4-Week Stopping Overshopping In-Person Group for Clients
Are your clients shopping too much? They can stop…now!
If the Answer is Yes…
We Can Help.
Here’s how:
The 4-week Stopping Overshopping In-Person NYC Group equips clients with skills and strategies designed to eliminate compulsive buying and overspending. In a confidential space, they build relationships, acquire tools and gain confidence and peer support.
What will clients learn?
- How to identify and control overspending urges
- How to manage catalog, TV, Internet, and store buying
- How to set relevant, achievable goals and go after them
What day and time does the group meet?
The next 4-session in-person group dates have not yet been determined.
The group will meet one weekday evening from 6:30 – 8:00 pm
Location will be in Midtown Manhattan. If there is sufficient space, a few group members will be able to join the in-person group via videoconference.
Who’s leading the group?
Marcela Torres-Noguera, LMSW, Clinical Coordinator of Stopping Overshopping, LLC is a bilingual 
licensed social worker who helped in the development of the Stopping Overshopping Program in 2004 and has worked with individual overshoppers since that time. She co-led the original in-person groups with April Benson in 2005-2006 and also co-led several telecoaching groups with April Benson from 2013 to 2016.
What’s the course material?
The reading for the group is:
To Buy or Not to Buy:
Why We 
Overshop and How to Stop
aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaby April Lane Benson, Ph.D.
What’s the fee?
The fee for the group sessions is $395 (not including book & journal)
How can my client get started?
To be notified when the next group is forming, click here. Clients can read more about the course on the description page here.
12-Week Stopping Overshopping In-Person Group
The 12-week Stopping Overshopping In-Person Group meets in Manhattan once a week for 12 weeks for 90 minutes. The focus is on healing from a shopping addiction through changing problematic buying behavior, and the program employs a wide array of techniques to achieve this goal. Group members discover triggers, cues, and consequences of their overbuying, learn specific tools, strategies, and techniques to break the cycle of overspending, gain control, and develop mindfulness and increased capacity to use their “wise mind” in making decisions.
If your client is interested in being notified when the next 4-session in-person group will be held, click here.
To read the full description, click here.
12-Week Stopping Overshopping Telecoaching Group
The 12-week Stopping Overshopping Telecoaching Group meets once a week for 75 minutes on the telephone. The focus is on providing help for shopping addiction through changing problematic buying behavior, and the program employs a wide array of techniques to achieve this goal. Group members discover triggers, cues, and consequences of their overbuying, learn specific tools, strategies, and techniques to break the cycle of overspending, gain control, and develop mindfulness and increased capacity to use their “wise mind” in making decisions.
To read the full description, click here.
Stopping Overshopping Text Messaging Program
The Text Messaging Program is an affordable method of shopping addiction treatment, and it is available anywhere, anytime. Our program is the first interactive text messaging program to help people stop overshopping and overspending.
Text messaging programs have been shown to help people with smoking cessation, cut down on their use of alcohol, and ameliorate other impulsive and compulsive behaviors.
When your client begins the program, (s)he will answer a series of questions that allow us to personalize the text messages that you receive. This ensures that we send him/her messages that will specifically help him/her in the areas that your client struggles most. Your client will receive texts that are informational, directive, benefit-oriented, motivational, and inspirational.
To read the full description, click here.