Group Therapy

For most clients with a trauma history, especially those grappling with dissociation, living inside their own skin is challenging. Most clients struggle between sessions often feeling overwhelmed, out of control and can't figure out a way to help themselves. The results of therapy once, or twice a week fade quickly when faced with the many hours week they're besieged with overwhelming anxiety or despair.


Time limited groups can provide individuals with the opportunity to learn skills needed to deal with their traumatic histories. These skills are those that complement work being completed in individual sessions. Each group session is 1 hour long, ran on a weekly basis and the material was chosen so that it wasn't overwhelming and and yet gives people an opportunity to practice the skills in a safe enough environment. Although these skills are often most easily taught in a group format, they can be used in individual therapy.


Benefits of Group Sessions:

  • Learn skills: simple, concrete steps that can change the way you live your life.
  • Practice: the groups provide understanding about what the skills are, but more importantly, they give time to practice the skills in a safe space.
  • Make connections with others: one of the biggest benefits is finding you are not alone as you wrestle with your life Weave a bigger world in which to live your life: by creating a larger cosmological frame to life in we find ways to experience our life is more satisfying ways.

Group Therapy Skills taught include:

  • Using meditation principles to skillfully build observing ego functions
  • Build connections on positive experiences rather than their traumatic history
  • Intervening in thoughts / feelings / body sensations
  • Separating traumatic schemas from the present experience
  • Understanding the parallel life that trauma survivors live
  • Basics of working with parts of self / ego states
  • Harnessing habituated, familiar physiological responses and exploring new choices
  • Explore new ways of perceiving current

Learn more about our services

Please feel free to contact us to discuss Group Therapy. Alternatively, read more about HarrisHoward psychological therapies, or read an overview of our psychology services.