Group Psychodynamic Therapy

Group psychodynamic therapy offers a unique opportunity to explore emotional patterns, relationship difficulties, and the ways we experience ourselves in connection with others.

While individual therapy allows for deep personal reflection, group therapy brings the relational world into the room. The group becomes a living space where patterns of closeness, distance, trust, conflict, attachment, withdrawal, and repair can be noticed and understood as they unfold.

This type of therapy may be especially meaningful for individuals who find themselves repeating painful relational patterns, struggling with emotional intensity, fearing abandonment, withdrawing from others, or feeling uncertain about how they are experienced in relationships.

Psychodynamic group therapy is not simply a place to talk about problems. It is a structured therapeutic setting where members can begin to understand how their internal experiences shape the way they relate to others.

Within the group, feelings and reactions often emerge in real time. These moments can become important opportunities for reflection, helping members better understand the emotional patterns, defences, and relational expectations that may also appear outside of therapy.

The work is careful, reflective, and relational. Rather than offering quick solutions, the group provides a consistent space where experiences can be thought about, spoken, and gradually understood.

This is a small, closed psychodynamic therapy group structured within a framework developed through the University of Alberta Day Treatment Program tradition.

Because the group is closed, members commit to participating for the full 12-week period. This structure supports consistency, trust, and the gradual development of meaningful therapeutic work among group members.