Group therapy

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If you’re considering psychotherapy or counselling, several options are available. One of those options is group therapy. Depending on the nature of your problem, group therapy can be an ideal choice for addressing your concerns and making positive changes in your life.

Research suggests that Group therapy can be an effective way of learning and changing. It gives people a safe place to learn from the therapist and from others who have similar problems, while also feeling supported.

Group therapy involves a  group of roughly five to 10 clients. Typically, groups meet for an hour and a half each week. Some people attend individual therapy in addition to group therapy, while others participate in groups only.

Many groups are designed to target a specific problem, such as depression, anxiety, chronic pain or substance abuse. Other groups focus more generally on improving social skills, helping people deal with a range of issues such as anger, loneliness and low self-esteem. Groups often help those who have experienced loss, whether it be a spouse, a child or someone who died by suicide.

Joining a group of strangers may sound intimidating at first, but group therapy provides benefits that individual therapy may not.

Groups can act as a support network and a sounding board. Other members of the group often help you come up with specific ideas for improving a difficult situation or life challenge, and hold you accountable along the way.

Regularly talking and listening to others also helps you put your own problems in perspective. Many people experience mental health difficulties, but few speak openly about them to people they don’t know well. Oftentimes, you may feel like you are the only one struggling — but you’re not. It can be a relief to hear others discuss what they’re going through, and realise you’re not alone.

While group members are a valuable source of support, formal group therapy sessions offer benefits beyond informal self-help and support groups. Group therapy sessions teach group members proven strategies for managing specific problems. That expert guidance can help you make the most of your group therapy experience.

“In addition to individual and couples counselling I also have a passion for group therapy and have experience in leading anxiety and depression support groups. These support groups are a great way of gaining support by listening to others and sharing your own experiences of anxiety and depression. The groups are informal, open yet confidential, and collaborative and incorporate many therapeutic tools to help with improving your mental, physical, emotional and psychological health”.

1.5 Hour Group

Focused on exploring and dealing with presentations of Anxiety and Depression. A safe welcoming space, where we discuss the challenges we are dealing with currently, what we are doing about it, and how we can can move towards a better state of contentment and happiness in our lives. 

1.5 Hour Group

Focused on people wanting a safe space to discuss their ongoing problems with addictions of all descriptions. Unlike 12 Step Groups that focus on one particular substance or behaviour, this Group is open to any and all people, wishing to find connection and get help for any addictive behaviour. We share on our journey, what we have done about it or wish to do about it, and how we would like to move forward.

1.5 Hour Group

Focused on providing a safe group environment where we can discuss any Relationship issues we are facing. This group alows us a place to feel accepted, gain insight and understanding, and normailse our feelings around how we would like to move into more positive and harmonious relationships with those around us. This group isn't just focused on intimate relationshups, but all relationships.

1.5 Hour Group

An open space where you can bring anything thats bothering you, would like clarification or advice on, or just want to share in a secure online environment.  This is a popular group, and if numbers are low in the other spaces, I generally  run this one all year round. 

Some groups are run weekly while others run fortnightly. Some groups are run during the day, some in the evenings, depending on current client availability and numbers.

Please get in touch for the current days and times that groups are run.

1.5 - 2 hours, depending on group numbers.

Yes, group members typically report improvements in symptoms of mental health issues. You’ll be able to tell if group is helping your mental health after 1-2 groups.

About half of most groups aren’t currently experiencing a mental illness. These attendees mostly come because they enjoy group, the people and learning to become more authentic in their communication.