• Are you too much of a “people pleaser?” 
• Do you find that you bottle up your anger or explode? 
• Is it difficult to ask someone else about his/her feelings or to express your own? 
• Maybe you find yourself hanging back or feeling pressured to entertain others

This group can help you move forward with your life and relationships. Contact me about this group for men and women who need a safe environment to practice new relationship skills. 

• Cultivate emotional intimacy
  
• Become more comfortable in your own skin
  
• Be authentic in relationship
  
• Become aware of your feelings & ways of relating
  
• Change patterns that don’t work 
  

This co-ed, facilitated interpersonal group provides a rich, stimulating environment  — with multiple perspectives and interaction styles that allow members to explore and practice relationship and social skills. Group therapy is a method demonstrated to increase self-awareness – the group serves as a microcosm for the world outside – allowing feelings to develop and be worked through real-time. Group members are helped as these skills generalize to social, romantic, and work relationships outside. Click here to see the Johari model of self awareness.

Group can help you find your authentic voice — express and listen with honesty and compassion — say things and explore perceptions that do not get talked about in social conversation. Learn to take risks, saying things that are true to you  — and do so in a place designed to support spontaneity and aliveness. Some people find the right time for group is when you see obstacles yet find it difficult to change the pattern. Print out a flyer and contact me for more information.

For referring therapists – this is a process group that can stimulate, enhance, or enliven individual therapy, and I welcome collaborative consultation.

Developing your relationship skills? Call Dr. Melinda Douglass at (415) 215-4796. 

Coach Dean Smith to Michael Jordan in his freshman year at UNC: 
“Michael, if you can’t pass, you can’t play.”