Types of Group Therapy & Community Support
Point 10 of 10 · Through other people
Enters from outside the circle — through community and shared practice
Through other people
Some healing only happens in a room full of people who get it. Group and community approaches use the oldest medicine there is — belonging — alongside structured support, shared recovery, and guided states of deep rest and focus.
This point might fit if isolation is part of the problem, if you heal by helping, or if you want your progress witnessed by more than one person.
View the full map →Group therapy (process groups)
A small group led by a therapist becomes a live laboratory of relating: you see yourself through others, practice honesty, and discover you’re not the only one.
Twelve-step facilitation
A structured therapy that helps people engage genuinely with AA/NA-style recovery — an evidence-based bridge into a free, everywhere support network.
SMART Recovery
A secular, science-based mutual-help alternative built on CBT and motivational tools — meetings plus a practical toolbox.
Matrix model
An intensive outpatient program for stimulant addiction combining group, family education, individual sessions, and drug testing in a structured 16-week frame.
Harm reduction psychotherapy
Meets people where they are: reducing harms and building health without requiring abstinence as the entry ticket.
Therapeutic communities
Residential programs where the community itself is the method — structure, roles, and mutual accountability over months.
Psychoeducational multifamily groups
Several families learning and problem-solving together around a member’s serious mental illness — with solid evidence for reducing relapse.
Complicated grief treatment
A targeted therapy for grief that has stopped moving — combining loss-focused and restoration-focused work with strong trial support.
Meaning reconstruction (grief)
Neimeyer’s approach: grieving as relearning the world and rebuilding the story of a life that still includes the person you lost.
Sex therapy (sensate focus, PLISSIT)
Talk-based (never physical in session) treatment for sexual concerns — structured touch homework for couples, permission and information before intensive therapy.
Clinical hypnotherapy
Uses focused, absorbed attention — a natural state, not mind control — to work with pain, anxiety, habits, and IBS, where its evidence is strongest.
Ericksonian hypnotherapy
Milton Erickson’s indirect, story-and-suggestion style: trance woven into conversation, tailored entirely to the individual.
Autogenic training
A self-regulation practice of repeated phrases (“my arms are heavy and warm”) that reliably shifts the body toward calm — one of the oldest studied relaxation methods.
Guided imagery
Structured imagination as intervention — rehearsing safety, healing, or performance with the body responding as if it were real.
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