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What group therapy is actually like.
47 guides on therapy groups — what happens in the room, what it costs next to individual therapy, why the first three sessions are the hardest, and which kind of group suits which problem. Plus 3 small tools. Nothing to sign up for. There is a directory of groups here too, and it is new.
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What group counseling actually is
A therapy group is a small standing group — usually six to ten people — meeting weekly with one or two licensed clinicians, for months or sometimes years. It is not a circle of strangers taking turns describing their week, and nobody is made to speak. What actually happens depends on the kind of group: a skills group runs like a class with handouts and homework, while a process group works with whatever happens between the people in the room, as it happens.
The reason it exists is not economy, although it costs a third to a half of individual therapy. It is that some problems cannot be worked on alone with one professional. If what troubles you is how you are with other people — that you withdraw, or dominate, or cannot be disagreed with, or believe nobody would want you if they knew — then a room containing other people is where that becomes visible and workable. Individual therapy gets your account of it. A group gets the thing itself.
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Plain-spoken guides and a few small tools. No account, nothing stored, nothing sold.
Is a group right for me?
Twelve questions. Some of them are about what you are hoping to avoid.
ToolWhat kind of group?
Process, skills, or support — three questions that sort it.
ToolGroup vs individual, costed
Put both in, over a year, and see the gap.
GuideWhat group therapy actually is
Not a circle of strangers taking turns. What the room is really like.
GuideWhy group therapy works
The mechanisms, including the one that is not available in individual therapy at all.
GuideDoes online group therapy work?
What the evidence says, and the two things video genuinely costs you.
GuideGroup or individual — or both?
What each is better at, and when the answer is honestly group.
GuideYour first session
The screening call, the first night, and how much you have to say.
Independent practices. Real clinicians. Nothing sponsored.
Every group here is run by a licensed clinician at an independent practice, with credentials shown plainly, and peer-led groups are badged as peer-led rather than presented as therapy. No one pays to rank higher. You pay the practice directly.
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