4 Glenarm Terrace

Totnes, TQ9 5PY

1 The Plains

Totnes, TQ9 5DR

45 Queen Street

Exeter, EX4 3SR

Some of the benefits of group psychotherapy

• One’s habitual ways of relating are often reproduced in the group setting. This gives the group the opportunity to examine and understand the difficulties that arise, and this in turn allows new more productive patterns of relating to emerge and be established.

• Participants can discover that other group members have had similar kinds of experiences to themselves, and this tends to reduce the sense of isolation and shame.

• Participants start getting a real sense of how they are experienced by others through feedback from, and interaction with, other members.

• The group context offers a relatively safe space in which new ways of relating can be thought about and tried out.

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