- Support and Encouragement: Group members can offer emotional support, encouragement, and validation, which helps individuals feel more understood and less isolated.
- Learning from Others: Hearing how others cope with challenges, as well as learning from their successes and setbacks, can provide valuable insights and coping strategies.
- Different Perspectives: Being part of a group exposes participants to diverse viewpoints and experiences, which can broaden understanding and help in problem-solving.
- Improved Communication Skills: Group therapy encourages individuals to express themselves and practice listening, which can enhance both verbal and non-verbal communication skills.
- Accountability: Being part of a group can encourage participants to stay on track with their goals and commitments, as they feel a sense of responsibility to the group.
- Skill Development: Many types of group therapy, such as cognitive-behavioral or dialectical behavior therapy, focus on teaching specific coping mechanisms, emotional regulation, and problem-solving techniques.
Group Offerings
At Creative Psychological Health Services we are committed to providing the best experience for you and your family in an effort to collaboratively meet your social/emotional needs. We offer various groups throughout the year at our different locations.
Social Skills Group: Navigate peer relationships; Identify self help skills; Learn emotional self awareness; Build social awareness; Other social/emotional skills
Coping Skills Group: Navigate stress management; Identify conflict resolution skills; Learn emotional self awareness; Peer Pressure; Other coping skills
Confidence Building Group: Empower yourself to stand up for yourself; Learn how to handle peer pressure; Navigate peer interactions with confidence; Work on believing in yourself; Other confidence building skills
School Transitions Group: Offered to incoming kindergarteners, 6th graders, 9th graders, and 12th graders; Navigate starting a new school; Identify ways to ease the transition; Determine ways to help yourself be successful
The Teen Years Group: Offered to 15-17 year olds; Navigate the teen years while identifying ways to manage the stress, peer pressure, and expectations that come along with the teen years
Emotional Regulation Group: Identify the emotions/feelings that lie within us; Determine ways to handle the big feelings we experience; Navigate how to cope with various situations when we have big feelings
Family Systems Group: Navigate how to deal with changes within the family system (separation/divorce, deployment, family loss,...); Identify ways to cope with the “new norm”; Find value in a support system with similar needs
