Group therapy is covered through most health insurance plans. This group is offered to adults 25+. Participation in this group requires a screening assessment per the American Group Psychotherapy Association practice guidelines. Contact me for details.

Do you struggle trusting others, or when you do, are you frequently let down? Or, are you often focusing on others' needs rather than your own? Feel as if your childhood wasn't "that bad" even though you're still reminded of pain from when you were a kid? We can explore how early coping strategies continue to shape your current relationships and how new experiences can open space for authenticity and connection. Learn how to develop emotional security and reconnect with shut-down parts of yourself. Recovery means understanding past experiences while developing the skills to live in the present.

When we feel unseen, dismissed, neglected, exploited, or abused within our closest relationships our nervous systems become overwhelmed and we may experience unconscious physical, emotional, and psychological pain.  If that childhood pain is not made conscious and we don’t or can’t process those experiences from long ago it tends to remain compartmentalized and hidden. This can show up in our relationships as passive aggressive comments, or extremes of distancing or clingy behaviors resulting in conflicts with our spouses, kids, bosses, co-workers, and neighbors.  When we become adults and create families of our own, the pressures of partnering and parenting can trigger intense emotions of closeness, neediness, and vulnerability that are part of our adult intimate relationships, and act as a trigger for all that unfelt and unhealed pain of childhood.

That’s what relational trauma feels like, the kind that we often can't quite figure out because it can be so very subtle and persistent. It can be the product of living in a home where real feelings are denied, an authentic connection is not reliable, where we cannot talk about what we feel or understand it, so we remain fragmented instead of feeling whole. When your primary attachment relationships do not support a healthy, sustaining, and nourishing connection, we can see the impact follow into us well our adult lives.

This psychoeducational group utilizes theater games, improvisation, sociometry, psychodrama techniques, spectrograms, locograms, floor checks, timelines, and the social atom to provide participants to experience and embody these feelings through role play and group exercises that bond participants. Specifically this group may be helpful for those who’ve experienced peer bullying, patterns of unhealthy romantic relationships, professional setbacks “not a team player”, or family conflict that results in low contact or estrangement. 

Group meets on Sundays from 11am-12:30pm in the Rooted Therapeutic Healing offices.