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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 processing our own harm-doing; in the event a therapist discloses harm they are doing to a client, in keeping with our ethical obligations as therapists, confidentiality in these matters is not guaranteed.
Training to be a therapist can be incredibly complex and triggering when you’ve had harmful experiences in therapy yourself. This group is a support space specifically for therapy trainees who have had impactful negative, harmful, or abusive experiences as clients.
Topics will include:
what it's like to begin working with clients having been harmed as a client yourself
triggering experiences with classmates, co-interns, professors, and supervisors
worries and doubts about entering the field, becoming a therapist, and colleague relationships
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.
Now Enrolling FALL 2025
6 Session, Thursdays 6-7pm EST
Virtual, on Zoom
Cost: $185, total due up front
Maximum 8 participants
September 11th
September 25th
October 16th
October 30th
November 13th
December 4th
Click here to begin enrollment for the Therapist-in-Training Group.
Please note: enrollment is not guaranteed. Group enrollment is based upon goodness of fit with group purpose and assent to communication agreements.
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.
Now Enrolling FALL 2025
6 Session, Thursdays 6-7pm EST
Virtual, on Zoom
Cost: $185, total due up front
Maximum 8 participants
September 18th
October 9th
October 23rd
November 6th
November 20th
December 11th
Click here to begin enrollment for the Licensed Therapist Group.
Please note: enrollment is not guaranteed. Group enrollment is based upon goodness of fit with group purpose and assent to communication agreements.