Online Support Groups Near Akron
Whether you are in Akron, Cuyahoga Falls, Stow, Barberton, Hudson, Kent or anywhere else in Summit County, ShareWell has live online support groups you can join from home. Akron is a hometown kind of city. People stay, families go back generations, and the person at the pharmacy went to school with your sister, which is comforting right up until you need to say something you do not want repeated.
Every group meets online by live video, so you can join from home.
These online groups start during the day and evening in Eastern time, so they fit a day near Akron.
Upcoming Groups
Belladonna
Compassion, empathy and support with major life challenges.
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People whose anxiety makes ordinary days feel like a lot
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Member-led
People whose anxiety makes ordinary days feel like a lot
Member-led
For those rebuilding after painful relationships
Where everyone has known you since kindergarten
Growing up in Akron and staying means a life that is fully witnessed: the same neighbors, the same churches, the same bars your father drank in. It also means there is no stranger to talk to. A divorce in Barberton is public before the paperwork is filed. Depression gets explained away as being tired. The rubber plants are memory now, and the hospitals and the polymer labs that replaced them did not replace the easy camaraderie of the old shop floors. Adult children raising kids a few streets from their parents feel judged by three generations at once. The city is loyal to itself, and loyalty can leave very little room for honesty.
How peer support helps near Akron
A peer group is made of people who did not grow up with you, which is the whole relief. You join from home in Stow or Cuyahoga Falls, say the thing nobody in Akron can hear, and the others in the room take it as just a Tuesday.
What members near Akron talk about
- Needing privacy in a city where nothing stays private
- Divorce, drinking and depression that the family has named something else
- Raising kids under the eyes of your own parents
- Grief for the version of Akron your parents knew
Who these groups may help
- Lifelong Akron residents who have no stranger to talk to
- People going through divorce or loss in a close community
- Adult children living a few streets from their parents
- Anyone whose family has a story about them that is not true anymore
Support group topics for people near Akron
Every topic has its own page with live groups, so you can start with the one closest to what you are carrying.
Areas around Akron
Every group meets online, so you can join from home anywhere around Akron.
- Cuyahoga Falls
- Stow
- Barberton
- Hudson
- Tallmadge
- Green
- Kent
- Medina
- Canton
- Summit County
Crisis and help lines near Akron
ShareWell groups are peer support and are not crisis or emergency services. If you or someone near you is in danger, call 911, or call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at any hour.
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Frequently asked questions
Does it matter if I am in Cuyahoga Falls or Canton rather than Akron?
How private is it, really?
My whole family drinks and nobody calls it a problem. Is that a topic here?
Can I try one group without committing?
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