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Relief in Reach: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Chronic Pain

Living with chronic pain can feel overwhelming, taking over your plans, your relationships, and even your sense of self. This structured therapy program is designed to help you manage pain more effectively, regain control of your daily life, and reconnect with what matters most. Through evidence-based Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) strategies, you’ll learn practical tools to manage flare-ups, improve sleep, reduce stress, and build confidence in your ability to live a full and meaningful life, even with pain.

Well-Rested: An Insomnia Treatment Program for Those Tired of Feeling Tired

You’ve tried melatonin, meditation, and all the “sleep hygiene” tips, but you’re still lying awake, exhausted, and dreading bedtime. If this feels familiar, the Well-Rested program may be the breakthrough you need. Using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I), the gold standard in insomnia treatment, this structured short-term therapy helps you fall asleep faster, stay asleep longer, and wake up feeling restored.

Freedom From OCD: ERP Program

The Freedom from OCD: ERP Program is a structured, skills-based treatment that helps clients face feared thoughts, images, and situations without performing compulsions, so anxiety naturally declines and life opens back up. This 12-session program uses Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP), the gold-standard treatment for OCD, and includes personalized planning, weekly ERP practice, and optional family coaching to reduce accommodation and reassurance.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) Skills Group

DBT is an evidence-based approach to help people with emotional difficulties. Through 4 main pillars (Mindfulness, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance and Emotion Regulation), DBT helps clients to utilize different skills to manage their emotions, deal with challenging situations, and problem-solving, while increasing confidence and sense of agency. This approach has shown significant effectiveness in helping clients navigate suicidal thoughts and self-harm behaviors.

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How It Works

Groups are divided into 4 modules of 8 weeks each.
- Module 1: Mindfulness Increasing awareness and ability to stay fully present in the moment.
- Module 2: Interpersonal Effectiveness Focuses on increased ability to communicate, assertiveness and setting boundaries
- Module 3: Emotion Regulation Focuses on increasing clients understanding and awareness of their emotions and strategies to navigate high intensity emotions
- Module 4: Distress Tolerance Focuses on increasing clients ability to self-regulate in moments of distress.

Through each module, clients will be introduced to the topic and learn different skills. In between sessions, clients will be encouraged to practice the learned skills and report to the group their experiences utilizing them.

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Group Sessions are led by Dr. Nathan Barclay.
If you are interested in enrolling for one of the modules, please contact us here for a 15 minute phone screen.

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) Skills Group

Dialectical Behavioral Therapy for Adolescents (DBT-A) is designed for teens who struggle with managing their emotions and behavior. Across 26 weeks, teens learn and practice the five DBT skill modules: mindfulness, distress tolerance, walking the middle path, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. This group is aimed towards teens ages 13–17 who would benefit from structured skills practice and weekly support, including individuals participating in comprehensive DBT treatment. Participants should have an individual therapist they meet with regularly. New group members can join at the start of any of the five modules.

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How It Works

Skills are taught through five modules:
1. Mindfulness skills: Participate fully in the present moment to reduce distress and increase
positive emotions (2 weeks; repeated prior to modules 3-5)
2. Distress tolerance skills: Learn to tolerate difficult situations and emotions (5 weeks)
3. Walking the middle path skills: Reduce polarized thinking and behavioral patterns (4
weeks)
4. Emotion regulation skills: Feel less emotionally vulnerable and more in control of your
emotions (5 weeks)
5. Interpersonal effectiveness skills: Develop and keep positive relationships (4 weeks)

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Group Sessions are led by Dr. Francesca Lord.
This group is held virtually. Teens in any PSYPACT participating state can join.
If you are interested in enrolling. please contact us here for a 15 minute phone screen.

Grief Recovery Group

Grief can feel overwhelming, isolating, and difficult to put into words. This structured 12-week group provides a safe and supportive environment for adults who are navigating the loss of a loved one. Through mindfulness, psychoeducation, storytelling, and guided reflection, participants learn to process their grief, connect with others who understand, and find meaning in the loss while moving toward healing.

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How It Works

The group follows a progressive structure, combining psychoeducation, interpersonal processing, and supportive practices across 12 sessions:

Session 1: Introduction to Grief Orientation, confidentiality, and goal setting with psychoeducation about the grieving process.
Session 2: Sharing Stories of Loss Learning about exposure and avoidance, and beginning to share personal experiences.
Sessions 3–4: Understanding Emotions Exploring grief-related emotions such as anger, guilt, anxiety, and sadness, and the difference between experiencing versus expressing emotion.
Session 5: Maladaptive Thinking Patterns Identifying unhelpful thoughts that complicate grief and learning strategies to shift them.
Session 6: Avoidance and Coping Exploring common avoidance strategies, with encouragement to process feelings through meaningful connections.
Session 7: Approaching the Pain Sharing memorabilia or photos as a way to approach grief directly.
Session 8: Adjusting to a New World Identifying roles once filled by the deceased and problem-solving how to navigate them.
Session 9: Remembering the Deceased Learning ways to remember fully and beginning a letter-writing activity.
Session 10: Finding Meaning in the Loss. Processing the meaning of grief and reflecting on the letter-writing exercise.
Session 11: Letter Reading Sharing and processing letters written to the deceased, with group support.
Session 12: Saying Goodbye Closing the group with guided goodbye activities and reflection.

