Group Therapy

Skillfulness, maturity, and intimacy for complex times

Interpersonal Process in Turbulent Times

Wednesdays 3:30pm-5:00pm EST starting January, 2026

$75/session (sliding scale available)

Virtual

Open to new members in NY; inquire here

What is an interpersonal process group?

An interpersonal process group is a confidential, long-term form of therapy where a group of 5-8 adults meet weekly with a group therapist. The group can talk about anything, including members' personal experiences, members' reactions to each other, and the group itself. Naturally, challenging and recurring patterns in members' lives and in our culture(s) show up in the group. With the group therapist's support, the group gradually helps members understand and experience these patterns in reparative way. In other words, the "painful thing that always happens" is seen clearly, held compassionately, and responded to differently.

This process is a powerful and reliable way to heal early childhood wounds, interrupt painful patterns in adult relationships, and experience safe vulnerability with other humans.

Why interpersonal process for tumultuous times?

Individualism and Internalization: Our culture prefers that we struggle alone (individualism) and that we think the struggle is our personal failing (internalization). When a lot of us are scared, angry, and sad for good reason (like now), these strategies don't work very well. In fact, they make us feel worse. By default, group therapy makes it harder to use these strategies. This helps us feel better, especially now. We can't carry it on our own.
Strange Future(s): It's hard to know what the next 5 years will look like, much less the next several decades. The future is a stranger. Interpersonal process groups help us meet the stranger, connect with her, and understand her without losing ourselves in the process. This is not only relevant for our human relationships, it's a resilience practice in rapidly changing times.
Collective Trauma: The pain of what we've done to the Earth and to each other is collective. It emerges naturally in groups, waiting to (finally) be witnessed and responded to with maturity and compassion. This pain is also filtered through our unique identities and ancestries; while it is shared, it is not the same for everyone. This too emerges naturally in groups, helping us process identity-specific anger, moral injury, alienation, and grief. It goes without saying that doing this is really, really important right now.
Collective Resilience: We can't carry it on our own, but we can learn to hold the pain and possibility of these times more fully, together. Humans have sat in circle for millennia, sharing joys and sorrows and coming to know themselves more deeply through experiencing another. This is an old and vital practice, worth remembering.

Is interpersonal process right for me?

The best way to answer this question is to meet with me for a group screening interview. Click here to get in touch.

In general, you may find this group helpful if:

You are struggling in your relationships with friends, partner(s), colleagues, or family members
Your individual therapy, or another form of personal development work, isn't helping anymore
Your distress is related to identity, collective trauma and/or the crises of our time
You feel alone in your pain for the world
You are seeking radical relational maturity with self, others, and Life

DBT Skills for Turbulent Times

Wednesdays 12pm-1:30pm EST starting January, 2026

$75/session (sliding scale available; by donation for weekly individual therapy clients)

Virtual

Open to new members in NY; inquire here

What is a DBT Skills Group?

Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) is an evidence-based approach to easing emotional dysregulation and behavioral impulsivity. In other words, DBT helps us feel steady and act wisely. DBT Skills Group is a part of DBT that trains participants in (1) mindfulness, (2) emotion regulation, (3) distress tolerance, and (4) interpersonal effectiveness. It does this via readings, exercises, homework, and group discussion.

Why DBT Skills for tumultuous times?

Collective Dysregulation and Impulsivity: Needless to say, most of us are not feeling steady or acting wisely. For many of us, it's been a few generations since that felt like an option! DBT is reparative in this way. It is also a profound act of resistance to reclaim emotional maturity and wise action, when the powers that be would have us overwhelmed and paralyzed.
Dialectics: DBT is rooted in dialectics: the idea that two seemingly opposing things can be true simultaneously. Learning to think dialectically (for example, "I am enough as I am and I need to be better") helps us feel happier and behave in ways we're proud of. It is also a core capacity for navigating these times with flexibility and endurance. For example, some dialectics in polycrisis-aware therapy include: "These times are urgent; we must slow down"; "Everything is falling apart and something regenerative is coming together"; "Everything is beautiful and I am so sad"; "I'm trapped in modernity and modernity doesn't dictate when I'm free." DBT helps us practice holding these and other truths, and act wisely from there.
Radical Acceptance: Radical Acceptance is a DBT skill focused on accepting reality, and our reactions to it, exactly as they are. We explore what happens when we stop fighting what is. Sometimes it frees up much-needed energy. It is hard to radically accept ecological collapse, profound political dysfunction, the precariousness of industrial consumer society, a deeply uncertain future, and our valid emotional reactions (grief, rage, terror, etc.) to these. We did not choose to be born in such times, and yet here we are together. Radical acceptance of this, counterintuitive though it may seem, can unlock vitality, joy, meaning, and courage. It can help to explore this possibility in community.
Building a Tent in a Hurricane: Dr. Marsha Linehan, who developed DBT, would suggest we learn and practice skills when we feel good because "it's hard to build a tent in a hurricane." But what if a hurricane is all we've got? Acknowledging this, DBT Skills for Turbulent Times adapts skills training for a time when our internal and external weather is increasingly chaotic. We consider, together, how to build a tent in a hurricane (and whether that is even the right question).

Is DBT Skills Group right for me?

The best way to answer this question is to meet with me for a group screening interview. Click here to get in touch.

In general, you may find this group helpful if:

You struggle with mood swings and behaviors that feel outside of your control
You like structured, practical approaches to therapy
You are already doing individual therapy but feel you aren't learning or practicing new skills
You're looking for polycrisis-aware skills training