Adolescent Skills Group

Sometimes once-a-week therapy isn’t enough.

Some adolescents need more repetition.
More accountability.
More structured practice during the week.

Our Adolescent Skills Group is designed for that space in between.

This is not a hospital program and not a crisis-level service.
It is a structured, therapist-led group that meets multiple times per week to help adolescents strengthen emotional and behavioral skills in a supportive peer environment.

 This group may be a good fit for adolescents who:

• Struggle with emotional regulation
   
• Experience anxiety, mood swings, or reactivity
   
• Have difficulty with peer relationships
   
• Know coping skills but struggle to use them consistently
   
• Need more structure between individual therapy sessions
   
• Would benefit from practicing skills in a peer setting
   

This group is often helpful for adolescents who are not in need of hospitalization, but need more than once-weekly therapy.

 We use structured, DBT-informed skill development to strengthen:

• Emotional regulation
   
• Distress tolerance
   
• Interpersonal effectiveness
   
• Mindfulness
   
• Physiological regulation (with optional biofeedback integration)
   

Our approach is experiential and practical — not lecture-based.
Participants practice skills in real time and receive guided support from licensed clinicians.

•  1-hour therapist-led group sessions
   
• Offered 2–3 times per week
   
• Designed to supplement (not replace) individual therapy
   
• Insurance accepted (billed as group psychotherapy)
   
• Brief screening required prior to enrollment
   

Some adolescents attend once weekly. Others attend multiple times per week for increased structure and repetition.

Skill development requires repetition.

When adolescents meet multiple times per week, they have more opportunities to:

• Practice emotional regulation in real time
   
• Receive feedback and coaching
   
• Build peer accountability
   
• Generalize skills more quickly
   

For many families, this model provides meaningful support without requiring higher levels of care.

We incorporate optional biofeedback-informed exercises to help adolescents understand how stress impacts their body and how to regulate it.

This may include guided breathing, heart rate variability awareness, and structured regulation exercises.

We are happy to collaborate with referring providers to ensure continuity of care.

This program is designed to enhance outpatient therapy — not replace it.

1. We offer brief screening consultations to determine whether this group is a good fit. 
2. Once we determine fit, we will request additional information. 

We are here to support you every step of the way. To learn more or ask questions, please contact us by clicking the button below: 

Younger Skills Group (Coming Soon)

We are preparing to offer a similar structured skills group for younger children as interest grows.

If you are interested in a younger cohort, please contact us so we can notify you when enrollment opens.