This group offers clients a space to learn many important skills to help them build the life they want. The material includes mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.
This group offers clients a space to learn many important skills to help them build the life they want. The material includes mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotional regulation and interpersonal effectiveness.
This group is designed for parents and caregivers supporting a child with an Eating Disorders, offering a space where you don’t have to navigate the challenges alone. It is a process-oriented group focused on supporting you—your emotions, responses, and experiences—while helping you build more effective ways to respond to your child. Through connection with other parents, along with psychoeducation and practical tools, the group aims to reduce isolation and strengthen your confidence in supporting your child’s recovery.
Hosted by Breona Dunlap-Griffin
Licensed Professional Counselor, LPC, PsyD
Group meets in Portland, OR 97209
This group is designed for parents and caregivers supporting a child with an Eating Disorders, offering a space where you don’t have to navigate the challenges alone. It is a process-oriented group focused on supporting you—your emotions, responses, and experiences—while helping you build more effective ways to respond to your child. Through connection with other parents, along with psychoeducation and practical tools, the group aims to reduce isolation and strengthen your confidence in supporting your child’s recovery.
This 8-week group supports individuals of all bodies, identities, and lived experiences in developing a more compassionate and accepting relationship with their body. Through guided discussion, mindfulness, self-compassion practices, and skills-building, participants will explore body image, shame, authenticity, societal messages, body trust, and identity beyond appearance. Group members will learn tools to reduce self-judgment, challenge harmful beliefs, strengthen embodiment, and engage more fully in valued living. This group offers a supportive community where participants can connect, reflect, and reduce isolation around body image struggles.
This 8-week group supports individuals of all bodies, identities, and lived experiences in developing a more compassionate and accepting relationship with their body. Through guided discussion, mindfulness, self-compassion practices, and skills-building, participants will explore body image, shame, authenticity, societal messages, body trust, and identity beyond appearance. Group members will learn tools to reduce self-judgment, challenge harmful beliefs, strengthen embodiment, and engage more fully in valued living. This group offers a supportive community where participants can connect, reflect, and reduce isolation around body image struggles.
Online Groups
Offered 1-2 times per year. Teens and their parent or significant adult meet together in a group to learn and practice DBT skills. This is a four week course that meets once or twice per week.
Offered 1-2 times per year. Teens and their parent or significant adult meet together in a group to learn and practice DBT skills. This is a four week course that meets once or twice per week.
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Self-Harming Support Groups
How does therapy for self-harm work?
A person may turn to self-injury so that they can distract themselves from their stress, depression, anxiety, or upsetting circumstances. Therapy can address the cause of an individual’s suffering. A therapist can help a person understand why they may want to self-harm and help the person learn new methods of coping. A person may have poor emotion regulation, and treatment such as cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) is helpful for breaking this behaviour. In addition, treatment such as dialectical behavior therapy can help a person manage their tolerance of distress.
Which therapies are best for self-harm?
Specific approaches used by professionals include cognitive behavioral, dialectical behavior, psychodynamic, and mentalisation-based therapies, among others. Cognitive behavioral and dialectical behavior therapies are common approaches for people who have painful thoughts and past traumas. These therapies help an individual cope with distress, regulate emotions, and manage impulsive urges.
Does the tendency to self-harm mean the person is suicidal?
Having this urge does not mean the individual suffers from suicidal ideation. People who want to self-injure look to distract or alleviate themselves from the pain they are experiencing. People with suicidal tendencies want to end life altogether. However, this does not mean a person with the intent to self-harm will not attempt suicide.
How often and how long are therapy sessions for self-harm?
As with any type of therapy, sessions depend on the individual. Clients may see improvement within 20 sessions, at an average of 50 minutes per session, while others may opt for 20 to 30 sessions over, maybe, a six-month period. People, especially those with co-occurring conditions like depression and anxiety, may need to continue therapy for up to 12 to 18 months.