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SCHOLAR | Counseling | Groups for Children, Adolescents & Teens

Groups for Children, Adolescents & Teens

Age-appropriate, clinician-facilitated group experiences designed to help young people heal, grow, and thrive together.


Young people are not simply small adults. Their developmental needs, their ways of processing emotion, and the kinds of therapeutic experiences that resonate most deeply are fundamentally different at every stage of childhood and adolescence. Scholar’s groups for young people are built around that understanding — designed not just to address symptoms, but to meet each child, adolescent, and teenager exactly where they are developmentally, emotionally, and socially.

Group counseling is particularly powerful for young people. Alongside their peers, in a safe and professionally guided environment, children and adolescents discover that they are not alone in what they are experiencing, develop skills they can use immediately in their daily lives, and form the kind of genuine connections that support lasting well-being.


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The Benefits of Group Counseling for Young People

✔  Symptom reduction across a range of mental health and behavioral concerns

✔  Increased coping, social, and communication skills

✔  Reduced levels of anxiety and depression

✔  A safe place to practice newly learned skills in real time with peers

✔  Increased accountability and motivation through peer support

✔  Improved problem-solving skills

✔  Formation of healthy, supportive, and meaningful peer relationships

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🌟 Children Ages 5 – 10

Sessions: 60 to 75 minutes per session

Children

Children ages five to ten are at a critical stage of emotional, social, and cognitive development — learning to understand and express their feelings, navigate relationships with peers, and build the foundational skills that will support their well-being throughout their lives. Our groups for children at this age use developmentally appropriate, engaging, and evidence-based approaches that meet children in the world they actually inhabit — one of play, creativity, and concrete experience.

Clinical Approaches

Mindfulness • Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) • Skill-Building • Art Therapy • Play Therapy

Children Groups


🧠  ADHD & Behavioral Disorders Group

A structured skills group for children with ADHD and related behavioral disorders — addressing attention, impulse control, frustration tolerance, and the social challenges that frequently accompany these conditions. Through play-based and skill-building activities, children develop practical strategies for managing their behavior and building more positive relationships with peers and adults.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 5–10


💙  Depression Group

A warm, supportive group for children experiencing depressive symptoms — including sadness, withdrawal, low energy, and loss of interest in activities they once enjoyed. Using age-appropriate, creative, and mindfulness-based approaches, children learn to identify and express their emotions, build connection with peers, and develop the coping skills that support emotional recovery.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 5–10


😟  Anxiety Group

A gentle, skill-building group for children experiencing anxiety — helping them understand what anxiety is, recognize their own anxiety responses, and develop practical CBT-based tools for managing worried thoughts and fearful feelings. Activities are age-appropriate, engaging, and designed to build confidence alongside coping skills.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 5–10


⭐  Confidence Building Group

A strengths-based group designed to help children develop a positive sense of self, build confidence in their abilities, and cultivate the kind of self-assurance that supports healthy relationships and resilient well-being. Through guided activities, storytelling, and peer interaction, children discover their strengths and learn to trust themselves.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 5–10


🗣️  Social Skills Group

A structured, play-based group for children who struggle with social interaction — addressing conversation skills, turn-taking, reading social cues, making and keeping friends, and navigating the social world of childhood with greater confidence and ease.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 5–10


🌪️  Regulating Big Emotions Group

Children often experience emotions that feel overwhelming and difficult to manage — big feelings that arrive quickly and are hard to put words to. This group helps children understand their emotional world, develop vocabulary for their feelings, and build practical regulation skills they can use when emotions feel too big to handle alone.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 5–10

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🌱 Adolescents Ages 11 – 14

Sessions: 60 to 75 minutes per session

Adolescents

Early adolescence is one of the most significant and often turbulent developmental periods in a young person’s life. Identity is forming, peer relationships become increasingly central, and the emotional landscape becomes more complex and more intense. Scholar’s groups for adolescents ages eleven to fourteen are designed to meet young people in this complexity — with approaches that are clinically grounded, developmentally sensitive, and genuinely respectful of the adolescent experience.

