Upcoming events.
A.W.E.S.O.M.E. (Week 1)
10-Week Psychoeducation Group: A.W.E.S.O.M.E.
(Anxiety while embracing serenity, opportunities, mindfulness, and empowerment)
Event Description:
The purpose of this group is to teach emotional regulation skills to adolescent girls who experience anxiety as their dominant presenting issue for entering counseling.
The primary goals are to decrease debilitating symptoms of anxiety while training these adolescents to implement personalized coping skills that fit into their lifestyle and enable them to perform well in their everyday life despite their tendency toward anxiety.
Doing this in a group setting allows participants to learn from each other’s experiences, and participants can provide one another with validation, ideas, and feedback that is unique to the role of the therapist but nevertheless helpful in reaching their goals.
Target Audience:
Adolescent girls ages 13 to 16. The group will be limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 6: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 7: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Week 8: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
Week 9: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
Week 10: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$50 per adolescent for the entire 10 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 1:
Group Topic: Emotional Regulation Skills for Adolescent Girls with Anxiety
Session Focus: Exploring Personal Values
Session Purpose
The purpose of this session is for participants to explore their personal values and articulate them to others if they feel comfortable. This lays the groundwork for handling anxiety because it draws the participant's attention to who they are, what is important to them, and why they are striving to improve their anxiety. As adolescents, these participants are in a developmental stage where they are still forming their identity, and fixating on strengths, desires, and reasons for living outside of their anxiety will provide them with a deeper sense of purpose and identity. This pillar of ACT provides a more concrete direction for the acceptance and committed action techniques that will be taught later on.
Session Objectives
1. The first objective is for the participants to build rapport with one another. Values are an integral part of one’s identity and self-disclosure can be as basic or as deep as each participant feels comfortable. Commonalities between participants’ values will aid in building rapport.
2. The second objective is to collaboratively establish the goals and norms for the psychotherapy group.
3. The third objective is for participants to identify five personal values.
A.W.E.S.O.M.E. (Week 2)
10-Week Psychoeducation Group: A.W.E.S.O.M.E.
(Anxiety while embracing serenity, opportunities, mindfulness, and empowerment)
Event Description:
The purpose of this group is to teach emotional regulation skills to adolescent girls who experience anxiety as their dominant presenting issue for entering counseling.
The primary goals are to decrease debilitating symptoms of anxiety while training these adolescents to implement personalized coping skills that fit into their lifestyle and enable them to perform well in their everyday life despite their tendency toward anxiety.
Doing this in a group setting allows participants to learn from each other’s experiences, and participants can provide one another with validation, ideas, and feedback that is unique to the role of the therapist but nevertheless helpful in reaching their goals.
Target Audience:
Adolescent girls ages 13 to 16. The group will be limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 6: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 7: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Week 8: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
Week 9: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
Week 10: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$50 per adolescent for the entire 10 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 2:
Group Topic: Emotional Regulation Skills for Adolescent Girls with Anxiety
Session Focus: Cognitive Defusion and Self-as-Context
Session Purpose
The purpose of this session is for participants to analyze their own thought patterns, see their automatic thoughts as distinct from their true self, and develop several methods for defusing these thoughts so they don’t hold so much weight over the individual.
Session Objectives
1. Participants will identify 2-5 sources of anxiety in their lives.
2. Participants will learn 4 cognitive defusion techniques.
3. Participants will see their anxious thoughts as distinct from their true self and personality.
A.W.E.S.O.M.E. (Week 3)
10-Week Psychoeducation Group: A.W.E.S.O.M.E.
(Anxiety while embracing serenity, opportunities, mindfulness, and empowerment)
Event Description:
The purpose of this group is to teach emotional regulation skills to adolescent girls who experience anxiety as their dominant presenting issue for entering counseling.
The primary goals are to decrease debilitating symptoms of anxiety while training these adolescents to implement personalized coping skills that fit into their lifestyle and enable them to perform well in their everyday life despite their tendency toward anxiety.
Doing this in a group setting allows participants to learn from each other’s experiences, and participants can provide one another with validation, ideas, and feedback that is unique to the role of the therapist but nevertheless helpful in reaching their goals.
