Catherine O'Riordan
In Person Therapy Group 2025
This therapy group is for qualified counsellors, psychotherapists, and allied health professionals. If you have completed your training to diploma level this includes you but if you are not sure please ask.
The group will be facilitated by me, Catherine O'Riordan. I am committed to a humanistic-integrative approach to groupwork. I am informed by developmentally based, relationally focused principles as well as Gestalt and Psychodrama groupwork ideas.
As facilitator I am committed to helping the group as a collective foster a sense of security, belonging, experimentation, and intimacy. This relational environment allows everyone the opportunity to name and explore their inhibitions and shame, and with the support of the group become more able to tolerate being comfortably uncomfortable with their vulnerability.
Group therapy can be a highly positive and restorative experience. Some therapists have wounds from their original groupwork training and my commitment is to facilitate the group process in such a way that you are in fact kept secure. Most people find navigating being themselves in a group challenging.
Each group participant will be invited to be reflective and mindful of their own needs and the needs of the group as a whole. You will find the opportunity to be supported to experiment with new and creative responses to yourself and others within a contactful, responsive, interpersonal environment. Ruptures will be embraced to allow for healing and growth. The aim of the group is to support your autonomy and self-realisation as the unique person you are.
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Group size: six minimum / twelve maximum.
Where: Nottingham.
Cost: £35 each session, a total of £350 for the 10-week course. A non-refundable deposit of £100 will secure your place.
Timings: Wednesday's 6.00pm-8.00pm.
Prior to committing to the 10-week therapy group we will can have a 15-minute appointment.
Please contact me if you are interested in forming this new group and we can arrange to meet either online or in person.​
Email: inner_child@yahoo.com
Mobile: 07875 816 205.
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Multiple factors may stimulate a person’s growth and self-realisation: a feeling of belonging; the experience of being accepted; the possibility of showing up despite shame; leaning into challenges; the possibility of working with kind but constructive criticism; a reorientation in values or beliefs; support to try something new; the choice of letting go of old ways of being-in-relationship.
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