Philadelphia Area Group Psychotherapy Society

Adult Children of Chaotic Families
The group creates a chance for adult children from families with substance dependence, serious mental illness, overly controlling parenting styles, emotional neglect, or inconsistent patterns of attachment and love to heal in a safe place where they can share what it was like in each member's family and learn how to establish healthy relationships, manage emotions that can derail the day, and find a new peace in daily living.

Anger Management Group
Are you struggling to control your temper? Do you say hurtful things to those closest to you? Would you like to catch yourself and respond in calm, respectful ways instead of reacting in a way you will later regret?

Serenity Solutions offers a 10-week Anger Management Group on Tuesday evenings. You will learn:
-triggers to anger
-how to catch yourself when you feel worked up so that you can choose how to respond instead of reacting in anger
-how to decrease thoughts and feelings of anger
-how to communicate feelings of anger in calm, respectful ways
-stress management and mindfulness tools

You will be in a group with others who don't feel good about how they are acting, helping you know that you are not alone. In addition to getting support from others who can relate, you will learn tools to manage your anger to improve your relationships with your loved ones and yourself. Call 267-317-8817 or schedule your free 15-minute phone consultation here: https://go.oncehub.com/serenitysolutionstherapy

Art Therapy Group for Children of Divorce
This art therapy group is for boys and girls, ages 7-14, and provides playful ways to connect with other children who are going through similar experiences. It also provides a safe place to share thoughts and feelings about separation, adjustment, and loss.

CBT Group for Anxiety and Depression
This is an open adult virtual CBT group for anxiety and depression.

ETHOS Broomall Adolescent IOP
The group is a Mental Health and Substance Abuse Disorder Intensive Outpatient Program for Adolescents 13-18 years old (18 if they are still in high school) and runs over the course of 8-12 weeks. The ideal group member is a teenager who is struggling to function in their day to day life but is not in need of inpatient services. The group focuses on coping strategies, empowerment, identity exploration, and relationships. The group leader infuses CBT, DBT, and mindfulness in order to help support group members. The intensive outpatient program also offers individual therapeutic support and family sessions as needed.

In this eight-week skill and relational based therapy group participants will be guided in working through the challenges they are having in romantic, friend, family, and work relationships. The biweekly group will be 6-7 members and two experienced group leaders. We will meet once per month on Zoom and once per month in a covered outdoor space in Mount Airy. All participants must be vaccinated.

Group participants will develop their skills in:
COMMUNICATION: learning to identify and ask for what you want in a way that is effective and empowering
LISTENING: Learning to be fully present with others on an emotional level while maintaining boundaries so as to not get emotionally overwhelmed.
COMMITMENT: Creating agreements that help build and grow your relationship. Learning how to acknowledge when you make a mistake and restore what you’re committed to.
MINDFULNESS: learning to manage intense feelings in your relationships (e.g. anger, fear, sadness, jealousy)

Experiential Training Process Group
The more we understand ourselves, the more skillfully we can help our patients and clients. In a profession where we spend so much time focused on others, this group offers an opportunity for needed support, reflection, accountability, and connection. Process groups are experiential and unstructured groups that become microcosms of the everyday kinds of groups in which we work and live. Each member brings their own unconscious and past experiences into the group, influencing how they relate to themselves, others, and the group-as-a-whole. Through the experiential group process and didactics, members deepen self-awareness, emotional insight, and understanding of the roles they play in their professional and personal lives.

In contrast to traditional psychotherapy groups, this group is designed to enhance clinical skill rather than treat a diagnosis. Goals are growth oriented. While many members do bring up their own developmental histories, the group leader’s inquiry is more focused on the here-and-now rather than on deeper genetic or developmental interpretations. Lastly, the explicit shift to a didactic component at the end of each group marks the clear purpose of an experiential-educational and collegial focus.

Ideal for ECPs, graduate students, and any other clinicians seeking growth opportunities.

Forever Postpartum: Mom Support Group
Motherhood is a beautiful, messy, chaos-inducing journey, and it often activates parts of ourselves that we never expected - some that we love, some that we come to accept, and some (or a lot) that we are ashamed to admit exist. This 8-week, facilitated peer support group is a safe, trusting space for moms to explore the complex emotions around the transformational shifts in their lives since becoming mothers. Together, we will hold space for each other to speak aloud the self-doubt, newfound power, anger/“mom rage," tenderness, and burden of commitment that is parenthood. We will also explore our old narratives surrounding who we thought we would be/what we thought we wanted - and how those things stack up to what we know now.
Facilitated by Dr. Claire Rodgers, a highly qualified licensed Clinical Psychologist who specializes in Women’s and Maternal Mental Health, topics will include (but are not limited to): Changing relationship to self and others Partner dynamics Irritation and rage Anxiety and overwhelm Self-doubt Identity lost; identity found Working motherhood Societal/cultural/gender expectations Family pressures and expectations Shifting friendships/friendships of convenience.
This group is not about parenting tips or quick fixes (we have Reddit and Dr. Becky for that...). It’s about exploring and navigating the personal transformation that motherhood brings in the valuable company of others also going through it. Dr. Rodgers’ extensive and specialized training and experience ensure that this support group is not simply a casual discussion space, but a therapeutic, structured experience designed to produce lasting, positive growth. Let’s share our stories and help ourselves and each other to shape them in the way we were always meant to: in community, with the wisdom of the group.
**Note: this group is adults-only, with the intention of carving out time just for you**
Dates: 3/19/25 - 5/14/25 (no meeting Wednesday, 4/16 for Spring Break)

