Group Counseling

Does your child feel uncomfortable or out of place among classmates, teammates, and friends?

In this immersive, week-long summer camp experience, children will learn and practice new skills for managing social situations.

Using games and activities, we will find the confidence to navigate social situations like an expert – with a focus on meeting new people, starting and ending conversations, managing conflicts, reading body language and tone, and other social skills.

Are you considering making a change to your relationship with alcohol?

This group will meet virtually for one hour on Fridays. Sessions will consist of psychoeducation on a different topic each week, activities, assessments, and group discussion.

Participants will:

• explore their motivation to change and the role alcohol plays in living by their personal values
• assess what kind of changes might be appropriate for their individual situation
• learn about the impacts of alcohol on the body and mind, and options to implement and maintain changes (including abstinence, moderation, and harm-reduction)
• practice relapse prevention skills, coping with urges, and implementing change plans

Would you like to gain behavioral skills to help connect with and support your emotional teen?

Parenting can be especially challenging when your teen has difficulties regulating their emotions. This group provides parents with tools to help their teens accept life circumstances while developing skills to enact positive changes in their behavior and interactions with others.

Each week focuses on a specific DBT skill: Mindfulness, Distress Tolerance, Emotion Regulation, Interpersonal Effectiveness, and the teen-family-specific module, Walking the Middle Path.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment that helps individuals live more in the moment, better manage intense emotions, reduce impulsive behavior, and improve their relationships. In this group, we go over coping skills and strategies from the modules of DBT: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and walking the middle path.

Creative techniques are used to explore and reinforce DBT concepts in a way that is accessible and beneficial for adolescents of all artistic skill levels.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based treatment that helps individuals live more in the moment, better manage intense emotions, reduce impulsive behavior, and improve their relationships.

In this DBT Skills Group, we go over coping skills and strategies from the modules of DBT: mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness.

Participants commit to joining eight weeks at a time (two weeks of mindfulness and six weeks on another module). The full program is 24 weeks.

Does your child have difficulty making or keeping friends?

This group experience provides a collaborative environment for children to learn tools for navigating social situations and to practice them in the moment.

Utilizing play and activities, children will find confidence in social situations, with a focus on meeting new people, expressing feelings, managing conflict and problem solving, emotional regulation, and other social skills.

The facilitators will use a mix of psychoeducation and play to create an inviting and engaging curriculum for young children.

Feeling comfortable in our bodies can be challenging for people of any age, and it can be especially difficult for adolescents as they go through physical, emotional, and social changes.

Teens are regularly faced with many external factors, such as social media, culture, body ideals, peers, societal constructs, diet culture, wellness trends, etc. It can be difficult to process and filter this information, which impacts the development of body image, self-esteem, and their relationships with their bodies.

In this group, participants will have the opportunity to share personal stories, explore related topics, and support one another in their journeys to improve their relationships with their bodies and increase self-compassion.

Is your teen overly anxious and/or struggling to cope with the demands of daily life?

This group aims to help teens understand symptoms of anxiety as well as learn how to identify triggers, shift thinking patterns, develop healthy coping skills, self-advocate across different settings, and create a support network.

Parents will receive weekly information aligned to each week’s topics in order to help families reinforce skills or concepts practiced during sessions. Parents will also have an opportunity to attend one parent support group session midway through the program to provide feedback to the facilitator and to offer insight or support for one another.

Are you looking to gain support or to just connect and grow with others who “get it?”

This ongoing, intimate group of up to 8 participants provides a safe, nonjudgmental space for high schoolers to come together for support and peer connection.

Members are encouraged to bring their concerns and be open to receiving input from others. The counselors will provide psychoeducation and facilitate the conversation.

While there is no set agenda in this open process group, themes that commonly arise include depression/anxiety, academic and societal pressures, substance use, relationship and family dynamics, and life paths/transitions, among others.

Are you curious about exploring your gender or sexual identity?

Consider joining this group if you wish to deepen your level of self- and other awareness in relation to your gender/sexual identity.

Interpersonal process groups offer a unique and powerful space for growth and change. Members can expect to gain a deeper level of insight on themselves and how they relate to others based off of the “here and now” interactions within the group setting.

Do you find yourself avoiding sexual intimacy due to body image concerns?

Many women struggle to reveal their true sexual selves because of insecurities about their body. While it is normal to have insecurities and concerns, it is difficult to enjoy yourself if they are preventing you from experiencing true sexual intimacy and confidence.

The facilitators will use a mix of psychoeducation and processing to create an inviting and engaging group for women. This approach allows members to gain support from others with similar experiences while taking home evidence-based skills.

Are you currently experiencing the loss of a romantic relationship or struggling to move past a previous heartbreak?

This group supports women who are currently facing heartbreak from any kind of intimate relationship. This includes but is not limited to the loss of a short-term relationship, a casual relationship, a long-term relationship, a partner in ENM dynamics, and even a relationship you hoped would happen but did not.

Have you experienced an unexpected, violent or traumatic death of a significant person in your life?

The death of a loved one or close friend under sudden, unexpected, violent or traumatic circumstances can present complex problems in the grief process. Grief can become complicated. This group offers a supportive and safe space for survivors to share their loss and begin to move through the healing process.

Group participants can expect to focus on mindful engagement, commemoration of their loved one and resiliency skills and practices through sharing stories, discussion, and learning and sharing coping skills.

Each session will include short grounding/meditative exercises at the beginning and end, brief check-ins, psychoeducational teaching, exercises and group discussions and sharing.

Do you find yourself in a season of change due to separation and/or divorce?

This experience can be isolating, but you do not have to go through it alone.

The Weekly Divorce and Separation Support Group for Women is a safe and supportive processing group where you can share your journey, and be seen and heard by other women going through similar circumstances.

Together, we will work to build coping skills for managing challenging emotions, examine beliefs and self-talk about separation and divorce, explore your redefined sense of self and identity, and gain confidence as you move forward into your new chapter.