Group Therapy
Deepening Connection
Through Relational Practice
Group therapy offers a powerful way to explore the patterns, defenses, and longings that shape how you show up with others. It is not just about talking about relationships — it is about practicing them in real time with real people.
In group, we slow down so you can notice what comes up in connection: fears, expectations, desires, and protective habits. As trust grows, space opens to try new ways of relating, speak your truth, receive honest feedback, and work through conflict with support.
This work often reaches places individual therapy can’t. It can be vulnerable and difficult, but also deeply meaningful.
Is Group Therapy Right for You?
You might benefit from an interpersonal process group if you are:
Uncertain about how to express your needs or boundaries
Feeling stuck in recurring patterns in friendships, partnerships, or community
Avoiding conflict or overwhelmed by interpersonal tension
Suppressing feelings until they surface in unexpected ways
Struggling to trust or let yourself be truly seen
Lonely but unsure how to build connection
Sensitive to internal or external experiences and looking for support
Curious about your attachment style and its impact
Ready to practice giving and receiving feedback in a safe space
What Happens in Group?
A common saying is “What happens out there tends to show up in here.” That is the power of group. The dynamics that show up in your life tend to emerge in the group space where they can be explored, named, and gently shifted.
Group therapy gives you a chance to:
Practice identifying and expressing your needs
Get feedback in a supportive, non-judgmental space
Experience and process emotions that come up in connection
Work through conflict without withdrawing or escalating
Grow your capacity for vulnerability and honesty
Explore what it feels like to be fully seen and accepted
Build more authentic and sustainable relationships
This work is challenging, but it can also transform the way you relate to yourself and others.
Current Groups
Both groups are ongoing and meet weekly via Zoom. New members are welcomed through a consultation process to ensure fit and readiness. Participants commit to at least 6 sessions to support a stable and safe(r) environment.
Relational Rewire
Tuesdays 5:30-7pm Pacific
This group focuses on attachment dynamics and the ways we disconnect or anxiously pursue connection. If you struggle with trust, closeness, avoidance, or fear of rejection, this group offers a space to explore those patterns and begin shifting them in real time with others who are doing the same.
Messy, Human, & Here
Thursdays 5:30-7pm Pacific
This group is for people trying to stay emotionally present in a world that feels like it’s falling apart. This group holds space for political and existential overwhelm, interpersonal vulnerability, and the messiness of real life.It’s a place where you don’t have to show up polished.
You can improve your relationships and better understand your attachment styles in Group Therapy!
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Group therapy brings together a small group of people (usually 6 - 12) to meet together weekly with one or two therapists to work through relational issues that lead to distress or dissatisfaction in relationships.
Each group session is 90 minutes and members are expected to attend group weekly, so we can build the kind of trust and continuity that allows for deeper emotional risk, repair, and growth.
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Interpersonal therapy groups are intentionally unstructured. There is no set agenda or rotating topic, and I don’t typically prompt the group with a question each week.
Instead, members are asked to mindfully pay attention to their thoughts, feelings, and reactions as they occur in real time. You are invited to share what you’re noticing — Are you feeling appreciative? Jealous? Somebody reminds you of your best friend! Somebody’s tardiness is annoying! — as the group unfolds.
While this may sound simple, people often have a difficult time with this task. Most of us are so accustomed to (over)analyzing ourselves or reacting automatically that it can be disorienting to just sit with what is happening as it happens. But this here-and-now awareness gives us access to the underlying relational dynamics that are often hard to name outside of group.
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Absolutely! Many of the same principles of group show up in individual therapy, and I bring them into my one-on-one work regularly.
However, what makes group unique is the chance to experience and experiment with your relational patterns as they happen—with others who can respond, reflect, and offer feedback that’s often more immediate or diverse than what can happen in individual work. People often find that group helps them recognize and shift long-standing dynamics more quickly than they expected.
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If you’re curious, the first step is to schedule a free 20-30 minute consultation. We’ll talk about what’s bringing you in, what kind of changes you’re hoping to make, and whether this kind of group work feels like the right fit for you.