Groups

Join us Online OR in Person! This group is designed for young adults who want to improve their social skills. Participants learn social skills to help increase success in relationships and the workforce. The group begins with an initial screening (participants must be able to verbally and respectfully participate in a group setting). The group sessions include material from the Evidence-Based Social Skills Program PEERS for Young Adults. 
The group is designed as twelve weekly 90- minute sessions.

If you are interested in participating in a dream group, please e-mail emily@columbiapsychology.com

Mindfulness refers to the ability to maintain awareness of the present moment with acceptance and without judgment.  Mindfulness helps strengthen the “muscle” in the brain that helps us focus our attention to the present moment (rather than ruminating on the past or worrying about the future).  Mindfulness can be beneficial in reducing dissociation, alleviating anxiety and depression, reducing chronic pain, and improving your focus and concentration.  Mindfulness helps us become more aware of our emotions and our needs.  In addition to mindfulness, this group helps participants gain coping skills to recognize, regulate, validate, tolerate, and appropriately respond to strong emotions with self-compassion as well as assertive communication skills.  The group is designed as weekly 60-minute sessions.

If you are interested in participating in a Mindfulness Group, please email Emily

Dreams often bring us important instructions, directions, and guidance.  However, few of us know how to interpret and understand our dreams, and many of us need help to even remember our dreams.  Dream Groups help us pay more attention and listen to what our dreams might be telling us.  Many people find that they start remembering more dreams through this process.  Each week, a group member shares a dream, and the other members ask questions to elicit details including images and emotions the dreamer may have missed.  Members take care to not put their interpretation on the dreamer’s dream, although gentle, tentative suggestions may be made after the dreamer has had a chance to develop their own interpretation.  The group is designed as twelve weekly 90- minute sessions.

If you are interested in participating in a dream group, please e-mail emily@columbiapsychology.com

Women who have survived trauma come together and support each other by sharing coping strategies and connecting with one another. Information/education about topics of interest to the group members is provided as requested; for example, past topics have included cognitive reactions to trauma (safety, trust, power/control, esteem, intimacy, guilt), dissociation, emotional processing, medication management, boundaries in relationships, and communication/assertiveness skills.
The group is designed as sixteen weekly 60-minute sessions.

Families of trauma survivors come together to offer support and learn how to better help their loved ones. No identifying information or details of trauma histories are shared, in order to respect loved ones’ confidentiality. Instead, participants discuss and learn different ways of coping with their own emotions and responding to trauma survivors in helpful ways. Education on the effects of trauma is provided, and participants are helped to cope with their own emotions and disrupted beliefs about the world following their loved ones’ trauma.
The group is designed as twelve weekly 60-minute sessions.