Healing Happens in Connection
Groups, Workshops & Community Programs
At Illuminate, we believe healing is strengthened through connection with others who share similar experiences.
Our groups and workshops create opportunities to build skills, gain support, foster meaningful relationships, and experience growth in a safe and welcoming environment.
Offerings change throughout the year based on clinician availability, community needs, and areas of specialty. Programs may include therapeutic groups, skills-based workshops, parent and caregiver education, neurodivergent-affirming programs, and other opportunities for connection and learning.
Explore Group & Workshop Topics
Our offerings evolve throughout the year. Explore some of the areas we're excited to build programming around.
Connecting Differently
Neurodivergent Connection & Confidence Group
Connecting Differently is a supportive group for neurodivergent children and teens who want opportunities to connect with others, better understand themselves, and build confidence in relationships.
Through shared interests, games, creative activities, movement, and conversation, participants can explore communication, emotions, boundaries, self-advocacy, and navigating relationships—without pressure to mask or change who they are.
Group experiences may include:
Building connections through shared interests
Understanding different communication styles
Emotional awareness and regulation
Boundaries and self-advocacy
Navigating friendship challenges
Building confidence and self-understanding
Celebrating neurodivergent strengths
Little Lights
Play-Based Emotional Regulation Group
Little Lights is a playful, supportive group designed to help children better understand their emotions, build regulation skills, and grow confidence through connection and creativity.
Through games, movement, storytelling, sensory activities, and play-based experiences, children practice identifying feelings, navigating big emotions, solving problems, and connecting with others.
May be a good fit for children experiencing:
Big emotions
Anxiety or worry
Emotional regulation challenges
Frustration or behavioral concerns
Friendship or social challenges
A need for additional emotional support
Held
Pregnancy & Postpartum Support Group
Pregnancy, birth, postpartum, and motherhood can bring enormous changes—not only physically, but emotionally, relationally, and personally. Held offers a supportive space for women to connect with others navigating this season of life.
Through conversation, connection, education, and practical tools, participants can explore the emotional realities of pregnancy and postpartum without pressure to have everything figured out.
Topics may include:
Pregnancy and postpartum emotions
Identity changes in motherhood
Anxiety, overwhelm, and emotional regulation
Relationships and changing family dynamics
Birth experiences and adjustment
Self-care without guilt
Connection and reducing isolation
Navigating expectations of motherhood
Strong Together
Couples Connection Workshop
Strong Together is a relationship-focused workshop designed to help couples slow down, reconnect, and better understand the patterns shaping their relationship.
Through guided exercises, education, and practical tools, couples can explore communication, emotional connection, conflict patterns, and ways to strengthen their relationship outside of the therapy room.
Topics may include:
Communication and listening
Understanding conflict patterns
Emotional connection
Needs and expectations
Repair after disconnection
Building friendship and intimacy
Creating intentional time for the relationship
PERIODIC WORKSHOP
Thrive: Kids
ADHD & Executive Functioning Skills Group
Thrive: Kids is a strengths-based group designed for children with ADHD and other executive-functioning differences to better understand how their brains work while building practical skills for everyday life.
Through play, movement, games, sensory activities, and creative challenges, children can explore strategies that work with their brains—not against them.
Topics may include:
Understanding my ADHD brain
Starting and finishing tasks
Big emotions and frustration
Impulse control and pausing
Organization and routines
Sensory and movement needs
Self-advocacy and asking for help
Recognizing strengths
SEASONAL OFFERING
Thrive: Teens
ADHD, Executive Functioning & Self-Understanding Group
Thrive: Teens creates a supportive space for neurodivergent teens to better understand themselves, connect with others who may share similar experiences, and develop practical strategies for navigating everyday life.
Rather than focusing on what's “wrong,” the group helps teens understand their individual patterns, strengths, challenges, and what actually helps their brains function well.
Topics may include:
ADHD and executive functioning
Motivation and task initiation
School overwhelm and procrastination
Emotional regulation
Rejection and relationship challenges
Sensory needs and overwhelm
Masking and self-advocacy
Building routines that actually work
Identity, confidence, and strengths
SEASONAL OFFERING
Thrive: Adults
ADHD & Executive Functioning Workshop Series
Thrive: Adults is designed for adults who want to better understand their ADHD brain and develop realistic strategies for everyday life. This workshop series focuses on education, self-understanding, and practical tools rather than trying to force neurotypical systems that may never have worked well in the first place.
Topics may include:
Understanding the ADHD brain
Executive functioning
Motivation and task initiation
Time awareness and transitions
Emotional regulation and overwhelm
Relationships and communication
Sensory needs
Routines and organization
Shame, self-criticism, and self-understanding
Building systems that work with your brain
PERIODIC WORKSHOP SERIES
Trauma Interpersonal Process Group
Connection, Safety & Relational Healing
Trauma can shape the way we experience ourselves, relationships, trust, safety, and connection with others. This interpersonal process group offers a supportive space for adults with trauma histories to explore how past experiences may continue to show up in present-day relationships.
Rather than focusing on retelling or processing traumatic events in detail, the group uses the relationships and interactions that develop within the group to build awareness, practice new ways of connecting, and explore patterns related to trust, boundaries, vulnerability, communication, and emotional safety.
This group may support adults who want to:
Understand how trauma impacts relationships
Explore patterns of connection and disconnection
Build greater awareness of triggers and relational responses
Practice boundaries and self-advocacy
Explore trust and vulnerability
Practice expressing emotions and needs
Give and receive supportive interpersonal feedback
Build greater comfort with connection
Reduce isolation and shame
Experience healthier relational patterns
This is a trauma-informed interpersonal process group rather than a trauma-processing intensive. Participants will not be expected to share detailed trauma experiences. A brief consultation is required before joining to help determine whether the group is an appropriate fit.
