Group Therapy
Why group therapy?
Group therapy provides a supportive and safe environment to practice and enhance your relational and personal skills. It is an ideal space to build on the progress made in individual therapy, allowing for deeper self-exploration and growth.
One of the key benefits of a group setting is the opportunity to experience acceptance, empathy, and openness—not only from the therapist but also from fellow group members.
This shared experience fosters connection, understanding, and new perspectives, helping you navigate personal challenges in a way that individual therapy alone cannot.
in German
bi-weekly
Tuesdays
6 pm - 8.30 pm
11.03.25 - 17.06.25
50 € / 90 min
How do we work
This group follows a person-centered approach, with the guiding question: Am I lovable? The focus is on building secure, fulfilling relationships while exploring the delicate balance between closeness and distance.
In this safe and supportive setting, you will have the opportunity to deepen your self-awareness, strengthen your connection with others, and develop healthier relationship patterns.
If you're looking to improve the way you relate to yourself and those around you, this group offers the right space for growth and transformation.
The advantages of attending a group
Compared to individual therapy
“There’s nothing I have to fear when I know I’m worthy of love and belonging.” This feeling of being unconditionally accepted can be established in individual therapy. Yet, usually during the therapy process, concerns arise, such as, “You are saying this as a therapist, but how can I trust real-life people (ever again)?” Group therapy is a safe container that allows you to explore and (re)gain trust and belief in people. Further, you can explore how you relate and connect with others and how you can make them feel safe and connect more easily with you.
To some extent, just like in individual therapy, the group can provide a safe space to talk about outside situations, and the community is an opportunity to explore first-hand how you act in a group. As there are very few rules, it is very likely to project and act out one's most critical relational patterns within the group amongst members. This opportunity is unbelievably valuable as immediate experience is always more potent than talking about something on a cognitive level.
Compared to studying without a support group
One word to the student’s group. Studying is tough—away from home and after completing the theses about to conquer the real world. That’s a challenging and meaningful transition because a successful and resourceful university experience provides a reasonable basis for a career start. Sadly, the university is not designed to care about individual experiences and emotional challenges. Just too quickly, it can be overseen that during your time at university, you also build lifelong friendships, start a career network, meet your romantic partner and develop relationship skills to handle your personal and professional partnerships. Unlike anything, it can be an exciting and joyful time, but it also feels lonely, overwhelming and lost. In the latter case, finding an unconditional space at university and people who can genuinely relate to your situation can be difficult. Therefore, it may be better to bring worries, (self-)doubts and challenges to a natural and supportive space you can rely on.
Important rules
1. “What is in the room stays in the room”
An indispensable prerequisite for participation is the commitment of all group members to absolute confidentiality towards third parties who are not part of the group.
2. Attendance – “in good times and in bad”
Both groups are designed to be participated for the whole semester. If you have any concerns regarding the participation episode (e.g. due to in-hospital treatment), please discuss it during the initial session or as early as possible. Besides such outer circumstances, it’s crucial for your benefit and the group to attend regularly – no matter what. More often than not, the idea “I have too much on my plate right now to go to the meeting” comes up, and it is just as unreasonable as saying, “I feel too unwell to go to the doctor”. Instead, it is the inherent idea to attend group therapy when you don’t feel on top of your life – and that means you are primarily stressed or depressed.
Consequently, I expect you to be unwell during the group session, and others do so too. As human beings, we’re not meant to perform well all the time. We’re beings, not doings. We’re always good enough. This genuine experience of coming just as you are and feeling accepted and good enough is a fantastic gift that many people hardly ever experience daily.
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