While people seek therapy for many different reasons, a common theme is establishing and maintaining close and gratifying relationships with others. People often wish that they understood relationships better and that they could be really honest about their positive and negative feelings with others and get reciprocally honest feedback. The therapy group attempts to set up a situation where this type of honest, interpersonal exploration will occur.
Group members should be committed to learning about themselves and their relationships to others outside of therapy and how it relates to their earliest beliefs about relationships. Within the group, members are encouraged to express all their thoughts and feelings as they occur within the group. We learn by being honest and direct with our feelings in the group at that moment, especially those feelings toward the other group members and the therapist. These thoughts and feelings in the present are the database from which group psychotherapy flows.
My current group is a Men’s Process Group. This group is open to same-sex attracted men who wish to work on strengthening relational skills.
