Group Therapy for Folks with Chronic Illness

Open to Georgia and Florida residents

You don’t have to be afraid of your body, even when your pain has been stopping you for years from living your life. This group helps alleviate feeling like a burden, social isolation, and overexerting yourself leading to frequent flare-ups.

What You Can Expect

It’s not just venting

Yes, it’s incredibly validating to find people who truly understand the frustrations of trying to live your life (clean the house, socialize, manage appointments, work), but a good group offers more…

Shared Experiences, Diverse Perspectives

You want your group members to feel relatable, but also offer new and insightful perspectives. This group is made up of folks with different experiences, but similar struggles.

Improved Relationships

How relationships form in group therapy is often how relationships form in our everyday lives. Working with others in a group setting can propel change in a way that individual therapy doesn’t. (One is not better than the other, they just offer different opportunities for growth).

Increased Activity

Our pain can be extremely self-limiting. We stop going to stores, seeing friends, going to work, and so much more. This group aims to help you release fear and learn the skills required to get back out into the world (IF that’s your goal). The goals formed in group should be made by your own free will and desires. There’s no “shoulds” in this group!

The Details

Challenges addressed in group

  • Grief + identity work (learning who you are as someone living with daily pain)

  • Exploring + working through anger (at self, the medical community, and society)

  • Guilt + self-blame

  • Fear of your body, pain, and symptoms (brain fog, physical pain, chronic fatigue, dizziness, and more)

  • Learning pain management techniques/skills

  • Fatigue + energy conservation to avoid flare-ups

  • Maintaining a work/life/pain balance

  • Communicating with friends, family, partners, and doctors

Pain Management / Skill-building focus

  • Somatic tracking (learning to be WITH your body instead of beating it up)

  • Relaxation techniques (so you can give your body rest even when sleep isn’t available)

  • Assertive + compassionate communication

  • Breaking out of the pain-fear-avoidance cycle

More Details

  • Three 90-minute VIRTUAL group sessions per month for 3 months

  • Time: TBD

  • $325/month for 3 months minimum

  • A digital workbook

  • Group format

    • education component

    • skill-building practice

    • verbal processing with the group

  • Superbills provided (if client’s individual therapist provides a diagnosis)

  • Requires each participant to have at least 1 individual therapy session per month with their own therapist or with Destiny

  • BONUS - group in-person meet-up in Atlanta, GA at the end of each month (3 total)

  • BONUS - a group session where family members can attend to learn about how they can better support you in your journey

Get started today with chronic illness group therapy + support.

Fill out this form to let me know that you’re interested. Once I have 6 participants, group will begin!