Group Therapy in Texas
Experience the Healing Power of Group Therapy
Have you ever felt alone, misunderstood, or overwhelmed by your problems?
Do you wish you had someone who could listen to you, support you, and help you cope?
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We invite you to look over the list of groups we offer and consult with us about them. Which therapy group you join would be based not only on scheduling, but on how who you are fits therapeutically with the characteristics of each. Whether or not group therapy would be beneficial and appropriate for you at this time would be assessed by the leader in the intake interview.
Monday | Tuesday | Wednesday | Thursday | Friday | Saturday |
7:45-9:15am led by Dr. Aaron Dembe Online Only | 8:00-9:30am led by Jev Sikes, Ph.D. & Ruby Branson, LMSW Online Only | 7:45-9:15am led by Jev Sikes, Ph.D. & Robert Lewis, LPC Online Only | 9:00-10:30am led by Mel Walsh, LMSW 38th Street Office | 8:00-9:30am led by Jev Sikes, Ph.D. Online Only | 2:00-4:00pm led by Lexi Patrick, LPC Online Only |
5:00pm-6:30pm led by Dr. Aaron Dembe Online Only | 8:00-9:30am led by Robert Lewis, LPC Westlake Office | 1pm-2:15pm led by Dianne Rapsey-Vanburen, PsyD Online Only | 11:30am-1pm led by Charlotte Howard, Ph.D. Deep Eddy office | 2:30-3:30pm Kids Group (6-17) led by Nicole Porterpan-Cassell, LPC Online Only | |
5:30-7:00pm led by Dianne Rapsy-Vanburen, PsyD Online Only | 4:45-6:15pm led by Glenn Olds, Ph.D. Online Only | 4:45pm-6:15pm led by Matt Halvorson, LPC Stassney Office | 4:45pm-6:15pm led by Tiffany Nicely-Williams, LCSW-S Stassney Office | ||
5:30-7:00pm led by Stuart Irvin, PhD Online Only | 5:30-7:00pm Led by Michael Azarani, Ph.D. Steck Office | 4:45-6:15pm led by Stuart Irvin, PhD & Emily Matis, Doctoral Intern Deep Eddy office | 5:30pm-7:00pm led by Glenn Olds, Ph.D. Deep Eddy Office 6:00-7:00pm | ||
6:00-7:30pm led by Aaron Dembe, Ph.D. & Nesi Lillard, PhD, LPC-S Online Only | 6:30-8:00pm led by Stuart Irvin, PhD & Dianne Rapsey Vanburen, PsyD Deep Eddy Office & Online | 6:00pm-7:00pm led by Nicole Porterpan-Cassell, LPC Online Only | |||
6:10-7:30pm led by Caroline Hammond, LPC-A 38th St office | 7:15-8:45pm led by Kate Coffiled, LCSW Online Only | 6:00pm-7:30pm led by Stephanie Parez, LPC Online Only | |||
6:30-8:00pm led by Glenn Olds, Ph.D. Deep Eddy office | 6:00pm-7:30pm led by Robert Lewis, LPC Westlake Office | ||||
6:30pm-8pm led by Matt Halvorson, LPC Stassney Office | |||||
How Group Therapy Works
First, you’ll meet with your group therapist for a one-on-one intake meeting. This meeting helps you get to know the therapist (and vice versa) while also preparing you for the rules/norms of group therapy.
Group members are committed to learning about themselves and their patterns in relationships. To this end, members are committed to the goal of expressing their thoughts and feelings as they occur within the group, especially those feelings toward the other group members and the therapist. Members’ thoughts and feelings in the present is the material from which group psychotherapy flows. To foster a safe and productive group, members make several important agreements to the group.
Here are the group therapy agreements at Deep Eddy Psychotherapy
- Members will treat matters that occur in the group with the utmost confidentiality. Members are expected not to discuss what happens in the group with people who are not members of the group and will keep the identity of all group members confidential.
