SCHOLAR | Counseling | Group Counseling

Adult Group Counseling

Healing does not have to happen alone — and sometimes it is most powerful when it happens together.

Do you prefer to connect with others who have been there — who understand what you are carrying not because they read about it, but because they have lived something like it themselves? Group counseling at Scholar creates exactly that space. It brings together individuals who are navigating the same or similar challenges in a professionally facilitated environment where shared experience becomes a source of genuine insight, connection, and healing.

Scholar’s group counseling program offers a comprehensive range of clinician-facilitated groups for adults and adolescents — each one thoughtfully designed, carefully led, and grounded in the belief that connection, shared experience, and mutual support are among the most powerful forces in human healing. Group sessions are offered on a weekly basis and are typically 60 to 90 minutes in duration.

Group counseling is not a lesser version of individual therapy. It is a distinct and often irreplaceable clinical experience — one that offers something individual therapy simply cannot: the lived perspective of others who are on the same journey, the normalizing power of knowing you are not alone, and the opportunity to practice new ways of relating in real time, with real people, in a genuinely safe environment.

"Groups are facilitated by licensed clinicians and are available in person and via telehealth — making them accessible wherever you are."

"The courage it takes to sit in a room with others and say 'me too' is one of the most powerful acts of healing available to a human being."

The Power of Group

Research consistently demonstrates that group therapy produces outcomes comparable to — and in many cases exceeding — those of individual therapy for a wide range of mental health, relational, and behavioral concerns. The therapeutic factors unique to group settings include:

✔ Universality — the profound relief of discovering that others share your experience

✔ Instillation of hope — witnessing others at different stages of the same journey

✔ Altruism — the healing that comes from offering support to others

✔ Interpersonal learning — practicing new ways of relating in a safe, supported environment

✔ Group cohesion — the belonging and acceptance that comes from being genuinely known

✔ Psychoeducation — learning from both the clinician and the shared wisdom of the group

Our Groups

Scholar Specialized Treatment Services, LLC offers a comprehensive range of clinician-facilitated groups for adults and adolescents. Some groups are time-limited with a defined curriculum and a set start and end date. Others are ongoing, allowing members to join when they are ready and continue as long as the group serves their needs. Some groups are open to new members on a rolling basis. Others are closed, allowing the group to develop deeper cohesion over time. Your Scholar practitioner will help you identify the group — and the format — that is right for you.

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Mental Health & Emotional Well-Being

🧠 General Mental Health Support Group

A clinician-facilitated support group for individuals navigating a range of mental health challenges — including depression, anxiety, stress, life transitions, and the everyday weight of managing a mental health condition. Members share experience, offer mutual support, and develop coping skills in a safe and non-judgmental environment.

Format: Ongoing — open enrollment — adults

🙍 Depression Group

A focused support and skills group for individuals living with depression — addressing mood, motivation, isolation, and the specific challenges of managing depressive symptoms in daily life. Members develop practical tools for managing depression while building connection with others who genuinely understand what depression feels like from the inside.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — adults

😟 Anxiety Group

A structured, CBT-based psychotherapy group for individuals living with anxiety — including generalized anxiety, social anxiety, panic, and persistent worry that has become impairing. Members develop evidence-based cognitive and behavioral skills for understanding, managing, and reducing anxiety while gaining the normalizing benefit of connecting with others who genuinely understand what anxiety feels like from the inside.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — adults and adolescents

💔 Grief & Loss Group

A compassionate, clinician-facilitated group for individuals navigating grief — whether following the death of a loved one, the end of a relationship, a significant life transition, or any other experience of profound loss. The group provides a space where grief is honored rather than rushed, and where the shared experience of loss becomes a source of genuine connection and healing.

Format: Ongoing — open enrollment — adults

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Trauma & Recovery

🩹 Trauma Recovery Group

A trauma-informed group for individuals who have experienced trauma of any kind — providing a safe, clinician-facilitated space to process experience, reduce isolation, and develop the skills and connections that support lasting recovery. The group is facilitated with a deep awareness of how trauma affects the capacity to feel safe, to trust, and to engage — and every interaction reflects that awareness.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — adults

🚧 Addiction & Recovery Group

A clinician-facilitated group for individuals in recovery from substance use disorders — offering peer support, relapse prevention skills, and the kind of community that is essential to sustained recovery. The group draws on the evidence that connection and belonging are among the most powerful protective factors against relapse.

Format: Ongoing — open enrollment — adults

🤝 Self-Help Group

Scholar’s self-help groups bring together individuals facing common challenges in a peer-centered environment — guided by a facilitator who has personally navigated the issues presented by group members and who is deeply committed to supporting others through the same process. Facilitators are skilled in self-management and recovery training, and all self-help groups at Scholar operate within a framework of clinical oversight — ensuring that peer support is always held within a safe, professionally monitored environment. These groups are particularly valuable for individuals in recovery, those managing chronic conditions, and anyone who finds meaning and motivation in the shared wisdom of lived experience.

Format: Ongoing — open enrollment — adults and adolescents — clinical oversight provided

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You do not have to heal alone. Our groups are here — and so is everyone in them. A single decision today can shape lasting change. Begin when you’re ready. ❤️

Couples

💑 Relationship Group for Couples

Every couple faces pressure — from the demands of daily life, from social expectations, and from the quiet accumulation of unspoken struggles that can make a relationship feel more isolated than it truly is. Many couples leave social events or family gatherings feeling as though everyone else has it figured out — while they alone are navigating something real and difficult. That isolation is one of the most painful dimensions of relationship struggle. And it is also one of the most unnecessary. Scholar’s relationship groups for couples bring together individuals who are serious about improving their partnerships in a secure, confidential group environment. Through guided interaction, honest sharing, and clinician-facilitated feedback, couples develop the communication skills, problem-solving strategies, and relational tools that reduce tension and increase genuine intimacy. More than that — they discover that their relationship is more normal than they realized, and that they are not nearly as alone as they felt.

