Group Therapy NYC
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Group therapy is a powerful venue for growth and change. Although some people may feel uncomfortable at first, most clients report that the group experience was helpful far beyond their expectations. Not only do clients receive tremendous understanding, support, and encouragement from others facing similar issues, but they also gain different perspectives, ideas, and viewpoints on those issues.
spiral2grow group program is characterized by a high level of interaction, energy and honesty as well as a safe place to bring up a wide range of complex issues. The group also serves as a working laboratory for experimentation where newly learned skills can be put to the test. The result is a richer and deeper experience promoting members to take on life’s challenges.
Working on your personal growth is personal but not private. That is to say, that no one can work them for you, but you don’t have to do it alone. The power of group support and learning from others’ challenges as you challenged, is an essential aspect of successful healing and growth. The group meetings devoted to your specific problem, where people like yourself gather to share their stories and experiences are a powerful way to gain an supportive environment that is conducive to gain new insights and skills to become the best person you can be. Let the collective wisdom of other people to inform your healing and gain greater control over your life.
spiral2grow is located in New York City and its skills and goal-oriented groups are facilitated by leaders that are well-trained and experienced. Each group focuses on resolving particular problems faced by the people in the group. The group also may be more cost effective than individual therapy, and in some instances even more productive.
Anger Management Group
Intense anger or aggressive behaviors can be costly, both physically and mentaly. The anger group program enables participants to better learn, practice, and integrate treatment strategies to manage anger, especially in provocative situations. It provides the clients effective coping skills to stop negative behavior, avoid escalation, be assertive and resolve conflicts.
Moshe Ratson unique approach to anger transformation is a powerful way to use anger as a positive force to create a better word, for yourself, the people you care about as well as the community at large.
Individuals in the group learn to understand the roots issues beneath anger, their unmet needs, recognize early signs of anger and reduce aggressive and impulsive responses. They are taught how to slow down their arousal when angered, so that it can be processed and acted on in a proper way without the negative consequences associated with uncontrolled anger.
The power of group support and learning from others’ challenges as you challenged, is an essential aspect of successful healing and growth. The group meetings, where people like yourself gather to share their stories and experiences are a powerful way to gain an supportive environment that is conducive to gain new insights and skills to become the best person you can be. Let the collective wisdom of other people to inform your healing and gain greater control over your life.
spiral2grow of New York City utilizes proven methodologies from a variety of modalities, such as Cognitive Behavioral Treatment (CBT), Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), Acceptance Commitment Therapy (ACT) and other approaches that employs tempering anger, relaxation, cognitive, and communication skills interventions.
The following are few of the goals and skills provided in Anger Management Group:
- Process anger constructively by understanding its psychodynamics
- Manage anger and other challenging emotions in healthy ways
- Express your needs and feelings in a constructive way
- Transform anger into a healthy productive source
- Eliminate self-destructive/manipulative behaviors
- Explore pain that has been masked by anger
- Halt escalation and resolve conflicts
- Become assertive (not passive and not aggressive)
- Build emotional regulation – Overcome emotional reactivity
- Establish healthy boundary
- Develop communication skills
- Cultivate compassion and kindness
Self Esteem and Confidence Group
The self esteem and confidence group is good for individuals who are uncertain about themselves, lack self-confidence, doubts their abilities, or thinks negatively of themselves. The group sessions focus on the causes and cures for problems such as low self esteem and confidence, feeling of inferiority, perfectionism and procrastination. Participants learn the negative impacts low self esteem might have on a person and their life, and learn specific skills to overcome self-esteem, while building emotional resiliency. The purpose of the group counseling is to improve insight and self-understanding and develop self-esteem and self confidence. It teaches skills that enhance self-confidence, be more engaging and promote greater joy in daily living.
The group is a supportive system and a powerful methodology to learn from others’ challenges as you challenged and gain healing and growth. The group meetings, where people like yourself gather to share their struggles, stories and experiences are a healthy way to create a supportive environment that is conducive to gain new insights and skills to become the best person you can be. Join a group and let the collective wisdom of other people to inform your confidence and gain greater control over your life.
The following are few of the goals and skills provided in Self Esteem and Confidence Group:
- Improve self-esteem and confidence – Accept yourself
- Recognize and manage personal emotional blocks and limitations
- Build courage to do new things and experience life to its fullest
- Develop positivity and fulfill your potential by having a wining attitude
- Do the right thing and act courageously during stressful or intense situations
- Master your thoughts, feelings and actions
- Overcome social fear, anxiety and shyness
- Gain inner comfort and project true confidence
- Improve social and interpersonal skills and style
- Avoid procrastination and avoid perfectionism
- Take control over your life & relationships
- Attract partner and build healthy relationships
- Let go of negative patterns
- Become assertive, establish healthy boundary – Think win-win
- Set, pursue and attain your goals
Assertiveness Group
The assertiveness training group is formed in recognition of the difficulty that many people have while standing up for themselves and what they want, while respecting the needs of others. The struggle to balance the right to express their opinions, needs, and desires, while maintaining healthy work, personal, and romantic relationships is not an easy task. Assertiveness training can provide the skills and tools to help you relate to others with less anxiety and resentment while retaining self-respect and power over your attitude and over your own life.
