Posts in Group Therapy
The Dinner Table You Never Had

Was dinner time a place of love, safety, and belonging where your heart was filled up just as much as your stomach?

Or was dinner time a place of loneliness, sarcasm, and the sound of forks scraping plates?

I learned how to eat fast at our dinner table. The faster we would eat, the sooner dinner would be over. My siblings and I each had to share three things about our day. Once we figured out we could work the system, our responses became shortened to three words about our day. “Tired, busy, good.”

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How Group Therapy Offers the Chance for a Do-Over

“Do over.” That infamous childhood phrase that harkens back to the days of being able to try again To work toward a different, better result. How many times in adulthood have we wished for a do-over? Interpersonal Group Therapy is just that - a haven with an unlimited amount of do-overs. Except, contrary to childhood schoolyard games, we’re challenged with real life situations.

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Group Therapy: a Way to Heal Hurt

Here is a story as old as time; people hurt people.  Inside of this age-old story, I believe:

  1. No one escapes hurt.  

  2. Hurt happens in the context of relationship, and so does healing.

Group therapy affords clients the most efficient and effective opportunity to work through hurt, to work on healing the bruises and wounds that time hasn’t seemed to heal.

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