Groups at NYC Affirmative
Group therapy involves meeting with multiple individuals facilitated by a licensed mental health professional and offers the opportunity to talks about shared experiences, identities or affinities that cause tension in your life.
Groups are offered on a rotating basis and change throughout the year. A group may have certain requirements that you must meet in order to join. Groups typically run for 8 sessions and require a commitment to all sessions. The out of pocket rate for a group session is $70, and most in-network insurance plans include coverage for groups.
Spring 2024 Groups
The Melting Pot is an 8-week virtual support group for people looking to explore their multiracial identities. In this group, participants will be able to explore their mixed-race identities alongside their peers. This group will focus on racial identity development and connectedness to their community.
ELIGIBILITY: This group is for people ages 18+ who inhabit multiple racial and/or ethnic identities and reside in New York State.
COMMITMENT: Upon acceptance to the group, participants are agreeing to be in attendance to each session for the full 8-week cycle.
INSURANCE/PAYMENT: We accept Aetna, BCBS, United/Oxford and NYU Wellfleet for insurance coverage. Those without insurance must have a commitment to pay $70 per group session (a total of $560 across 2 months).
DAY/TIME: Fridays at 5pm starting March 8
Through the Lens of Anxiety. You may know what anxiety feels like, but what does it look like? Join us for an exploration of anxiety through group discussion and photography. Through the Lens of Anxiety is an 8-week virtual support group for people living with anxiety to explore their diagnosis through group discussion and photography. The group will meet at 6pm on Thursdays, beginning March 7th through April 25th.
ELIGIBILITY: This group is for New York State residents ages 18+ who have either a diagnosis or experience living with anxiety.
COMMITMENT: Upon acceptance to the group, participants are agreeing to be in attendance to each session for the full 8-week cycle.
INSURANCE/PAYMENT: We accept Aetna, BCBS, United/Oxford and NYU Wellfleet for insurance coverage. Those without insurance must have a commitment to pay $70 per group session (a total of $560 across 2 months).
DAY/TIME: Thursdays at 6pm starting March 7
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PREVIOUS GROUPS
LGBTQIA+ SURVIVORS' SUPPORT CIRCLE
A 7-week group is intended for LGBTQIA+ individuals who have experienced sexualized violence and/or a violation of their consent in an intimate partnership and seek to process and heal through building community with other survivors. This group will explore the intersections of identity and how that impacts experiences of survivorship, processing guilt and shame, rest and care practices, and healing opportunities outside of the State. Participants will be encouraged to reclaim and develop their agency with bodily autonomy and relationships.
Beyond the Binary
A Support Group for Non-Binary BIPOC
An 8-week support group for adult non-binary/gender nonconforming BIPOC. Participants will co-create a mutual support space for explorations and engagement around identity, gender, race, and their lived day-to-day experiences.
Affirming LGBTQ: Living with HIV
Affirming LGBTQ: Living With HIV is NYCAP’s newest and dynamic process group with a deep focus to serve persons living with HIV. Within this space, our mission is to provide a safe, non-judgmental, and supportive environment for individuals to express themselves honestly in a community setting, while also creating their own narrative of what it means to be HIV+ positive. We profoundly recognize the ever-present difficulties and impact of stigmatization which exists and the very personal feelings (e.g., fear, shame, anger, and confusion) that this following diagnosis may bring. With this in mind, we will explore things like navigating disclosure and healthcare, relationships, dating, sex, stigma, overcoming shame, identity-related concerns, stress-management, Antiretroviral Therapy (ART) adherence, self-care, and more! This transformative experience will run over an 8-week series.
Survivors’ Circle
The Survivors' Circle group series centers Black queer and trans survivors (18+) of sexual violence. Survivors’ Circle will offer 8 weekly sessions that provide an opportunity for folks to come together and process how their identities as survivors intersect and impact various parts of their lives such as relationships, body autonomy, and more.
