Groups offered in person and online
"People need people… No one – not the dying, not the outcast, not the mighty – transcends the need for human contact." - Irvin Yalom
Sometimes sharing your story and hearing from others can jumpstart and support your healing.
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Disordered eating (range of presentations) 18+
Mondays online - 5:45-7pm ET
Relationship Exploration for women and gender queer folks considering, in the midst of, or post separation/divorce
Mondays online - 9-10:15pm
Tuesdays in person - 7:30-8:45 (Flourtown, PA)
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This group is for female identifying/gender queer folks who struggle with disordered eating. Whether you have been in formalized treatment, you are discovering challenges for the first time, or you want to address and/or change your relationship with your body and/or food, this might be a good fit for you.
We meet on Zoom on Mondays 5:45-7pm weekly
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This group is for 18y/o+ Women and Female Identifying/Gender- Queer Folk.
Come, share, listen, and support each other at this challenging crossroads. You might be at the beginning, questioning your relationship, in the act of separation or divorce, or you might be trying to move your life forward and find yourself facing down the world in a way you never expected.
This is a place where you can say the unsayable, confide in folks who can relate, and find comfort and strength within community and within yourself.
Zoom Mondays (weekly) 9-10:15
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This group is for 18y/o+ Women and Female Identifying/Gender- Queer Folk.
Come, share, listen, and support each other at this challenging crossroads. You might be at the beginning, questioning your relationship, in the act of separation or divorce, or you might be trying to move your life forward and find yourself facing down the world in a way you never expected.
This is a place where you can say the unsayable, confide in folks who can relate, and find comfort and strength within community and within yourself.
IN PERSON Tuesdays (weekly) 7:30-8:15pm
How Group therapy works
You don’t have to go through this alone.
“Group psychotherapy is an effective form of therapy in which a small number of people meet together under the guidance of a professionally trained therapist to help themselves and one another. There are many different approaches to group therapy but they share in common creating a safe, supportive, and cohesive space to address personal, relationship and societal issues.” (American Group Psychotherapy Association)
Group Therapy might be good for you if…
You are looking for a supplement to Individual or other forms of therapy
You can’t afford traditional therapy and are willing to try something new
You are looking to receive support, share your story, offer feedback, and reflect on your own process
You are feeling alone in your experience and/or others in your life don’t understand
Would like to work on relationship building and communication
You want to break a cycle of individual and/or generational trauma
Frequently asked questions about Group (AGPA.org)
FAQs
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Group therapy provides a place where you come together with others to share problems or concerns, to better understand your own situation, and to learn from and with each other. Under the leadership of a therapist, you will learn about yourself and improve your relationships with other people. You will gain self-understanding and skills for dealing with your concerns. In a typical session, which lasts about 60-120 minutes, members work to express their own challenges and aspirations, feelings, ideas, and reactions as freely and honestly as possible. Groups are held both in-person and online, and you can speak with the therapist about what they offer. Members learn not only to understand themselves and their own issues but also become therapeutic helpers for other group members.
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Group therapy may be used as the primary treatment approach, or it can be used along with individual therapy. Talk to your therapist about what will best meet your needs.
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The more controlled a study is in the research laboratory, the more confidently we can conclude that significant results are due to the treatment. This type of study is likely to be testing the “efficacy” of a treatment. However, how a treatment is implemented in a controlled, laboratory setting may look very different from how that treatment is implemented out in the field or “real world” setting, and may produce different results. Studies designed to test how a treatment works in the field can be considered to be “effectiveness” studies. Because both effectiveness and efficacy studies are essential to understanding “what works” in group intervention, both types of studies are included in this section of AGPA’s website.
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We live and interact with people every day, and often there are concerns that other people are experiencing or grappling with that can be beneficial to share with others. In group therapy, you learn that perhaps you’re not alone or as different as you think. You’ll meet and interact with people, and give and share helpful feedback; the whole group learns to work together on common problems — one of the most beneficial aspects of group therapy.
The group is a microcosm of the macro world in which we live, and as society undergoes change, the nature of human interaction is also changing. The group provides a space to process the impact of change to our internal and external environments as we replicate our large world experiences in the small group. In group, one can expect to experience the confluence of race, class, and gender; the effects of the present as well as the past will be felt. The group space helps one to explore and define how one shows up in these spheres.