Target Audience:
Adolescent girls ages 13 to 16. The group will be limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 6: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 7: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Week 8: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
Week 9: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
Week 10: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$50 per adolescent for the entire 10 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 3:
Group Topic: Emotional Regulation Skills for Adolescent Girls with Anxiety
Session Focus: Mindfulness During Distress
Session Purpose
The purpose of this session is to teach participants various mindfulness and grounding techniques. This session will also allow participants to practice the techniques for the first time in a calm and therapeutic environment, which will empower them to utilize these skills as needed in their daily life. This session will continue to lay the groundwork for building their capacity for distress and radically accept negative thoughts instead of simply working to push them away.
Session Objectives
1. Participants will learn three acronyms that outline coping skills for anxiety.
2. Participants will write at least one page about their anxiety.
3. Participants will learn one mindfulness technique for visualizing themselves appropriately handling anxious thoughts.
Nurturing Healthy Minds (Week 1)
5-Week Psychoeducation Group: Nurturing Healthy Minds
Event Description: This psychoeducational group, based on The Whole-Brain Child, helps parents understand how their child's brain develops and how to foster emotional resilience. We’ll explore key concepts like the left vs. right brain, the upstairs vs. downstairs brain, and how to use strategies like "connect to redirect" to nurture emotional regulation. Parents will learn practical communication and co-regulation skills to support their children's mental health while also strengthening their own. This group provides a supportive space for parents to share experiences, gain insight, and build confidence in raising emotionally resilient kids.
Target Audience: Parents and Caregivers of children ages 2 to 12, maximum 8 families
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$25 per family for the entire 5 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 1:
Session Focus: Helping kids feel safe, supported, and seen during emotional ups and downs
Session Purpose: Establish group norms and expectations, introduce group participants and topics, and explore therapy goals.
Session Objectives:
Promote group cohesion and feelings of universality
Set goals for group experience and future family life
Introduce the Whole Brain model
A.W.E.S.O.M.E. (Week 4)
10-Week Psychoeducation Group: A.W.E.S.O.M.E.
(Anxiety while embracing serenity, opportunities, mindfulness, and empowerment)
Event Description:
The purpose of this group is to teach emotional regulation skills to adolescent girls who experience anxiety as their dominant presenting issue for entering counseling.
The primary goals are to decrease debilitating symptoms of anxiety while training these adolescents to implement personalized coping skills that fit into their lifestyle and enable them to perform well in their everyday life despite their tendency toward anxiety.
Doing this in a group setting allows participants to learn from each other’s experiences, and participants can provide one another with validation, ideas, and feedback that is unique to the role of the therapist but nevertheless helpful in reaching their goals.
Target Audience:
Adolescent girls ages 13 to 16. The group will be limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 6: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 7: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Week 8: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
Week 9: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
Week 10: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$50 per adolescent for the entire 10 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 4:
Group Topic: Emotional Regulation Skills for Adolescent Girls with Anxiety
Session Focus: Interpersonal Effectiveness in the Midst of Anxiety
Session Purpose
The purpose of this session is to give participants skills to build and maintain their social support, which is an important protective factor in the life of anyone with a mental health concern. This session will also empower adolescent girls with social anxiety to communicate boundaries, articulate requests clearly, and increase their tactfulness.
Session Objectives
1. Participants practice role-playing a real-life anxiety-provoking situation in a safe and therapeutic space.
2. Participants practice articulating a request or need to another person.
3. Participants practice initiating a conversation with a new potential friend.
Nurturing Healthy Minds (Week 2)
5-Week Psychoeducation Group: Nurturing Healthy Minds
Event Description: This psychoeducational group, based on The Whole-Brain Child, helps parents understand how their child's brain develops and how to foster emotional resilience. We’ll explore key concepts like the left vs. right brain, the upstairs vs. downstairs brain, and how to use strategies like "connect to redirect" to nurture emotional regulation. Parents will learn practical communication and co-regulation skills to support their children's mental health while also strengthening their own. This group provides a supportive space for parents to share experiences, gain insight, and build confidence in raising emotionally resilient kids.
