If you stop and start questioning your choices in relationships, careers, girlfriends, boyfriends, religion, addictions and amusements and you would like a a safe place to process the feelings that come up from past choices, and to gain some tools and a little more insight on your choices that are ahead of you, then this is the group for you. Go to Blogs / Men’s groups where at the top of the page is “Seasons of a Man’s Life”. This is a new group forming just for you.
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As a rule, groups are recommended as the last step in the healing process in many types of therapies. That transition from working in isolation with yourself and a therapist, to the socialization aspect of sharing much of that same information with men who have struggled with similar problems is when closure, (if this is possible), happens. Most often the client and myself will come to a realization that for the client to continue healing, he or she must continue to heal in a group setting.
An example of this is would be a man who is going through a “mid-life crisis.” He might be experiencing depression, anxiety, loss of libido, addiction, career change etc.. When he has worked through one or all of the above issues that are specific to his situation with an individual therapist, then group therapy would put those issues in perspective.
Group therapy can be a most powerful experience. The sharing of the individuals experience with a group of men in a safe environment lets him know that he is not alone in his feelings. In the listening and the exchange of information what has been experienced as overwhelming is normalized by the collective amount of feed-back that he receives from the group. He now acquires tools and information from the group as well as choices that he never would have thought possible on his own.
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The following are a variety of groups that I could be running at any given time. Call if you are interested in joining…
John Shinavier - MA, RYT, LC 