Online Group Therapy for Skillful Interpersonal Connections
Therapy groups help to provide a microcosm of the world in a supportive environment for practicing interpersonal skills
Once insight into your strengths and growth areas develops (often via individual therapy), group process provides a place to integrate and explore new ways of relating.
- 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 feelings or to express your own?
- Maybe you find yourself hanging back or feeling pressured to entertain others
"If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together." ~African proverb
The Group Experience
These co-ed, facilitated interpersonal groups provide rich, stimulating environments — 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.
Common Concerns
How Therapy Helps
- Finding your authentic voice — express and listen with honesty and compassion
- Saying things and exploring perceptions that do not get talked about in social conversation
- Increasing comfort voicing and exploring differences to mitigate conflict avoidance
- Learning 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.
For referring therapists – these process groups can stimulate, enhance, or enliven individual therapy, and I welcome collaborative consultation. With decades of experience facilitating groups from structured psycho-education and dialectical-behavioral skills groups to unstructured interpersonal process and psycho-dynamic groups, I have found that it is often through our relationships that we learn about ourselves.
Monday Night Group – Now Enrolling*
Mondays 6:15 PM – 7:45 PM Pacific Time | Online via Secure Telehealth
Currently accepting new members for our supportive psychotherapy process group for adults navigating life transitions and stress.
*Please note that there is an intake and interview process ahead of joining in order to determine group membership fit.