- Members have a commitment to talk about what is going on for them emotionally during the group (whatever they are feeling at the moment) as a way of increasing their understanding of their own interpersonal dynamics. Members agree to take their fair share of the time. Members also talk about important issues in their lives that cause difficulty in relating to others or in living life fully.
- Members do not make contact with each other outside the group. The group provides an opportunity for learning about one’s problems in social relationships; it is not a gathering in which people meet to make social friends, and if used in this manner the group loses its therapeutic effectiveness.
- What members share in the group, meetings with psychiatrists, or in individual or marital therapy may be shared with other members of the treatment team when anyone feels that it is important for continuity of care.
- Members make a commitment to attend the group until they have reached their goals. Members may periodically evaluate their progress and eventually will make a collaborative decision that they have attained their goals and are ready to leave the group. After a decision to leave the group has been made, ample time will be allowed for everyone to explore their feelings about the member’s departure and to say goodbye.
- Regular and timely attendance at all sessions is an expected and essential part of the process. If possible, members will notify the group in advance when it is necessary to miss a group. Your leader will provide guidance on how to inform the group if you have an unexpected absence, such as an illness.
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Benefits of Group Counseling
Most presenting issues have some connection to past or present relationships and how one feels about oneself, others, and one’s life as a result of those relationships. Whether one has experienced loss, mistreatment, rejection, being pushed into a role to please others, or one of the many other things that go awry in our relationship experience, group is a direct and powerful way to access relationship patterns and feelings toward oneself in relationships that are the source of the presenting concern. From anxiety, depression, low self-esteem, communication or anger issues, to repetitively choosing the wrong partner for you, processing and understanding your relational experience in real time is a powerful opportunity for change.
Clients can practice applying the insights and skills they are learning in individual therapy, such as awareness of feelings, their source, and the ability to express them vs. acting them out. Looking at relationship dynamics in real time as reactions are occurring with other group members allows profound development to happen naturally. While exploring, the therapist or other members may notice things about the person that wouldn’t be apparent in individual therapy and that the person might not know to report to his/her individual therapist. Group therapy helps people learn to be more authentic and have a more full and loving sense of self, to have healthier relationships, to communicate effectively and to not recreate painful childhood relationship dynamics in present relationships. These changes, combined with the support of the group, lead to decreased anxiety, depression, anger, and distress.
The support is not the focus for us (as it would be in a support group), though deep, supportive relationships are often formed with other members. Group therapy for us is a psychotherapy group where the focus is on exploring one’s real self and your feelings that are stimulated by the relationships in the room (which will inevitably mirror the relationship dynamics and feelings that arise outside of group therapy). So, what we want to see is people talking to each other about how they feel with each other moment to moment. Through this process you will receive valuable honest feedback as well as learn about your reactions to others.
Young-Adult Group Counseling
Two of our groups are young-adult groups (twenties and early thirties). As we grow into ourselves during this tender time of life, deep exploration of who we are, our relational patterns and struggles, and important life-path choices creates more confidence and clarity. Sharing together the complex experience of embracing adulthood and creating the life you want provides insight and comfort that powerfully help us through the challenges.
We are ready when you are.
If you are interested in learning more about our approach to therapy and medication or would like to schedule an appointment with one of our clinicians, please don’t hesitate to contact us.
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Tori Olds, Ph.D. is excited to again offer this 15-week training called Minding the Heart. Dr. Olds brings 10 years experience as a licensed psychologist and a high level of in-depth training background in all course material. She was asked to be on the national 10-person faculty for the PACT institute bringing interpersonal neurobiology to couples and has a high level of training in mindfulness, somatic experiencing, and systems-centered theory as well.