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Group Sessions are led by Dr. Nathan Barclay
If you are interested in enrolling, please contact us here for a 15 minute phone screen.

Anxiety and Coping Skills Group for Adolescents

This 12-week group is designed to help teens understand anxiety, build coping tools, and find connection in a safe and supportive setting where they can feel heard and valued. We use evidence-based approaches, drawing from CBT, DBT, mindfulness, and psychoeducation. Each session is practical and educational, blending learning, hands-on practice, and group discussion.

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How It Works

Group style is educational and practical. Each week blends education, hands on
practice, discussion, connection, and at home work:

Session 1: Introduction & Group Norms Build rapport, establish group rules and safety, review confidentiality, overview of anxiety and group expectations
Session 2: Understanding Anxiety Psychoeducation on anxiety: what it is, why we have it, how it affects us emotionally and somatically
Sessions 3: The Anxiety Cycle & Triggers Identify personal anxiety patterns, thoughts, and triggers
Session 4: Emotional Awareness Learn to identify and label emotions accurately using emotion vocabulary
Session 5: Cognitive Distortions Recognize unhelpful thinking styles and challenge them (CBT-focused)
Session 6: Coping Skills Toolbox 1: Distraction & Relaxation Learn and practice grounding, breathing, mindfulness techniques, education about coping skills and their purpose
Session 7: Coping Skills Toolbox 2: Problem Solving Identify personal, physical, environmental, and relational outlets for coping
Session 8: Building Treatment Plan Create safety plans for anxiety, identifying coping skills, accountability and support partners, and personal treatment plans
Session 9: Emotion Regulation Skills (DBT) Learn how to manage intense emotions (DBT: opposite action, checking facts)
Session 10: Social Support & Communication Explore the role of connection, assertiveness, and asking for help
Session 11: Managing Setbacks & Building Resilience Address relapses, self-compassion, and the need for support systems
Celebration & Wrap-Up Reflect and celebrate progress together, wrap up group

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Group Sessions are led by Anna Jenkins, LMSW
If you are interested in enrolling, please contact us here for a 15 minute phone screen.

CBT For Menopause Group

(Beginning January 2026) This 6-week group is designed to help people manage menopausal symptoms, particularly hot flashes and night sweats, while improving wellbeing and sleep. We use evidence-based approaches, drawing from CBT, relaxation techniques, paced breathing, and psychoeducation. Each session is practical and interactive, blending learning, hands-on practice, and group discussion to help participants understand triggers, manage symptoms, and maintain positive lifestyle and behavioural changes.

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How It Works

Group style is educational and practical. Each week blends education, hands on
practice, discussion, connection, and at home work:

Session 1: Introduction & Understanding Symptoms

Your experience of menopausal symptoms
The physiology of hot flushes
The role of thoughts, feelings, and behaviours
Identifying triggers that bring them on or make them worse
Relaxation techniques and paced breathing

Session 2: Managing Triggers & Stress

Identifying and modifying precipitants
Stress management and improving wellbeing
Setting individual goals
Relaxation techniques and paced breathing

Session 3: Stress, Lifestyle & Problem-Solving

Reviewing goals
Managing hot flushes: examining thoughts, beliefs, and behavioural reactions
Relationships and social situations
Short form of relaxation and paced breathing

Session 4: Behavioural Strategies & Night Sweats

Reviewing thoughts, beliefs, and behaviours related to hot flushes
Role-play: dealing with hot flushes using relaxation techniques
Managing night sweats and sleep (Part One)

Session 5: Applying Strategies

Applying relaxation and changes in thoughts, feelings, and behaviour for hot flushes and night sweats
Managing night sweats and sleep (Part Two)

Session 6: Review & Maintaining Changes

- Practising management of hot flushes
- Discussion about maintaining lifestyle and behavioural changes
- Sleep and night sweats
- Questions, discussion, and planning for the future

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Group Sessions are led by Dr. Terri Fletcher and Dr. Natalie Hundt.
If you are interested in enrolling, please contact us here for a 15 minute phone screen.

Eating Disorders Family Support Group

Supporting a loved one through an Eating Disorder recovery can be challenging. This group is designed for caregivers, family members, and significant others of individuals who are currently in recovery from an eating disorder. It offers a supportive space to process experiences, share challenges, and connect with others who understand the journey of caring for someone in recovery.

Additionally, participants will also receive brief education on eating disorders and the recovery process, grounded in Family-Based Therapy (FBT), an evidence-based approach for treating eating disorders. This group aims to empower families with the knowledge, connection, and support needed to navigate recovery together.

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How It Works

Each session is divided into two parts. The first 30 minutes are led by the therapist and focus on brief psychoeducation related to eating disorders and recovery. Participants are encouraged to ask questions and reflect on their own experiences. The remaining 30 minutes provide an open, supportive space for participants to share, process, and discuss any topics related to supporting their loved one through recovery.

This is a free group, however, we encourage a minimum of 5 weeks commitment. Each week is structured to provide key concepts of eating disorder recovery from a Family-Based Therapy (FBT) stance.

Week 1: What are eating disorders and why is it important to take actions fast
Week 2: An agnostic view of the cause of the illness
Week 3: Externalizing the Eating Disorder
Week 4: Tools to provide support during meals and other challenging times
Week 5: Maintaining self-care and self-compassion

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Group Sessions are led by Mylene Duarte, LPC.
If you are interested in enrolling, please contact us here for a 15 minute phone screen.