This 16-week expressive, experiential, and talk therapy skill-building group is for middle-schoolers, inclusive of cisgender females and transgender students. Our focus is helping participants increase self-compassion, balance moods, and reduce worries. We dive deeply into the shifting terrain of friendships, our complex feelings about social media usage, and how to build a confident self while embracing our differences — all during a developmental period brimming with pressure to assimilate. 

Participants will explore their identity, including the parts that are easy for others to see and the parts that are more hidden, in order both to understand more about identities overall and to love themselves and their own identities. We explore these topics through the lens of individual values as participants build the foundations necessary to increase confidence, decrease stress, and find deeper connection in relationships.

• Facilitated by: Facilitated by Aryn Davis, LGPC, MA EdHD, MEd, & Stephanie Brown, MA

• Dates*: This is an ongoing group that meets once per week for 16 weeks for the winter/spring semester, beginning Wednesday, January 8.

• Time: Wednesdays 5-6:15 p.m.

• Place: The Center for Family Well-Being, 5039 Connecticut Ave. NW #7 Washington DC 20008

• Details: This is a 16-week clinical group. For questions about the group or payment, please email amy@centerforfamilywellbeing.com or simply fill out the registration form below.

*Thanks for your interest in this group! We typically require at least four registered participants per group in order for it to run as scheduled. If we haven't met this minimum number of participants before a group begins, we may pause or push back the start date. We will always communicate any changes with registered participants. If you have any questions, please reach out to our Intake Care Coordinator Amy Murphy at amy@centerforfamilywellbeing.com.