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Groups
** No groups are currently open. Please send an email if you'd like to be on a waiting list **
All of my groups are closed groups and all use a small group format.
There are never more than 6-7 people, plus myself, in a group. There is research that indicates that for many people having more than 8 people in a conversation unit can trigger some stage fright. By keeping my groups small it safeguards a secure, non-threatening environment and makes it more comfortable for members to begin to divulge their real selves. In a small group no one needs to feel they are “performing”.
My groups are closed so that the same small group can gel. I ask members to make a 6 week commitment to membership in the group when they join a new group. In my experience, 6 meetings is the common timetable for members to feel the blossoming of a cohesive group. People are more likely to trust others to help them find solutions to their problems if they have worked together and developed a group culture.
My approach to group therapy is similar to my individual approach. The group and I will help each group member choose what in particular they want to work on changing in their lives right now. Members make a contract with the group to help them approach that goal.
For most sessions, the individual members will take turns working on their problem areas with the groups’ undivided attention. Other times the group will want to focus on an issue that touches them all, for example, changes with aging. This group validation of shared experiences coupled with appreciation of the worth of each member in their own personal struggle is the basis of how my approach to group therapy works.
One of my roles as facilitator and leader is to provide protection for the group members from their own and other peoples’ negative messages about them. All my groups are support groups. People need to hear truths, but they need to know feedback is coming from an affirming perspective. Everyone in my groups will learn to give strokes more freely and to accept them more willingly.
I also teach the paradigm of Transactional Analysis, founded by Eric Berne in my groups. I consider it one of the best and simplest means of picturing and explaining how interactions between people work and how those same kinds of interactions affect our inner dialogues and beliefs about who we are.
Groups
** No groups are currently open. Please send an email if you'd like to be on a waiting list **
All of my groups are closed groups and all use a small group format.
There are never more than 6-7 people, plus myself, in a group. There is research that indicates that for many people having more than 8 people in a conversation unit can trigger some stage fright. By keeping my groups small it safeguards a secure, non-threatening environment and makes it more comfortable for members to begin to divulge their real selves. In a small group no one needs to feel they are “performing”.
My groups are closed so that the same small group can gel. I ask members to make a 6 week commitment to membership in the group when they join a new group. In my experience, 6 meetings is the common timetable for members to feel the blossoming of a cohesive group. People are more likely to trust others to help them find solutions to their problems if they have worked together and developed a group culture.
My approach to group therapy is similar to my individual approach. The group and I will help each group member choose what in particular they want to work on changing in their lives right now. Members make a contract with the group to help them approach that goal.
For most sessions, the individual members will take turns working on their problem areas with the groups’ undivided attention. Other times the group will want to focus on an issue that touches them all, for example, changes with aging. This group validation of shared experiences coupled with appreciation of the worth of each member in their own personal struggle is the basis of how my approach to group therapy works.
One of my roles as facilitator and leader is to provide protection for the group members from their own and other peoples’ negative messages about them. All my groups are support groups. People need to hear truths, but they need to know feedback is coming from an affirming perspective. Everyone in my groups will learn to give strokes more freely and to accept them more willingly.
I also teach the paradigm of Transactional Analysis, founded by Eric Berne in my groups. I consider it one of the best and simplest means of picturing and explaining how interactions between people work and how those same kinds of interactions affect our inner dialogues and beliefs about who we are.
