Group Therapy – Finding Yourself in Connection With Others

Group therapy offers something unique. While individual therapy allows you to explore your inner world one-on-one, group work invites you into a shared space where healing happens through relationship, presence, and lived experience with others. It's a space not only to talk about your patterns, but to feel them, witness them, and explore them as they unfold — in real time.

In a well-held therapy group, the focus shifts from stories and surface content to process — what's happening in the moment, between people. You might notice how it feels when someone gives you attention. When someone disagrees. When you share something vulnerable and no one turns away. These interactions reveal the emotional templates we carry from early life — templates that often shape our adult relationships in subtle, powerful ways.

Group therapy is, in many ways, a living laboratory for relational healing. Here, you get to experiment with being more authentic. You might find yourself saying something you’ve never dared say before. You might feel discomfort, closeness, jealousy, shame, tenderness — and instead of managing it alone, you bring it into the space. The group becomes a mirror, a holding environment, and a field of emotional honesty that supports real change.

This is different from integration groups for psychedelic experiences, which often hold a dual focus: both on the content of the journey and the way participants relate in the present. In traditional, process-oriented group therapy, our attention rests almost entirely in the here and now — on the relational field. We’re less concerned with what happened last week and more attuned to what’s alive right now, between you and me, between us and the group.

In group work, nothing is too small to matter. A glance, a sigh, a shift in tone — these become invitations. We slow down to feel the impact we have on each other, to notice what arises in our bodies and our hearts. It's not about performing insight or giving advice. It's about being willing to stay with the moment — even when it’s uncertain, messy, or emotionally charged.

The group becomes a space where old patterns can emerge and be met differently. You might find yourself shutting down, placating, performing, withdrawing — and then realise you’re not alone. Others see it. Others care. And you’re given the choice to do something new. That’s where the healing lives.

I facilitate groups with care, attunement, and respect for each person's rhythm. My role is not to direct, but to support the emergence of an environment where safety, honesty, and curiosity can coexist. I work slowly, relationally, and from the belief that when we show up as we are — imperfect, unsure, hopeful — something meaningful always unfolds.

If you’re longing for deeper connection, if you want to explore how you relate to others in a space that values presence over performance, group therapy might be the next step. You don’t have to have it all together. You just need to be willing to bring your real self — and let that be enough.