Our Community Center

We serve our local Los Angeles Community in Three Areas:

  1. Individual and Family Counseling – Private one-on one counseling by licensed therapists. Affordable scale options are available. Learn more here.
  2. Therapy and Wellness Groups – We believe healthy interaction with people is vital to wellbeing. We offer several different types of groups from specific therapeutic offerings to yoga classes. Our therapists are happy to recommend groups to you. Some groups require a recommendation from a therapist. Other groups are what we call “drop-in” groups that are not a part of a series and require no recommendation from a therapist. See our calendar for more details about groups, sign up and costs.
  3. Leadership, Civic Engagement and Volunteer Opportunities – We offer special groups and activities to inspire leadership in areas that important to you. These groups, activities and events will also be listed on our calendar.

Be sure to look at the details on groups and activities to learn about recommendation and sign up requirements, schedule and costs per group. Some groups are complimentary and some have a fee to attend. Also be sure to look at our membership model where you can access events at a discounted monthly rate. On free events, we  appreciate and encourage a small donation.

Our group offerings are the best way to learn about The Relational Center. After attending one event or group you are likely to hear someone affectionately refer to The Relational Center as “TRC.” Our therapists, volunteers and community members come to TRC to be served and be of service. We love our community and know you will find a special place for TRC in your heart too.

 

Healing Support (counseling)

Our Community Center is here to help you take steps to end disconnection. You can come on your own, bring a friend or partner, or join a group of people who are struggling with the same feelings. What step are you ready to take?

We offer counseling for individuals, couples, families, and families of choice. Our approach to counseling works to build mutually supportive relationships and community connections, which we believe are the most important resources for sustainable wellbeing. There is no neutral; our values are front and center in our counseling work. We must work together to end the harmful effects of isolation, consumerism, and violence. Your distress is a signal of the difficulties you are encountering in your relationships and communities. Together, let’s increase our collective abilities to practice empathy, include diversity, and collaborate on thriving together.
Whether blood relatives, or the intimate networks you have come to call your family of choice, all relationships require patience, skill, and support. In couples/family counseling, we can help you and your partner/you and your family to…

  • relate to each other with empathy
  • navigate challenging communication issues
  • deepen intimacy
  • design your own creative relationship arrangements
If working in relationship with family or your partner is outside the scope of what you currently need, you can opt for one-on-one counseling. We can help you to…

  • understand your needs more clearly
  • tolerate and value intense feelings
  • expand your capacity to navigate complicated relationships
  • build enduring connections with a wider network of support
  • engage in healthy community
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Connections (therapy and wellness groups)

Our community center is here to help you take steps out of disconnection and into community. The most sustainable wellness comes from integrating many parts of our experience: emotional process, physical fitness, social disconnections, food, values, civic engagement, etc. Here you will find many other people who are taking steps to get connected and figure out what holistic wellness means for them. A monthly plan at The Relational Center gives you access to community connection, groups in which to practice mutual care, and a variety of wellness classes including meditation, yoga, and movement.

The groups we offer support the practice of relational skills that promote greater levels of interdependence among participants. We believe that sustained mutual engagement supports human strength and wellbeing. Opportunities to build relationships are sparse in our culture, therefore we are committed to hosting groups that are innovative and relevant to our community members.
We offer a wide range of groups for you to connect with others, many of which integrate important educational components that are critical to our long-term wellbeing. Some groups focus primarily on emotional processing and building skills. A few examples of group themes are:

  • Learning how trauma lives in your neurology and body
  • Understanding how food influences your emotions
  • Storytelling to discover your core values and leadership
  • Women’s and men’s drop-in groups
  • Making meaning of grief and loss
We want holistic wellbeing to be accessible to all of our community members. We offer one affordable (sliding scale) monthly plan that includes yoga classes, meditation groups, nature hikes, and other diverse programming that engages the body, starting at just $20 per month. Since we believe that counseling is most effective when integrated with wellness practices, we can combine the two costs for a further discount.
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Current Schedule of Offerings

Shared Leadership (Leadership, Civic Engagement and Volunteer Opportunities)

The more you do to promote connection, the more connected you will feel. In fact, you alone cannot end disconnection for yourself. People need to learn about the harms of disconnection and how to overcome them, therefore we encourage you to share stories of how you are overcoming these harms every day. This kind of story-telling brings us into deeper connection, by reminding us of the values worthy of our struggles. We offer a workshop series to help you craft these stories. Here you will get to share your stories with others and hear theirs too. You can also join a Citizen Circle, where you can share your story with even more people and build the ground for taking action in support of social justice.

The need for a strong social fabric is crucial to our collective wellbeing. Individuals in isolation cannot sustain wellbeing if their environment is not well. At our Community Project, we collaborate with people to take action and improve everyone’s quality of life. We also work with local businesses, schools, and the neighborhood council to better understand the struggles and hopes of our local community.

Learn how to tell your story using our key leadership and organizing strategy, Stories of Connection. As you discover your story through our resonance practice, you will begin to start connecting and resonating with others’ stories and building community!
The purpose of this group is to increase civic awareness, develop leadership skills, build community, and ground participants in relational theories and practices. We collaborate to take action for social change through both group study and volunteer opportunities that serve our communities.

“A morally and civically responsible individual recognizes himself or herself as a member of a larger social fabric and therefore considers social problems to be at least partly his or her own; such an individual is willing to see the moral and civic dimensions of issues, to make and justify informed moral and civic judgments, and to take action when appropriate.”
— Thomas Ehrlich, Civic Responsibility and Higher Education, 2000.

There are many ways to get involved at our Community Project. We always need volunteers to help with a variety of roles:

  • Teaching yoga classes, meditation groups, dance classes, etc.
  • Orienting new members of our community to what we offer.
  • Intake and risk assessment for potential counseling clients.
  • Leading workshops, teaching art classes, hosting movie nights, etc.

We would love to have your skills and leadership in our community. If you have ideas not listed above, we want to learn about them and talk to you about getting involved.

Call us: 323-935-1807
Email us: volunteer@relationalcenter.org

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