GROUP THERAPY
A room of people who get it.
Group work built around the shared realities of military and veteran life, a place where you don't have to translate what you've been through.
What a group session is actually like
Groups are small, closed cohorts that meet weekly by secure video. Closed means the same people each week rather than a drop-in room, which is what lets a group get past introductions and into anything real. A session has a shape: a check-in, a focus for the hour, usually a trauma-informed skill or a theme the group is carrying, and time for members to work with it out loud.
It is facilitated, not a free-for-all. Nobody is put on the spot, nobody is asked to narrate a worst day to the room, and there is no expectation that you arrive with something prepared. Most people spend the first weeks mostly listening and are surprised by how much that alone does.
Why a room changes the work
Individual therapy is one relationship, and it is the right tool for a lot of things. What it cannot manufacture is the moment somebody else describes the exact thing you thought only happened to you. Isolation is one of the most reliable features of trauma, and the belief that your reaction is uniquely broken tends to survive being told otherwise by a therapist. It does not survive hearing it from three other people in the same room who have lived something close to it.
There is a second thing groups do that individual work cannot. You get to be useful. People who have spent a career being the one who handles it often find it much easier to receive help while also giving it, and a group is the only format that offers both at once.
Built around service, not general population
Cohorts are built around the specific culture of service: active duty, Guard and Reserve, veterans, and, when a cohort is offered for them, first responders. That means the room shares a vocabulary. Nobody has to explain what a deployment cycle does to a marriage, what a PCS costs you, or why a call from a certain number changes your whole day. The context work that eats time in a general group is already done.
Running group next to individual work
Group and individual therapy do different jobs and they combine well. Individual sessions are where a specific trauma gets processed with EMDR or CPT, at your pace and in your own privacy. Group is where the skills get practiced with other humans and where isolation gets challenged. Some people run both. Some use group as the step after individual work, when the question has shifted from surviving it to living around other people again.
What group is not good for
Group is not the place to start if you are in acute crisis, if you need close individual monitoring, or if the work in front of you right now is a specific trauma that needs paced one-to-one processing. It also asks something of you that individual work does not: showing up for other people on the weeks you would rather disappear. That is part of the value and it is also a real cost, and it is worth being honest with yourself about before committing to a cohort. If group is not the right starting point, that gets said plainly rather than sold to you.
Questions people ask before joining
Do I have to talk in group?
No. Listening is participation, particularly in the first few weeks. Most people speak when something another member says lands too close to their own experience to sit on, and that happens on its own timeline.
Will other members know who I am?
Group members see each other, so it is not anonymous the way individual work is. Confidentiality is agreed by everyone at the start. If you work somewhere where running into a colleague would be a problem, raise it before joining and it gets considered.
Can I do group and individual therapy at the same time?
Yes, and for a lot of people that combination is the strongest version of the work. Group is also sometimes used as a step after individual therapy rather than alongside it.
What does group cost and when does the next one start?
Group sessions are offered at a reduced per-person rate compared with individual therapy. Cohort openings, format and current pricing shift over time, so contact for current cohorts and pricing and the next start date.
To ask about the next cohort, get in touch here. Coverage questions are answered on the insurance and EAP page.
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