Groups Offered

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Each group can have up to 8 clients, and group membership is stable; after an initial period, new members are not admitted so members can grow in solidarity and safety with each other so that they can share their experiences and their stories.

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I offer six-month groups for adults who think they have (or may have) experienced trauma during childhood and are considering any of the following questions: 

•    Even though I have difficult childhood memories, was it really that bad? In other words:

o    Was it right how my parents treated me (what they did and/or did not do)? 
o    Was it right what they led me to believe about myself, about our family, and about how to interact in relationships?

•    Did my childhood experience leave me with emotional and relational difficulties that have significant negative consequences in my present life? 
•    How can I gain awareness of how those present difficulties are linked to my childhood experience, and how can I create a recovery path, a process toward healing?

Click here for a description of the six-month group.

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I offer long-term (about three years) groups for adults who have begun to explore their childhood, often in a six-month group, and have recognized evidence of two related experiences:

•    During childhood, they were treated in ways that were not right, that did not meet their legitimate needs, and that as a result they developed core beliefs/assumptions and ways of coping that no longer serve them well.
•    Currently, they have reactions to present situations that stem from those difficult childhood experiences and from the beliefs and coping strategies they learned as a result.

This group has two main goals for clients:

•    to process childhood trauma by reparenting their wounded inner child, so they can finish business about the parents and the system they created.
•    to reclaim intimacy, cultivating interpersonal relationship skills.

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I offer couples groups, for when both individuals have begun to recognize that they often react to their partner from their wounded inner child. 

•    Couples grow in understanding childhood trauma and in reparenting their inner child.

•    Couples practice a process for:

o    owning it when they project their inner child’s upset onto the other 
o    increasing intimacy by supporting each other's inner child
o    taking adult responsibility for negotiating the present situation with each other.