Benefits of Group Therapy
You thought it wasn’t that bad and you could handle everything on your own. However, after pushing through, going it alone isn’t working. You’re here now. Your solo journey doesn’t have to continue. Let’s talk about group therapy.
Group therapy brings individuals with similar issues together into one group for the purpose to develop communication skills, socialization skills and develop self-awareness. It’s meant to provide not just support, but also a sounding board and a place one can go to for encouragement.
Conventional Group Therapy
Group Therapy sessions focus on specific pain points in your life. It helps provide a super-charged healing process by allowing you to use relationships with other group members as well as the facilitator in order to practice new coping skills, process new insights, and experience connection with others that have similar struggles.
A group focuses on a specific mental health concern, such as depression, post traumatic stress disorder, grief, and more. Even though group therapy can be about any issue, it’s always centered around one specific issue every person in the group is facing, and needs to work through.
The power of group therapy: joining those with similar experiences together in order for them to share openly with one another with the goal of developing and strengthening each group member’s behavioral and cognitive resources so they can make positive choices instead of ending up in harmful situations.
Just like Individual Therapy, group therapy helps educate its members about what their condition is and then provides them with coping strategies. Group therapy adds a layer of increased support from your fellow group members, not just your therapist.
Group Therapy Benefits With Green Circle Collective
Green Circle Collective’s therapists are trained in psychotherapy, but we’re also trained in group conflict transformation as well as non-violent communication. Our groups provide a secure place to share your thoughts, and experience your emotions and triggers, while getting immediate feedback from peers and the professionally trained Green Circle Collective group facilitator.
When people receive immediate feedback, this replicates real life situations. It’s this powerful exchange in the group that can be applied to the relationships and situations you encounter in the real world.
Trauma-Focused Therapy Done in a Group Setting
Our goal is to get you feeling better, faster. One of the most affordable therapy options, which also provides accelerated healing, is our group therapy. When you’re feeling as if you’re the only one dealing with a certain issue, group therapy helps normalize your experiences, along with your thoughts, so you don’t feel like isolating yourself is the answer.
We’re here to help bring people together around shared experiences, because what we have learned from doing this for many years: no issue in this world is being experienced by only one person.
There is always at least one other person struggling with something similar.
Group therapy can provide each group member with a feeling of empowerment, because each group member “gets” you, gets your situation, and often has that little voice in their head telling them the same things the voice is telling you.
We’re in this together. We all share the same goal: improving our lives by improving the quality of our mental health.
