Group Therapy – Who even does that?

Why would you choose to expose your personal junk to a bunch of other people???

Will you get enough time?

Won’t other people have their own issues?

How can that be helpful!?

Amazingly, group therapy is often the most powerful, effective, and efficient form of therapy. It can create the biggest impact in a short time.

We heal within safe relationships.

Ok, as a recovering Totally Self-Sufficient Individual, I used to think healing happened ONLY in the private center of my own soul and psyche. Maybe God could come in and perform healing as well, but rarely another person. People were the “wound-ers”; not the “healers.”

While some healing can happen within oneself, when we have a witness connect to our process and safely join us without intrusion, it brings a deeper level of healing. Why? Because we are being SEEN, HEARD, and UNDERSTOOD.

Friends and loving family members certainly are helpful. However, it is rare that they are unbiased about you and your life. Often, they are involved, or you fear their judgement, or your changes would impact them.

Group therapy offers a chance to be supported in your journey of discovering what is truly best for YOU. It is such an amazing experience to be encouraged toward your healthiest self, regardless of all the outside influences that often stand in our way.

You have probably found yourself watching a movie, totally balanced one minute and then crying the next. Or you are in one mood when a song comes on the radio, and the next thing you know your mood has totally changed.

This is how group therapy works.

Other members do at least half the work for you! I’m not kidding. How does this work?

Well, when someone is processing their own issues, you will find yourself having emotional reactions to what you are witnessing. The details in the person’s life may be totally different than yours, but feelings are universal. Other people’s experiences have a way of moving us, just like movies or music.

So, then, your emotional stir-up primes you for a therapeutic experience. This is particularly great for people who tend to live in their thoughts: the feelings sneak in through the back door before you can out-think them.

As humans, regardless of gender, status, or color . . . we really are more alike than we are different.