Black Men Support Space
This is an ongoing virtual group designed to provide an expansive space for Black men to express themselves, build community, and process the sociopolitical conditions that impact their lived experience. Each cycle of the group will last 8 weeks, and will cover a multitude of topics. This group is trauma-informed, intersectional, and confidential.
Survivors’ Circle
Survivors' Circle is NYC Affirmative Psychotherapy’s new group series centering survivors of sexual violence. Survivors’ Circle will offer multiple group cycles that provide an opportunity for individuals to come together and process how their identities as survivors intersect and impact various parts of their lives such as relationships, body autonomy, and more. The first cycle focuses on the experiences of folks who identify as Black Women & Femmes.
BIPOC Support Space:
This is a 6-week process group that has been created for the purpose of cultivating a healing space for BIPOC to navigate, process, and articulate their thoughts on our ever-evolving social climate. Through guided discussions, participants will be encouraged to center their lived experiences and to foster community. With the onset of COVID-19, and the continued hyper-visibility of anti-Black racism, this group will include dialogue on coping strategies, self-care, and what it means to move towards intersectional liberation.
S.W.A.N.A (Southwest Asian and North African) Cis and Trans Women's Group
The S.W.A.N.A women’s group is an 8 session process group. The purpose is to create a safe space for women who identify with the SWANA region so that they can share their histories and lived experiences with one another in an effort to develop culturally specific strategies and methods to facilitate their own self-discovery and healing. Group topics will include overcoming shame, guilt, gender, sexuality, setting boundaries, and improving relationships.
Trauma Exploration and Imagination Reclamation Group
A group for Cis and Trans Women of Color ages 25-40
This 8-week group will focus on the basics of trauma and its impact on people’s spirits, minds and bodies in the moment and over time. It will also help to break down the stigma surrounding traumatic experiences and responses. In addition to discussing healthy coping strategies and self-care, the group will explore their individual pathways to imaginative power and provide safe space for creative healing possibilities.
Creating A New Normal
This 8 week process group is for individuals who are looking to discover and get help with how to live a more robust lifestyle. In this nonjudgmental space individuals will explore their substance use with others. They also will be empowered to create a “new normal” that enhances their well-being, by incorporating new and healthier life choices. Through various exercises and discussions, group members will uncover the root of what is keeping them stuck in destructive behaviors, in order to replace those behaviors with more beneficial coping responses to stressors. The group will attempt to breakdown the beliefs that the individuals have of themselves and their trauma to discover, with support, how to overcome obstacles and live a more content existence.
Real Race Talk
In this process group for Black Cis and Trans Women 18+, members will begin to examine issues of race, gender, and systemic racism. We will discuss how racism impacts their personal lives, the workplace, and their communities. We will unpack the effects of microaggressions, implicit bias, and racial trauma in our everyday lives. We will offer ideas on how members can improve their ability to engage in meaningful, brave, and authentic conversations about race. We will encourage an atmosphere that is welcoming, and affirming.
The purpose of this group is to foster growth, healing and self- acceptance. This group is informed by The Racial Literacy Group, and the People’s Institute for Survival and Beyond and their Undoing Racism©️ Workshop.
Black Men Support Space
This 8-week virtual process group was created to provide Black men the opportunity to sit, explore, and engage with their thoughts, feelings, and each other. In light of recent socio-political events, there is a need for camaraderie. As such, participants will be encouraged to express themselves freely in an effort to build community and promote healing.
Gender Expansive Healing Circle with Visual Arts
This 8-week virtual Art Therapy group was created to provide Trans and Gender Expansive identities the space to engage, process, and use visual art as a form of healing for self, each other, and community. As such participants will be encouraged to express themselves freely through guided visual imagery exercises through art and procession to help foster community support and promote self-healing. All participants will need access to paper and their choice of medium such as: markers, colored pencils, chalk, oil pastels, and/or paints.
