The purpose of interactional group therapy is to increase knowledge and insight about interpersonal problems and conflicts.

Group is offered in mid-or-end-treatment for a number of clinical reasons, and offers participants a perspective on their individual and/or family issues which cannot always be achieved in individual or joint treatment. Additionally, it is a low-cost way to maintain treatment for those who are private pay, or in case one's insurance benefits have been depleted.

The group quickly heightens awareness of how thoughts, feelings and motivations of others are perceived by regarding one's self and how one then interacts.

Group helps each participant recognize how their incomplete understandings, misunderstood communications, and misguided actions have contributed to the symptoms for which they are in treatment.

Additionally, participants almost always state that group helps them understand how members of the opposite sex relate, giving valuable insight into their relationship experiences. Similarly, enhanced understanding of our parents, children, and those to whom we are close can assist in building constructive relationships.

Although no one is ever required to talk, one person volunteers to relate the problem that is the focus of his or her treatment. Group members interact, while the therapist interprets and helps both the speaker and the other group members understand the problem in depth. The therapist interprets how the speaker could more effectively solve his or her conflicts.

The group is about equally mixed with men and women ranging in age from early adulthood to retirement.
The sessions meet weekly, in the early evening, for 90 minutes.

Advanced Group

Only clients who have successfully completed the Beginning Group are eligible for the Advanced Group. Advance Group differs from Beginning Group in several ways:

  • Participants are expected to make full revelations regarding clinical issues
  • Participants are supportively challenged by other group members
  • There is specific educational content, brief lectures, on significant issues confronting group members
  • The use of clinical questionnaires are shared for greater understanding
  • Interpretations of clinical issues by Bill is more in depth
  • Group is meant to be a terminating clinical experience