Early Career Process Group
For professionals in roughly their first five years of work: the social side of a career, balance, procrastination, and the anxiety or depression underneath it.
About this groupOur groups
Two groups, forming now.
Every group begins with an individual conversation with the group leader, so you and they can decide together whether it is a fit.
Let’s Play & Grow
A relationship-focused group where children explore feelings, relationships, and their sense of self through play.
About this groupGroup one
Early Career Process Group
This open-ended online group is designed for professionals of all ages who are launching their careers and adjusting to life with new challenges in today’s work environment. There is no hard cutoff, but you could say the first five years in your career counts.
You may have trained for this career for years, but are surprised by the amount of difficulty the social aspects of work create. You may also have trouble achieving balance with your personal life, procrastinating important tasks, or putting off finding a romantic partner. On a deeper level, you may experience intense anxiety or depression. Some participants may not have secured employment and are dealing with the existential paralysis of being achievement oriented with no results of their labor.
I have worked with clients presenting with all of these issues and many more over my years in practice. Group therapy can be enormously helpful for working through or coming to terms with these issues. That is, there is something powerful that occurs in a group setting that cannot be found in a one-on-one treatment.
The support and witnessing from other group members who have not come to judge or condemn, but rather to reflect and experience their own vulnerability, creates an environment ripe for real, deep, and lasting change.
If this sounds like it could be a benefit to you or someone you know, please feel free to reach out. We can have a fifteen minute or so conversation to assess your fit for this group.
Group two
Let’s Play & Grow
A relationship-focused group where children explore feelings, relationships, and their sense of self through play. This small group offers children a consistent, supportive space to explore their feelings, relationships, and inner world through play. Rather than teaching skills directly, the group itself becomes a place where a child’s patterns of relating to others can emerge, be understood, and gently worked through, with the therapist helping make sense of what unfolds.
Play becomes a language for feelings, relationships, and self-understanding. What emerges in group is connection, and building relationships. Being understood, and feeling seen and heard. A sense of self, and who am I with others. Big feelings, naming them and making sense of them. And belonging, a place in the group.
The group is closed: all 6 spots begin together, with no new members joining once sessions start. Screening is required, so interested families are invited to a brief call to confirm fit before enrollment is confirmed. Once a spot is reserved, ongoing parent check-ins are provided outside of group.
Demi is a licensed psychologist with over 12 years of experience working with children. Her approach is relationship-focused and play-based, using the connections that form in group to help children build insight into their feelings and their patterns of relating to others.
Spots are limited. If this sounds like it could be right for your child, please feel free to reach out and we can arrange that brief call.
Group therapy
The room where the pattern shows up live.
The habits that shape our relationships are hard to see from the inside. A group puts them in plain view: what you do with people, you do here too, in a room where a therapist is paying close attention and where the others can tell you honestly how it landed. Right now that means two rooms, one online for adults early in their careers and one in person for children seven to nine.
Why group
Some things are learned in the company of others.
Some of what we carry is difficult to reach on our own. Taking up too little space, or too much. Becoming invisible in a crowd. Feeling close to people only for as long as they need something from you. Being quietly certain that people would leave if they really knew you. These are patterns that live in relationships, and they are hard to resolve by describing them once a week to one person.
A group lets the pattern happen rather than be recounted, and it offers something else besides: honest and caring feedback from the people it happens with. Few of us are ever told the effect we have on a room. Received with care, that information changes people.
We have found this to be true at every age. A child learns something in a playroom with other children that no adult could explain to her. A teenager hears from other teenagers in a way that lands differently than it would from a parent. And for adults, the private conviction of being the only one like this rarely survives the room.
What it is like
A session, plainly described.
A small group and one or two therapists sit together in a circle. There is no agenda and no going around the room. Someone begins, usually with whatever is most alive for them that day, and the conversation goes where it goes. With younger children the circle becomes a playroom, and what they bring arrives in play rather than in words, but the shape of the hour is much the same.
The therapist is not running a class. Their work is to notice what is happening between people: who went quiet when something was said, who moved in to smooth it over, who is having a reaction they have not yet mentioned, and to make those moments available to talk about.
Early sessions are usually awkward, for children, teenagers, and adults alike. That is expected, and it is useful material in itself. Most people find that within the first several weeks the room stops feeling like a room of strangers.
Confidentiality is a commitment every member makes, and in our younger groups we go over it carefully together at the start: what is said in the group stays in the group. The limits of confidentiality are set out in full in the questions.
Take the next step
A first conversation costs nothing but a phone call.
Call us and we will talk through what you are looking for, answer your questions about how we work, and help you find the therapist on our team who fits. If we are not the right place for you, we will tell you that too, and point you somewhere better.
(828) 342-2977