Group Therapy · Westlake Village & Online Across California
Therapy Groups in Westlake Village
The Next ChapterThere is something uniquely powerful about bringing together people who have lived through the same highly specific and often deeply disorienting experience.
These groups are designed to offer the rare relief of not having to explain the unexplainable to people who have not lived it. Alongside education and practical tools, they offer a clear path forward through community, connection, emotional safety, and the recognition that healing does not happen in isolation.
In person in Westlake Village · Online across California
The Shape of Every Group
How the groups work
Ten weeks
A closed group that runs its full course with the same people, so the room has time to become a place where you can actually say the difficult thing.
Small and intimate
Groups are kept deliberately small so everyone has room to speak.
In person or online
In-person groups meet in Westlake Village, serving Thousand Oaks, Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Oak Park, and the wider Conejo Valley. Online groups are open to anyone located in California.
Two parts to every session
Each meeting pairs a teaching component — real information about what you are living through and why it works the way it does — with a process group, where the work happens between the people in the room.
One intake session first
Before a group begins, you meet one-on-one to make sure the group is the right fit for what you are carrying.
A sliding scale is available if cost is a barrier — please ask.
Women's Groups by Life Stage
Her Next ChapterSupport, Done Differently
Every woman arrives carrying an invisible archive: family loyalties, maternal scripts, cultural commandments, ambitions carefully calibrated to remain likable, and the quiet instruction to make impossible things look effortless.
Her Next Chapter is not a place to learn how to carry it all more gracefully. It is where women examine who handed it to them, what it has cost, and what they refuse to drag across the threshold.
Our groups are organized by life stage and shared experience because context matters. The woman leaving home is not asking the same questions as the woman whose children have left hers, even when both are standing inside the same reckoning: Who am I when the role changes? What remains when I stop performing what was expected? What becomes possible when I no longer confuse disappearing with love?
This is not a rehearsal for louder confidence. It is the slower, more subversive work of withdrawing consent from the relationships, roles, and systems that required a woman's absence in exchange for belonging. The next chapter does not always begin with a dramatic exit. Sometimes it begins when she remains exactly where she is and stops leaving herself.
Ages 16 to 19
Friendships, first relationships, body image, family rules, social belonging, and the push for independence make these years feel intensely visible and deeply uncertain.
Ages 19 to 25
These are the years of figuring out who you are through education, work, relationships, changing friendships, new freedom, and choices that suddenly carry real consequences.
Ages 25 to 34
Dating, marriage, career pressure, parenthood decisions, and the blending of two family systems make this decade far more complicated than simply settling down.
Ages 35 to 42
Competence can become its own trap as career, partnership, motherhood, caregiving, and a changing body compete for space while your needs remain the most negotiable part of the equation.
Ages 42 to 55
The scaffolding begins to shift as hormones change, children need you differently, parents begin needing more, relationships reveal what has been deferred, and the body refuses to keep absorbing the cost.
Ages 55 to 65
With retirement in sight and time feeling newly finite, questions about money, purpose, partnership, legacy, and how you want to spend the years ahead become immediate.
Ages 65 and Beyond
Changes in health, mobility, independence, relationships, and familiar roles can bring grief that is rarely named, alongside the ongoing need for meaning, purpose, connection, and a life that still feels fully inhabited.
Groups form as each age range fills. Add your name to the interest list and you'll hear from us when a group in your range is scheduled.
Shared-Experience Groups
Topic groups
Open to men and women of all ages
Family estrangement, no contact, and ambiguous loss
For parents estranged from children, adult children separated from parents, and anyone carrying the unresolved grief of distance from siblings or other family members.
This group holds the anger, guilt, relief, shame, and ambiguous loss of grieving someone who is still alive but no longer accessible in the same way. The purpose is not to push reconciliation or permanent separation, but to create space for clarity, boundaries, and a life that is not suspended around the relationship.
Narcissistic abuse and coercive control recovery
For people affected by parents, partners, siblings, coworkers, or others who used manipulation, coercive control, chronic blame, and gaslighting until they were left questioning their own memory, judgment, and intuition.
This group helps participants name the patterns, understand why their psychological hold can remain long after the relationship changes or ends, and rebuild a life no longer organized around someone else's version of reality.
Religious trauma and cult recovery
For people carrying fear, shame, fractured identity, family conflict, or spiritual injury from religious environments that made belonging conditional.
This group offers space to examine what was taught, name what it cost, and decide what remains sacred — without pressure to return to faith or to abandon it.
Facilitators
Who leads the groups
Kristin Robert, MA
Registered Associate Marriage and Family Therapist · #156731
Kristin practices in Westlake Village. She works with women across every stage of life, with people navigating major life transitions, and with couples and families.
Getting Started
Joining a group
A free 20-minute consultation
We'll talk about what brings you in and whether a group is the right fit.
A one-time intake session
Before the group begins, you meet one-on-one to make sure the group fits what you are carrying.
Your group
Ten weeks with the same people, in person in Westlake Village or online anywhere in California.
(818) 399-2016
kristinrobertpsychotherapy@gmail.com
3625 E Thousand Oaks Blvd, Suite 285, Westlake Village, CA 91362
Interest List
Raise your handand we'll hold your place
Tell us which group speaks to you. Groups form as each age range fills, and you'll hear from us as soon as a group in your range is scheduled. No commitment — just a hand raised.