Group Therapy in Oregon
Healing happens
in relationship.
My process groups can help you stay present with yourself and others, increase self-awareness about your relational patterns, and develop meaningful support and connection with others.
Group therapy is less expensive than individual therapy, and can often get to the heart of distress faster and deeper. Group therapy allows you to experience your emotions, reactions, and patterns in real time with real people — and the opportunity to try something different.
Process groups meet weekly via Zoom throughout Oregon — Portland, Eugene, Salem, Bend, and beyond.
GROUP IS FOR YOU IF:
You notice yourself stuck in recurring patterns in friendships, partnerships, or community. People-pleasing, withdrawing when things get hard, performing competence while drowning inside, struggling to ask for what you need.
GROUP IS FOR YOU IF:
You need space to process existential overwhelm without being told to self-care your way through the apocalypse. You're carrying political grief, climate anxiety, collective rage, or the weight of systems that harm people you love and you want to talk about it without judgment or being told you’re a bummer.
GROUP IS FOR YOU IF:
You feel lonely but don't know how to build real connection. You're either isolated or surrounded by people but still feel alone. You want authentic relationships but don't know how to let people in without losing yourself.
GROUP IS FOR YOU IF:
You need people who get that your despair makes sense and you're responding appropriately to what's happening. You want permission to be falling apart and still show up.
GROUP IS FOR YOU IF:
You're exhausted from performing. You show up differently for everyone — accommodating, competent, fine — and you've lost track of who you actually are underneath it all.
GROUP IS FOR YOU IF:
You're sensitive to everything and don't know how to exist in relationships without shutting down or being overwhelmed. You feel too much or nothing at all, and neither feels sustainable.
GROUP IS FOR YOU IF:
You want to shift your attachment patterns, not just understand them. You need practice being different in relationship with others who are doing the same work.
What happens in Group Therapy?
We work with what's alive in the room: what people are feeling, what's emerging between group members, what patterns are showing up. There's no set agenda. We slow down what's happening between people and make the invisible visible.
You might notice yourself withdrawing when someone gets emotional. Or feeling eager to speak up when the group feels tense. Maybe you edit yourself because you want to fit in or not make waves. These moments become the material we work with.
This work is challenging, but it can also transform the way you relate to yourself and others.
Groups meet weekly via Zoom and serve clients throughout Oregon, including Portland, Eugene, Salem, and beyond. New members are welcomed through a consultation process to ensure fit and readiness. Participants commit to at least six sessions to support a stable and safer environment.
These groups are specifically designed for people wanting to better understand themselves, their relationships with others, and are navigating the experience of trying to exist authentically in a world that demand compliance.
The Tuesday group is full as of May 2026. I am currently accepting new participants interested in meeting at other times during the week.
Relational Rewire
Tuesdays, 5:30-7:00 PM Pacific
This group is about how you move in relationship — what roles do you tend to take, how do others see you, and how do you pursue or avoid connection with others. If you find yourself cycling through familiar patterns (ghosting, chasing, pulling back, shutting down, caretaking, people-pleasing, etc.) and want to understand how they impact you and your relationships, this is the space to watch them happen in real time, and maybe try something different. This group works especially well for queer and trans folks navigating attachment in relationships where there's no roadmap.
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Weekly 90-minute Zoom sessions.
Members are expected to attend for at least 6 sessions to help foster a sense of trust and stability for the group.
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$80 per 90-min session is the baseline rate.
Members are welcome to pay $90 or $100+ in order to contribute to sliding scale slots.Limited sliding scale available.
Knowing & Being Known
Mondays, 5:00-6:30 PM Pacific
This group is for people who don't feel like they can be their full selves with other people…and want to explore what that's about. We can lose contact with authenticity in many ways: staying guarded, performing a more palatable version of yourself, keeping people at arm's length, or showing up in ways that feel protective (but also lonely!).
This process group is experiential and gives you a playground to figure out what gets in the way of being known, what it would cost to try something different, and how to find a balance between over- and under-exposure.
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Weekly 90-minute Zoom sessions.
Members are expected to attend for at least 6 sessions to help foster a sense of trust and stability for the group.
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$80 per 90-min session is the baseline rate.
Members are welcome to pay $90 or $100 in order to contribute to sliding scale slots.Limited sliding scale available.
Ready to Start?
FAQs
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Support groups provide validation, shared experience, and education around a specific issue (grief, addiction, chronic illness, etc.). They're often peer-led and focus on mutual support.
Process groups are therapy groups led by a licensed clinician. While support, validation, and finding connection are all a part of process groups, the clinician brings attention to what goes unsaid in many relationships: how members are showing up in relationship, when connections are forged or broken, and when unresolved relational hurt may result in unwanted relational patterns. You learn how you handle conflict, vulnerability, intimacy, and boundaries by actually being in those dynamics with other group members.
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Sessions are ninety minutes and meet weekly via Zoom. There's no set agenda or curriculum. Instead, we work with what's alive in the room: what people are feeling, what's coming up between group members, what patterns are emerging. I facilitate the process, help name dynamics, and create space for honesty, vulnerability, and repair.
Some sessions might find group members venting to one another and offering support. Other sessions might feel quiet; yet others might be intense. Some sessions people come in and just want to yap and laugh! All of it is part of the work!
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Individual therapy is incredibly valuable, and many people do both. But group offers something different. You get to see your patterns in action, not just talk about them after the fact. You receive reflection from multiple people, not just one therapist. You practice being yourself in relationship, which builds capacity in ways that talking about relationships can't.
If you're already in individual therapy, group can be a powerful complement. If you're not, group can be a standalone form of treatment.
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Start by scheduling a free twenty-minute consultation. We'll talk about what you're looking for, what group might offer, and whether one of the current groups feels like a good fit. If it does, we'll schedule an intake session before you join.
You'll commit to at least six sessions to give yourself time to settle in and for the group to build trust. After that, you can continue as long as the group is helpful.
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That's normal! Even for me, a renowned extravert, group can sometimes feel overwhelming or cause anxiety.
Most people are nervous about being seen, being vulnerable, or ‘doing it wrong’ in front of others. We talk about this throughout group as different members experience it at different times. You get to participate at whatever level feels right. There's no pressure to share more than you're ready to.
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Yes. What's shared in group stays in group. We establish confidentiality agreements at the start, and maintaining trust is central to the work.
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Life happens. If you need to miss a session, let me know. That said, consistency matters. The work builds on itself and the group develops relational trust over time. If you know you'll miss more than occasional sessions, we can talk about whether the timing is right.
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It varies. Some people stay for a few months, some for a year or more. The minimum commitment is six sessions, but many people find the work valuable enough to continue. We check in periodically about whether group is still serving you.