The Tending Circle
A Coworking Collective For Therapists
Where the work of healing finds community.
A weekly gathering space for therapists, associates, and mental health professionals at any stage of building their practice. Show up on Tuesday mornings, tend to your work alongside colleagues, and let the rest follow.
What This Space Is
two hours · tended · every week
Every Tuesday we open the room together and close it together. In between, you choose how you work. The main room follows a light structure with timed blocks and gentle accountability. Breakout rooms are available for those who prefer open, unstructured work time. You decide what you need that day.
If you are running late, just join and get started. There will always be a moment to check in, share how you are doing, and tell your colleagues what you are working on. And if you cannot make it that week, not to worry. Show up when you can.
Why This Exists
Community as a practice
Over time, something quieter and more lasting takes shape: a circle of peers who know your work, understand your challenges, and think of you when opportunity arises. Not because networking was the goal, but because genuine connection happens when people show up together consistently over time.
The Tending Circle creates that consistent weekly anchor. Protected time, collegial presence, and the slow accumulation of professional momentum.
"The work gets done. But that is only part of what this space offers."
✦ Protected Time: A reliable weekly rhythm for attending to the professional side of practice, without it being swallowed by the clinical week.
✦Collegial Presence: Working alongside thoughtful clinicians sustains a sense of shared professional life that private practice can quietly erode.
✦ Professional Continuity: Small, steady periods of attention allow projects, systems, and ideas to develop gradually over time.
✦Organic Connection: The colleagues who refer to you and advocate for you are the ones who genuinely know you.
Membership
Simple, accessible membership
The Tending Circle meets every Tuesday from 10 am to noon via Zoom, starting September 8th through the end of the year.
intimate · intentional · community
A Note From Ajen
Even those who hold space for others deserve to be held.
Coworking spaces introduced me to something I had not quite found anywhere else. Something happens when you let yourself be seen doing the ordinary work. When your Tuesday morning, your notes, your half-finished project, is witnessed by people who understand the in-between parts of developing your practice.
That is what I wanted to build for therapists.
We are practiced at witnessing others. Rarely do we let ourselves be witnessed.
The Tending Circle grew from that belief.
The Tending Circle is a free community offering and expression of A. Meliora Relational Wellness, the same belief in relational healing, turned toward those who do the healing work.
FAQ
Everything you want to know
If something isn't answered here, reach out directly at info@ameliorawellness.com
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The Tending Circle is a professional ecosystem for licensed therapists in solo private practice across the Bay Area and California. At its core is a weekly two-hour virtual coworking session: three focused work blocks, brief check-ins, and a closing peer reflection. Beyond the weekly session, members benefit from monthly intention setting and professional development conversations, quarterly reset sessions, a growing collaborative resource board curated for private practice, and ongoing community connection between sessions. It is not supervision, consultation, or a training program. It is a professional community built around protected time, collegial presence, and the slow accumulation of professional momentum.
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Every Tuesday from 10am to 12pm via Zoom. The group is designed to be a consistent weekly anchor. The day and time remain the same each week so the rhythm becomes reliable.
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No. The Tending Circle is not a peer consultation group, clinical consultation group, or supervision. Nothing that arises in this space constitutes clinical supervision or consultation. Each member remains the clinician of record for their own work and is solely responsible for their own clinical decisions. A private practice consultation group typically involves structured case review, clinical discussion, and peer feedback on clinical work. The Tending Circle is different. Members spend most of their time working independently on their own tasks: documentation, marketing, practice-building, writing, and planning. On the first Tuesday of each month, the group engages in a structured conversation focused on the business and professional side of practice, such as building referral networks, managing administrative systems, or navigating professional growth. This is a professional development conversation, not clinical consultation. We do not discuss client cases or clinical material. If you are looking for clinical consultation in the Bay Area, we are glad to recommend resources. If you are looking for a professional community that supports the business and relational side of practice, this is that.
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Reach out directly at info@ameliorawellness.com or call 650.200.3998. We will take it from there.