Group Psychotherapy Consultation Online Group
This biweekly group provides support and training for group therapists who want to:
- build confidence as group leaders
- deepen understanding of group dynamics and processes
- expand therapy leadership skills
- manage group boundaries and resistances more effectively
- understand and utilize their own countertransference, biases and blind spots
- get supervision hours for CGP certification
- market groups with more confidence
- enliven their groups!
The group environment is warm, open, supportive, and challenging.

High-Functioning Experiential Men's Group
This is a biweekly, experiential group for high-functioning men, ages 30-70, covering various issues.

High-Functioning Psychodynamic Process Group
This is a process group for high-functioning men and women, ages 30-70, emphasizing the “here and now” from a psychodynamic and self-psychological perspective.

High-Functioning Women's Group
This is a long-term group for high-functioning adult and older adult women, covering various issues such as relationships, interpersonal intimacy and assertive expression of feelings. The initial commitment to this group is six months. The group is virtual three weeks a month with the fourth week being in-person.

Humans Holding Humans
A weekly support group for Human Beings (not human doings). From members: “We are queers, genderqueers, and femmes in our 20s and early 30s. We are a soft landing pad for queer and GNC folx, fat folx, neurodivergent folx, and folx who are living with mental and/or physical illness and disability. We are warm, authentic, supportive, and relaxed - our group is like a hug. We are allowed to Just Be: lie down if you need to, sit on your bed, prep food in your kitchen, knit on the call. We invite each other to tune into what we need in the moment. We move slowly and support our bodies and our nervous systems throughout group. We take long luxurious check-ins as we find our way to what matters. We dismantle stigma around ADHD, severe anxiety, depression, and fertility struggles. We talk openly about the harms of racialized capitalism, fatphobia, and ableism. We love our pets. We are intentionally working on ourselves; we are introspective and non-judgmental. We support each other with LIFE STUFF, work + school struggles, friendship + relationship issues, loneliness, family dynamics, boundaries, pregnancy journeys, mental + physical health, internalized homophobia. We check in about what’s actually going on in our day-to-day lives; ‘how is your humanness right now?’ We center empathy and validation, and we deeply value the friendships we have built here."

Note: while sessions are often very therapeutic, this is not group therapy and not a substitute for clinical care.

Inter-Generational Women’s Psychotherapy Groups
These inter-generational women’s psychotherapy groups focus on interpersonal relationships and family issues. They are process oriented and open-ended. Please see my website for a more complete description. Maximum group size is eight women, ages 25-80.

Interactional Group Therapy
This is an interactional group for high-functioning men and women, ages 25+.

Intercultural Training Process Groups
Therapists, mental health workers, psychologists, trainers & other helping professionals interested in a space to explore the rich dimensions of race, culture, class, and more. Donna is a facilitator who knows how to create safety for those looking to address and discuss issues related to marginalized identities, power dynamics, racism, privilege and oppression. Group members engage in meaningful dialogues that not only enhance their professional practice but also contribute to personal growth and societal change. If you're committed to expanding your intercultural competence and empathy, this group is for you.

Interpersonal Process Groups
Interpersonal process groups help people deepen their capacity for rewarding relationships, resolve internal conflicts, and modify self defeating behaviors. These are process oriented groups where the focus is on the interactions occurring between members. By interacting freely, group members help one another grow and develop emotional resilience.

Life Development Group for Adults
This social therapy group is for ages 18 and up for people interested in growing in new ways. If this time does not work, please see the listings for Jennifer's two additional groups.

Life Development Group for Adults
This social therapy group is for ages 18 and up for people interested in growing in new ways. If this time does not work, please see the listings for Jennifer's two additional groups.

Life Development Group for Adults
This social therapy group is for ages 18 and up for people interested in growing in new ways. If this time does not work, please see the listings for Jennifer's two additional groups.

Managing Your Child's Difficult Behavior
Are you struggling to parent a child with difficult behavior? Join other caregivers with similar experiences and concerns to gain the skills and insights needed to ease the challenges of raising children who struggle with impulsivity, defiance, oppositionality, and other disruptive behaviors. Each meeting will include education about an evidence-based strategy, attitude, or approach to foster cooperation and connection with your child, as well as time for group discussion and support. There will be separate groups for children at different developmental stages (ages 7-12 and 13-18).

