The weekly group process will teach you—and the other members—how to (1) be more mindful in order to better understand yourself, (2) help you analyze your Games and (3) teach you to identify and flip the Script you decided to follow when you were Little. The aim of the group, is to start thinking for yourself and to become a Real person: to put a new show on the road. 

You are probably thinking, “I don’t like the idea of groups.” Groups of people scare us, but that is not a reason to not join the group. If we transform our fear into courage, groups of people provide nourishment and reassurance. These groups are different than supportive therapy groups such as Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), a grief group, or an eating disorders group. All of my patients are allowed to join, so these are heterogenous groups of folks. The other question you might have is, “Why not just do individual therapy?” Individual therapy has one major limitation: the therapist does not observe how you interact and socialize with others. Simply put, the therapist sees the private you and not the public you. Group treatment facilitates an opportunity for me to see what you do when you encounter other people. 

For example, what Games do you play? Eric Berne commented on the group process: “One object of a therapy group is to find out how people go about presenting themselves to each other.” This is what I am interested in. Therefore, our observations and understandings from individual therapy are accelerated by the analysis of the experiences in the group, and vice versa.