GROUPS
Asexual & Aromantic Processing & Support Group
This group is a safe, welcoming space where asexual and aromantic individuals share their experiences, struggles, and stories. Through the development of a group community, members will have support, empathy, validation and guidance of in processing their lived experience and exploring their identity. The group therapist will empathically guide the members to challenge the expectations and beliefs that are prescribed to them by society and culture to allow for the sharing of experiences through a non-judgemental lens. This group will meet in-person will run 45-90 minutes dependent on the number of attendees each week. Clients will be required to attend their first 8 consecutive sessions and thereafter can cancel 48-hours in advance without a cancellation fee as long as regular attendance requirement is met.
DBT Skills Psychoeduction Group (Level I)
DBT was created by Martha Linehan to treat people struggling with Borderline Personality Disorder, which had previously been deemed untreatable. We find that DBT skills (including Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Emotional Regulation, and Distress Tolerance) are useful to everyone. Including us! Group participants will receive psychoeducation on the skills, discuss how they utilize them in daily life, and empathize and troubleshoot challenges with one another.
DBT Skills Support Group (Level II)
This group was created as an extension of our DBT Skills Training Group in response to our client’s wish to have continued group support in utilizing their skills. Clients will be asked each week to share with the group a time this week when they felt they had a win in using their skills and an occasion where they struggled. Group members will provide empathy, validation, and (if they want it) the groups feedback and ideas on how to manage similar situations in the future. This is an ongoing open group, which will be cancelled each week if less than 3 people are expected to attend.
Gottman 7-Principals of Couplehood Group
“Perfection is not the price of love. Practice is. We practice how to express our love and how to receive our partner’s love. Love is an action even more than a feeling.” – John Gottman.
Gottman’s 7-Principles for Couplehood is a group based on John Gottman’s 30 years of research into what makes relationships work and the Gottman Method (a form of couples therapy) developed by Dr. Gottman and, his wife, Dr. Julie Gottman. Their approach to couples’ therapy prioritizes the strengthening of relationships by building intimacy, empathy, understanding and working through conflict in a healthy way. In this group, you and your partner will learn concrete skills for deeping your connection and improving your communication including how respond to bids for emotional connection, articulating your needs and repairing after conflict.
Men’s Processing Group
In this in-person group you will have a safe and inviting space to share your stories and struggles with other men. The group therapist will empathically guide the members to challenge the expectations and beliefs that are prescribed to males by society and cultures to allow for the sharing of experiences through the lens of non-judgement. As the group connection deepens, your empathy and understanding for others will increase empathy and understanding of yourself.