Healing Happens in Connection
Illuminate Group Therapy & Community Programs
At Illuminate, we believe healing is strengthened through connection with others who share similar experiences.
Our groups provide opportunities to build skills, gain support, foster meaningful relationships, and experience growth in a safe and welcoming environment.
Whether you're seeking support for yourself, your child, your relationship, or your family, our group programs are designed to provide practical tools, emotional support, and a sense of community.
Groups Therapy Categories
Search by category here or scroll through all of our options below.
Lighthouse Connections
Emotional Support & Stabilization Group
A supportive group designed for individuals experiencing emotional distress, life transitions, grief, anxiety, depression, or overwhelming stress.
Participants learn coping skills, emotional regulation strategies, problem-solving techniques, and ways to build resilience while receiving support from others navigating similar challenges.
Ideal For:
Anxiety
Depression
Stress
Life transitions
Grief
Individuals waiting for or participating in therapy
Little Lights
Child Emotional Regulation Group (Ages 6-9)
A play-based therapy group that helps children identify emotions, develop coping skills, improve emotional regulation, and build confidence.
Through games, creative activities, storytelling, movement, and play therapy interventions, children learn healthy ways to express feelings and navigate challenges.
Ideal For:
Emotional regulation difficulties
Anxiety
Behavioral concerns
Social challenges
Children needing additional emotional support
Rooted
Perinatal & Postpartum Support Group
Pregnancy and parenthood bring tremendous change. Rooted provides a supportive community for mothers navigating pregnancy, postpartum adjustment, parenting stress, anxiety, depression, identity changes, and the challenges of early parenthood.
This group offers encouragement, education, and connection in a judgment-free environment.
Ideal For:
Pregnancy
Postpartum adjustment
Birth trauma
Maternal mental health concerns
Parenting support
Strong Together
Couples & Relationship Group
Strong relationships require intentional care and growth.
This group helps couples improve communication, strengthen emotional connection, navigate conflict, rebuild trust, and develop healthier relationship patterns.
Topics Include:
Communication skills
Conflict resolution
Emotional connection
Trust building
Healthy boundaries
Nourish
Eating Disorder Recovery Support Group
Recovery is possible, and no one should have to walk the journey alone.
Nourish provides support for individuals navigating eating disorders, disordered eating, body image concerns, and recovery-related challenges.
Participants explore healing, self-compassion, emotional regulation, body trust, and sustainable recovery practices.
Ideal For:
Eating disorders
Disordered eating
Body image concerns
Recovery support
Recovery & Resilience
Trauma & Substance Use Recovery Group
This group is designed for individuals recovering from trauma, substance use concerns, or co-occurring challenges.
Participants learn healthy coping strategies, relapse prevention skills, emotional regulation tools, and ways to build a meaningful life in recovery.
Topics Include:
Trauma recovery
Addiction recovery
Relapse prevention
Emotional regulation
Healthy relationships
Resilience building
Camino
Spanish Speaking Support Group
Camino provides a welcoming space for Spanish-speaking individuals to receive support, build community, develop coping skills, and discuss mental health concerns in their preferred language.
The group focuses on emotional wellness, life stressors, personal growth, and connection.
Language: Spanish
Connecting Differently
Autism & Neurodiversity Social Group
A strengths-based group designed for neurodivergent children and adolescents.
Participants build social confidence, friendship skills, emotional awareness, self-advocacy, and meaningful peer connections in an accepting and affirming environment.
Ideal For:
Autism Spectrum Disorder
ADHD
Neurodivergent youth
Social skill development
Thrive
ADHD & Executive Functioning Group
Thrive helps children, teens, and adults strengthen executive functioning skills while learning practical strategies for success at home, school, work, and in relationships.
Topics Include:
Organization
Time management
Emotional regulation
Goal setting
Self-confidence
ADHD education
DBT Skills Group
Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Training
A structured group focused on teaching evidence-based DBT skills that help participants better manage emotions, tolerate distress, improve relationships, and build mindfulness practices.
Skills Include:
Mindfulness
Emotional Regulation
Distress Tolerance
Interpersonal Effectiveness
Available for Teens and Adults
Holding Light
Grief & Loss Support Group
Loss can feel isolating. Holding Light provides a compassionate space for individuals grieving the death of a loved one, life transitions, divorce, infertility, pregnancy loss, or other significant losses.
Participants receive support, education, and connection while honoring their unique grief journey.
Fostering Hope
Foster, Adoptive & Kinship Parent Support Group
Parenting children with complex histories requires unique support and understanding.
Fostering Hope provides education, encouragement, and practical tools for foster, adoptive, and kinship caregivers navigating attachment, trauma, behavioral concerns, school systems, and family transitions.
Topics Include:
Trauma-informed parenting
Attachment
Behavioral support
School advocacy
Self-care for caregivers
Building Connection
Minecraft Social Skills Group
Using the power of therapeutic gaming, Building Connections helps children strengthen communication, teamwork, emotional regulation, problem-solving, and friendship skills.
Participants work together on creative challenges, cooperative projects, and guided therapeutic activities within a structured Minecraft environment.
Ideal For:
Autism
ADHD
Social anxiety
Friendship difficulties
Neurodivergent youth
Game On
Teen Gaming Process Group
Game On combines therapeutic discussion with interactive gaming experiences to help teens build confidence, improve communication, strengthen relationships, and develop emotional regulation skills.
This group creates a safe space for teens to connect with peers while exploring real-life challenges through guided therapeutic conversations.
Topics Include:
Self-esteem
Friendships
Stress management
Communication
Emotional regulation
Safe Havens
Neurodivergent Teen Gaming Group
A therapeutic gaming group designed specifically for neurodivergent adolescents seeking connection, confidence, and community.
Participants engage in structured gaming experiences while developing social skills, self-advocacy, emotional awareness, and healthy peer relationships.
Ideal For:
Autism
ADHD
Neurodivergent teens
Social connection and friendship building
Interested in Joining a Group?
New groups begin regularly throughout the year, and enrollment is ongoing for many programs.
To learn more, check availability, or join an upcoming group, please contact our office or complete our Group Therapy Interest Form.