Target Audience: Parents and Caregivers of children ages 2 to 12, maximum 8 families
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$25 per family for the entire 5 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 2:
Session Focus: Comforting the downstairs brain before teaching the upstairs brain.
Session Purpose: Evaluate current conflict and communication during emotionally intense interactions in order to respond in more developmentally appropriate ways
Session Objectives:
A.W.E.S.O.M.E. (Week 5)
10-Week Psychoeducation Group: A.W.E.S.O.M.E.
(Anxiety while embracing serenity, opportunities, mindfulness, and empowerment)
Event Description:
The purpose of this group is to teach emotional regulation skills to adolescent girls who experience anxiety as their dominant presenting issue for entering counseling.
The primary goals are to decrease debilitating symptoms of anxiety while training these adolescents to implement personalized coping skills that fit into their lifestyle and enable them to perform well in their everyday life despite their tendency toward anxiety.
Doing this in a group setting allows participants to learn from each other’s experiences, and participants can provide one another with validation, ideas, and feedback that is unique to the role of the therapist but nevertheless helpful in reaching their goals.
Target Audience:
Adolescent girls ages 13 to 16. The group will be limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 6: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 7: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Week 8: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
Week 9: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
Week 10: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$50 per adolescent for the entire 10 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 5:
Group Topic: Emotional Regulation Skills for Adolescent Girls with Anxiety
Session Focus: Building Capacity for Acceptance
Session Purpose
The purpose of this session is to empower participants with coping skills to handle inevitable future anxiety. Also, this session will prepare participants to deal with their anxious thoughts head-on instead of suppressing or denying them. This radical acceptance will lead them towards a deeper and more realistic way of dealing with anxiety than continuing to practice “band-aid” solutions.
Session Objectives
1. Participants gain an awareness of their own level of self-compassion.
2. Participants identify 3 self-care activities they will engage in that week.
3. Participants identify 2 ways they could take an “opposite action” in their life.
4. Participants identify one situation in which they could cope ahead.
Nurturing Healthy Minds (Week 3)
5-Week Psychoeducation Group: Nurturing Healthy Minds
Event Description: This psychoeducational group, based on The Whole-Brain Child, helps parents understand how their child's brain develops and how to foster emotional resilience. We’ll explore key concepts like the left vs. right brain, the upstairs vs. downstairs brain, and how to use strategies like "connect to redirect" to nurture emotional regulation. Parents will learn practical communication and co-regulation skills to support their children's mental health while also strengthening their own. This group provides a supportive space for parents to share experiences, gain insight, and build confidence in raising emotionally resilient kids.
Target Audience: Parents and Caregivers of children ages 2 to 12, maximum 8 families
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$25 per family for the entire 5 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 3:
Session Focus: Lifestyle and behavioral strategies to calm the storm
Session Purpose: Provide parents with specific, concrete tools to implement in the moment when emotions are overwhelming a child
Session Objectives:
A.W.E.S.O.M.E. (Week 6)
10-Week Psychoeducation Group: A.W.E.S.O.M.E.
(Anxiety while embracing serenity, opportunities, mindfulness, and empowerment)
Event Description:
The purpose of this group is to teach emotional regulation skills to adolescent girls who experience anxiety as their dominant presenting issue for entering counseling.
The primary goals are to decrease debilitating symptoms of anxiety while training these adolescents to implement personalized coping skills that fit into their lifestyle and enable them to perform well in their everyday life despite their tendency toward anxiety.
Doing this in a group setting allows participants to learn from each other’s experiences, and participants can provide one another with validation, ideas, and feedback that is unique to the role of the therapist but nevertheless helpful in reaching their goals.
Target Audience:
Adolescent girls ages 13 to 16. The group will be limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 6: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 7: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Week 8: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
Week 9: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
Week 10: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$50 per adolescent for the entire 10 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 6:
Group Topic: Emotional Regulation Skills for Adolescent Girls with Anxiety
Session Focus: Distress Tolerance Skills for Emotional Emergencies
Session Purpose: The purpose of this session is to provide participants with skills they can use in the moment when anxiety feels out of control. Discussions will normalize feelings of panic, overwhelm, and detachment.
