Tuesdays with Thrive: monthly therapist meetup
Join us for our monthly get together for therapist in Ventura, California
Tuesdays with Thrive: a monthly therapist meetup for mental health providers in Ventura, California
We meet monthly - the first Tuesday of every month in downtown/midtown Ventura, CA
Join us at Room Service Coffee from 8:30am-9:30am. Please RSVP here, so you can come and enjoy without handing out business cards, and instead receive a complimentary introduction email to all providers after to gather referrals and connections.
This group is a complimentary onramp for community and collaboration for local therapists in Ventura. Oftentimes therapist get togethers involve paying to attend, performing - i.e. - accruing CE’s or attending a happy hour to network and talk theories and clients care.
Our hope with Tuesdays with Thrive is to create an organic onramp for you to meet other providers in a human, casual and easy to connect way. Don’t drink coffee? Not a problem. Want to stop by for 10 minutes to say hello, absolutely welcome! Stay for the whole hour, or linger after to cowork or connect - it’s the perfect location!
Mosey on over on your way to work for the day, or snag a coffee + connection before heading home for virtual clients. Either way, you’re welcome here and your humanness and (dogs and postpartum babies) are too. Invite a colleague or friend, or come to this casual get together and make some new ones.
Meet your host
Claire Blakey, MA, LMFT, PMH-C
Owner of Thrive Therapy
Hi! If we haven’t met before, my name is Claire Blakey. I am the founder of Thrive Therapy Santa Barbara, and am excited to have launched a second Thrive Therapy location in downtown Ventura last year.
In addition to this new location, I also moved to a cutie house in midtown Ventura, after the wake of a divorce, as I raise my two little girls solo. While I did my graduate program and licensing hours in Santa Barbara, my roots in SB wove deeply in the therapist community. I served 10 years on the SBCAMFT board, ending my term as president/past-president.
Something I am passionate about in addition to my clinical work is cultivating community + connection for our clinical community. My theme as president was community + connection, and I feel proud of the onramps for therapists to be human and connect (surf meet ups, coffee meetups, camping trips, bookclubs, activism, and other on-ramps for collaboration, in addition to CE events).
My hope is to build connections professionally through this endeavor in Ventura, and also personally, as my life is now rooted in Ventura as well as I build my life and community here.
I am still in SB a few days a week for private practice, and am eager to cultivate a community of colleagues in Ventura, and want to foster a space that is inclusive, welcoming, does not require a hierarchy of licensing or a fee to join. All are welcome! In grad school or therapist-curious? In the throws of licensing, in agency work or private practice, supervising or slowing your clinical load as you reach retirement - all are welcome here.
If you show up and don’t know anyone, let me be your wing person! I know what it’s like to be new and I’d love to get to know you. Feel free to email before to connect or refer to the photo attached to get a sense of what I look like. I’ll also have a flyer/sign so you know where to meet! Happy to save you a seat. See you there!
