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Group Counseling

​Groups start on a rolling basis as client need and readiness align, ensuring a supportive and cohesive experience in a safe therapeutic environment. All group participants must be screened and approved by a clinician.

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Attending group counseling reduces financial stress for self-pay clients and can reduce the emotional stress of being in "the hot seat" during a private session. Group counseling also helps to diminish feelings of isolation as it brings you into a  supportive community of people who have similar experiences. Contact us if you're interesting in joining one of the following groups:

Types of Groups

Parent of a
Child with ADHD: Emotional Focus

Talk to other parents who have and have not tried medication, discuss helpful parenting techniques, ask questions and get recommendations for where to find the most up-to-date information. We maintain a respectful, fun environment.

ADHD Youth
Ages 11 to 14: Emotional Focus

These ages are particularly challenging and potentially isolating for children with ADHD. Building a support community is important. Youth will learn tools for organization and build social skills to help them navigate the coming years of extreme change.

PTSD

You may be invited or encouraged to join the group if your therapist believes it will improve your healing.

Depression

Delve into the complexities of depression and support each other in pulling through the dark times in ways that nobody else could.

Emotional Trauma

You may be invited or encouraged to join the group if your therapist believes it will improve your healing.

Women's Midlife 

Children leave, sometimes on good terms and sometimes bad. Parents are aging and dying. Bodies are changing and so are marriages. You are not going crazy and you are not alone!

Parent of a Child with ADHD:
Skills Focus

Multiple studies have found that parenting styles play a role in symptom manifestation for children with ADHD. In this group, parents learn a new skill every week while their children simultaneously learn that skill and expectation with a counselor in the other group. The groups are brought together in the end so parents and children can practice the new skill together with counselor supervision.

ADHD Youth: Skills Focus

Simultaneously occurs with the Parent Skills Focus Group. Counselors discuss the emotional underpinnings of interpersonal interactions and personal responsibility, introducing the expectation of new parenting techniques in preparation of joining with the parent group to practice and role play the new skill of the week. We maintain an atmosphere of fun and respect.

The Anger Thing

Whether your anger is suppressed or explosive, we practice healthy forms of emotional awareness, body awareness, grounding techniques and mindfulness in communication. 

Parent of a Child with Mental Health Issues

The age of your child is not a factor in this group. Schizophrenia, bi-polar disorder, borderline personality disorder and more. Parents often feel judged and helpless. Come together with parents of all ages who understand the burden and who are also working to find hope.

Child of a Parent with Mental Health Issues

Whether it’s schizophrenia, bipolar, BPD, Narcissism or more, this group is for you. Connect with others who get the weight, the confusion, and the love surround this formative relationship. Come as you are. No judgment, just understanding.

850 S. Spring St.

Springfield, IL 62704

(217) 610-2620

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