For information or to register for any group, call 631-226-3900. Groups are offered free of charge.

• Mood Disorder Support Group
• Anxiety and Panic Disorder Support Group
• Relatives and Friends Group
• Joseph P. Dwyer Veterans PTSD Peer Support Project

We provide group support to individuals diagnosed with a mental illness. Groups are facilitated by trained professionals or by persons who have an intimate knowledge of the subject matter and knowledge of group facilitation techniques. Groups meet weekly or biweekly for two-hours. Groups focus on mutual support and includes topics such as sharing of similar experiences, problems in accessing services, medication, stigma, benefits and entitlements, and advocacy issues.

Mood Disorder Support Group

Selden: Fridays 6:30pm. Please call 631-226-3900 for details.

Healing Connections Peer Support Group

Healing Connections Peer Support Groups were created for and by people who experience emotional distress, trauma, extreme states of consciousness, and/or altered states. We come together to share information, hope, our joys, fears, successes, and hardships in the most safe space we co-create to mutually support, heal, and grow together. We are all collectively responsible for the comfort of our group! Healing Connections facilitators are trained peer specialist, who have their own experience with emotional distress. The facilitators are there to guide the support group and offer peer support.

Pollack Center: Thursdays from 7:00pm-8:30pm at 939 Johnson Avenue in Ronkonkoma

To leave a message:  631-471-7242 ext. 1390
Email:  healingconnections@mhaw.org

Coming soon: MHAW’s Healing Connections Peer Support Groups online!!

For additional peer support, please contact our Peer Support Line at 631-471-7242 ext. 1217

Anxiety & Panic Disorder Support Group

Amityville: Wednesday 7:00pm at Brunswick Hall Auditorium, 81 Louden Avenue, Amityville

Relatives and Friends Group

With an intimate knowledge of the challenges you face, we offer supportive group counseling services for the friends and relatives of persons with mental illness. The groups typically meet weekly for two hours. The group focuses on offering mutual support, sharing similar experiences, problems in accessing services, stigma issues, benefits and entitlements, and advocacy.

Bohemia: Thursdays 7:00pm at MHAW, Pollack Center, Ronkonkoma.
Riverhead: Tuesdays 7:00pm at MHAW’s Synergy Center, 1380 Roanoke Avenue, Riverhead.

Joseph P. Dwyer Veterans Peer Support Project

The Joseph P. Dwyer Veterans Peer Support Project provides Veteran-led peer support groups at sites across Suffolk County. For a complete description of the program, click here. For group information, please contact Program Director John Schultz at (631) 853-8345 or via email at vetspeertopeer@suffolkcountyny.gov.

Mondays

• Amityville: 6:00pm at Liberty Village, 600 Albany Avenue.

Tuesdays

• Bay Shore: 5:00pm at Beacon House, 1715 Union Boulevard.
• Yaphank: 2:30pm at The Vets Place, 32 Mill Road.
• Patchogue: 5:30pm at Long Island Community Hospital, 101 Hospital Rd. (In the Knapp Cardiac Center Conference Room next to the ER)

Wednesdays

• Lake Ronkonkoma: 4:00pm at Liberty Landing 58 Portion Rd.
• Sag Harbor: 6:00pm at 1357 Brick Kiln Rd.

Thursdays

• Hauppauge: 12:00pm at Thrive Recovery Center, 1324 Motor Pkwy Suite 102.
• Mt. Sinai: 2^nd Thursday of the month 10:00am at Rose Caracappa Senior Center, 739 Route 25A (This is a senior group)