Group Therapy for Young Adults
Open | Virtual | Ages 20-29Young adult therapy groups can be highly effective as they provide a supportive environment to share your experiences and coping strategies with others facing the same pressures, fears, and opportunities. My young adult group is open, meaning you can join any time, and virtual, which allows you to connect with peers from all over. Group therapy for young adults is powerful and effective.
Why Group Therapy for Young Adults
Young adult therapy groups provide a supportive, warm, and understanding environment for young people transitioning into new careers, relationships, and social structures to share their excitement, fears, and anxieties.
Group therapy for young adults can provide emotional support, encouragement, and practical tips from others. Sharing experiences in a young adults group can help you feel less isolated, more empowered, and more connected.
Young Adult Group Schedule
Sample
6:00 pm
Check-In
Prior to the young adult group starting, you check in and can informally interact with others in the group. You can also just sit back and wait for the group to start or submit ideas and questions for that day’s group.
6:10 pm
Welcome New Members
The group therapy for young adults session often begins with welcoming new members. People can feel free to talk about their background and what they hope to get out of a young adult group, or just say their name and share at their own pace.
6:15 pm
Member Updates
Young adult group members can choose to volunteer to share their latest news, from career, to relationship, to other accomplishments. They can share new challenges and barriers as well. As with all other participation, this sharing is voluntary.
6:30 PM
Therapy Techniques
This is the core part of group therapy for young adults. I will teach you cognitive-behavioral (CBT), humanistic, solution-focused, and other therapy techniques that help you develop new coping strategies, inner strength, and greater contentment.
7:00 pm
Summarizing and Homework
Here we will summarize the therapeutic lessons learned today.
Young Adult Group Participation
One important note about the schedule above: Each young adult group member is free to share as much or as little as you want. You’ll never be pressured to share, and certainly never be pressured to share more than you want. You can join in on group discussion at whatever pace feels most comfortable. Some members in a therapy group for young adults choose to be relatively quiet yet supportive. Others choose to be more talkative and sharing. There is no “right” or “wrong” way.
Group Therapy for Young Adults Member Requirements
I do ask that each young adult therapy group member identify themselves with at least their first name. I’d also ask that you keep your camera on for each session and stay focused. You should attend group each week until you feel that you are ready to leave, and when you are ready to leave that you let people know in what you think is your last group. You should not mention even the first names of anyone in the young adult group outside of the group.
Group Coverage Area
You can join therapy group for young adults from any of the states in green to the right.
Group Therapy for Young Adults Therapeutic Techniques
Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (CBT)
The primary approach for a young adult therapy group is cognitive-behavioral therapy, given that this approach is scientifically proven, powerful, and effective, and works well in a group environment. As you develop your own toolkit of strategies to build resilience, learn new coping strategies, and feel more content, you can share them with the rest of the young adult group.
Solution-Focused Therapy
People come to a therapy group for young adults with specific goals in mind, often to feel more content, grounded, and positive about where things are headed. This often includes wanting to feel more in-control of outcomes, and satisfied with work and social prospects. Solution-focused therapy can target these areas and it also works well in a young adult group.
Humanistic Therapy
Various humanistic approaches work well in a young adult therapy group. These approaches share a common theme of focusing on the future and not the past, and emphasizing strength and possibilities. In group therapy for young adults you want a non-judgmental space where peers are rooting for your success and happiness, and humanistic approaches bring that out.
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