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Group therapy is a weekly workshop environment that allows group members to experience a wide range of work. People will typically discuss a problem and look at it from various points of view. Individuals receive support and are challenged to step out of conditioned roles. Group members assist each other in how their behavior and treatment may influence people around them, both positively or negatively, by giving direct and honest feedback. This helps group members learn what prevents them from getting close to significant others, friends, colleagues and family members. Group members supplement their work in individual psychotherapy with group work.

My groups are characterized by a high level of interaction, energy and honesty as well as a safe place to experiment with expressing all of your feelings. Group is also a working laboratory where newly learned negotiating skills can be put to the test around conflicts that arise within the group. Rather than conducting groups with a single theme and narrow scope (such as bereavement, recovery, etc.) my groups tackle a wide range of complex issues. I find that this approach makes group a richer and deeper experience as members take on life's challenges.

In addition, I hold groups that have specific topics. Below are some examples of recent topics:

  • Achieving Emotional Intimacy
    Express issues and feelings without losing your head — move toward wholeness and individuation. A closer look at our inner realities. Balance inner and outer realities.

  • Communicating Wants and Needs
    Make changes where needed and release your energy and creativity. A look at family of origin issues; the masks we wear; the inner wounds; heal the negativity of the critical self. Separate your needs from the needs of others — clarify them from an "I" position. Explore, create emotional boundaries within a relationship.

  • Exploring Relationship Issues
    Identify and explore types of relationships — empowering, controlling/submissive, addictive.

  • Grief Group for Divorce & Separation
    Deal with early loss of a partner or spouse, go through emotional trauma, grief, and loss in a group setting, work through stages of grief, and come to a place of healing and acceptance.
If you would like to learn when the next groups are scheduled at the agency where I work, please call me at (408) 315-0645 or contact me online.

Sincerely,
Randi





"Anger makes you smaller, while forgiveness force you to grow beyond what you were."
Cherie Carter Scott







"Acceptance is the essential ingredient that enables us to begin the healing process."
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