Format: Ongoing — open enrollment — adult couples

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Relationship & Family

🏠 Domestic Violence Group

Scholar offers separate, clinician-facilitated groups for survivors of domestic violence and for individuals who have perpetrated intimate partner violence. Both groups are grounded in a trauma-informed, evidence-based approach — addressing the complex psychological, behavioral, and relational dimensions of domestic violence from each population’s distinct clinical perspective.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — adults — separate groups for survivors and perpetrators

👨‍👩‍👦 Parenting Group

A supportive, clinician-facilitated group for parents navigating the joys and challenges of raising children — including parenting children with behavioral or mental health concerns, co-parenting after separation, managing parenting stress, and developing more effective and connected parenting approaches. Parents leave with practical tools and the support of others who genuinely understand.

Format: Ongoing — open enrollment — adults

🫂 Caregiver Support Group

A compassionate group for individuals who are caring for a loved one — whether a parent, partner, child, or other family member — navigating the emotional, physical, and relational demands of the caregiver role. The group provides a space where caregivers can set down the weight of that role for a moment, be supported themselves, and develop the resilience and skills to continue caring without losing themselves in the process.

Format: Ongoing — open enrollment — adults

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Skills & Development

💪 Anger Management Group

A structured, evidence-based group for individuals seeking to understand and manage anger more effectively — whether court-referred, employer-referred, or self-referred. The group addresses the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral dimensions of anger, building practical skills for recognition, regulation, and constructive expression.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — adults

🏠 Domestic Violence Group

Format: Time-limited — closed group — adults — separate groups for survivors and perpetrators

🗣️ Social Skills Group

A structured group for individuals who want to develop greater confidence, effectiveness, and ease in social situations — addressing communication, assertiveness, boundary-setting, and the social skills that make relationships more fulfilling and less anxiety-provoking. Available for adults and adolescents.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — adults and adolescents

💭 Process Group

A clinician-facilitated interpersonal process group — one of the most powerful and clinically rich group therapy formats available. Process groups focus on what happens between members in real time — using the group itself as a laboratory for understanding and improving how participants relate to others, communicate their needs, and navigate the interpersonal patterns that shape their lives. Process groups require a referral and clinical assessment prior to joining.

Format: Ongoing — closed group — adults

📚 Psychoeducational Group

Structured, clinician-facilitated groups designed to provide participants with clinical knowledge, practical skills, and evidence-based tools related to specific behavioral health topics. Psychoeducational groups combine education with guided discussion — helping participants understand their experience, develop new skills, and apply what they learn to their everyday lives. Topics vary and are offered on a rotating schedule.

Format: Time-limited — open enrollment — adults and adolescents

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Our Clinical Approach

Our groups are facilitated by licensed clinicians with specialized training in group therapy. Every group is grounded in evidence-based practice and tailored to the specific needs, goals, and population it serves. Our clinicians draw from a range of empirically validated group therapy approaches — each selected based on what the evidence shows works best for that particular group and population.

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Therapeutic Modalities

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) -Based Group Therapy

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy principles are applied in a group format to help members identify and challenge the thoughts, beliefs, and behavioral patterns that contribute to their difficulties. CBT-based groups are structured, skills-focused, and highly effective for depression, anxiety, anger management, and a range of other concerns.

Trauma-Informed Group Therapy

Every Scholar group is facilitated with a trauma-informed lens — recognizing that many participants carry traumatic histories that shape how they experience safety, trust, and connection. Trauma-informed group therapy prioritizes physical and emotional safety, choice, collaboration, and empowerment in every aspect of the group experience.

Psychoeducational Groups

Structured groups that combine clinical education with guided discussion and practical skill-building. Psychoeducational groups help participants understand what they are experiencing, develop evidence-based tools for managing it, and apply those tools in their everyday lives.

Process-Oriented Groups

Interpersonal process groups use the group itself as the primary therapeutic tool — focusing on the relationships, patterns, and dynamics that emerge between members in real time. Process-oriented groups offer a depth of interpersonal learning that is uniquely available in the group setting.

Support Groups with Clinical Facilitation

Clinician-facilitated support groups combine the healing power of peer connection and shared experience with the structure, safety, and clinical guidance of professional facilitation. These groups are particularly effective for grief, recovery, caregiving, and other experiences where community and belonging are central to healing.

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What to Expect

Joining a group for the first time can feel vulnerable — and that is completely understandable. Most people feel some apprehension before their first group session. What they most commonly report afterward is that they wish they had started sooner.

✔ A clinical assessment prior to joining to ensure the group is the right fit for your needs and goals

✔ A warm, confidential, and professionally facilitated environment from the very first session

✔ A group of peers who are navigating similar experiences — and who will become a genuine source of support and understanding

✔ A clinician who is present, attentive, and skilled at holding the group’s safety and therapeutic direction

✔ Available in person at Scholar’s office or via telehealth — seven days a week including evenings and weekends

✔ Insurance accepted for qualifying group therapy services — please visit our Rates & Insurance page for details

Find Your Group

Whether you are looking for support, skills, connection, or all three — Scholar has a group for you. Please reach out to discuss which group is the right fit for where you are right now. Our team will help you find your place.

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