Support for Children, Teens & Adults

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Support for Children, Teens & Adults *

Life can feel overwhelming at times, for both children adolescents, and adults. Group therapy offers a supportive and structured environment where individuals can feel understood, build coping skills, and begin healing in connection with others.

  • Anxiety, stress, and emotional overwhelm

  • Trauma and difficult life experiences

  • Grief, loss, and major life transitions

  • Burnout and compassion fatigue

  • School-related stress and social challenges

  • Emotional regulation difficulties

  • Distressing memories or recent critical incidents

  • Feelings of isolation, shutdown, or disconnection

  • Family stress and relationship challenges

  • Building coping skills, resilience, and confidence

I offer specialized trauma-informed group approaches including ASSYST, GTEP, EMDR Group Protocols (C-GTEP and G-PEP), and Group Brainspotting to support healing, stabilization, and emotional well-being.

  • ASSYST is a gentle, trauma-informed approach designed to help reduce emotional distress connected to overwhelming or stressful experiences. It can be helpful following recent traumatic events, critical incidents, accidents, medical experiences, natural disasters, school or workplace stress, grief, or other emotionally intense situations.

    This approach is beneficial for children, teens, and adults who may be experiencing anxiety, emotional overwhelm, distressing memories, difficulty calming the nervous system, or feeling “stuck” after a difficult experience. ASSYST supports emotional stabilization, grounding, and resilience while helping individuals feel safer, calmer, and more regulated in daily life.

  • When stress feels constant or overwhelming, it can begin to affect emotions, relationships, focus, sleep, and overall well-being. EMDR-IGTP-OTS is a supportive group approach designed to help individuals process ongoing stress and difficult experiences while building emotional balance and resilience.

    This approach may be helpful for children, teens, and adults experiencing anxiety, emotional overwhelm, burnout, chronic stress, grief, trauma, caregiving stress, school or workplace pressures, or the impact of ongoing difficult life situations. It can also support those who feel “stuck,” emotionally exhausted, constantly on edge, or disconnected after prolonged stress or trauma exposure.

    Through a structured and trauma-informed group process, EMDR-IGTP-OTS helps calm the nervous system, reduce emotional distress, strengthen coping skills, and create a greater sense of safety, stability, and connection.

  • GTEP is a structured, trauma-informed approach designed to help individuals process distress related to traumatic or overwhelming experiences in a supportive group setting. It can be helpful for recent or past experiences that continue to cause emotional distress, including accidents, loss, community trauma, medical events, school or workplace stress, violence, disasters, or other difficult life experiences.

    GTEP may benefit children, teens, and adults who are experiencing anxiety, intrusive thoughts, emotional overwhelm, heightened stress responses, difficulty coping, or ongoing distress connected to past events. This approach supports emotional regulation, nervous system stabilization, resilience, and healing while allowing individuals to process experiences safely within a guided therapeutic environment.

  • C-GTEP is a child-focused, trauma-informed group approach designed to help children and adolescents process distressing or overwhelming experiences in a safe and supportive environment. It may be helpful for children impacted by grief, family changes, school stress, bullying, medical experiences, accidents, community trauma, natural disasters, or other difficult life events.

    C-GTEP supports children and teens who may be experiencing anxiety, emotional dysregulation, behavioral changes, fears, withdrawal, difficulty concentrating, or distress connected to past experiences. Through developmentally appropriate activities and structured support, this approach helps promote emotional stabilization, resilience, coping skills, and a greater sense of safety and connection.

  • G-PEP is a trauma-informed group approach designed to support individuals experiencing ongoing stress, chronic adversity, or repeated exposure to overwhelming situations. It can be especially helpful for those navigating long-term stress related to caregiving, high-stress work environments, medical challenges, community violence, family conflict, or ongoing trauma exposure.

    This approach may benefit children, teens, and adults who experience anxiety, emotional exhaustion, hypervigilance, overwhelm, burnout, or difficulty feeling regulated and safe. G-PEP focuses on strengthening emotional regulation, reducing distress, building resilience, and supporting nervous system stabilization in a supportive group setting.

  • Group Brainspotting is a focused, brain-body therapeutic approach that helps individuals process emotional stress, trauma, and overwhelming experiences in a supportive group environment. Using mindfulness, focused attention, and attunement, this approach helps access and release emotional and physical stress that may feel “stuck” in the nervous system.

    Group Brainspotting may be helpful for children, teens, and adults experiencing anxiety, trauma, performance stress, grief, emotional overwhelm, life transitions, or difficulty managing intense emotions. This approach supports deeper emotional processing, increased self-awareness, nervous system regulation, and healing in a safe and guided therapeutic space.

  • Group Yoga offers a supportive and calming space for children, teens, and adults to reconnect with both mind and body through movement, breathwork, mindfulness, and relaxation practices. These groups are designed to support emotional wellness, stress reduction, nervous system regulation, and overall well-being in a gentle and accessible way.

    Group Yoga may be helpful for individuals experiencing anxiety, stress, emotional overwhelm, burnout, difficulty relaxing, sleep challenges, trauma-related stress, or feeling disconnected from themselves or others. Sessions focus on building body awareness, grounding, coping skills, flexibility, and emotional balance while encouraging a greater sense of calm, confidence, and connection in everyday life.

Group Healing Experiences

Most people do not need another space where they sit around intellectualizing their pain while their nervous system stays stuck in survival mode. These groups are designed differently.

The work is experiential, trauma-informed, nervous-system focused, and intentionally kept smaller so people have enough space to actually slow down, process, reconnect with themselves, and experience meaningful shifts, not just temporary relief.

Because of the depth of this work, most groups are offered in extended 2-hour formats to allow time for grounding, processing, regulation, and integration without rushing people in and out of vulnerability.

These groups are especially supportive for people carrying chronic stress, trauma, burnout, grief, emotional overwhelm, hypervigilance, relationship pain, nervous system exhaustion, or the feeling that they’ve been “holding it together” for far too long.

Some groups require a consultation or screening process to help ensure the space feels supportive, emotionally appropriate, and aligned with your current needs.