Connection
Fostering a sense of belonging among participants.
Support
Creating a safe and nurturing environment for personal growth and healing.
Insights
Facilitating deeper insights into one's own thoughts, behaviors, and patterns.
Empowerment
Empowering individuals to take control of their lives and develop coping strategies.
Group Psychotherapy Demystified:
Mind in Motion's approach
Group psychotherapy is a therapeutic approach that brings together individuals facing similar mental health challenges in a structured and supportive environment. Unlike individual therapy, group psychotherapy involves a trained therapist guiding a small group of participants through shared discussions, activities, and exercises. The group setting serves as a microcosm of the broader social world, providing a unique context for exploring interpersonal dynamics, communication patterns, and emotional reactions.
- Therapy groups help people deal with a range of issues such as anger, shyness, and low self-esteem.
- Group members gain access to different perspectives and different life experiences.
- Group members help normalize, support and share experiences and strategies.
- Group offers a unique type of accountability and investment.
Groups commonly include:
- 4-8 group members and 1 to 2 therapists
- Meet weekly on the same day/time for 1-1.5 hours
- May or may not have a specific end date
- Closed or open group membership. Open groups are those in which new members can join at any time. Closed groups restrict new members from joining after a period of time
- Some groups are more psychoeducational and didactic (DBT skills group) and some are more free flowing and experiential (Process group).
Open Therapy Groups
Moms Support
Group
8-week support group for moms with young babies (in-person group).
For stressed mothers, who is adjusting to parenthood, or struggle with postpartum. Pre-crawling babies are welcome, as well as:
- Showering is not required.
- Spit-up covered clothing is FINE.
- Crying is expected.
Fridays 9:30-10:30 AM
Co-facilitated by Eunwoo Lee, LMSW & Dr. Wonhyung Lee, this 8-week series will help you find community and get the support you need in the early months of parenting, for new parents and their non-crawling babies.
Topics covered include:
- Baby care
- Breastfeeding & bottle-feeding
- Sleep
- Self-care
- Stress management
- Managing postpartum emotions
- Creating community
- Body aches & physical strength
- Relationship changes
- Returning to work
Pack up your diaper bag and get out the door. We’ve got you!
Price: $100 for 8-week series ($15 for single drop-in)
Interpersonal Process Group
The Interpersonal Process group is the BEST method for addressing interpersonal difficulties and promoting personal growth. Themes include:
- Developing self-awareness and insight
- Enhancing communication skills
- Fostering supportive relationships
- Promoting personal growth and change
- Virtual group
- Open-ended, 4-8 group members
- Thursdays 6:00 pm
- Feeling lonely, anxious, or unsure of yourself
- Longing for deeper and more authentic connections
- Feeling guarded and cautious about trusting others
- Struggling to find your voice
- Wanting to set healthy relational boundaries
- Experiencing interpersonal challenges – with family, partners, co-workers, etc – and/or having unexpressed feelings that make it tough to develop and maintain satisfying relationships……. This group is for YOU!
- Learn to communicate more effectively in your relationships
- Experiment with new ways of relating to yourself, others, and the world
- Improve skills in coping with life stressors
- Increase your ability to give and receive feedback
- Examine patterns that are hindering your personal growth and human connection
- Deepen your level of self-awareness
DBT Skills
Group
A 20-week long, 3-10 group members, DBT group teaches effective skills to manage emotions, build coping strategies and improve emotional intelligence. Topics covered (5 weeks each):
- Mindfulness
- Interpersonal Effectiveness
- Emotion Regulation
- Distress Tolerance
- Virtual group
- Wednesdays at 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm
- Mood swings, problems with anger?
- Chaotic relationships, fear of abandonment?
- Difficulties with a sense of self, sense of emptiness?
- Intrusive thoughts and impulsive behaviors?
- Four different topics covered (5 weeks each)
2. Interpersonal Effectiveness
3. Emotion Regulation
4. Distress Tolerance
- Homework
- Skill-building exercises
- Building resilience
- Emotional regulation
- Coping skills
Interpersonal Process Group
Open-ended, 4-8 group members, The Interpersonal Process group is the BEST method for addressing interpersonal difficulties and promoting personal growth. Themes include:
- Developing self-awareness and insight
- Enhancing communication skills
- Fostering supportive relationships
- Promoting personal growth and change
- Virtual group
- Wednesdays at 4:30 pm – 6:00 pm
- Feeling lonely, anxious, or unsure of yourself
- Longing for deeper and more authentic connections
- Feeling guarded and cautious about trusting others
- Struggling to find your voice
- Wanting to set healthy relational boundaries
- Experiencing interpersonal challenges – with family, partners, co-workers, etc – and/or having unexpressed feelings that make it tough to develop and maintain satisfying relationships……. This group is for YOU!
- Learn to communicate more effectively in your relationships
- Experiment with new ways of relating to yourself, others, and the world
- Improve skills in coping with life stressors
- Increase your ability to give and receive feedback
- Examine patterns that are hindering your personal growth and human connection
- Deepen your level of self-awareness
Signup for the upcoming
group therapy
Group therapy pros as compared to individual psychotherapy:
- Affordable
- Group dynamic & support
- Personal feedback & skill development
- Improving communication & relationships