Mastery of Changes Tween and Teen Support Group
We will offer a 90-minute six (6) week tweens/teens support group in February and March to help tweens and teens (ages 10-14) master changes related to topics such as independence, bodies, peers, anxious feelings, and self-esteem.

Men’s Group
Participants will have the opportunity to build self-awareness through interactive group process and mindfulness practice. The group will explore themes related to health and wellness, relationships, human behavior, trauma, change and transition, identity, loss and grief, communication, and more.

Men’s Insight-Oriented Group
This is an insight-oriented men's group for high-functioning individuals ages 25+. This group focused on relationships and expanding life experiences.

Men’s Therapy and Support Group
This is a men's therapy and support group for individuals ages 35+. This group is experiential, using gestalt-oriented, self psychology, and the internal family systems model.

Mixed Gender Adolescent Group
This group is an ongoing, open ended group for adolescents, 8th -11th grade. The groups are mixed gender and have by design, different problem profiles within the group (most common issues: self-esteem erosion; difficulties making and sustaining friendships; mood dysregulation; impulsive behavior; general and social anxiety, and depression). I believe we can learn a lot about ourselves by being with people who are different from us, as well as from people who have similar problems. The average length of participation is two years, but members only initially agree to trying five sessions. The atmosphere is one of warm acceptance, non judgmental and caring feedback, and support, with a primary focus on relationship issues. Pre-screening interview required prior to joining this group.

Group is a place to understand yourself better, to learn more effective ways to deal with yourself and others, and to practice these new ways often enough in a confidential supervised setting so that they become natural. Much of the value of your total group experience will come not from getting the "answer" to your problems but from experiencing the group itself. A lot depends on what you put into the experience. This group is for young adults and adults of all genders.

New Mom Support Group
This is an 8-week group to meet other new moms, gain support, and learn from others going through a similar transition. This group is for moms with babies from newborn to 18-months old. It is a safe place to explore the challenges and share the joys of postpartum.

Overcoming Isolation
This biweekly group is for men and women in their mid–50s to early-70s who want to improve their social skills, in order to have more and better social and interpersonal relationships.

Parenting Children with Anxiety
Unsure how to parent a child struggling with anxiety? Support groups are safe and non-judgmental spaces to build skills and receive support from parents who share similar experiences. Join other caregivers to explore various perspectives and tools so that you can better support your child with anxiety. Topics may include identifying what creates anxiety, how to manage anxious thoughts, relaxation techniques, and coping strategies. Each meeting will include time for sharing and support and there will be separate groups for parents of children at different developmental stages (ages 7-12 and 13-18).

Parenting Support Group for Moms: Explore, Connect, Transform
Are you a mom seeking a supportive space to navigate parenting challenges? Join this 10-week Psychodynamic Parenting Support Group and embark on a journey to explore your parenting practices, connect with other moms, and build a stronger, more fulfilling relationship with your role as a parent.

What to Expect: gain valuable support from a community of moms, learn from the unique experiences of others, engage in interactive discussions guided by the Collective Parenting (CP) framework--a culturally responsive approach to caregiving, reflect on your parenting practices and explore the dynamics shaping your relationship with your children.

Who Should Join: This group is designed for mothers who want to deepen their understanding of their parenting styles, address challenges with empathy and cultural awareness, and incorporate shared caregiving principles into their parenting journey.

Practicing Presence
In this weekly support group, we begin with a prompt and a grounding exercise to explore: where have we been feeling tuned in + connected, and where have we been in avoidance? What are we numbing, running from, or brushing under the rug? Through compassionate, mindful conversation, we move a little bit closer to ourselves and to life on life’s terms.

From members: “We keep coming back because of the people in the room. We seek to be un-opinionated about each other’s experiences — we hold great open-mindedness towards each other. We come into the Now, finding grounded approaches to current struggles without getting lost in the past or future. We get curious about what we’re paying attention to in our daily lives. We celebrate what feels good. We explore big ideas about life, values, and culture. We don’t just talk about what happened this week, we breathe into how it felt. We co-regulate and find relief from rumination.”

Note: while sessions are often very therapeutic, this is not group therapy and not a substitute for clinical care.

Process Training Group
The Process Training Group for therapists, psychiatric nurses and mental health workers meets online weekly on Thursdays, 3:30-5:00PM ET. This group is ideal for therapists interested in learning more about process groups and who desire professional and personal growth. The group size is limited to a maximum of 10 members. The objective of this group is to enhance each member’s knowledge of group process, group dynamics and the power of groups, as well as to learn more about oneself as a member of a group. There are didactic discussions periodically. This is a training group, not a therapy group. My focus as facilitator is on the here & now unless members bring in historical material.

