MEN'S GROUP

A new group is forming for male clients.

This Group is for YOU if you struggle with social isolation and few male relationships that are meaningful and significant.

Men in our culture have difficulty relating emotionally to other men. Men who were raised in dysfunctional home environments have an even harder time. Children are traumatized by parents who are abusive, absent, checked-out or who expect their sons to be who they need them to be. When sons must attune to their parents needs in order to survive emotionally – instead of the other way around –, they develop in ways that impede adult intimacy.

Group Therapy works because emotional problems that form as a result of inadequate early relationships HEAL in the context of healthy, honest adult relationships. Group provides a context where men experience emotional connection – including anger – with other men, and transform strong impulses into positive change. Group also encourages men to see themselves realistically, rather than through the distorted lens of their childhood trauma.

Men who exhibit symptoms of depression, anxiety, addiction, relational hostility, conflict avoidance, social isolation, rage, and/or feelings of inadequacy, may not understand the source of their discontent. They may believe that their childhoods were normal or not-so-bad, but their symptoms belie this belief. Why? Victims of childhood trauma can sometimes identify obvious instances of emotional or physical abuse. Oftentimes, however, the “abuse” is more subtle. It may have been directed towards another family member or disguised as neglect.

Group therapy is an extremely effective means of healing from childhood trauma.

Please call Elizabeth Perwin at 301-589-5089 for more information.

posted by Laurie Young  # 1:13 PM