People need people – for initial and for continued survival, for socialization, for the pursuit of satisfaction. No one – not the dying, not the outcast, not the mighty – transcends the need for human contact.

- Irvin Yalom

 

Group works. In studies comparing group psychotherapy to individual therapy, group therapy has been shown to be as effective and sometimes even more effective than individual counseling.

• Groups offer a supportive and compassionate space that serves as a sounding board and place to heal relationally
• Group security, trust, and confidentiality are of utmost importance, creating a space that is safe for self-reflection and self-growth.
• Groups promote self-growth
• Groups foster creativity for problem solving
• Groups provide effective accountability for growth and change
• Groups provide perspective for your own struggles in a way that people who know you personally and closely cannot
• The diversity of a group offers a unique benefit through the different backgrounds, personalities, and experiences of each member

Dr. Stone has been working with families, couples, and individuals as a marriage and family therapist for almost 20 years and uses groups to create a healing space towards growth and recovery for a variety of issues. Current group offerings are listed below. For all new group participants who are not also an individual client at Unstuck a 50-minute initial assessment session is required. All group members are expected to maintain confidentiality of what is shared in the group.

 

Unstuck offers several different types of groups throughout the year. Check here for current group therapy offerings.

 

Ready to make an appointment? Need to ask us a question? Click on the link below and we will get back to you within 24 hours.

CURRENT GROUPS Offered

 

Scroll to read more information about each group including start dates.

New groups begin when a required minimum number of participants have registered.

Contact us at info@unstuckgroup.org for more information or to register for our next start date. 

 

We learn "coping" skills as children in order to survive painful situations. Sometimes those painful situations include having parents who were not emotionally available.   Unfortunately, those same skills you learned to survive as a child often become harmful to your wellbeing as an adult. You deserve to heal. You deserve to grow. You can choose to lean into spaces where you can develop a new way of relating to yourself, to others, and to your parents. Perhaps due to mental illness, physical illness, their own trauma, substance abuse, or other reasons your parent or parents could not..and cannot... be responsive to you emotionally. You are not too much. You are not too needy. Join us in a space where you will gain support, encouragement, and practical skills for how to change patterns in your life that are holding you back. This group lasts 8 weeks and is $50 per week. THIS GROUP IS ALSO OFFERED AT A SEPARATE TIME FOR THERAPISTS ONLY. Please inquire with Dr. Stone to learn more.

  

Email info@unstuckgroup.org to register

 

You're actually not a mess at all. You're just a feeling person in a messy world. You are exactly right to feel a lot right now. It does not mean you're weak--it means you're strong enough to be paying attention. Be gentle with you, please.

Glennon Doyle

 

"Too much". "Too serious". "Too many feelings". "Too many needs". 

 

Do you carry any of these stories about yourself? Have you ever been told that you are "too sensitive"? 

 

You notice every slight change in facial expressions. You detect subtle shifts in a room’s vibe. Large gatherings of people are exhausting. You pick up on emotional content from people around you with painful accuracy…whether you know them or not. Violent or emotionally charged movies or television content disturbs you with an intensity that others just don’t get.

 

Textures and tastes are annoyingly obvious. Room temperature is a big deal. When you walk into a room seemingly tiny details beg your attention. Chaos is HARD on you.

 

Some nervous systems are more sensitive to internal and external stimuli. Their bodies and minds are more sensitive to their environment in ways that makes the person more susceptible to the negative experiences of stress, anxiety, depression, exhaustion and other challenges. The Highly Sensitive Person (HSP) also tends to be creative, intuitive, show high levels of integrity and openness. As with most things in life, every gift has a dark…or challenging…side. Learning to love and lead yourself well is paying attention to your gifts and growing your ability to care deeply for the challenges of those gifts.

 

If you think you might be a person with greater sensitivity to this big, brutiful (beautiful and brutal) world, having a group experience with other individuals who identify as being Highly Sensitive led by a therapist who identifies as being Highly Sensitive can offer a safe space to feel supported and to start creating new stories: "I am not alone", "I can celebrate and nurture the gifts of being sensitive" and "I can create a world for myself that is good for me".

 

This group experience will offer a space to explore, understand and cultivate gratitude for your sensitivities along with how to care for them with love, grace, and boundaries.

 

"[She] is sensitive, and that is her superpower."

- Glennon Doyle

 

 

 

Email info@unstuckgroup.org to register

 

I have come to the conclusion that human beings are born with an innate capacity to triumph over trauma. I believe not only that trauma is curable, but that the healing process can be a catalyst for profound awakening—a portal opening to emotional and genuine spiritual transformation.

Peter A. Levine

 

Have you ever brushed long hair...your own or someone else's? When you come across a knot in the hair, you can't just yank it out. That would be excruciating. And, you would lose a lot of hair.

 

You have to carefully work at the knot, strand by strand. 

 

Trauma, grief, stress, burn out, depression and anxiety....it is never just one strand, is it? It is a knot of things all jammed up together and it can be difficult to know where to begin or what to do. The hopelessness and helplessness can create a sense of powerlessness that makes everything feel harder.

