Specialized Groups

There’s a thing a group can do that one-on-one work can’t. You’re in a room with people who actually get it. You watch how someone else carries the same weight, and pick up something from it. And you stop being the only one, which for a lot of people is the part that makes the rest possible.

Our groups aren’t a fixed menu. We run them here and there, when we keep seeing the same need turn up in the community, so what’s going changes over time. If you want to know what’s running right now, the surest way is to ask.

• People who’d find it steadying to be around others facing the same thing
• Those who learn well from other people’s experience, not just their own
• Anyone who feels isolated in what they’re going through
• People looking to build specific skills alongside others working on the same

Because our group offerings change, the right question isn’t whether you’d fit “the group,” it’s what’s running now and whether one matches where you are.

A clinician leads it. It isn’t left to run itself, so it stays focused and steady enough to be in. It’s built around one shared thing, a common experience or goal, rather than being open-ended. And it usually moves back and forth between learning something and connecting with the people around you, because both of those are where the good comes from. Some groups run for a set stretch of weeks. Others are ongoing. Whenever one is actually running, we’ll lay out what it’s for, who’s leading it, how long it goes, and what it costs, so you’re deciding with the whole picture in front of you.

We only put a group out into the world when we’re actually running it. It sounds obvious. It’s also a real commitment. No standing list of groups that may or may not exist somewhere, nothing to sign up for that isn’t really happening. When a need shows up in the community enough times that it’s clearly a need, we build a group around it, figure out who’s leading it and what it costs, and open the doors. The rest of the time, the honest answer is to ask us what’s running, and we’ll give it to you straight or to tell us what you need and we will see about creating it!