Groups Play a Vital Role at TLCC
By Chris Eversole
At Transforming Life Counseling Center, we are dedicated to working with groups. Our groups are an important supplement to individual and couples counseling.
The advantages of group therapy are:
- Members identify with each other, seeing that fellow members face the same challenges they do
- Members share solutions
- Members connect with each other outside the meeting
Over time, group members grow personally, strengthen their recovery from addictions, become more resilient and repair their relationships. We rejoice in the moments of grace we witness.
Our therapists provide a safe place for people to support each other and get real –
about both their struggles and their victories. Our professionals provide educational material information on topics such as addictions recovery and moving beyond codependency, and they join with group members in sharing information on community resources.
Confidentiality is a basic component of group therapy; “what you say here, stays here.” Our other group norms include honoring each person’s “platform” without talking over them, asking permission to give feedback and being open and vulnerable. In groups, members share, listen and heal – and even learn to accept healthy criticism.
Our groups supplement 12 Steps meetings. Our trained staff encourages more back-and-forth in conversations than 12 Steps meetings permit.
As important as 12 Steps meeting are, they prohibit “cross talk” – because they want members to speak their own truth without criticizing each other. Our staff facilitates healthy cross talk – reminding members to speak in “I” messages while bouncing ideas off each other.
Our groups are:
- Taming Trauma, focused on becoming more comfortable in your skin and increasing your sense of safety
- Codependency to Discovery, based on owning your reality without judgment and affirming yourself
- Men’s addiction and co-dependency recovery
- Men’s healthy sexuality
- Women’s co-dependency recovery
- Girl Talk, which cultivates confidence and self-worth among girls in the sixth through eighth grades
For more information, email info@tlccok.com or call 405-246-5433.
Chris is a mental health coach at TLCC.
