Groups
Therapeutic groups offer a unique and powerful path to healing. In a group setting, you're not just receiving support—you’re also giving it. This shared experience fosters connection, deepens understanding, and helps break the isolation that often accompanies struggle.
Our groups are thoughtfully designed and professionally led to create a safe, supportive environment where you can explore personal challenges, build emotional resilience, and gain new perspectives. Group therapy provides a unique space to be seen, heard, and supported.
We currently offer:
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Grief Alchemy- Registration Open
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Chronic Illness Support Groups- Registration Open
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Coparenting Together- Postponed to a future date
New groups are developed and offered regularly based on the needs of our community. Each group is facilitated by skilled clinicians who guide the process with care, structure, and sensitivity.
Group Enrollment currently open.
Who It's For: Adults (21+) experiencing grief due to death, loss, illness or disability, separation, or estrangement (additional guidelines for group members shared in registration form)
When: Sundays from 2-4pm, February 1- March 29 (Wk. 9 optional)
Where: The Birch Center
3326 Durham-Chapel Hill Blvd.
Durham, NC 27707
Cost: $30-80/session; $240-640 for 8 weeks (no charge for Wk. 9)
Grief Alchemy
Facilitated by ERin Cressy, LCSWA
When grief enters our lives, we are rarely prepared to face it. We are consumed with intense emotions or feel numb and stuck, unable to find a path forward or find any meaning in our pain. Rather than reaching out for support, we may hide or minimize our grief to avoid burdening others. Even in private, we may find ourselves turning away from our grief, afraid that if we allow it in, we will fall apart completely.
This isn't our fault-- in modern society, most of us were never taught how to grieve; only how to avoid it.
The good news: when we are given the tools and community support we need to process this experience, our grief can be transformed into what it was always meant to be: a profound life transition that deepens our connection to ourselves, our loved ones, and all living things.
If you are deep in your grief and wondering where to go from here, Grief Alchemy offers a welcoming, expansive space where your grief can be held, honored, and understood. Over this 9-week group, we will create a safe, supportive container for sharing and witnessing grief in all its forms, and come together to practice new methods for processing and integrating our grief, alone and in community.
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Group Enrollment is Currently Open
Who It's For: Adults (18+) experiencing chronic illness/pain
When: Thursdays, February 12-March 19
6:00-7:30 PM
Where: online
Cost: $20-$60/Group
Chronic Illness Support Group
Facilitated by Erin Cressy, LCSWA
Living with chronic illness can be an isolating and overwhelming experience—but you don’t have to navigate it alone. Our Chronic Illness Support Group is a peer-centered, professionally facilitated therapeutic space for adults (18+) living with chronic health conditions.
This group offers a space to:
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Share personal experiences in a validating environment
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Exchange resources, strategies, and support
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Process the emotional and relational impact of chronic illness
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Build resilience and connection through community
Led by an experienced therapist, this group blends the power of peer connection with the guidance of skilled facilitation. Together, we create a space where vulnerability is met with empathy, and where healing is supported through shared understanding.
Group Enrollment currently open.
This group will meet virtually for 6 weeks.
October 15-November 19
Wednesdays, 6:30-8 PM
$50/Group
Sliding Scale Spots may be available- please inquire about availability in the interest form.
Coparenting together
This Group is postponed and will be rescheduled for a future date.
Facilitated by Emily Fonseca, LCSWA
Co-parenting can feel overwhelming, but you don’t have to navigate it alone. This group is a welcoming space to connect with others who understand, share your experiences, and learn new ways to work together for your kids. With support from a therapist, you’ll find community, encouragement, and tools to make co-parenting a little easier and a lot more hopeful.
This group is LGBTQ+ and poly-affirming.