Ride The Wave Recovery
Santa Cruz, California, Santa Cruz
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Santa Cruz, California, Santa Cruz
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The mission of Ride The Wave Recovery is to bring transformative group, individual, and family therapy to those living with or in recovery from eating disorders, addictions, codependency, and trauma in the Santa Cruz area.
RtW believes fiercely in the capacity of every person who truly wants it to achieve lasting joy in recovery and to be in the flow, riding the undulating, unpredictable, immeasurably awe-inspiring wave of life.
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Audrey Raden
As a fellow professional counselor, I have consulted with Katherine and found her to be very knowledgeable and helpful. She is passionate about helping those with eating disorders and brings a creativity to her work that sets her apart from the crowd. Thank you, Katherine, for lending me your expertise. More...
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How important is a healthy diet to someone’s health and wellbeing?
"Healthy" is a loaded word in this day and age, and particularly in the Bay Area. As an eating disorder specialist, I am cautious about words like "healthy" and "good" or "unhealthy" and "bad" to describe food, as I know that those who may struggle with food , weight, and body image issues may use these words as a marker of how "good" or "bad" they are as people. Food is neutral. It is our relationship with food and how we use food in our lives that may be an issue. A balanced diet, determined by a dietitian with specialization in eating disorders and not by fad diet culture, can be crucial to someone's health and well-being, both physically and psychologically. However, obsessing about food choices to the detriment of one's self-esteem, relationships, and full well-rounded life is not necessarily the route to health and well-being.
What do you love most about your job?
I love sharing the journey of recovery with my clients; because I have "been there," I genuinely feel gratitude, compassion, and understanding for what my clients are going through. Being a therapist is, in a word, a truly generative experience for me.
What inspired you to start your own business?
I worked at treatment centers for many years both as a therapist and as a director and executive; in Santa Cruz, there were not many outpatient groups for people recovering from eating disorders, addictions, codependency & co-occurring trauma, and I am a firm believer in the power of therapy groups for those in recovery from these things. I decided to open my own practice in order to bring more high-quality therapy groups to Santa Cruz, in hopes of serving people in recovery in a meaningful way. I additionally highly value long-term outpatient therapy groups, and I'm grateful to be able to offer this service to Santa Cruz.
DBT Mindfulness & Skills Group
This is a 20-session series for adults that teaches all the core skills of Dialectical Behavior Therapy to a committed group of recovering individuals. This group may be helpful for those who struggle with their own emotional volatility or hypersensitivity in their personal or professional lives, unstable friendships, self-harm, emotionally manipulative communication patterns, reactive suicidality, overwhelming helplessness, emotional eating, sex or gambling or other form of process addiction, and substance abuse.
All potential members must be assessed prior to beginning the series. Group members receive all skills and homework in a DBT binder as well as access to skills coaching and a weekly check-in email outside the group for the duration of the series.
There are 2 Series per year:
Series 1: June - November
Series 2: December - May
Katherine Zwick runs this group; she was trained in an adherent DBT treatment center and supervised by a certified DBT practitioner for 3 years and brings as much of adherent DBT as she can to an outpatient private practice, though it is modified to fit the setting.
Process Groups
ONGOING PROCESS GROUPS:
WOMEN IN RECOVERY I - THURSDAYS 7-8:30PM
WOMEN IN RECOVERY II - MONDAYS 4-5:30PM
Women in Recovery I and II groups are open to cisgender and trans adult women looking to enter into or deepen their recovery from trauma, codependency, eating disorders, or other addictions. This group focuses on internal family systems, external family systems, and the power of honesty in relationship with other women and themselves. All potential group members need to be assessed before joining these closed groups. These two groups are run by Katherine.
EMOTIONAL SOBRIETY
MONDAYS 7-8:30PM
Emotional Sobriety is a group appropriate for adults deepening their recovery from trauma, codependency, eating disorders, or other addictions who seek emotional balance and interdependence in their work, love, and friend relationships. This is a mixed gender group. All potential group members need to be assessed before joining this closed group. This group is run by Katherine.
PROFESSIONALS IN RECOVERY
WEDNESDAYS 7-8:30PM
This process group is designed for those who may be in careers as doctors, psychiatrists, lawyers, therapists, social workers, executives, medical students, graduate students or similar and would like to continue to work on themselves and their relationships with others in their ongoing recovery journeys. This is a mixed gender group. All potential members need to be assessed before joining this closed group. This group is run by Katherine.
Skills & Process Groups
TECHNOLOGY IN BALANCE - THURSDAYS 5:15-6:45PM
NOW ACTIVELY ASSESSING FOR THIS GROUP! STARTS AUGUST 9TH.
Located so close to the Tech Capital of the U.S., use of smart phones, computers, video games, TVs, apps, and other forms of technology is an integral aspect of our daily lives; yet how do we insure that technology does not become our lives?
This 10-week group series is focused on helping you understand the role technology plays in your life, and it will teach you specific skills to bring technology use into greater balance in order to enhance a well-rounded, present, and joyful experience of daily living. All potential members need to be assessed before joining this group. This group is run by Lauren.
GROUP STARTING IN SEPTEMBER!
CODEPENDENT NO MORE SKILLS & PROCESS GROUP - MONDAYS 5:30-7:00 PM
This group is for adults looking to recover from codependent behaviors and emotional reactivity in a collaborative setting that includes learning and practicing skills as well as processing together. The group will follow the format of the Codependent No More workbook and each week the group will learn a new skill as well as process together how codependency and recovery from codependency is impacting their lives. All potential members need to be assessed prior to joining this group. This group will be run by Ashleigh.
If you aren't sure if you struggle with codependency, some tell-tale signs of codependency include, but are not limited to, the following traits:
the tendency to "people please" at the expense of your own needs, wants, and well-being
difficulty discerning what feels right to you when in the presence of other people's opinions
perfectionism
the tendency to worry and ruminate if you think you've "made a mistake"
a sense of urgency to "make things right" with people
a tendency to over-apologize
a sense of emptiness or lack of direction when attempting to focus on your own endeavors but/and a felt sense of clarity and purpose when focusing on the lives others
putting others on a pedestal
putting others "below" you
consistently comparing yourself to others
avoiding challenging interpersonal situations in order to avoid difficult feelings or experiences
"overthinking" interpersonal situations
making up entire conversations with other people in your head but/and difficulty engaging in the actual conversation with the other person
making assumptions about what other people's intentions are without checking out those assumptions
"taking things too personally" in relationships at school, at work, or at home
forming alliances and enemies and/or gossipping in tight-knit communities (such as at work, at school, in your family, or group of friends)
consistently care-taking the needs of others, including their emotional, physical, and financial needs, while neglecting your own self-care and wellness
suicidal or self-harming reactivity when feeling abandoned or rejected by another person
Nutrition Groups
OUTPATIENT NUTRITION GROUP COMING SOON!
Ride The Wave Recovery is so excited to bring an outpatient nutrition group to those in recovery from eating disorders! Check back soon for more details about this group, including start date! This group will be designed for those who have successfully completed higher levels of care for their eating disorder recovery and for those who are stable at the outpatient level of care, but/and would like to deepen their healing with food. This group will be run by Kat Brown.