Clinical Approaches

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) • Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) • Trauma-Informed Care • Interpersonal Process Groups

Adolescent Groups

🧠  ADHD Group

A structured skills group for adolescents with ADHD — addressing organization, time management, impulse control, emotional regulation, and the academic and social challenges that frequently accompany ADHD in the middle school years. Members develop practical strategies while building connection with peers who understand their experience from the inside.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 11–14


🙍  Depression Group

A clinician-facilitated group for adolescents experiencing depression — combining CBT-based skill-building with the normalizing and connective power of shared experience. Members develop tools for managing depressive symptoms, challenging negative thinking, and rebuilding engagement with the activities and relationships that matter to them.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 11–14


😟  Anxiety Group

A CBT and ACT-based group for adolescents navigating anxiety — including social anxiety, generalized worry, performance anxiety, and the specific pressures of early adolescence. Members learn to understand their anxiety, challenge avoidance, and develop the psychological flexibility to engage with life more fully despite anxious feelings.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 11–14


🩹  Trauma Group

A trauma-informed group for adolescents who have experienced trauma — providing a safe, carefully facilitated space to process experience, reduce isolation, and develop the coping and connection skills that support recovery. Every aspect of this group is conducted with a deep awareness of how trauma affects the adolescent’s sense of safety, trust, and capacity to engage.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 11–14


🌪️  Emotional Regulation Group

A skills-focused group for adolescents who struggle with managing intense emotions — addressing the cognitive, behavioral, and physiological dimensions of emotional dysregulation and building practical tools for recognition, tolerance, and effective expression.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 11–14


⭐  Self-Esteem Group

A strengths-based group for adolescents building a more positive and secure sense of self — addressing self-criticism, negative self-talk, body image, identity, and the specific self-esteem challenges of early adolescence. Members develop a more compassionate relationship with themselves and a stronger foundation for healthy relationships with others.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 11–14


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🔥 Teens Ages 15 – 17

Sessions: 60 to 75 minutes per session

Teens

The teenage years bring a distinct set of challenges — identity consolidation, increasing autonomy, peer pressure, romantic relationships, academic demands, and the weight of beginning to imagine an adult life. Scholar’s groups for teens ages fifteen to seventeen are designed for young people who are ready to engage seriously with their own growth — using approaches that respect their intelligence, honor their developing autonomy, and give them real, practical tools for the real challenges they are navigating.

Clinical Approaches

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) • Process Groups • Skills-Development Groups • Trauma-Informed Care

Teen Groups


🌪️  Emotional Regulation Group

A CBT-based skills group for teens learning to understand, tolerate, and effectively manage intense emotions — addressing the cognitive, behavioral, and physiological dimensions of emotional dysregulation with practical, evidence-based tools that translate directly to everyday life.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 15–17


🩹  Trauma Group

A process-oriented group for teens who have experienced trauma — providing a safe, clinician-facilitated space for processing, connection, and recovery. The group is conducted with a consistent and deep awareness of how trauma affects the adolescent’s sense of safety, identity, and capacity to trust and engage.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 15–17


🙍  Depression Group

A CBT-based group for teens living with depression — combining psychoeducation, skill-building, and the normalizing power of shared experience to help young people understand their depression, develop effective coping strategies, and rebuild motivation and engagement with the things that matter to them.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 15–17


😟  Anxiety Group

A CBT-based group for teens navigating anxiety in its many forms — social anxiety, generalized worry, panic, performance pressure, and the specific anxieties of the teenage years. Members develop practical tools for managing anxiety, challenging avoidance, and engaging more fully with life.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 15–17


🧠  ADHD Group

A skills-development group for teens with ADHD — addressing executive function, organization, time management, emotional regulation, and the academic and social challenges of managing ADHD in high school. Members develop personalized strategies and build connection with peers who share their experience.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 15–17


🚧  Substance Use Group

A psychoeducational and process-oriented group for teens navigating substance use — whether they are exploring their relationship with substances, in early recovery, or seeking to understand the role that substances are playing in their lives. The group combines education, skills development, and peer support in a non-judgmental, clinician-facilitated environment.

Format: Time-limited — closed group — ages 15–17

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Grief, Loss & Family Transitions — Available Across All Age Groups

Scholar Specialized Treatment Services offers dedicated grief and loss groups and family transitions groups for children, adolescents, and teens at every age level. These groups are available as standalone offerings and are also woven throughout the curriculum of our broader age-specific groups.

Grief & Loss groups address the experience of losing a loved one, a relationship, a significant life circumstance, or any other experience of profound loss — providing a developmentally appropriate space for young people to process grief with peers who understand and with the guidance of a skilled clinician.

Family Transitions groups address the specific challenges that arise when family structure changes — including parental divorce or separation, adjustment to step-family and blended family dynamics, a parent’s new relationship, changes in living arrangements, and the complex emotions that accompany each of these transitions. These groups give young people a safe space to make sense of what their family is becoming and to find their footing within it.


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"Every young person deserves a space where they feel genuinely understood, genuinely supported, and genuinely not alone. Scholar’s groups for children, adolescents, and teens are that space."

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"To learn more about current group offerings, availability, and how to enroll your child or adolescent, please contact Scholar directly. A brief clinical consultation is required prior to joining any group to ensure the right fit for your young person’s specific needs and goals."

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