FORMING NOW
Parenting Differently
Parenting Neurodivergent Children Workshop
Parenting a neurodivergent child can require a different lens. Parenting Differently helps caregivers better understand ADHD, autism, sensory differences, executive functioning, emotional regulation, and the nervous system—while finding strategies that fit the child they actually have.
This workshop focuses on moving beyond behavior alone to better understand what a child may be communicating through overwhelm, avoidance, frustration, shutdown, or dysregulation.
Topics may include:
Understanding the neurodivergent brain
Executive functioning and everyday expectations
Sensory needs and overwhelm
Emotional regulation and co-regulation
Looking beneath behavior
Transitions, routines, and demands
Connection before correction
Supporting self-advocacy
Recognizing strengths
Creating realistic strategies for home
PERIODIC PARENT WORKSHOP
Regulation Lab
Emotional & Nervous-System Skills Workshop
Regulation Lab is an experiential workshop focused on understanding emotions, stress responses, sensory needs, and the nervous system. Rather than simply being told to “calm down,” participants explore what regulation actually feels like and discover tools that may help their individual brain and body.
Activities may incorporate movement, sensory experiences, grounding, creative expression, body awareness, and practical regulation strategies.
Participants may explore:
Recognizing signs of overwhelm
Understanding fight, flight, freeze, and shutdown responses
Identifying individual sensory needs
Grounding and body awareness
Movement and regulation
Emotional awareness
Building a personalized regulation toolbox
Recognizing what helps—and what doesn't
PERIODIC SKILLS WORKSHOP
Interpersonal Process Group
Connection, Relationships & Personal Growth
Relationships often bring our patterns, needs, fears, and ways of connecting into clearer view. An interpersonal process group offers a supportive space to better understand yourself through your interactions and relationships with others.
Rather than following a structured curriculum, the group focuses on what unfolds between members in the present moment. With support from the therapist and other group members, participants can explore relationship patterns, practice new ways of communicating, receive meaningful feedback, and build greater awareness of how they experience themselves and others.
This group may support adults who want to:
Better understand relationship patterns
Build deeper and more authentic connections
Practice expressing emotions and needs
Explore boundaries
Strengthen communication
Understand reactions to others
Give and receive meaningful feedback
Increase self-awareness
Feel less isolated in their experiences
FORMING NOW
Fostering Hope
Foster, Adoptive & Kinship Caregiver Support
Parenting a child who has experienced trauma, disrupted attachment, loss, or changes in caregivers can require a different way of understanding behavior, connection, and safety. Fostering Hope offers a supportive space for foster, adoptive, and kinship caregivers to learn, connect, and feel less alone.
Through education, discussion, and practical tools, caregivers can explore ways to support both their child's needs and their own well-being.
Topics may include:
Understanding trauma and attachment
Looking beneath behavior
Building safety and connection
Regulation before correction
Navigating rejection and relationship challenges
Supporting transitions and loss
Caregiver stress and burnout
Maintaining connection during difficult moments
SEASONAL GROUP OR WORKSHOP
Connected Parenting
Attachment & Connection Workshop for Caregivers
Connected Parenting helps caregivers look beyond behavior and explore the relationship underneath it. This workshop introduces attachment-informed ways of understanding children's emotional needs, behavior, connection, and regulation.
Caregivers can learn practical ways to strengthen connection, respond during difficult moments, support co-regulation, and create greater emotional safety within the parent-child relationship.
Topics may include:
Understanding attachment and connection
Looking beneath behavior
Connection before correction
Co-regulation
Responding to big emotions
Repair after difficult moments
Building emotional safety
Strengthening parent-child connection
Play and connection at home
PERIODIC PARENT WORKSHOP
Game On
Therapeutic Gaming & Connection Group
Game On uses shared interests, cooperative games, and play to create opportunities for connection, communication, problem-solving, and emotional growth.
Designed for children and teens who may connect more naturally through games than traditional conversation, this group provides a supportive environment where participants can build relationships while practicing skills through something they genuinely enjoy.
Group experiences may include:
Cooperative gaming and shared challenges
Communication and teamwork
Flexible thinking and problem-solving
Navigating frustration and disappointment
Emotional regulation
Friendship and connection
Boundaries and sportsmanship
Recognizing individual strengths
SEASONAL OFFERING
Create & Process
Virtual Art Processing Group
Sometimes what we're carrying is easier to explore through creativity than words alone. Create & Process is a virtual therapeutic group that uses art and creative expression as a way to explore emotions, experiences, relationships, identity, and personal growth.
Facilitated by Rylee, participants are invited to use
creative activities alongside supportive conversation and reflection. No artistic experience or skill is needed—the focus is on the process, not the finished product.
Group experiences may include:
Creative expression and art-making
Emotional awareness and processing
Exploring identity and life experiences
Stress and nervous-system awareness
Self-reflection and insight
Connection with others
Building confidence in self-expression
Using creativity as a tool for healing
CURRENTLY ENROLLING
Interested in a Group or Workshop?
Illuminate's groups and workshops are offered throughout the year based on clinician availability, community interest, and program fit. Offerings may be available in person, virtually, or in a workshop format depending on the program.
Check our current offerings to see what's enrolling now. If a program you're interested in isn't currently available, you're welcome to let us know what you'd like to see offered in the future.