Interpersonal group psychotherapy invites us into the exciting task of true authenticity: revealing ourselves, taking risks, being held, and learning how other people really experience us - a courageous path towards self-knowledge and growth. Individuals gather in a supportive environment to explore and address their psychological concerns. Drawing from Irvin Yalom's existential approach, participants engage in interpersonal interactions, gaining insights into their own thoughts, feelings, and behaviours. Through honest feedback from others, members develop insight into their own patterns which they might have never been aware of. Guided by our skilled facilitators, participants challenge maladaptive patterns, cultivate resilience, and deepen their understanding of themselves and others. Group therapy offers a transformative journey toward healing, connection, and fulfilment.

Yalom reminds us, “People need people - for initial and continued survival, for socialisation, for the pursuit of satisfaction. No one - not the dying, not the outcast, not the mighty - transcends the need for human contact”. 

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Interpersonal group psychotherapy is for individuals who have ideally undertaken at least 1 year of personal psychotherapy (however this is not a requirement), and who are seeking to:

• Deepen their self-awareness and understanding of how behaviours and emotional experiences influence and shape relationships with others.

• Practice connecting to themselves more authentically and honestly.

• Engage in authentic and honest conversations and explorations about life’s ‘ultimate concerns’, which oftentimes go unaddressed in the day-to-day.

• Learn how to relate and connect with others whilst honouring and prizing difference, without engaging in conflict.

• Learn to foster and cultivate emotionally intimate friendships.

Within this weekly time together, the focus will be on creating the conditions together, for sharing honestly what is happening in the ‘here-and-now,’ within yourself and in response to each other. With an ‘interpersonal’ focus, the facilitators will support in maintaining the conditions for both difference and collaboration to exist. In this way, each session is a rich personal and social learning opportunity to make contact with your history, as it presents in these particular relationships, in a deeply supportive way.

There will be between 6-10 people in this group, to support both intimacy and diversity. Intimacy supports us in each having sufficient time to explore our own life and minds, and diversity allows there to be a rich representation of life experiences in our space to be in relationship to.

This group meets once per week for 90-minutes. Attendance is required at each of these meetings during a 10-week term. At the conclusion of a 10-week term, we open the opportunity for members to leave and new members to join. We take a break for a few weeks and begin another term.

We ask that members prioritise the group commitment, however, we do understand if significant life circumstances make it not possible to attend a session.

Most people experience the most meaningful personal and social change in their lives over a period of 12 to 24 months of weekly group therapy.

Towards the end of a 10-week commitment, we open up discussions about the possibility of continuing. Members may exit the group and new members may join when we open up for intake.