Group therapy is an excellent opportunity to experience tremendous personal growth in a supportive environment with individuals struggling with similar difficulties. Nashville Psych offers several interpersonal process groups to satisfy individuals’ needs for connection/community, support and challenge.
About Our Process Groups
While the idea of sharing your personal challenges in a group may sound overwhelming to some, group therapy can be very effective and group members are often taken aback by how much they enjoy and benefit from the experience. In fact, for certain issues, group therapy may be the preferred mode of treatment, which would provide benefits beyond that of individual therapy.
Interpersonal process groups are intended to help individuals whose issues center on relationship difficulties. Whether you have difficulty empathizing with others, demonstrating empathy, asking for support, getting support, trusting others, being trusted or depended on, trusting yourself, or resolving conflicts successfully, these groups will help you gain awareness through here-and-now interactions with peers. In contrast to support groups, such as AA or Al-Anon, “cross-talk” or feedback is highly encouraged. Here-and-now interaction, one of the most powerful aspects of therapy, allows members to have corrective emotional experiences and to receive valuable immediate feedback about their impact on others in relationships.
The climate of trust found in group therapy, the understanding that group members share many of your struggles and the constructive and supportive feedback provided by other group members will make you feel increasingly more eager to open up about your thoughts and feelings during each session. The more you collaborate and share, the more you benefit from the experience.
With the support of your group, you can naturally become more self-aware, develop better communication strategies, improve relationship skills and gain healthier coping mechanisms.
The following interpersonal process groups are currently offered:
Tuesday Morning Group (Goldstein: 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM)
Tuesday Afternoon Group (Goldstein: 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM) – Virtual Only
Tuesday Evening Group (Goldstein: 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM)
Wednesday Morning Group (Goldstein: 8:15 AM – 9:30 AM)
Wednesday Late Morning Group (Goldstein: 10:00 AM – 11:15 AM)
Wednesday Afternoon Group (Goldstein: 11:45 AM – 1:00 PM)
Wednesday Afternoon Group (Bhatt: 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM) – Virtual Only
Wednesday Evening Group (Murphy: 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM)
Thursday Morning Group (Goldstein: 8:30 AM – 9:45 AM)
Thursday Afternoon Group (Goldstein: 12:00 PM – 1:15 PM)
Thursday Evening Group (Murray: 5:30 PM – 6:45 PM)
Call us at (615) 582-2882, email clientcare@nashvillepsych.com, schedule a 15-min call, or contact us here to get started.
Clinician Presence Group – A Training Group For Therapists
The Clinician Presence Group is an experiential training group for clinicians who want to deepen the relational capacities required for depth oriented and process focused work.
This group is well suited for clinicians interested in facilitating process groups in the future, as well as those who want to strengthen foundational skills that translate across individual, group, and institutional settings.
Rather than focusing on technique, the group centers on cultivating emotional presence, use of self, and the capacity to engage intensity, ambiguity, and intimacy in real time.
Areas of focus include:
- Emotional presence and use of self
- Tolerance for affect, intensity, and uncertainty
- Working with rupture and repair
- Engaging impact, difference, and interpersonal risk
- Developing comfort with immediacy and intimacy in the therapeutic relationship
The group is experiential and process oriented. Learning emerges through participation in the group dynamic, supported by reflection and selective conceptual framing.
This offering grew out of years of facilitating interpersonal process groups and a desire to provide clinicians with an experiential space that complements more didactic and directive training models. The Clinician Presence Group is currently screening members.
Call us at (615) 582-2882, email clientcare@nashvillepsych.com, schedule a 15-min call, or contact us here to get started.
