Life’s challenges can sometimes feel isolating. Whether you’re dealing with stress, anxiety, relationship struggles, or life transitions, it’s easy to feel like you’re the only one going through it.
Group therapy offers a supportive space where people can share experiences and realize they are not alone. Hearing others’ stories often brings relief, understanding, and a sense of connection that can be deeply healing. Simply being in a room with others who understand can make a powerful difference.
Tell us about your needs, preferences, and insurance—and we’ll match you with a therapist who fits you, not the other way around.
We work with major insurance providers and offer flexible options to make care accessible.
Group therapy sessions are structured and guided by a therapist to ensure the space feels respectful, balanced, and supportive for everyone involved. Participants are always encouraged—but never forced—to share at a pace that feels comfortable.
Conversations often focus on shared themes, personal experiences, and practical tools that support growth and emotional well-being. Over time, many people begin to feel more comfortable speaking openly, offering encouragement to others, and receiving support themselves.
Many participants leave sessions feeling understood, supported, and more hopeful.
Group therapy accelerates growth by working directly with relational dynamics.
Helps you feel seen, understood, and less alone in your experiences.
Supports clearer communication, boundary-setting, and emotional expression.
Offers real-time feedback in a supportive, nonjudgmental space.
Creates opportunities for corrective emotional experiences through healthy attachment.
Share what’s going on and what would feel supportive.
We’ll recommend one to two Living Well therapists who fit your preferences and schedule.
Start weekly sessions, build skills, and feel more like yoursel, in daily life and relationships.
We believe in offering support even if you can’t be in-person. Traffic, weather, childcare, packed calendars, none of that should keep you from getting help.
We help many people remotely who may feel anxious, stuck, or simply not like themselves. You deserve care that fits your life and treats you as a whole human, not a diagnosis.
We see the whole you. Sessions are warm, collaborative, and paced to your nervous system—not a protocol.
Our intake team listens first, then hand-matches you with a best-fit clinician based on goals, style, culture, and lived experience.
We integrate talk therapy with somatic and experiential tools so change is felt, not just discussed.
Inclusive care for LGBTQ+ and BIPOC clients; we meet you where you are with curiosity and respect.
HIPAA-compliant platform, end-to-end encryption, evenings and lunch hours available, continuity when traveling in Illinois.
We’ll verify your benefits and outline costs up front, so there are no surprises.
Group therapy is a therapist-led therapy experience where a small group meets regularly to support growth, healing, and relationship skills. Group therapy at Living Well in Evanston offers a safe space to reduce isolation and practice new ways of relating.
Group therapy works through guided discussion, shared experience, and real-time relational learning. With a trained group therapist, members explore patterns, receive feedback, and build emotional regulation and connection skills.
Group counseling can help with anxiety, depression, self-esteem, relationship challenges, loneliness, shame, grief, and trauma-related patterns. It’s especially helpful when your challenges show up most strongly in relationships or social settings.
Group therapy can be highly effective and, for many people, accelerates growth because healing happens in relationship. Many clients benefit from combining individual therapy and group therapy for deeper support.
Process group therapy focuses on the here-and-now relationship dynamics between members, increasing self-awareness and connection. Skills groups focus more on learning tools (like coping skills or emotion regulation). Living Well can help you find the right type of group.
The first session typically includes introductions, group agreements, confidentiality expectations, and guidance on how the group works. Most people feel nervous at first, and that’s normal—comfort tends to build with consistency.
Yes,confidentiality is a core part of group therapy. Members agree to keep what’s shared private, and the therapist explains the boundaries and legal limits of confidentiality.
Group therapy can be a great fit if you want support, connection, and feedback in a structured environment. A brief intake call can help determine readiness and match you with an appropriate group.
Many groups are offered online and can be effective through secure telehealth. Living Well may offer online group therapy in Illinois depending on the group format and current schedule.
Living Well offers upcoming therapy groups and workshops. You can view current group schedules and speak with the intake team to find a group therapy option in Evanston that fits your goals.
