Groups

“I suppose that since most of our hurts come through relationships so will our healing”

        – Wm. Paul Young, The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity

Many people feel alone in the problems they face. Journeys supportive therapy groups provide safe, goal-oriented relational contexts that allow clients to explore commonly shared challenges while experimenting with alternatives and gaining a diverse wealth of feedback. Some clients who have already engaged in individual counseling end up finding group therapy a helpful supplement, boosting their individual work in a cost-effective and uniquely supportive way. Diverse group types at Journeys allow for sharing common ground with others confronting similar obstacles and pursuing similar goals while enabling group members to support and celebrate each other in their shared journeys. Know that you are never alone.

Are you looking for a powerful therapeutic experience? Would you enjoy a cost-effective approach to counseling?

• Do you feel alone or unsupported in your recovery experience?
• Do you experience unique individual benefits when working as part of a team?
• Are you looking for a context to be helped and help others in the challenges you face?
• Are you open to a new, positive growth experience?

If you answered yes or are curious to understand more about the psychological, financial and interpersonal benefits to groups, then check out some of these basic benefits to group counseling:

• Foster Hope — Participants gain confidence in the efficiency of the group to help them with their presenting issues
• Community — Participants become assured that they are not alone; despite different circumstances, most people are dealing with similar themes and issues (love, loss, hope, fear, change, etc).
• Autonomy — Along with a sense of belonging, participants also begin to appreciate and understand their unique differences within a group setting
• Valuable Information — Through the professional perspective of a trained therapist and the valuable perspectives of other participants, each member gives and receives valuable feedback on a wide range of issues
• Social Conscience — As participants grow in the group process, they begin to learn the valuable principles of how to give and receive, acknowledging that even in their distress they have something important to offer others 
• Corrective Emotional Experiences — Group members  are offered a chance to be seen, heard or experienced in ways that perhaps they were unable to in other familial or community settings, creating healing in unexpected way. 
• Improved Social Skills — Many of us know how to be polite, however being in a professional group allows members to gain and sharpen skills around allowing meaningful expression to take place and how to engage in healthy, appropriate ways
• Modeling Behavior — Both leaders and members model resilience, adaptation, useful thinking,  creative coping skills, and other helpful behaviors
• Interpersonal Growth — The group atmosphere reflects that of a small community where participants are able to try out new behaviors and ways of connecting
• Group Connectedness — Participants often have restorative experiences of bonding, belonging and trust within the group
• Emotional Release — Members attain relief from practicing pure expression of thoughts and emotions in new, profound ways
• Existential Factors — Participants grow in their understanding of universal themes like love, loss, change, suffering and growth, as well as how they fit into the ‘big picture’ alongside others