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Benefits & Potential Outcomes from Group Therapy
- Learn to identify and label what emotions I am feeling during group.
- Learn to trust other people by sharing my true emotions.
- Learning to let my guard down by trusting others rather than putting others through a “test” before I trust them.
- Be able to experience that bonding is done mostly at emotional levels with other human beings.
- Face the emotions, walk through them, and have this be the benefit and reason for doing something, rather than seeing an intellectual gain.
- Recognize that others have similar emotions as I do. This is one of the reasons that makes us human; our ability to feel emotions.
- Be able to experience a much wider range of emotions.
- Accept this wider range of emotions as being human and believing that it is okay to have emotions.
- Learning to “be there” for others in an emotional way and be able to validate their emotions.
- Begin to see that when others get to know me they do like me and a friendship can begin.