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Our anchor serviceEight to ten adults. Ninety minutes a week. Cohort-based, so you're with the same people every session. The anchor service of this practice — where the skills get rehearsed in a room of people who are working on the same thing.
Cohort-based, so you’re with the same people every week. The room learns you. You learn the room.
Not a class, not a workshop. Real adult conversation, real practice, real witnesses.
The kind of practice that doesn’t happen in your individual sessions, no matter how good they are.
Group is the place where the isolation finally has somewhere to put itself down.
If you've never done group therapy before, the picture in your head is probably a circle of folding chairs and someone introducing themselves with a long pause. We're not that — though we don't begrudge anyone who is.
Our group looks more like a working session. People are dressed like they came from work because most of them did. There's coffee. The first ten minutes are unstructured — people checking in on each other, picking up where last week left off. Then we work.
The skill that doesn’t get rehearsed in front of other people doesn’t quite become a skill. On group
This isn’t a softer version of one-on-one work. It’s a different kind of work, and it does specific things better.
When you work on something hard in a room of people working on the same thing, the work gets harder to dismiss. You can tell yourself you exaggerated to your individual therapist. You can’t tell yourself you exaggerated to the seven adults who watched you do it.
You can describe a different way to handle a moment in individual therapy all you want. Until you actually say the words out loud, in a room, to a person who’s listening — you don’t really have the skill. Group is where the skill gets built.
Anger is one of the most isolating things to carry alone — partly because the people closest to you are also the people most affected by it. Group is somewhere else. The relief of being in a room of people who get it is itself part of the treatment.
People settle in, pick up where last week left off, drink coffee. The room takes its shape. Two clinicians co-facilitate.
Skill weeks teach a specific tool, then practise it. Process weeks pull a real situation from someone’s week and work it together. Some weeks blend the two.
Our groups are cohort-based: when a new cohort starts, members commit to a defined period (12, 26, or 52 weeks). This is intentional. The depth of work that produces actual change requires consistency and trust. Drop-in classes don’t generate that.
The conversation between voluntary and court-mandated clients is part of what makes the work go.
Adults 21 and up. We don’t run adolescent or teen groups.
Voluntary clients and court-mandated clients in the same cohort.
Mixed gender by default; men-only cohorts on request when there’s enough demand.
People at all stages of awareness — first-timers and veterans of years of individual therapy.
From across LA County and beyond — downtown, Pasadena, Glendale, the Valley, Orange County.
Most major Southern California insurance plans cover group therapy. Insurance details.
The intake call walks you through which cohort fits, which day works, and what to expect on week one.
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