To be notified when future groups open for enrollment, complete my therapist-survivor interest form to join my specific therapist-survivor email list, or join my general notification list for infrequent email updates about new offerings.
As a therapy harm survivor who is also a therapist, I am currently offering peer support groups for fellow therapist-survivors. I believe that therapy harm support groups for non-therapists are best run by non-therapists, such as Bernadine Fox who is a therapy abuse survivor and mental health advocate. Click here to check out Bernadine's groups (therapists are also welcome at Bernadine's groups, if they attend as survivors).
You can also find survivor-led support group facilitation guides on the Therapy Harm Community Resources doc: one for non-therapist survivor groups and one for therapist-survivor groups. These are available for community use.
Confidentiality: We will not share anything heard here outside the group (with one exception below).
Self-Definition: We will allow for self-definition of therapy harm, never comparing or litigating legitimacy of experiences. Anyone who feels harmed by therapy is welcome.
Voluntary Presence: We will respect participants’ need to take a break or leave, allowing them to return today or to a future group without receiving comment or question.
Voluntary Participation: We will allow participants to “pass for now” (given another chance to share if desired once others have spoken) or “pass” fully, no questions asked.
Protected Sharing: We will not interrupt, and will only remark on or ask questions about what someone shared with permission (“may I ask you about what you shared?” or “may I share a reflection on what you shared?”).
Equitable Sharing: We will limit our sharing such that everyone present has time to share should they wish to. We will avoid all hate speech and slurs.
Autonomy: If a harming therapist is mentioned by name, we will never remove autonomy from their harmed client by contacting or reporting that therapist ourselves.
Fidelity to Purpose: Although we are all therapists or therapists-in-training, this is not a clinical or colleague space, but a support group. We do not talk about cases.
Ethical Responsibility: This space is not designed for a therapist to disclose that they have abused a client. Although concerns about our own harm-doing as therapists will arise, were a participant to share having abused a client to the level of egregiousness that calls upon us to immediately report to the relevant authority, in keeping with our ethical obligations as therapists, confidentiality in these matters is not guaranteed.
To be a therapist who's had harmful experiences in therapy yourself is to live at a complicated and often painful nexus. This group is a support space for therapists who have had impactful negative, harmful, or abusive experiences as clients.
Topics will include:
what it's like to work with clients having been harmed as a client yourself
triggering experiences with colleagues, supervisors, modalities, and communities of practice
and more, including whatever participants bring in
Please note: Although I am a psychologist, this is not a therapy group. This is a facilitated and guided peer support group, run by a fellow therapist-survivor.
Virtual, on Zoom
Cost: $185, total due up front
Maximum 8 participants
Check back here or join the therapist-survivor email notification list by filling out the therapist-survivor interest form.
Please note: enrollment is not guaranteed, and is based upon goodness of fit with group purpose and assent to communication agreements. The process includes completing a form, providing proof of licensure or license-track status, and having a 1:1 exploratory call with me.
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