Group Therapy

Group Therapy

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Group therapy can offer something individual therapy cannot: the experience of being witnessed, understood, challenged, and supported in relationship with other people.

At Every Body Therapy, our groups are designed to feel thoughtful, grounded, and genuinely useful. Some are process-oriented. Some are psychoeducational. Some are a blend of both. All are built around the belief that healing does not happen in isolation.

  • This closed virtual process group is for adults recovering from eating disorders or disordered eating who want support that is thoughtful, HAES-aligned, and grounded in body liberation rather than shame, control, or diet culture.

    Participants will have space to process the emotional reality of recovery, including food fear, body image distress, identity shifts, grief, ambivalence, and the patterns that make healing feel hard. The group is designed to support both insight and practical coping, while helping members build a more compassionate and sustainable relationship with food and their bodies.

    This is not a weight-focused or behavior-policing space. It is a place to be honest, supported, and less alone in the work of recovery.

    Who:
    Adults (18+) of all body, sex, and gender identities managing disordered eating, an eating disorder, or body image concerns. Please note: This is not a replacement for individual therapy or nutrition counseling.

    Where:
    Virtual via Zoom

    Fee:
    $100 per session with sliding scale availability; an 8-week financial commitment is required. First session due at the time of enrollment to secure your space

    Facilitated by Danielle

  • Living with a chronic illness that other people cannot see or easily understand can be profoundly isolating. It can affect your relationships, your sense of self, your trust in your body, and your ability to move through daily life without feeling misunderstood or dismissed.

    This virtual support group is for adults living with invisible or fluctuating chronic health conditions who want a space where they do not have to explain, minimize, or translate what they are carrying. Together, we will make room for the emotional reality of chronic illness, including grief, anger, shame, uncertainty, loneliness, and the exhaustion of being disbelieved or misunderstood.

    This group is designed to offer validation, connection, and thoughtful support from others who understand something of the terrain.

    Who:
    Adults (18+) living with an “invisible” chronic health condition

    Where:
    Virtual via Zoom

    Fee:
    $75 per session with a resource-based sliding scale option

    Facilitated by Lexi

  • Grief rarely moves in a straight line. It can feel surreal, disorganizing, tender, lonely, and full of experiences that do not fit neatly into language. Sometimes that includes moments that feel like signs, synchronicities, or forms of connection that are difficult to explain but deeply felt.

    This in-person group is for adults grieving a death of any kind who want a space to talk about loss in a way that makes room for complexity rather than forcing closure. Using Laura Lynne Jackson’s book Signs as a companion text, we will explore grief, longing, love, memory, meaning, and the strange ways connection can continue after someone is gone.

    This group is for people learning how to carry loss, stay connected to the person they miss, and live inside the “after” without reducing grief to something simple or finished.

    Who:
    Adults grieving a death of any kind (illness, suicide, substance related, car/traumatic accident, natural causes, etc.), whether the loss occurred recently or long ago

    When:
    Sundays at 5 PM

    Where:
    Every Body Therapy’s Gowanus office

    Fee:
    $125 per session with resource-based sliding scale available ($75–$125); Superbills provided for OON reimbursement 

    Facilitated by Lauren

  • Caring for someone with chronic illness can be deeply loving and deeply difficult. It can bring grief, resentment, guilt, exhaustion, fear, loneliness, and the sense that your own inner life has had to move to the background.

    This virtual support group is for caregivers who want a place to speak honestly about the emotional realities of caregiving without shame or performance. We will explore themes such as burnout, role strain, grief, envy, helplessness, self-trust, and the complicated relationship between care, obligation, and identity.

    The goal is not to make you a better martyr. It is to give you a space where your experience matters too.

    Who:

    Adults 18+ who are caregivers of loved ones with chronic illness

    Where:
    Virtual via Zoom

    Fee:
    $75 per session with resource-based sliding scale options available; requires a 10-week financial commitment

    Facilitated by Halie

  • This group offers a space for queer womxn and people who relate to the female experience to explore identity, relationships, and personal growth within a supportive and thoughtful community.

    Group therapy offers the experience of being witnessed by peers who share similar questions, struggles, and experiences. Over time, members build meaningful connections while exploring the many layers of gender, sexuality, intimacy, belonging, and self-understanding. This group is less about having the “right” answers and more about creating space for honest conversation, curiosity, and connection.

  • Estrangement can bring relief, grief, guilt, anger, doubt, loneliness, clarity, and heartbreak, often all at once. It can be one of the most important decisions someone makes and one of the hardest to explain to other people.

    This closed virtual support group is for estranged adult children who want a space to speak openly about family trauma, parental abuse, complicated loyalty, post-traumatic guilt, self-worth, grief, and the ongoing emotional complexity of having limited or no contact with a parent or caregiver.

    This group does not assume that estrangement is simple, easy, or one-size-fits-all. It offers an affirming space to process what led here, what it costs, what it protects, and what healing might look like now.

    Who:
    Adults (18+) who are estranged from their parent(s) / caregiver(s)

    When:
    Every Tuesday from 6:00-7:00pm for 10 consecutive weeks

    Where:
    Virtual via Zoom

    Fee:
    $75 per session with resource-based sliding scale options available; a full 10-session financial commitment is required at enrollment

    Facilitated by Halie

  • This closed virtual group is for adults living with chronic illness or chronic pain who are also carrying body image distress, shame, grief, or resentment connected to what their body feels like, looks like, or can no longer do.

    This is a space for people who are tired of being told to reframe, stay positive, or “just accept” bodies that may feel painful, unreliable, misunderstood, or changed. Together, we will explore the emotional toll of chronic illness, provider invalidation, medical trauma, body grief, food as care and accommodation, and the challenge of trying to build self-trust in a body that feels uncertain.

    The goal is not forced body love. It is a more honest, supported relationship to the body you live in now.

    Who:
    Adults living with chronic illness or chronic pain who experience persistent body image distress, shame, grief, or resentment

    When:
    Every Thursday from 6:00-7:15pm

    Where:
    Virtual via Zoom

    Fee:
    $100; resource-based sliding scale options available

    Facilitated by Danielle