Rooted & Resilient is a mixed-gender adult process group. This interactional group focuses on building, exploring, and sustaining healthy relationships. While there is no prescribed agenda for each session, members are encouraged to talk honestly and directly about their feelings while also receiving and offering support and feedback to other members.
Two weekly groups are available. Kameron McClintic, LPC-Associate, facilitates the Tuesday evening group, and Lily Hightower, LPC-Associate, facilitates the Thursday evening group. Both groups share the same relational and process-oriented approach while providing members with the opportunity to choose the evening that works best for their schedule.
Joining the Group
Before beginning your journey in group, you will participate in an individual pre-group session. This meeting gives us an opportunity to learn more about you, determine whether the group is a good fit for your needs, answer your questions, and provide you with the information you need to feel prepared to participate.
If you are ready to build healthier and more fulfilling relationships, deepen your understanding of yourself and others, or simply feel more connected in your life, we encourage you to reach out.
You can complete the New Client Interest Form and indicate that you are interested in the Rooted & Resilient group. Please also indicate whether you are interested in the Tuesday group with Kameron McClintic or the Thursday group with Lily Hightower.
What is Group Therapy and How Can It Benefit You?
Group therapy allows individuals to gain insight and understanding into their thoughts, feelings, behaviors, and relationship patterns. The ways we interact with others in group often reflect the ways we relate to people outside of therapy. Because of this, group provides a unique opportunity to recognize patterns, experiment with new ways of relating, and create meaningful personal change that can extend into everyday life.
Group therapy offers a supportive environment where individuals can talk honestly and directly about their feelings while practicing new interpersonal behaviors. Through giving and receiving support and feedback, members can develop greater self-awareness, strengthen relationships, and decrease feelings of isolation and distress.
For some clients, group therapy can be as helpful as individual therapy and may be especially valuable when social support, relationships, communication, and interpersonal patterns are important areas of growth. Group can also provide a safe and encouraging environment to practice insights and skills learned in individual therapy.
The here-and-now nature of the group allows members and the group therapist to notice relationship dynamics as they occur. Exploring these reactions and patterns in real time can create opportunities for meaningful and lasting growth.
Ideal Group Member
Do you have to have specific interpersonal difficulties to benefit from group therapy? The short answer is no.
Many people seek group therapy without having a specific relationship-related concern. Feelings of disconnection, meaninglessness, identity confusion, anxiety, mild depression, or simply sensing that something is missing can all have relational components.
For individuals experiencing more noticeable interpersonal challenges, such as rejection, isolation, difficulty trusting others, repeatedly falling into certain roles in relationships, or patterns of unhealthy relationships, group therapy provides an opportunity to better understand these experiences and develop new ways of connecting.
The ideal group member is able to commit to at least 12 sessions of Rooted & Resilient, participate consistently, remain engaged in the group process, and be open to learning new things about themselves and new ways of relating to others.
What’s Covered in the Pre-Group Session?
- A brief explanation of interpersonal and process-oriented group therapy and how it can help address relationship patterns and interpersonal concerns.
- Common misconceptions and concerns about participating in group therapy.
- Guidelines for getting the most out of the group experience.
- What to expect during the first several group meetings.
- The role of the group therapist.
- Expectations regarding participation and length of commitment.
- Group guidelines, including confidentiality, attendance, boundaries, and socializing outside of the group.
Tuesday Group
Every Tuesday from 6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Group Therapist: Kameron McClintic, LPC-Associate, Supervised by Katy David, LPC-S
This group currently has openings!
Thursday Group
Every Thursday from 6:30 pm–8:00 pm
Group Therapist: Lily Hightower, LPC-Associate, Supervised by Katy David, LPC-S
This group currently has openings!
Group members can enroll at any time of the year, space permitting, after completing a pre-group session to make sure the group is a good fit. A minimum 12-session commitment is required to help support consistency and group cohesion.
Location:
1206 West 43rd Street
Austin, TX 78756
Cost:
Group Sessions: $50 per session
Pre-Group Session: $150 (one-time cost)