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Support Services

Virtual Support Group

GRAZE has a NEW service – a Virtual Support Group!

Thanks to all of the wonderful feedback we received from the Beta Test of this service, we are planning to continue to offer it! FREE!

Each meeting will take place on the second Thursday of every month from 7:30 pm to 9 pm EST. If you have registered for our Beta Test and completed our Post-Beta Test Survey your information is still considered active unless you have requested to no longer receive notifications. If you have not yet registered, you will need to do so following the link below. 

These meetings are come as you can and are not organized support, this is about creating community and helping connect us at times when we feel alone in our difficult industry. These groups are not therapy, psychotherapy, or counseling sessions nor do they replace these services. We encourage everyone who is interested to register and join us to see if this experience is for them. If not, contact us and we can discuss some of the other opportunities that GRAZE has to offer.

We are grateful for our community and the opportunity to bring this free service to anyone who may identify the need to talk things out amongst peers. Hope to see you there.


Trained Peer-led Support Services

Peer-led support is either one-on-one or group support that uses the unique experience of a trained peer to support team members experiencing a similar situation.  Trained peer-led supporters actively listen to team member’s challenges and concerns while sharing knowledge, guidance and expertise in tools and strategies for processing and coping situations. Peer-led support sessions can be achieved through in-person, over the phone or video chat. Peer-led support can be beneficial to industry professionals experiencing impacts of cumulative stress, compassion fatigue, grief, or critical incident.


Professional Coaching

Coaching is a one-on-one, co-creative partnership between coach and coachee that uses the power of questions and active listening to help the coachee achieve personal and professional goals or outcomes. Coaching is future focused. Coaching bridges the gap between a coachee’s current situations and where they want to be in the future. Coaching believes that each individual is a fully capable person and supports them at any level to build awareness, empower solutions, and lead them to the change they want to see in their personal and professional life. Professional Coaching can be achieved over the phone or through video chat. 

Coaching has been shown to provide the following benefits to coachees: 


If you represent a facility looking to begin a contract with GRAZE for Professional Coaching, Peer Support, or would like information regarding other services GRAZE offers, please sign up for an available general information meeting slot linked below.

If you are an individual who is NOT affiliated with a facility that has an active contract with GRAZE and are looking to book a Peer Support or Professional Coaching session, please sign up for an available slot linked below.

Please note, if this is your first coaching session the first meeting will be for consultation to discuss a potential coaching plan. To secure either peer support or a coaching session time the session must be paid for in advance, however if coaching is not utilized that payment can be utilized for a peer support session at a later date.

If you are an individual who IS affiliated with a facility that has an active contract with GRAZE and are looking to book a Peer Support or Professional Coaching session, please follow the link below and enter the password provided by your facility.

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