GROUP THERAPY

Group therapy offers participants immediate and practical experience interacting with various kinds of people in a protected and safe environment that supports honesty, exploration, and growth.

Group therapy  works on three levels:

• On the interactional level, participants can notice and develop skills in  dealing effectively with various kinds of people:  ones they like, angry people, sad people, men, women, gay, straight, married, single, quiet people, loud  people.  They hear directly how they affect others in a variety of situations.  They can experience what it's like to tell a long-kept secret, admit a defect of character, get close to someone, ask for what they want.

• On the internal level, they can notice and understand their own needs, wants, limits, blind-spots.  They can learn to comfort and support the self, to appreciate their own strengths and weaknesses. To not collapse in the face of adversity or explode when frustrated.
  

• On the family of origin level, they can understand the forces in their family that shaped them and their parents in both good and bad ways.  They can untangle their own thoughts and feelings and rules from what they learned in their early years.  They can become clear about what constitutes a good father and a good mother and a good family. They can become clear about how and when they confuse people in their life today with their parents.

Nancy Schleich, LISW-S
2388 East Main Street
Bexley, Ohio 43209
614-235-0728
schleich.1@osu.edu