Group Therapy for Folks with Chronic Illness
Open to Georgia and Florida residents
You don’t have to be afraid of your body, even when your pain has been stopping you for years from living your life. This group helps alleviate feeling like a burden, social isolation, and overexerting yourself leading to frequent flare-ups.
What You Can Expect
It’s not just venting
Yes, it’s incredibly validating to find people who truly understand the frustrations of trying to live your life (clean the house, socialize, manage appointments, work), but a good group offers more…
Shared Experiences, Diverse Perspectives
You want your group members to feel relatable, but also offer new and insightful perspectives. This group is made up of folks with different experiences, but similar struggles.
Improved Relationships
How relationships form in group therapy is often how relationships form in our everyday lives. Working with others in a group setting can propel change in a way that individual therapy doesn’t. (One is not better than the other, they just offer different opportunities for growth).
Increased Activity
Our pain can be extremely self-limiting. We stop going to stores, seeing friends, going to work, and so much more. This group aims to help you release fear and learn the skills required to get back out into the world (IF that’s your goal). The goals formed in group should be made by your own free will and desires. There’s no “shoulds” in this group!
The Details
Challenges addressed in group
Grief + identity work (learning who you are as someone living with daily pain)
Exploring + working through anger (at self, the medical community, and society)
Guilt + self-blame
Fear of your body, pain, and symptoms (brain fog, physical pain, chronic fatigue, dizziness, and more)
Learning pain management techniques/skills
Fatigue + energy conservation to avoid flare-ups
Maintaining a work/life/pain balance
Communicating with friends, family, partners, and doctors
Pain Management / Skill-building focus
Somatic tracking (learning to be WITH your body instead of beating it up)
Relaxation techniques (so you can give your body rest even when sleep isn’t available)
Assertive + compassionate communication
Breaking out of the pain-fear-avoidance cycle
More Details
Three 90-minute VIRTUAL group sessions per month for 3 months
Time: TBD
$325/month for 3 months minimum
A digital workbook
Group format
education component
skill-building practice
verbal processing with the group
Superbills provided (if client’s individual therapist provides a diagnosis)
Requires each participant to have at least 1 individual therapy session per month with their own therapist or with Destiny
BONUS - group in-person meet-up in Atlanta, GA at the end of each month (3 total)
BONUS - a group session where family members can attend to learn about how they can better support you in your journey
Get started today with chronic illness group therapy + support.
Fill out this form to let me know that you’re interested. Once I have 6 participants, group will begin!