Beachway Therapy Center offers specialty groups on grief, loss, and trauma to further enhance the healing process in recovery. We are offering these groups to provide a safe, intimate, and confidential place for our clients to work through sensitive issues outside of addiction. The client’s primary therapist will appoint those clients suffering from such topics to provide supplemental therapy and get more in depth with underlying issues that may have resulted in or added to their disease of addiction.
Weeks 1 and 2
Grief and Loss
This specialty group consists of individuals who suffer from grief and loss due to death, loss of romantic relationships, friendships, loss of jobs, material possessions, and often times the loss of self that can accompany the disease of addiction. Over a two week time period the group will:
- Work through and identify the 5 stages of grief: Denial, Anger, Depression, Bargaining and Acceptance
- Share personal stories of “what happened” and what or who was “lost”
- Group discussion, support, and processing
- Validation of Emotions (anger, depression, relief, guilt, shame, joy, happiness)
- Gain coping skills though experiential exercises (setting boundaries, seeking and using support, meditation, prayer, helping others, creativity through music and arts)
Weeks 3 and 4
Trauma/PTSD
This specialty group consists of individuals suffering from symptoms of trauma and PTSD, due to tragic and traumatic events, including but not limited to: death of a loved one, an accident, sexual abuse, verbal or physical abuse, war, natural disasters, torture, witnessing trauma to another human being, etc. Over a two week time period the group will involve:
- Identification of source and symptoms of trauma
- Sharing personal stories of “what happened”
- Validation of emotions (anger, depression, guilt, shame, anxiety)
- Group discussion, support and processing
- Discussion of survival mechanisms ( dissociation, addiction, avoidance)
- Self-esteem building
- Self-Forgiveness
- Release of negative emotions through experiential exercises
- Coping skills through experiential exercises (setting boundaries, seeking and using support, meditation, prayer, helping others, creativity through music and arts)
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