Queer Process Group
This is a process group for queer and trans adults 18+. We incorporate elements of Internal Family Systems. The group is limited to 6 participants and it meets for one hour and 15 minutes with another 5-10 minutes of casual social time at the end of the meetings. Age of current participants 20 to early 40's. Multi racial.

Relational Therapy Group for High School Aged Youth
This group is an ongoing, open ended relational therapy groups for adolescents 10th -12th grade (slected 9th grade and post-graduate candidates will be considered). The groups are mixed gender and have by design, different problem profiles within the group (most common issues: difficulties making and sustaining close friendships and dating relationships; emotional expression; mood dysregulation; social and general anxiety and depression;. I believe we can learn a lot about ourselves by being with people who are different from us, as well as from people who have similar problems. The average length of participation is two years, but members only initially agree to trying five sessions. The atmosphere is one of warm acceptance, non-judgmental and caring feedback, and support, with a primary focus on relationship issues. Pre-screening interview before joining the group is required.

Support for Parents of Neurodiverse Children
This is a 3-week support introductory workshop for parents of neurodivergent children to learn compassion for both self and child. The group runs on the following dates: 3/13, 3/20, and 3/27.

Teen Girls Group
This is a therapy group for girls ages 15-18 that provides girls with the opportunity to talk about and address concerns such as school, friendships, future decisions, dating, friendship, social skills, emotional regulation, family, etc.

Teen Therapy Groups
These are two therapy groups for teens ages 16-19 that address issues such as school, college, friendships, relationships, family, gender/sexuality, communication, identity, mood, and attentional issues.

The Connecting and Relating Group
This group is open to all genders and is intergenerational in nature. The group is designed to be long term and is appropriate for clients working on attachment and interpersonal concerns. We welcome referrals age 20 and up. Our group is interpersonally oriented and has been meeting since 1999. We meet virtually each week with two in-person sessions per year in Wynnewood, PA.

Therapy Group for Therapists
This weekly psychodynamic group focuses on increasing intimacy among members in the here and now and is open to therapists of all ages, genders, sexual orientations, and cultures.

Fee: Free, brief consultation with pricing structure based on years of experience
-Less than five (5) years' experience: $60 per session, plus $160 for the pre-group individual session
-Five (5) or more years' experience: $80 per session, plus $200 for the pre-group session

University Faculty Support Group: Tenure Denial and More
This bi-weekly group is geared towards university faculty that have experienced the trauma of tenure denial, retaliation for reporting ethical breaches, and other career derailing experiences within their professional setting. Confusion, self blame, shame, and isolation are but a few of the reactions that accompany these kind of difficult experiences. Having the opportunity to share and explore these experiences with others can help strengthen coping skills, and decrease depression, anxiety and the shame that naturally occur under these circumstances.

Weekly Co-Ed Teen Therapy Groups
These groups are weekly, co-ed therapy groups—process oriented with a wide range of struggles, issues, topics, and diagnoses for teens, ages 16-20 on Mondays and ages 14-18 on Thursdays.

Witches and Weirdos
Feel a little ‘out there’? Gain confidence in your powerful, fabulous, intuitive selves with people who will accept you exactly as you are. We are currently taking a deep dive into the tarot's Major Arcana, one card per session. Members share intimately about their lives and listen for connections to / wisdom from the archetype of the week. Help us decide where to go next!

From members: “We are open to considering a lot of different explanations and interpretations of the human experience. We love how exploratory our group is; we take whatever we are exploring philosophically, spiritually, magically, and apply it to daily life. We look towards living with integrity and what’s getting in the way. We drop deeply into individual support, and there is fluid movement between individual support and full group conversation. We love the community that this group provides, the uniqueness of everyone here, how kind everyone is, and that many of us are neurodivergent. We feel at home — we feel that this is a safe space to share whatever is happening in our lives, to show up as we are, knowing we will never be judged. This is a place where we learn more about magic ~ inside us and in the world around us ~ and grow that magic. Many of us don’t have access to that kind of space where we live, so we co-create it here.”

Note: while sessions are often very therapeutic, this is not group therapy and not a substitute for clinical care.

Women's Art Psychotherapy Group for Eating Disorders
This art therapy group is for women, ages 17+ with eating disorders and eating concerns, self-esteem, relationship, and trauma issues.

Women's Group
The group is a weekly therapy group for women ages 25-40. The members engage in lively discussion with diverse topics in a supportive yet challenging environment.

Young Adult Group
The group is a lively yet supportive therapy group for young adults ages 18-25 to address issues related to entering the next phase of life: work, college, career, family, relationships, moving out, values etc are all addressed.

Young Women's Therapy Group
This is a weekly therapy group for young women (ages 18-23) facing the challenges of post–high school life—struggling with college, work, family and/or mental health obstacles.