Online Support Groups Near Dayton
Whether you are in Dayton, Kettering, Beavercreek, Huber Heights, Fairborn, Centerville or anywhere else in the Miami Valley, ShareWell has live online support groups you can join from home. The air base and the labs around it make this one of the most engineer-dense corners of the country, full of people trained to solve problems and quietly unable to say when the problem is them.
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 Dayton.
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
Good at fixing things, except this
Thousands of people in Beavercreek and Fairborn go to work at the base or for the contractors around it. The culture rewards competence and calm. Marriages where one partner cannot discuss the job and the other has stopped asking. Engineers in their fifties who watched friends get laid off when a program ended and have never said the word anxious. Military families on rotation through the base, starting over in a new school district again. Older Dayton neighborhoods have been through hard years and have their own quiet about it. A lot of people in this valley can design a system to handle anything and cannot find the words for a Tuesday night that feels wrong.
How peer support helps near Dayton
A peer group is a place where talking is the whole task and nobody is grading the solution. You join from home in Kettering or Huber Heights, and the people in the room include others who were raised to be the steady one and are tired of it.
What members near Dayton talk about
- Anxiety and depression behind a competent exterior
- Marriages where the job cannot be discussed
- Layoffs and contract endings late in a career
- Military families restarting in the Miami Valley
Who these groups may help
- Engineers, analysts and contractors who do not talk about feelings
- Base families on rotation through Dayton
- Partners of people who bring the job home in silence
- Longtime Dayton residents carrying the city's hard years
Support group topics for people near Dayton
Every topic has its own page with live groups, so you can start with the one closest to what you are carrying.
Areas around Dayton
Every group meets online, so you can join from home anywhere around Dayton.
- Kettering
- Beavercreek
- Huber Heights
- Fairborn
- Centerville
- Miamisburg
- Xenia
- Springfield
- Montgomery County
- Greene County
Crisis and help lines near Dayton
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
I am in Beavercreek, not Dayton. Does that change anything?
I hold a clearance. Is there anything I should worry about?
I would rather read than talk. Is video required?
Is there a group for my spouse, who deals with my silence?
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