Fell Away

In that workshop, I woke up to the profound impact these old stories were having in my life and how amazing it can be when I step out on the skinny branches and risk.

I met men who knocked the old stories off the table and helped me start to make space for trustworthy, powerful, confident men to start showing up.

Be a Heat-Seeking Missile for Anything That Scares You

From there I decided to pursue any sort of work that would support me in creating an empowered view of men and myself in partnership with them – in my family, at work, and romantically. I discovered communities like Alison Armstrong’s PAX workshops, dedicated to approaching relationships from a responsible conversation or mindset, as we like to say these days.

For me, a responsible mindset means that I am aware I am creating my entire reality in how I choose to respond to life in any given moment.

In waking up to the stories that I am operating by, being willing to embrace and deconstruct them, I then created the space to create a new story – one that empowered and evoked me to take action.

Becoming Ms. Right

I jumped wholeheartedly into becoming the woman I thought could only exist once she found her true love. I focused on treating everyone in the way I wanted to be in relationship – loving, trusting, open, and authentic.

I went to a LOT of workshops, dated a ton, and explored online dating, too.

Sergio Estrella, Dr. Estrella’s husband

Who Is This Guy???

All in all, it took me about three years before I met my incredible husband. We met at one of those original leadership workshops – and I swear, it was like a tractor beam caught me… I had never experienced anything like it.

The goodness of fit was clear to me within two dates, and we set out to create a life we both feel fulfilled by. I went back to school to become a Licensed marriage and family therapist with a Ph.D. and focus on working with couples and intimacy.

Relationship & Love Coaching

Over nine years later, we are not only deeper in love than ever before, we are also embarking on giving the type of relationship coaching we wish we had access to years ago together!

Whether you want to attract a soul mate or deepen the intimate connection between you, we now offer relationship coaching through Schaepper Psychiatry.

Calling in “The One” Group

I am not a fan of reinventing the wheel; and when a friend recommended the Calling in “The One” book by Katherine Woodward Thomas, I was ecstatic! I wish I would have had my hands on this a decade ago when I went through my own heart-wrenching transformation. Her process is powerful and effective.

As humans we tend to do better in community when creating change, for support and accountability. You can count on me to set a context for your group experience that is warm, inviting, and provides the safety needed to explore wherever you need to go through your process.

I will be available via email and on the FB group outside of the group time, and you are always welcome to set up an individual coaching appointment if needed.

What If I’m Not Sure I’m Ready for a Relationship?

Sometimes people have let me know that they aren’t feeling ready to attract a relationship. You may be struggling with anxiety about your future or have just exited a messy divorce – and yet something in this post resonated with you.

Somehow you intuitively sense that there are crossed wires inside, and you’d really love support clearing house, tiling the soil of your heart so to speak, to experience a new way of relating to yourself – with loving kindness.

Whether or not you are “ready” for a relationship, we encourage you to use this time to prepare your heart to be able to attract and then recognize a powerful partner. Through the powerful support of a group, you will have a home base to work through your stuff and to receive feedback about all that makes you gloriously you.

You will be encouraged to make time to carve out time to create a life that inspires you, one where you live and love boldly. If not now, when?

Take Action for a Healthy, Passionate Relationship Today

And if you are feeling lit up with the possibility of creating a relationship that is mutually fulfilling, then let’s take this on together!

Call (951) 271-0397 today to set up a free phone consultation to see if this would be a good fit for you.