Session Objectives
1. Participants will discuss what moments of intense anxiety feel like in the moment.
2. Participants learn simple strategies that they can use in the moment to mitigate impairment from anxiety
Nurturing Healthy Minds (Week 4)
5-Week Psychoeducation Group: Nurturing Healthy Minds
Event Description: This psychoeducational group, based on The Whole-Brain Child, helps parents understand how their child's brain develops and how to foster emotional resilience. We’ll explore key concepts like the left vs. right brain, the upstairs vs. downstairs brain, and how to use strategies like "connect to redirect" to nurture emotional regulation. Parents will learn practical communication and co-regulation skills to support their children's mental health while also strengthening their own. This group provides a supportive space for parents to share experiences, gain insight, and build confidence in raising emotionally resilient kids.
Target Audience: Parents and Caregivers of children ages 2 to 12, maximum 8 families
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$25 per family for the entire 5 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 4:
Session Focus: Breaking cycles and healing wounds as trauma-informed parents
Session Purpose: Providing parents with skills to actively participate in difficult conversations with their kids.
Session Objectives:
A.W.E.S.O.M.E. (Week 7)
10-Week Psychoeducation Group: A.W.E.S.O.M.E.
(Anxiety while embracing serenity, opportunities, mindfulness, and empowerment)
Event Description:
The purpose of this group is to teach emotional regulation skills to adolescent girls who experience anxiety as their dominant presenting issue for entering counseling.
The primary goals are to decrease debilitating symptoms of anxiety while training these adolescents to implement personalized coping skills that fit into their lifestyle and enable them to perform well in their everyday life despite their tendency toward anxiety.
Doing this in a group setting allows participants to learn from each other’s experiences, and participants can provide one another with validation, ideas, and feedback that is unique to the role of the therapist but nevertheless helpful in reaching their goals.
Target Audience:
Adolescent girls ages 13 to 16. The group will be limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 6: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 7: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Week 8: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
Week 9: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
Week 10: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$50 per adolescent for the entire 10 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 7:
Group Topic: Emotional Regulation Skills for Adolescent Girls with Anxiety
Session Focus: Emotional Regulation Skills & Self-as Context
Session Purpose
The purpose of this session is to help participants acknowledge feelings, sensations, emotions.
Session Objectives
1. Participants will name feelings.
Nurturing Healthy Minds (Week 5)
5-Week Psychoeducation Group: Nurturing Healthy Minds
Event Description: This psychoeducational group, based on The Whole-Brain Child, helps parents understand how their child's brain develops and how to foster emotional resilience. We’ll explore key concepts like the left vs. right brain, the upstairs vs. downstairs brain, and how to use strategies like "connect to redirect" to nurture emotional regulation. Parents will learn practical communication and co-regulation skills to support their children's mental health while also strengthening their own. This group provides a supportive space for parents to share experiences, gain insight, and build confidence in raising emotionally resilient kids.
Target Audience: Parents and Caregivers of children ages 2 to 12, maximum 8 families
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$25 per family for the entire 5 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 5:
Session Focus: Turning takeaways into teachable moments
Session Purpose: Complete adjourning stage of the group while summarizing techniques, guiding participants in setting SMART goals, and processing the journey.
Session Objectives:
A.W.E.S.O.M.E. (Week 8)
10-Week Psychoeducation Group: A.W.E.S.O.M.E.
(Anxiety while embracing serenity, opportunities, mindfulness, and empowerment)
Event Description:
The purpose of this group is to teach emotional regulation skills to adolescent girls who experience anxiety as their dominant presenting issue for entering counseling.
The primary goals are to decrease debilitating symptoms of anxiety while training these adolescents to implement personalized coping skills that fit into their lifestyle and enable them to perform well in their everyday life despite their tendency toward anxiety.
Doing this in a group setting allows participants to learn from each other’s experiences, and participants can provide one another with validation, ideas, and feedback that is unique to the role of the therapist but nevertheless helpful in reaching their goals.
