Interpersonal
Process Group Therapy
A fertile container to flower and grow
Group therapy
Do you often struggle with…
feeling misunderstood, unheard, or invisible
communicating authentically when you suspect it may not be received well
connecting with others and keeping lasting relationships
feelings of loneliness or being alone
risking emotional vulnerability and intimacy
setting boundaries for yourself and with others
avoiding difficult conversations and conflict with others
burning bridges or severing relationships
feeling more alone the more you get to know people
repairing relationships after a rupture?
If this sounds familiar, then group therapy offers a different angle and direct approach to your challenges!
This interpersonal process group provides a space for individuals to understand patterns in their relationships and improve their social skills. By slowing down and talking through relationships in the group, members can learn about how they connect to others and experiment with expressing themselves in new authentic ways.
With up to eight members, this intimate group gives members a space to work on communication, self-awareness, and conflict resolution. In addition, members will explore how their culture, identity, and positionality influences how they engage with others. Members are encouraged to speak openly and bring issues relevant to their current lives into the group, including current events, personal challenges, and their experience of the group.
Group Details:
Who: Individuals (age 18 plus) who are interested in strengthening their relationships through developing a deeper understanding of how they relate and engage with others.
Details: Thursdays, 6:00pm - 7:20pm, virtual, starting December 2025
Choose your own rate: $35/50/65 per session (out of network). Scholarships available. We ask for a 1 month minimum commitment to protect the stability of the group and provide adequate time for you to adapt to the group therapy environment.
How to Begin:
To join the group, get started by filling out the webform and scheduling a 15-minute phone consultation with me where you can learn more about the group and get to know me. From there, we will meet 2 (or more) times individually so that we can talk through your goals for the group and assess if the group can realistically help you achieve them.
Why Group Therapy?
Everyone seeks therapy for our own unique problems, but oftentimes our distress isn’t so unique. For some, their concerns are primarily self-oriented and their relationships are not a primary concern. For this group of therapy-seekers, individual therapy can help elucidate the nature of their distress and address it.
However, another group of therapy-seekers’ distress/concerns primarily center relationships. Whether it be the lack of interpersonal relationships, unfulfilling relationships, or difficulty maintaining relationships, something about your social life doesn’t feel quite right. For people with these concerns, group therapy emerges as a direct experiential method to understand our relational styles and change our relationships (for the better).
Our Approach
Group therapy is an effective approach for directly understanding what might be going on (and going wrong) in your relationships. The group environment provides a dedicated space to work with others who share the goal of improving their relationships, where you will have the opportunity to slow down and intentionally examine your process of being in the exact setting you might struggle with–the social group. This makes it easier to notice recurring patterns, behaviors, and dynamics that may be impacting other relationships in your life.
In this group, we will focus on our interpersonal process–that is, the feelings, thoughts, and somatic reactions that emerge when interacting and communicating with others. Often, our process of relating is not only reflective of the current conversation, but also reflective of the relationships we formed with our primary caregivers, peers, and acquaintances. These early life relational experiences often shape how you form, navigate, and maintain human connection in surprising ways. By examining both historical influences and our present experiences, we are able to bring our unconscious fears and wishes into awareness. Once aware, we can then evaluate whether our way of moving to meet our fears and wishes is effective, desirable, and aligned with the person we want to be. In the process of uncovering your self, you can develop the strength to break out of dysfunctional relational patterns and experiment with new ways of relating that serve your needs and dreams.
Goals of Group Therapy
The ultimate goal of group therapy is to understand your relational self in order to help you strengthen your interpersonal relationships. In the group you will have the opportunity to observe your internal experience of connecting, receive honest feedback from others, and experiment with new ways of moving, all in a supportive environment. Over time, the aim is to develop: (1) relational self-awareness in order to transcend limiting relational patterns, and (2) relational skills that can help you throughout your life.
Benefits of Group Therapy
Improve relationship satisfaction, self-acceptance, and self-confidence
Develop insight into how others experience you
Strengthen your connections to people around you
Experiment with ways of expressing yourself
Reduce relationship anxiety and stress
Learn to navigate conflict and repair rupture
Ascertain what your boundaries are and how to communicate them effectively
Clarifying Common Misconceptions about Group Therapy
Interpersonal process group therapy is not:
Individual therapy for 6-8 different people at the same time.
A conflict-free support group where group members provide advice to each other on their problems.
Interpersonal process group therapy is:
An investigation into how you show up in a relationship and the role you play in groups.
An environment where one can experiment with expressing oneself in new ways.
An exploration of how past relationships shape our current experience in relationships.
Sometimes very challenging but equally rewarding and transformative
Meet the Facilitator:
stephanie yuan (she/they) is a queer, neurodivergent Asian American limited permit mental health counselor in the state of New York. Their passion for group therapy stems from their own transformative experience as a therapy group member. Since, she has accrued experience facilitating support, skills training, and process groups for wide-ranging focuses from substance use to trauma to political anxiety. Guided by radical candor, curiosity, and care, she has come to believe the only way through what-is is through community and relationship. stephanie received her Master’s in Counseling from Teacher’s College, Columbia University and is currently continuing her education through postgraduate group therapy training.