Group Therapy – Grace Harlow Klein

Group therapy is a powerful process for connecting with others, using your voice to share your feelings, life experiences and telling your story.

My role as the therapist is to facilitate the process within the members of the group so that people share and respond to each other. As members come to trust each other – to learn how to share without being critical, judgmental or giving advice – each person risks more, deepening the sharing and connection.

When I have current clients who have similar experiences or would benefit from a group, I invite clients to join a group. It can be 2-6 people. It is like a practice arena for relationships, healing – and for life.

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Connecting
In the world we live in where families scatter across long distances, the longing for family sometimes becomes very painful. It is often difficult to sustain connections, even in the presence of deep feelings of love, across those distances.

Other families separate, loose connections due to trauma within the family, leaving feelings of loss and abandonment.

If we are open, there may be new ways to create those connections.

The church community is one place where those relationships and connections may be created. I saw the strength of friendships and connection for my parents in their church.

And for my mother, it was also in Mothers’ Club. They were a group of women who remained together, first learning about and sharing the challenges of parenting young children, then adolescent children. Finally, they became a support group in their own aging and end of life – together over forty to sixty years, many of them remaining in the same community. There were four women remaining from Mother’s Club, present at my mother’s funeral.

But there are other ways as well to create family and community.

Based on the novel by Kent Haruf, Plainsong, a Hallmark film, “tells the story about redemption, healing and the power of hope.” But even more, it is a story of people connecting and creating a new definition of family and community – even love.

A heart-broken husband, abandoned by his wife with two sons to raise, while working as a high-school teacher.

The divorced teacher colleague, caring for her elderly and ill father.

A pregnant teenager, thrown out by her mother.

Two bachelor brothers set in their farming ways.

“Gradually drawn together through simple acts of kindness and humanity, their paths are indelibly interwoven.”

It is a touching story, asking us to examine, even redefine, our lives through connection and community.

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