Target Audience:
Adolescent girls ages 13 to 16. The group will be limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 6: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 7: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Week 8: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
Week 9: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
Week 10: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$50 per adolescent for the entire 10 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 8:
Group Topic: Emotional Regulation Skills for Adolescent Girls with Anxiety
Session Focus: Living a full life with anxiety
Session Purpose
This session will encourage clients to think holistically, and learn to live with the anxiety instead of keep trying to eliminate it completely.
Session Objectives
1. Participants will acknowledge the coexistence of strengths, values, fears, goals, and feelings.
A.W.E.S.O.M.E. (Week 9)
10-Week Psychoeducation Group: A.W.E.S.O.M.E.
(Anxiety while embracing serenity, opportunities, mindfulness, and empowerment)
Event Description:
The purpose of this group is to teach emotional regulation skills to adolescent girls who experience anxiety as their dominant presenting issue for entering counseling.
The primary goals are to decrease debilitating symptoms of anxiety while training these adolescents to implement personalized coping skills that fit into their lifestyle and enable them to perform well in their everyday life despite their tendency toward anxiety.
Doing this in a group setting allows participants to learn from each other’s experiences, and participants can provide one another with validation, ideas, and feedback that is unique to the role of the therapist but nevertheless helpful in reaching their goals.
Target Audience:
Adolescent girls ages 13 to 16. The group will be limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 6: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 7: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Week 8: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
Week 9: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
Week 10: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$50 per adolescent for the entire 10 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 9:
Group Topic: Emotional Regulation Skills for Adolescent Girls with Anxiety
Session Focus: Becoming your Ideal Self
Session Purpose
Participants will explore taking committed action in order to become the version of themselves they wish they were (fictional finalism) after the group adjourns.
Session Objectives
1. Participants will identify life goals they have for themselves, and reflect on how they have already grown.
2. Facilitators and participants will begin to reflect on the group content, skills, and strategies and how they can apply to everyday life.
A.W.E.S.O.M.E. (Week 10)
10-Week Psychoeducation Group: A.W.E.S.O.M.E.
(Anxiety while embracing serenity, opportunities, mindfulness, and empowerment)
Event Description:
The purpose of this group is to teach emotional regulation skills to adolescent girls who experience anxiety as their dominant presenting issue for entering counseling.
The primary goals are to decrease debilitating symptoms of anxiety while training these adolescents to implement personalized coping skills that fit into their lifestyle and enable them to perform well in their everyday life despite their tendency toward anxiety.
Doing this in a group setting allows participants to learn from each other’s experiences, and participants can provide one another with validation, ideas, and feedback that is unique to the role of the therapist but nevertheless helpful in reaching their goals.
Target Audience:
Adolescent girls ages 13 to 16. The group will be limited to 8 participants.
Dates & Times:
Week 1: Wednesday, April 2nd, 2025
Week 2: Wednesday, April 9th, 2025
Week 3: Wednesday, April 16th, 2025
Week 4: Wednesday, April 23rd, 2025
Week 5: Wednesday, April 30th, 2025
Week 6: Wednesday, May 7th, 2025
Week 7: Wednesday, May 14th, 2025
Week 8: Wednesday, May 21st, 2025
Week 9: Wednesday, May 28th, 2025
Week 10: Wednesday, June 4th, 2025
Location:
This group will be help via our HIPAA compliant telehealth platform.
Pricing:
$50 per adolescent for the entire 10 week series, due upon registration
Facilitator Information:
This group will be led by Morgan Piercy, student therapist at Fortis.
Week 10:
Group Topic: Emotional Regulation Skills for Adolescent Girls with Anxiety
Session Focus: Taking Committed Action after the Group Adjourns
Session Purpose
The purpose of the session is to address the adjourning stage, wrap up the group, and reiterate the most important imparting information. This session will provide space for participants to share how the strategies they have learned will change their everyday life, process the transition together, and plan to utilize coping skills in the future.
Session Objectives
1. Group will review all of the skills learned over the last nine sessions.
2. Discuss how each participant will use the skills they learned to take committed action to improve their lives.
3. Participants will debrief the group experience.
4. Participants will communicate how other participants have impacted them during the experience.