Group therapy is a powerful modality to acquire new skills and practice it while facilitating growth and change. Although might be uncomfortable at first, most clients report that the group experience was helpful far beyond their expectations. Individual clients in group receive understanding, support, and encouragement from others that facile similar situation and challenges and at the same time gain different perspectives and support in dealing with those issues. In this regards, spiral2grow, located in New York City (NYC), is excited to provide the opportunity to join a group in NYC that is designed to help individuals who feel they lack the skills to assert themselves in a variety of social and professional situations.
The following are few of the goals for assertiveness group training:
- Acquire the skills basic to effective and responsible assertion
- Learn both verbal and non-verbal assertiveness skills
- Identify and express interpersonal rights in an assertive manner
- Develop healthier behavior to engage and attract healthier relationships
- Clarify and reduce emotional blocks which prevent individuals from acting assertively
- Become more aware of personal passive/assertive/aggressive tendencies and behaviors
- Build healthy boundary
- Develop leadership skills and becomes more influential in your life
- Improve your emotional intelligence and emotional maturity
- Practice assertive behaviors in provocative of situations
- Improve conflict resolution and management skills
Social Anxiety Group
Even if you fear is not intense, the group program may give you helpful suggestions for easing anxiety that you experience in social situations. In the social anxiety program clients can learn the skills to manage social anxiety with the purpose of enjoying and experiencing social interactions and situations.
The following are few of the goals and skills provided in Social Anxiety Group:
- Have the courage to do new things and experience more fulfilling life
- Identify unhealthy way of think and adapt a constructive ones
- Manage stress through mindfulness and relaxation techniques
- Build courage, take risks and make difficult decision
- Improve self-esteem and confidence – Accept yourself
- Deal with personal emotional blocks and limitations
- Resolve the underline issues of your social anxiety
- Overcome internal blocks and external challenges
- Improve social/interpersonal skills/style
- Communicate with assertiveness and confidence
- Gain inner comfort and project self confidence
- Overcome perfectionism and procrastination
- Overcome social fear, anxiety and shyness
- Meet new people with ease and confidence
- Take control over your life & relationships
- Attract and build healthy relationships
Stress and Anxiety Management Group
Stress is emotional and physiological reaction to a threat, whether real or imagined, that results in a series of challenges. Anxiety does not only affect your body, it also affects your thoughts and behaviors. Stress management can bring a variety of benefits: sustained peak performance, cognitive flexibility, memory, decision making, and even longevity. If you are feeling stressed, demoralized, depressed and/or anxious, this group workshop can help you.
Stress and Anxiety do not only affect your body, they also affect your thoughts and behaviors. Therefore, there are three parts to anxiety: physical symptoms (how our body responds), thoughts (what we say to ourselves) and behaviors (what we do, or our actions). Learning to recognize these signs of anxiety can help you to be less afraid of it. In this group therapy, individuals can be aware of the physical symptoms of anxiety, recognize anxious thoughts and behaviors and learn techniques to manage their anxiety.
spiral2grow, located in New York City (NYC) utilizes Cognitive Behavioral Counseling (CBT) approach as well as other psychotherapy models that has shown by research to be most effective form of therapy for anxiety. The group seminar teaches participants management and coping skills for dealing with anxiety and stress. The group program teaches participants management and coping skills for dealing with anxiety and stress. Participants will learn techniques to relieve uncomfortable feelings and move towards a more harmonious, integrated and skillful state of being.
spiral2grow also offers Stress Management and Anxiety Management solutions in additional formats: Individuals psychotherapy and Stress Management Workshop.
Healthy Relationships Group
Healthy relationships are a essential component of health and well-being. There is compelling evidence that strong relationships contribute to a long, healthy, and happy life. On the other hand, research also supports the idea that a lack of relationships, or dysfunctional and stressful relationships can cause multiple problems with physical, emotional, and spiritual health.
The healthy relationship group therapy is designed for individuals and couples interested in establishing a healthy relationship, and for wanting to improve communication skills and collaboration, creating safety and intimacy in their relationship. The goal of the sessions is to see the relationship as a source for growth and healing experiences, preparing participants to develop close, fulfilling and rewarding relationships.
This group offers the opportunity to change dysfunctional relationship patterns as they occur with peers and to raise self-esteem by increasing interpersonal skills. The group serves as a “learning lab” for relationship development and provides countless opportunities for personal growth and relationship enhancement.
spiral2grow of New York City also offers Relationship Group solutions in a variety of formats: Individuals Couples Counseling and Workshops.
Online Group Counseling
Group online therapy, is also known as group e-therapy, group e-counseling, or group cyber-counseling. The online support group has emerged since mankind found the benefits of the Internet, yet is a relatively new development in mental health in which a therapist or counselor provides psychological advice and support over the Internet in a group format. It provides many benefits to include location challenges, limited budgets and desire for anonymity.
Group Therapy online targets individuals from all walk of life that face common life challenges. Group therapy utilizes the support of peers and the experience of trained professionals to help understand and discuss integral parts of one’s self. Yet, Online therapy is not appropriate for everyone, but it has shown effectiveness in some situations. Therefore, group sessions aims to combine the best of both conventional and online approaches to online mental health support.
Working on your personal growth is personal but not private. That is to say, that no one can work them for you, but you don’t have to do it alone. The power of group support and learning from others’ challenges as you challenged, is an essential aspect of successful healing and growth. The group meetings devoted to your specific problem, where people like yourself gather to share their stories and experiences are a powerful way to gain an supportive environment that is conducive to gain new insights and skills to become the best person you can be. Let the collective wisdom of other people to inform your healing and gain greater control over your life.
