Group therapy

In a therapy group, your ways of relating to your group members will be similar to the ways you relate to the people in your life. Here and Now group therapy provides a safe place in which you can learn about the way you relate, and then practise new, more effective ways of relating in your outside life.

Group therapy provides a training ground for intimacy, as you learn to become more comfortable with a variety of individuals, and practise communication and listening skills. It helps you to improve your relationships with others - partners, friends, family, and at work.

Research, from interviews with group members, has shown that the most important therapeutic factors in group are:

• discovering and accepting parts of myself;
• learning how to express my feelings and feeling freer to say what's bothering me;
• learning how I come across to others by them honestly telling me what they think of me;
• learning I must take ultimate responsibility for the way I live my life;
• seeing others take risks and being helped to do the same.

The better we know each other, and the better prepared you are for the group, the more you will gain from your time in group. Therefore we usually find it takes a few one-to-one sessions (with either Leonie or Trevor) to clarify what you would like to gain from group and talk about how the group works, and what to expect.