Online Support Groups Near Lancaster, Pennsylvania
Whether you are in Lancaster city, Lititz, Ephrata, Manheim, Elizabethtown or one of the farm towns in between, ShareWell has live online support groups you can join from home. Lancaster County is small-town Pennsylvania at its most complete: church on Sunday, the same diner on Tuesday, and neighbors who can tell you were not home last night because your car was gone.
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 Lancaster.
Upcoming Groups
Belladonna
Compassion, empathy and support with major life challenges.
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Member-led
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 knows your car
Privacy is in short supply when the county is this connected. A separation in Lititz is known at the feed store before the papers are signed. A person in Ephrata who has stopped drinking cannot go anywhere without someone offering a beer and watching. Depression gets covered with busyness and good manners. Farm families carry the pressure of weather and prices as a private matter. Younger people who moved into the city for the restaurants and the arts feel the county's reserve from the other direction, friendly but closed. Everyone will help you fix a fence and almost nobody will ask how you are really doing.
How peer support helps near Lancaster
A peer group is a room of people who do not know your car, your church or your family, which is exactly what makes honesty possible. You join from home in Manheim or Millersville, and the others in the room know what it is to live somewhere small.
What members near Lancaster talk about
- Separation and divorce in a county that notices everything
- Drinking that everyone around you still offers
- Depression hidden behind good manners and a full schedule
- Farm and family business pressure nobody outside the house hears
Who these groups may help
- People in Lancaster County towns who need somewhere private to talk
- Adults going through a divorce or a loss in a small community
- Farm families and shop owners carrying the pressure alone
- Newcomers to the city who find the county hard to break into
Support group topics for people near Lancaster
Every topic has its own page with live groups, so you can start with the one closest to what you are carrying.
Areas around Lancaster
Every group meets online, so you can join from home anywhere around Lancaster.
- Lititz
- Ephrata
- Manheim
- Elizabethtown
- Columbia
- Millersville
- Mount Joy
- Strasburg
- Quarryville
- Lancaster County
Crisis and help lines near Lancaster
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.
Support groups in other cities
Frequently asked questions
I live in Lititz or Ephrata rather than Lancaster city. Is that fine?
How do I know nobody from the county will be in my group?
I am Plain or from a conservative background. Would I fit?
I quit drinking and need somewhere that is not a bar. Is this that?
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