Topics covered in this series include the application of mindfulness and interpersonal neurobiology, trauma work, attunement training, working with defenses and emotion, tracking the body, and attachment in couples work. We will draw on our many years of training in Accelerated Experiential Dynamic Psychotherapy, Somatic Experiencing, System’s Centered Theory™, Psychobiological Approach to Couples Therapy), and Psychodynamic Theory (Object Relations). The meetings will be mainly didactic, but also experiential, with discussion, Q&A, demonstrations, and case consultation. We will also provide optional experiential homework geared toward developing integration in one’s own nervous system and will post thorough notes and videos onto our private blog.
Process group that focuses on relationship patterns/dynamics/interactions. Mixed gender/diverse individuals.
Jev has been leading groups for over forty years. He brings humor to his groups and doesn’t hesitate to challenge members. All four of his groups on the schedule are mixed-gender and have members with various ages and perspectives.
This group focuses on intimacy and personal growth. It has mostly young professionals (20’s through 40’s) who work deeply to understand their relationship to themselves and others. Glenn is known for his thoughtfulness and warmth as a group leader.
This is a mixed-gender adult process group. The focus is developing understanding and self-awareness through interactions with other group members.
This is a mixed-gender adult process group open to all ages over 20 focused on building and maintaining relationships. Members are asked weekly to explore their own emotions and reactions to other members with compassion and curiosity in order to work together to deepen relationships. Currently online only.
This is a support group for frontline healthcare professionals to meet, discuss issues (such as healthcare work in the time of COVID), support each other, and possibly eventually challenge each other to grow individually and interpersonally. Primary inclusion criteria would be either holding a healthcare professional job or being someone who works directly with the covid pandemic. That is to say, healthcare professionals who are not on the covid frontlines are welcome. Frontline covid workers who are not healthcare professionals are welcome (for example, a receptionist at a clinic offering vaccines).
The Thurs 11:30 adult group is emotionally sophisticated and working at a deep level.
Charlotte is known for her warm presence and focus on emotional expression. She helps group members learn to embrace authenticity, receive, connect, heal, and love themselves more deeply.
Healing Through Creativity (HTC) is an online, 12-week therapy group at Deep Eddy, focusing on improving mental health by engaging with expressive and artistic activities designed to encourage creativity. HTC is open to ANYONE, not just artists or people with creative jobs or hobbies. It is primarily based on the book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, focusing on journaling exercises designed to foster insight and increase self-esteem through self-expression. Starting Thursday, January 19th. Meeting Thursdays from 5:30 to 7pm, running for a total of 13 sessions.
Mixed gender group open to people of color. Group is focused on healthy communication, exploration of self and relationship patterns, as well as processing racial trauma and healing in a community setting.
The group is for adults 18+. This long-term therapy group offers trans, and gender-diverse clients a space to explore interpersonal patterns, struggles, and day-to-day stressors within their embodied, queer experience. This group seeks to provide a safe and affirming space where individuals can better understand interpersonal patterns, and develop new ways of relating to themselves, others, and the world around them.
Aaron Dembe, PhD facilitates a process/growth group for men. Meeting on Zoom on Mondays, at 8am or 5pm. Men’s Group is a place for anyone who identifies as a man to come and gain support from each other, to confront the boundaries and expectations of masculinity, to “be in our feelings,” and to compassionately challenge one another in the here-and-now to learn and grow as people. Screening is required prior to entry. Accepting self-pay, and most insurances. Please direct any questions to Aaron Dembe.
Whether you are exploring your sexuality, experiencing sexual dissatisfaction, or living as a survivor of sexual trauma, you can find a space to belong in this group. This group is for adult women who are interested in joining a collaborative, healing community designed for personal growth and transformation. Sessions are held on Tuesdays at 6pm starting July 12th on Zoom and cost $50 per session.
This process group is open to all adults of all gender identities interested in exploring and understanding their interpersonal lives. Members are asked to explore their interpersonal interactions in the here-and-now with compassion and curiosity toward self and other.
A mixed-gender adult process group. Currently with 9 members aged 25 – 66 yo. Explore and understand relationship patterns, practice boundary setting in a supportive space, build communication skills that increase feelings of connectedness and intimacy.
