Living Single: Online Therapy Group for Singles in Georgia
Being single can be hard. Whether you’re figuring out how to be alone after a loss or a break up, recovering from trauma caused by past relationships, feeling lonely because you haven’t found the right companion, or constantly fending off well-meaning interrogations by loved ones about why you haven’t settled down yet, it’s a lot to process. Thankfully, you don’t have to process it alone.
This Fall, I’m putting together a therapy group for singles looking to find support and empathy from others navigating similar situations. In this group, you’ll find a safe space for people to process their feelings without judgment, pressure, or expectations. A space for messy humans (“messy” in the most beautifully human way) to be together and share their experiences knowing they’ll be met with compassion.
Why Group Therapy?
One of my focus areas as a therapist is relationship issues. I love supporting my clients as they work through how to live the life they want while single, and how to envision the type of relationships and partners that are right for them. But as a therapist, I also try to notice when my help may not be enough. I come to the therapy room (or online therapy virtual room, as the case may be) with a specific set of experiences that might not match my clients’. While those differences don’t prevent me from validating my client’s experience and emotions and offering support and compassion, I know how powerful, how relieving, it can be for clients to talk with others who do share similar experiences. The way my clients feel seen by me is different from how they feel seen by peers.
Group therapy is also different from talking things out with your friends or family. Group members don’t have an agenda for you. Where your mom might say, “When am I going to get to plan a wedding?” or your friends might say, “You need to stop talking to her, like, yesterday,” your group members are there to say, “This is where you are, and that’s okay.” Group members don’t know your entire relationship history, and their own thoughts and feelings about your life don’t come into play. You’re each there to process your own experiences and maybe learn about yourself by joining others who are processing theirs.
Who is the Group For?
This group is for those in any stage of “singlehood.” There can be so much anxiety that surrounds dating, being alone, getting into a relationship, or leaving one. If you need help processing what you’re going through, this group can help.
This group is for you if you are:
In the midst of a divorce and facing being single for the first time in years;
Single for your entire adult life and feeling alone;
Anxious about the online dating scene;
In an on-again, off-again “situationship;”
Figuring out how to trust again after a traumatic experience;
Trying to determine what you want from a relationship because your priorities have changed from when you were younger;
Happily single but overwhelmed by the pressure of others to be in a relationship;
Or if you are experiencing any of the many other varieties of being single.
Whether you’re actively looking for a relationship, moving toward being ready to date, learning to be at peace with being single, or (not so) simply looking to heal, there is a space for you here.
Details
Date: Every other Friday starting September 8, 2023
Time: 12 - 1:30 p.m.
Location: Online, for Georgia residents only
Cost: $65/session
Prerequisite: One 60-minute intake session with Erin Simone ($200)
This is a closed group (max of 6 group members) so all of the group members will start together at the same time and no new members can join until the next round. Group members are asked to commit for 6 months (13 sessions) for consistency and connectivity to others to support the group therapy process. Contact us for more information and to schedule your intake session.
Avalon Psychotherapy offers online therapy in Georgia, and DBT group therapy. We are also happy to offer individual relationship counseling, young adult therapy, life transitions therapy, and individual DBT therapy.