What is Group Therapy?

Group therapy is a form of psychotherapy in which one or more therapists treat a small group of patients together as a group. Group therapy can help people manage mental health conditions or cope with negative behaviors and experiences. Group therapy can give more people access to mental healthcare and can reduce wait times for seeing a provider.

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Group Therapy at Valera

New York + Washington

At this time, our Group Therapy Program is only offered in New York and Washington, but we will be expanding to other states in the near future.

Virtual

All Groups are Virtual

Recurring

The majority of our groups are recurring, running for roughly 8-12 weeks and many of our groups run in cycles with brief pauses between each group cycle.

Benefits of group therapy

A safe place for people to share their feelings, explore and process their experiences

Exposure to new behaviors, beliefs, and thoughts that may shift people’s perspectives

A place to receive support and offer support to others who may be experiencing similar challenges

Groups Include

Anxiety/Depression

This group will provide a space for participants to communicate and navigate through life stressors, anxiety, depression, and trauma. In this group we will work together to build skills and techniques to assist with daily living by integrating practices of mindfulness, grounding, nervous system regulation and motivation. Participants will learn to use tricks, exercises and skills to combat symptoms of anxiety and depression while also understanding that “sometimes we have to do things scared and anxious!

ADHD

This group will gather as a community to support each other as we learn strategies to help manage symptoms of ADHD, anxiety, and depression. Managing symptoms of ADHD can help maximize motivation, build confidence, reduce stress, boost mood, increase energy, improve relationships, and enhance daily functioning to live a happier and healthier life. Interventions include: CBT to change negative thought patterns, modify behaviors, learn new coping skills. - Stress management techniques and emotional regulation methods to help relieve stress, cope with feelings, manage emotions, and calm minds. - Behavioral coaching to teach strategies for goal setting, problem solving, organization, planning, and time management. - Psychoeducation to provide information surrounding ADHD that can help group members understand themselves better and have a more positive outlook on themselves. - Sensory regulation strategies to help recognize sensory dysregulation and make efforts to minimize those effects. This group will also cover common symptoms of anxiety and depression.

Grief/Loss

In this grief support group, participants will receive and provide mutual support during the grieving process. We will also work on examining and coping with our thoughts, feelings and behaviors during this difficult time.

DBT Skills

The focus of these groups is to learn dialectical behavioral therapy (DBT) skills and includes four modules that run for a total of six months. The skills practiced and developed in this group can benefit adults and adolescents experiencing emotional dysregulation, relational issues, poor impulse control, and anxious and depressive symptoms. Participants will need to commit to at least a full module (8 weeks). However, it is recommended that participants complete all 3 modules to optimize the benefits of this group.

All DBT Skills Groups are 75 minutes long and meet for 8 week sessions
Distress Tolerance (2 weeks of Orientation + Mindfulness, 6 weeks of new skills)
Emotion Regulation (2 weeks of Orientation + Mindfulness, 6 weeks of new skills)
Interpersonal Effectiveness (2 weeks of Orientation + Mindfulness, 6 weeks of new skills)

Current patients in the group have the option to continue to the next module, opt out and return later, or discharge from the group once the module is complete.

All patients in these groups will receive email reminders from the group facilitators as well as a PDF version of the Marsha Linehan Worksheet and Handout book

Multi Family DBT

In a Multifamily Group, at least one parent or guardian is required to participate with each teen. Because there will be a few sets of teens and parents in each group, we use the phrase “Multi-Family” to represent that there will be multiple families present in the “class.” Research indicates that teaching adolescents and their parents the same skills can elicit powerful change. Parents will be learning and practicing the skills alongside their teen, and thus be better able to support them as they apply DBT strategies to their daily lives. Not only does parent participation allow for parents to learn the language of DBT to be on the same page as their kids but it also allows parents to learn skills for their own use managing difficult emotions and in interactions with their teen.

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