This is a support/process group open to all mothers (or mothers to be) wanting to gain support, understanding and/or simply process the parenting role. A therapuetic safe space to explore all aspects of parenting (the “good,bad and ugly”) and how it may or may not, relate to our own attachment/childhood processes.
This processing group is designed for Spanish-speaking moms who are interested in exploring parenting in relation to:
- Their own upbringing
- Culture, values, tradition, and language
- Their own unique experience as moms
This is a mixed-gender adult process group. The focus is developing understanding and self-awareness through interactions with other group members.
This mixed-gender process group is open to adults of all ages who are interested in better understanding themselves and their relationships with others. Members are encouraged to explore their thoughts and feelings towards other group members in the here-and-now with warmth and curiosity.
This support group is designed for adults who are interested in exploring issues relating to growing up in an Asian immigrant family of origin with others who can relate, including:
- culture and traditions
- values and beliefs
- sense of belonging and community
- racial microaggressions
- development of one’s own identity
In person processing group for adults. This group is beneficial for clients who are already in individual therapy and those that are not in individual therapy. Clients get real interpersonal experience in a safe place to work with and practice what they are processing both in their individual therapy and what comes up for them in their relationships, at work and within their families.
The group will begin with a yoga practice that will help us ground and increase mindfulness and awareness. After the yoga practice, we will transition into a process group to explore what came up during the yoga practice and how we can translate yoga skills into our daily life.
This group is great for anyone who is looking to increase their mind-body connection, presence, mindfulness, autonomy & agency, emotional awareness & regulation, etc!
Research has shown that a yoga practice is beneficial for mental health, particularly anxiety, depression, and trauma.
Process group that focuses on relationship patterns/dynamics/interactions. Mixed gender/diverse individuals.
This mixed-gender process group is open to adults of all ages who are interested in better understanding themselves and their relationships with others. Members are encouraged to explore their thoughts and feelings towards other group members in the here-and-now with warmth and curiosity.
Group focused on expressing experiences, challenges, desires, and triumphs of parenthood.
Game & Grow is an online group coaching experience that provides kids, adolescents and adults with the opportunity to develop their social skills and growth mindset through therapeutic gaming. Sessions available in Endless Ocean Luminous, Stardew Valley and Minecraft and will cover topics including: communication skills, problem solving, teamwork, accepting differences, and conflict resolution.
Parent Process Group is a process/growth group for parents, guardians and caregivers of children and adolescents. This group will take place via Zoom on Thursdays, from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. It is a place for parents to come together and gain support from each other, to process the challenges and success of parenting, to share their experiences and give feedback on the experiences of other group members and to compassionately challenge one another in the here-and-now to learn and grow as people. Screening is required prior to entry. Accepting self-pay, and most major insurances. Please direct any questions to Nicole Porterpan-Cassell.
Parent Process Group is a process/growth group for parents, guardians and caregivers of children and adolescents. This group will take place via Zoom on Thursdays, from 6:00pm to 7:00pm. It is a place for parents to come together and gain support from each other, to process the challenges and success of parenting, to share their experiences and give feedback on the experiences of other group members and to compassionately challenge one another in the here-and-now to learn and grow as people. Screening is required prior to entry. Accepting self-pay, and most major insurances. Please direct any questions to Nicole Porterpan-Cassell.
“Healing Through Creativity (HTC) is an online, 13-week therapy group at Deep Eddy, focusing on improving mental health by engaging with expressive and artistic activities designed to encourage creativity. HTC is open to ANYONE, not just artists or people with creative jobs or hobbies. It is primarily based on the book The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron, focusing on journaling exercises designed to foster insight and increase self-esteem through self-expression. Starting Tuesday, June 18th. Meeting Tuesdays from 6 to 7:30pm, running for a total of 13 sessions.” Please contact Aaron Dembe or Nesi Lillard for more info.