Group Therapy

This group focuses on helping individuals navigate the emotional, practical, and social challenges that arise during and after a divorce. Here are some of the goals of this group:

• Emotional Healing: Help participants process and manage the grief, sadness, anger, and other emotions that come with the end of a marriage. The group provides a safe space to express feelings and begin to heal from the emotional pain of divorce.
• Increase Self-Awareness: Encourage individuals to reflect on their past relationship patterns, behaviors, and emotional responses, fostering personal growth and a deeper understanding of themselves.
• Build Coping Skills: Provide tools and strategies to cope with the stress, anxiety, and changes that come with divorce. This can include managing difficult emotions, navigating co-parenting challenges, or adjusting to life as a single person.
• Reduce Isolation: Combat feelings of loneliness or isolation by creating a sense of community and support. Participants can connect with others going through similar experiences, reducing feelings of being alone in their struggles.
• Improve Communication and Co-Parenting Skills: Help individuals improve communication, especially in high-conflict divorce situations, and support them in learning healthy co-parenting strategies for the well-being of their children.
• Foster Resilience and Empowerment: Encourage participants to view divorce as an opportunity for growth and a new chapter. The group aims to help individuals rebuild their self-esteem, regain confidence, and find a sense of empowerment moving forward.
• Provide Practical Guidance: Offer practical advice on topics like legal issues, financial adjustments, and navigating changes in living arrangements. Participants can share resources and advice on the logistical aspects of divorce.
• Establish New Boundaries: Support participants in setting and maintaining healthy boundaries, whether with ex-partners, family, or friends, to ensure personal well-being and clarity as they transition into the next phase of their lives.

This group focuses on helping parents navigate the challenges of raising children together after separation or divorce. The goals of this group include:

• Improve Communication: Help parents develop effective and respectful communication skills, allowing them to discuss issues regarding the children without conflict or misunderstanding.
• Learn Conflict Resolution: Teach techniques for resolving disagreements in a healthy and constructive manner, ensuring that disputes don’t negatively impact the children or escalate unnecessarily.
• Focus on the Children’s Needs: Encourage parents to prioritize the well-being and emotional health of their children, helping them work together to meet their children’s needs despite personal differences.
• Create Consistency and Stability: Support parents in establishing consistent routines, rules, and expectations across both households, providing the children with stability and a sense of security.
• Develop Effective Co-Parenting Strategies: Equip parents with strategies for successful co-parenting, including how to handle issues like scheduling, holidays, and discipline in a way that promotes cooperation and minimizes stress.
• Manage Emotions and Stress: Provide tools for coping with the emotional challenges of co-parenting, such as frustration, resentment, or guilt, so that these feelings don’t interfere with effective parenting.
• Promote Respectful Boundaries: Help parents set healthy boundaries between themselves, ensuring that personal issues don’t interfere with their ability to co-parent effectively and maintain mutual respect.
• Foster a Team Mentality: Encourage parents to approach co-parenting as a team, working together toward common goals for the children’s best interests, rather than as adversaries.

This group focuses on helping loved ones understand and support individuals with emotional regulation difficulties, such as those with Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), mood disorders, or other behavioral challenges. The goals of this group include:

• Increase Understanding of DBT and the Individual’s Struggles: Educate family members about DBT principles and the challenges their loved one faces, such as intense emotional responses, impulsivity, or difficulties in relationships.
• Improve Communication: Teach family members effective communication skills to reduce misunderstandings, increase empathy, and facilitate healthier interactions. This includes learning to validate emotions and express themselves in a non-judgmental, supportive way.
• Enhance Emotional Regulation: Help family members develop tools for managing their own emotions when dealing with challenging behaviors or intense emotional situations. This includes techniques for staying calm and maintaining patience in stressful situations.
• Set Healthy Boundaries: Guide family members in establishing and maintaining clear, healthy boundaries with their loved one, ensuring they can offer support without enabling harmful behaviors or sacrificing their own well-being.
• Promote Validation and Support: Teach the importance of validation in DBT—acknowledging their loved one’s emotions without necessarily agreeing with them. Validation can help reduce conflict and increase cooperation.
• Crisis Management and De-escalation: Provide strategies for managing crises or emotional outbursts, focusing on de-escalation techniques that help prevent situations from spiraling into conflict or emotional overwhelm.
• Encourage Self-Care: Support family members in prioritizing their own mental health and well-being, recognizing that caring for themselves allows them to be more effective and present for their loved one.
• Build Empathy and Compassion: Foster a deeper understanding of the emotional struggles of their loved one, helping family members develop compassion and empathy, which can improve the overall family dynamic.
• Strengthen Family Relationships: Work on rebuilding trust, improving family relationships, and creating a more supportive, harmonious home environment for everyone involved.

This group is designed to help individuals develop skills to manage intense emotions, improve relationships, and reduce harmful behaviors. The goals of a this group include:

• Emotional Regulation: Teach participants how to recognize, understand, and manage intense emotions, helping them reduce mood swings, anger, or impulsive reactions.
• Mindfulness: Help individuals cultivate awareness of the present moment, enabling them to better manage stress, stay grounded, and make more thoughtful, balanced decisions.
• Interpersonal Effectiveness: Teach skills to improve relationships by learning how to communicate clearly, assertively, and respectfully, while maintaining self-respect and boundaries.
• Distress Tolerance: Equip participants with strategies to tolerate emotional discomfort without resorting to harmful behaviors like self-harm, substance use, or avoidance.
• Reduce Self-Destructive Behaviors: Focus on eliminating behaviors like self-harm, substance abuse, or suicidal ideation by replacing them with healthier coping strategies.
• Improve Problem-Solving: Help individuals approach challenges with a more constructive mindset, improving their ability to solve problems effectively and adapt to life’s difficulties.
• Cognitive Flexibility: Encourage participants to develop more balanced thinking patterns, reducing all-or-nothing thinking, and helping them see situations from multiple perspectives.
• Build Self-Compassion: Foster a healthier self-image and help participants develop a compassionate relationship with themselves, rather than engaging in self-criticism.
• Create a Supportive Environment: Promote connection with others who understand similar struggles, creating a sense of community and reducing feelings of isolation.