Group Therapy

Group therapy offers a supportive space to explore your thoughts, emotions, and challenges while connecting with others who are navigating similar experiences. Led by a trained therapist, each group is structured to foster insight, build skills, and create a sense of community.

SMALL GROUP. BIG SHIFTS.

Healing Happens in Connection

Group therapy is a powerful, research-backed way to experience growth and healing—often in ways that individual therapy alone can’t provide. In a professionally guided group, you have the opportunity to share, listen, and connect with others facing similar struggles. This creates a sense of shared understanding and belonging that can be deeply validating.

A Structured Evidence-Based Approach

These sessions follow a clear structure and are based on effective psychological strategies used in therapy. Drawing from cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), the groups combine elements of psychoeducation and psychotherapy to help you both understand and shift the patterns that are holding you back. You’ll learn practical tools, engage in guided exercises, and reflect alongside others in a supportive, therapist-led environment.

The Benefits of Group Therapy

Group therapy offers something uniquely powerful—growth through connection. If you’re curious about how this might support your healing, here’s what makes it such a valuable option:
  • You’re not alone. Hearing others share familiar feelings or challenges can reduce shame and isolation, while helping you feel seen and supported.
  • Relational insight. Groups provide a space to explore how you relate to others and practice healthier communication, boundaries, and empathy in real time.
  • Cost-effective support. Group sessions are offered at a lower rate than individual therapy, making regular therapeutic work more accessible.
  • Skill-building in community. You’ll gain insight from both the therapist and fellow group members, learning from others’ perspectives while also building your own voice.
  • Confidence and connection. Many people find that the courage it takes to speak in a group translates into greater confidence in everyday relationships.
Group Therapy Programs:

Each group therapy program includes up to 10 weekly sessions, with each session lasting 50 minutes. At $40 per session, these groups offer a financially accessible way to support your mental health. Some groups are held in person at my Kingston office, while others are offered virtually for added flexibility. Scroll down for details on group topics, dates, and how to register.

Anxiety & Worry

Reclaiming Your Calm

This is a 10-week group therapy program designed to help individuals better understand and manage chronic worry and generalized anxiety. Drawing from evidence-based cognitive behavioural strategies, each session explores key themes like the nature of worry, unhelpful thinking patterns, attention training, problem-solving, and accepting uncertainty. The group offers a supportive space to explore your experiences and develop more helpful ways of responding to anxiety—both now and in the future.

Learn more about this CBT Group on Anxiety & Worry

Appearance Concerns

Beyond the Mirror

This 7-session group offers a supportive space to explore the impact of appearance concerns and develop a more balanced relationship with your body image. You’ll learn practical tools to reduce behaviours like body checking, reassurance seeking, and avoidance, while also working to shift unhelpful thinking patterns. With a focus on reconnecting to your values and building self-worth beyond appearance, this group helps you move toward a more confident, authentic way of living.

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Assertiveness

The Confidence to Speak Up

This 10-session therapy group helps participants develop assertiveness skills to express themselves clearly, respectfully, and with self-assurance. Together, we’ll explore common barriers to assertiveness—like unhelpful thinking patterns, discomfort with saying “no,” or fear of criticism—and work through practical strategies to build healthier communication. Through guided activities and reflective exercises, participants learn how to advocate for themselves in everyday situations, reduce anxiety and tension, and foster more authentic relationships.

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Depression

Brighter Days Ahead

This is a 9-session group grounded in Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) that offers practical tools for managing depression. Over the course of the program, you’ll learn strategies to lift your mood, shift unhelpful thinking patterns, and reconnect with activities that bring meaning and joy. Through guided exercises, reflection, and supportive discussion, you’ll build skills to better understand your emotions and maintain the progress you make—one step at a time.

Learn more about this CBT Group on Depression

Health Anxiety

From Worry to Balance

This 10-session group offers a structured, evidence-based approach to understanding and managing health anxiety. Participants will explore how health-related fears develop and are maintained, and learn strategies to reduce symptom monitoring, unhelpful thinking, reassurance-seeking, and avoidance behaviours. Through guided reflection, practical tools, and supportive discussion, you’ll begin to shift your focus from fear to resilience—and feel more equipped to navigate uncertainty with confidence.

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Panic

Taking Back Control

This 7-session therapy group is designed to help you understand panic attacks and panic disorder while learning research-based strategies to regain a sense of calm and control. You’ll explore how panic develops, what keeps it going, and how to break the cycle through practical tools like exposure, thought work, and behavioural strategies. Together, we’ll build confidence in your body and mind’s ability to move through anxiety—so you can live with more ease and freedom.

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Perfectionism

In Pursuit of Enough

This is a structured, 9-session therapy group designed to help you better understand perfectionism—what drives it, what sustains it, and how to shift toward healthier standards without losing your motivation or values. Through reflective exercises, practical tools, and gentle experimentation, you’ll explore the cost of unrelenting expectations and learn how to relate to yourself with more flexibility, balance, and self-worth.

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Procrastination

From Stuck to Start

This is a 7-session therapy group designed to help you understand and overcome the cycle of procrastination. You’ll explore what keeps you stuck—from self-critical thoughts to avoidance behaviours—and gain practical tools to shift from intention to action. With guided exercises and compassionate strategies, this group supports you in breaking through resistance, tolerating discomfort, and building lasting motivation.

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Self-Compassion

From Criticism to Kindness

This 7-week group is designed to help you quiet your inner critic and build a more compassionate relationship with yourself. Using a structured, evidence-based approach rooted in compassion focused therapy, each session guides you through understanding what self-compassion really means, identifying the barriers that make it hard to be kind to yourself, and practicing tools to shift your mindset. You’ll explore calming strategies, compassionate imagery, and new ways of thinking and acting that support emotional resilience. By the end of the group, you’ll have a personalized plan to carry these skills into your daily life—so you can meet yourself with kindness, even when things feel hard.

Learn more about this CFT Group on Self-Compassion

Self Esteem

Reclaiming Your Worth

This 9-week structured, therapist-led group is designed to help you understand and transform the deeper patterns behind low self-esteem. Using a cognitive behavioural approach, we’ll explore how low self-esteem develops, the ways it’s maintained, and practical tools to begin shifting self-critical thoughts and beliefs. Each session builds on the last, with guided exercises and discussions that focus on challenging biased expectations, softening negative self-evaluations, and developing more balanced, compassionate beliefs about yourself. The goal is to move toward a more grounded and healthy sense of self-worth—one that isn’t defined by perfection, performance, or others’ opinions.

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Social Anxiety

Courage in Connection

This is a 10-session therapy group designed to support individuals struggling with social anxiety. Through practical strategies and guided exercises rooted in evidence-based approaches like CBT, you’ll learn to understand the patterns that fuel anxiety in social situations and develop tools to navigate them with greater ease. Week by week, we’ll explore ways to challenge unhelpful thoughts, reduce avoidance and safety behaviours, and build more confidence in how you show up with others—helping you reconnect with the world around you, and most importantly, with yourself.

Learn more about this CBT Group on Social Anxiety
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