Group Services

Our weekly 50-minute Social Skills Groups have a relational focus that teaches children how to approach others, resolve conflict, and make friends. Our groups aim to help children develop a deeper capacity for relatedness that can be translated into more meaningful relationships, both at home and at school. This group is primarily focused on building healthy social skills, emotional expressiveness, and identifying and empathizing with the emotions of others.

Children in our Social Skills Groups often leave with the following tools:

• Increased patience
• Decreased impulsive behavior
• Confidence to initiate conversation
• Ability to resolve conflict
• Greater awareness of social cues
• Capacity to respond to others with understanding and empathy
• Feelings of connection with peers
• Increased self-esteem in social situations

Navigating relationships as a teenager can be difficult. Our weekly 50-minute adolescent groups will provide a safe space for teens to discuss their struggles and successes. Leaders help to facilitate group discussions about topics such as bullying, body image, self-confidence, academic achievement, sports, friendships, familial stress, and identity construction.

Navigating relationships as a teenager can be difficult. Our weekly 50-minute adolescent groups will provide a safe space for teens to discuss their struggles and successes. Leaders help to facilitate group discussions about topics such as bullying, body image, self-confidence, academic achievement, sports, friendships, familial stress, and identity construction.

Navigating relationships as a teenager can be difficult. Our weekly 50-minute adolescent groups will provide a safe space for teens to discuss their struggles and successes. Leaders help to facilitate group discussions about topics such as bullying, body image, self-confidence, academic achievement, sports, friendships, familial stress, and identity construction.

The jump to high school can already be a stressful yet exciting process. For early teenagers who are questioning or confirming their identities within the LGBTQ+ community, finishing middle school can bring about added conflicts, needs for support, and a desire for camaraderie. Our weekly 50-minute middle school LGBTQ+ group is designed to provide a safe space for teens to discuss their struggles, successes, and ideas regarding their emerging identities. Topics within this support-focused, open-process group will highlight topics such as building self-confidence, surviving bullying, exploration of identity, building support networks, and more.

This group for teens is specifically designed to support those who have struggled with body image and/or disordered eating difficulties. While providing a safe, private, and engaging space, this group aims to help individuals find camaraderie with each other as they embark on learning to work on these isolating, yet all too common struggles.

Navigating relationships and building social confidence can be difficult for any teenager in high school. This can be especially the case for teens who have a neurodivergent diagnosis such as autism, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. Rather than over-focusing on what is “normal” connection, this specialized and strength-focused group allows neurodivergent teens to explore themselves and others in an empathic, safe, and encouraging way in hopes of creating new social skills and building relational bonds with peers.

Our weekly 50-minute high school groups will provide a safe space for teens to discuss their struggles and successes. Leaders help to facilitate group discussions about topics such as bullying, body image, self-confidence, academic achievement, sports, friendships, familial stress, and identity construction.

Our weekly 50-minute high school groups will provide a safe space for teens to discuss their struggles and successes. Leaders help to facilitate group discussions about topics such as bullying, body image, self-confidence, academic achievement, sports, friendships, familial stress, and identity construction.

Launching takes place when a young adult leaves their home of childhood in order to pursue adulthood. Many times this involves going away to college or obtaining a first full-time job. While this can be an exciting time, it can also be filled with fear, anxiety, stress, and uncertainty. Sometimes young adults struggle to successfully launch and move into the next developmental stage of adulthood. This group will aim to provide a safe and supportive environment for young adults struggling with issues related to launching or transitioning to new life roles and experiences. Our current Launching/Emerging Adult Group works with those making the transition or preparing to make the transition from High School to college and focuses on topics such as creating new relationships, finding relational self-esteem, working through isolation and loneliness, and expressing excitement of plans for the future.

This co-ed support group has been designed to meet the distinctive needs of individuals in their 20’s as they navigate the many obstacles commonly found in young adulthood. With a heavy emphasis on connection and emotional awareness, this group provides a safe space to process the stressors of finding a career path, building self-confidence, creating meaningful relationships, and exploring one’s emerging identity.

This support group has been designed to meet the distinctive needs of individuals with neurodivergent diagnosis in their early 20’s as they navigate the many obstacles commonly found in young adulthood. With a heavy emphasis on connection, emotional awareness, and the search for identity as an emerging neurodivergent adult, this group provides a safe space to assure self-confidence, create meaningful relationships, and explore one’s options in education and career.

This weekly, process-oriented therapy group is open to adult women who are seeking a supportive, relational experience in which to explore presenting areas of distress and to strengthen each individual’s strivings towards desired growth, change, and overall sense of well-being. Members that participate in our Women’s Group find this environment to serve as a safe, non-judgmental, and collaborative forum in which they are empowered to enhance self-awareness, insight, and healthy coping strategies. The group consistently maintains a confidential, open-ended format, with discussion topics ranging from but not limited to:

• Relationship/Marital Struggles
• Work-Related Stressors
• Difficulties with Divorce/Separation Process
• Stress Management Difficulties
• Parenting Problems
• Chronic Medical Issues
• Anxiety & Depression
• Self-Esteem Issues
• Trauma/Abuse History
• Mourning & Loss
• Family Distress
• Adjustment to Life Transitions
• Goal-Setting Challenges
• Adult Identity Development
• Social Isolation

Often times the stress of parenting can become overwhelming and debilitating. Parents experiencing increased levels of stress can find themselves stuck between the strong desire to remain flexible and responsive to their children while being confronted with the feeling that they’re out of gas and struggling to get their own needs met. We have found that this stress can lead parents to isolated places in their lives filled with anxiety and self-doubt. Our parent support group is aimed at helping parents stay connected in a space that allows them to express their emotions, develop new strategies and tools to help with their parenting skills, and find impactful support from hearing the experiences of others and relating through empathy and encouragement.