 

We can't just yank out the knot. We have to carefully work through each strand until there is release. 

 

In this group we are working through the strands, using expressive work to allow release. 

 

We will use therapeutic collage work specified for working through trauma, grief, and burn out. We will use research backed writing exercises to facilitate openness and space for healing. 

 

And, we will do it all in community within the group. 

 

It absolutely will be awkward at times. It will be challenging. It will require vulnerability. 

 

And...it will be a profound and beautiful journey together. 

 

This group will also include psychoeducation on how trauma, grief, stress, and burnout affect our brains, bodies and relationships.

 

 

If you bring forth what is within you, what is within you will save you.

If you do not bring forth what is within you, what is within you will destroy you.

As quoted by Andrew Solomon in Far from the Tree: Parents, Children and the Search for Identity

 

 

Each session lasts 90 minutes and is for 8 consecutive weeks.

$60 per session, charged weekly.

8 week commitment.

 

 

Email info@unstuckgroup.org to register

 

 

Your survival response is not a moral failing. An abnormal reaction to an abnormal situation is normal behavior.

Viktro Frankl

 

No one gets it. NO. ONE.

 

Unless they have been there, too.

 

You might find that friends who aren't divorced struggle to offer you space. It is almost as though they wonder if divorce could be catching. Your story represents their greatest fears and suddenly people you have been close to for years no longer feel safe for you. Maybe they change the subject. Maybe they give misguided advice.

 

Maybe you have friends who are divorced, but they don't have kids. Maybe you have friends who have kids, but they aren't divorced. 

 

It is as though you have entered another country and the cultural divide is just too big. 

 

The culture shock is real. 

 

You need someone completely and unabashedly in your corner. 

 

In this group you will experience support, gain information on healing after a divorce, explore parenting dynamics common for divorced moms, and, above all, feel seen and heard as you see glimpses of hope.

 

You are a badass. Let's make room for it to be known in a space that is safe for it to be seen. 

 

 

I used to hope that you'd bring me flowers. Now I plant my own. 

Rachel Wolchin

 

Each session lasts 90 minutes and is for 8 consecutive weeks.

$60 per session, charged weekly.

8 week commitment.

 

 

Email info@unstuckgroup.org to register

 

EMDR Group Therapy Just For Therapists

 

Do you ever wish you had a space to receive extra support and care for the very hard and emotionally taxing work of just being a therapist? To be able to process a particularly difficult client story or situation that has left you feeling overwhelmed and depleted?  

 

The mental, emotional and relational health of therapists is a clinical and ethical issue. We are human beings doing incredibly important and challenging work. The burnout rates are as high as the demands on our emotional and mental capacity. 

 

These stand alone group sessions using EMDR-IGTP (integrative group treatment protocol) will offer a respite and opportunity to get relief from resulting traumatic effects of our work. Each is 2 hours in length. We will start the group by checking in and connecting over how your work is showing up in your hearts, minds, bodies and relationships. Then we will spend the largest part of the group moving through the EMDR-IGTP protocol that integrates resourcing, bilateral stimulation and art therapy to process the client story or situation you choose to target for this session. No client details will be shared during this group. The protocol does not require you to share any information during the processing. We will end the group with connecting and sharing what the experience was like for each participant followed by a curated meditative practice to leave you feeling grounded and refreshed. 

 

Each group is $65 paid prior to the group to reserve your place. 

 

You may sign up for one, two or all of the group sessions. You are welcome to “drop in” to any of these group sessions that you choose. Email info@unstuckgroup.org to sign up. Please, indicate which group you would like to sign up for. More dates will be available and posted for 2025 at a later time.  

• Process a Challenging Client Story or situation While maintaining confidentiality (no talking about clients Out Loud)
• Nurture your own mental and emotional capacity
• Reduce vicarious traumatization and burnout
• Attend with a sense of safety, privacy, and community in a clinician-only space
• Enjoy the experience of EMDR as a client
• Practice Grounding techniques you can continue to use after group
• Conveniently offered virtually
• Attend one (or More) sessions--Choose Dates that fit your schedule

DATES OFFERED:

SATURDAY OCTOBER 19TH 1-3 PM CENTRAL/2-4 PM EASTERN

FRIDAY NOVEMBER 22ND 1-3 PM CENTRAL/2-4 PM EASTERN

MONDAY JANUARY 13TH 1-3 PM CENTRAL/2-4 PM EASTERN

(More dates to come in 2025)

 

Only $65 PER GROUP SESSION--Choose which days and times work for your schedule…attend one or more session. Your choice. 

 

EMAIL INFO@UNSTUCKGROUP.ORG TO REGISTER

 

Group is offered for therapists in Texas, Tennessee, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida 

(states where Emily is licensed or credentialed to practice)

 

Emily devotes a significant part of her practice to the nurturing, mentoring, and caring for other therapists through individual and couples therapy, groups, supervision, consultation, and trainings. Healers need healing spaces, too.