Urban Health Group is a team of licensed counselors and psychotherapists for mental health. We offer a variety of services for individuals and groups in the greater East Bay area, with a particular emphasis on BIPOC health and wellness. Our team is dedicated to empowering our community with the crucial mental health care deserved by all. In addition, we also offer end-of-life support and planning, psychotherapy, corporate healthcare, health and wellness education classes, and healthcare planning.
Corporate Healthcare and Mental Wellness Consulting
Corporate healthcare and mental wellness consulting will allow your company to provide much-needed mental health support and wellness education to your employees. Our programs integrate a variety of skills and techniques to help your employees maximize their productivity and improve their overall health and wellbeing. Our curriculum focuses on teaching your employees healthy practices and basic mental health education, including healthy coping skills, how to communicate effectively, team building and bonding, stress management, and much more. Corporate wellness programs have been shown to improve employee attendance, increase morale, reduce healthcare costs, and even attract new talent to your company. At Urban Health Group, we will work with you to customize a program for your company’s needs, allowing you to offer your employees support as unique as they are.
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Psychotherapy
Urban Health Group offers psychotherapy for those suffering from mental illnesses like depression, anxiety, PTSD, grief, and more. Our team of trained professionals specializes in helping our clients understand their behaviors and emotions, identify problems, learn healthy coping skills, and regain joy and balance in their lives. We offer a variety of psychotherapy approaches and services including interpersonal therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), psychodynamic therapy, supportive therapy, and dialectical behavior therapy. Many people can benefit from psychotherapy, and these services may be especially helpful if you find yourself struggling with significant negative emotions, unhealthy behaviors, signs of addiction, or you just haven’t been feeling like yourself lately. We strive to offer effective and empathetic care and give you the help you need and deserve to live your healthiest and happiest life.
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Counseling and Guidance for BIPOC
Our professional team is specially trained to address and treat the mental health concerns of the BIPOC community. We understand the unique impact that cultural trauma has, as well as the necessity for specialized providers in the mental health space. Our aim is to provide BIPOC mental health support in a safe and comfortable way and to offer guidance, treatment, and emotional support directly tailored to our patients’ experiences. Empathy is one of the cornerstones of our practice, which is why we firmly believe that cultural understanding is central to specialized BIPOC counseling.
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Healthcare and Wellness Education Classes
Despite the fact that mental health and wellness are incredibly important for an overall healthy life, many schools don’t offer any type of health and wellness education. The health and wellness education classes from Urban Health Group focus on teaching our students the many facets of health and wellness to help them protect and maintain their wellbeing. We emphasize curriculum points like mental health basics, emotion recognition and communication, mental health treatment options, common mental health issues, reducing mental health stigma, how to recognize when you or a peer is struggling, how to seek mental health help, and the warning signs of significant mental health distress. These are all crucial for protecting mental and physical health, and early education on these points can help ensure health and wellness for years to come.
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Healthcare Planning
Healthcare planning is an integrative approach that takes into account the services of multiple doctors. This approach allows the patient and their doctors to outline a course of action and the objectives and goals of the patient seeking treatment. This method helps ensure that all care providers are on the same page and are able to best assist with the ultimate goal of treatment, whatever that may be. These plans are also very effective for the patient because they help reframe the focus of treatment and provide milestones and benchmarks with which to measure treatment progress. Typically, these plans are subject to change as treatment goes on, as they are solely focused on providing the most effective care possible. If a healthcare plan is right for you, we will help you outline your problems and goals and come up with a clearly communicated plan of action to help you achieve those goals.
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End-of-Life Planning
End-of-life planning is important for everyone, and we understand how challenging these conversations and decisions can be. With our help, you will design and fulfill an end-of-life plan to help protect your loved ones from undue stress and trauma at the time of your passing. End-of-life planning is multi-faceted and person-specific, but most often involves writing a will, naming an executor, making an asset inventory, writing a living will, and more. While many people seeking end-of-life planning and counseling tend to be those facing terminal diagnoses, end-of-life planning is beneficial for everyone, and there are no prerequisites for seeking this service. If you are facing a terminal diagnosis, however, we also offer end-of-life counseling to help you and your loved ones cope with the reality you are facing and prepare emotionally and practically for your end.
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We serve the greater East Bay area including Castro Valley, San Leandro, Oakland, Alameda, and Hayward, CA, and are passionate about improving the mental health and wellness of our community. If you are interested in learning more about any of our services or scheduling an appointment, please reach out to one of our team members by phone or email today.
Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an evidence-based psychotherapy approach proven effective in helping individuals overcome trauma and stress-related disorders. Developed in the late 1980s, EMDR therapy focuses on addressing past traumatic events and reducing the impact of those experiences on the individual’s present life. As a mental health service provider in the Bay Area, Urban Health Group offers EMDR consultation services in Castro Valley, CA, to support individuals dealing with trauma and stress.
If you don’t know or don’t care where you’re going, any road will take you there. The metaphor extends into our lives when it comes to our health. If you aren’t aware of certain health-related issues on your horizon, the road you’re on might inadvertently take you there and add complications to your life without warning.
Planning and preparation become essential components to smooth sailing as we journey through life. As psychotherapists, we have the privilege of accompanying our clients through various stages of life. We’ve recognized the often overlooked importance of planning in one area: end of life. This topic may feel discomforting or daunting to many, but it’s crucial to address. Below is a breakdown of end-of-life planning steps to bring peace and assurance to both the ones facing the end of life and your loved ones.