Groups

Tuesdays 6:15-7:30pm
Virtual | 8 Weeks | Adults 18+
Next Cycle: July

Led by Alyse Ruriani, LCPC, ATR-BC

Do you use tarot as part of your own self-care practice? Are you interested in utilizing tarot for self-reflection and connecting with your intuition? In this weekly virtual group for adults, we will use tarot to connect with ourselves and each other, build insight into our lives and struggles, and make meaning of the human experience. We will learn how to utilize tarot as a tool for self-care, self-reflection, and self-growth through various activities that draw on creative processes and group discussion.

Contact Alyse if interested in joining: alyse@rowantreechicago.com

Mondays 5:00-6:15pm
Virtual | 8 Weeks | Adults 18+

Led by Sasha Solov, LCSW

For a lot of us, difficulties in regulating painful emotions can be at the root of many of the other issues we face in our lives. Whether you are someone who over-trusts your emotions - and ends up acting on them before having a moment to think - or undertrusts your emotions - pushing them away until they find another way to sneak up on you - this is the group for you!

In this 8-week group you will gain skills to improve your emotional awareness, make empowered choices about whether and how to act in response to big feelings, and establish practices that improve your overall emotional resilience. You will get to explore all of this with the support of a licensed therapist and others who share similar struggles and are looking to learn and grow together.

This group is the third in a 4-part series on Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) skills. You are not required to have completed the other two parts (Mindfulness and Distress Tolerance) to attend this group.

Contact Sasha if interested in joining: sasha@rowantreechicago.com

Tuesdays 5:30-6:30pm
Virtual | 8 Weeks | Adults 18+

Led by Sasha Solov, LCSW

Recovering from an eating disorder is no mean feat, and maintaining that recovery can take a village. This group is intended to serve as part of that village. Led by a licensed therapist, this 8 week group will provide a space to process the successes and challenges that arise in ED recovery as well as to share skills in the interest of preventing relapse. We will meet on a weekly basis to explore topics including but not limited to body image, self-advocacy, diet culture, and ED triggers that crop up in our day-to-day lives as well as in society at large.

All genders, bodies, and different experiences with disordered eating are welcome here. This group is generally aimed at folks who have been through some type of eating disorder treatment and/or are not actively experiencing severe symptoms at this time. If this group might not be the right fit for you right now, referrals to other resources will be provided. In order to join or learn more, please reach out to Sasha to schedule a screening call.

Contact Sasha if interested in joining: sasha@rowantreechicago.com

Wednesdays 5:15-6:30pm
Virtual | 8 Weeks | Adults 18+
Starting in July

Led by Alyse Ruriani, LCPC, ATR-BC

If you live with Premenstrual Dysphoric Disorder (PMDD) or Premenstrual Exacerbation (PME) of another diagnosis, you know how difficult it is to ride the waves of the menstrual cycle. Living with a cyclical disorder can be exhausting, confusing, and isolating–but you don’t have to navigate it alone. In this 8 week therapy group led by an art therapist who has PMDD, you can connect with others who get it, gain more understanding of your cycle, and learn methods to improve and manage your symptoms.

This group is designed to support folks of all genders who have PMDD/PME through a combination of peer support, psychoeducation, creative processing, and skill building. Each session will be anchored in a topic for the group to explore as we ride the waves together.

Contact Alyse if interested in joining: alyse@rowantreechicago.com

Thursdays, 6:00-7:00pm
Virtual | 8 Weeks | Adults 18+

Led by Keeton Phillips, MSW, LSW

This group is for individuals who are exploring CNM or wanting to strengthen and build their CNM relationships. This group is part book club, part support group, part skills group. This group will use Polysecure as the vehicle navigating conversations each week.

Each week group members will read a chapter in Polysecure. During group, members will discuss the reading, how they are wanting to incorporate topics/themes from each chapter and then clinician will provide an exercise to work on during the group and in the week. This group will meet virtually and is 18+ only an individual from a CNM relationship will be permitted to join per cycle. Potential group members will be screened and cap of 8 participants.

Contact Keeton if interested in joining: keeton@rowantreechicago.com

Time TBD
Hybrid | 10 Weeks | Adults 18+

Led by Em May and Arete Caldwell

Remember Miley, the Jonas Brothers, and Selena all wearing purity rings? 

Perhaps you, too, received messages about how your value was attached to your sexual purity. Perhaps, like the Jonas Brothers of today, you are ready to reclaim what sexiness really means.

Enter us: trauma-informed therapists ready to help you navigate the impact of purity culture on your self-esteem, relationships, and erotic connection while affirming your multiple identities in the present.

Let’s work together to explore sexual shame, body image, religious trauma, and relationship dynamics, and to reclaim our embodied right to autonomy, expansiveness, and pleasure. 

Contact Em if interested in joining: em@rowantreechicago.com

Time TBD
Virtual | Ongoing | Adults 18+

Led by Margaret Sheils, Clinical Intern

Caring for and living with someone with chronic illness, disability, mental health conditions, or other high-support needs is an act of deep love and commitment. It can also be exhausting, isolating, and overwhelming.

This group is a space where two things can be true at once: you can love someone deeply and feel depleted. You can be grateful and grieving. You can be strong and need support. Here, you don’t have to minimize your experience or compare your pain. This is a space to say the quiet parts out loud — without judgment, without shame, and without having to explain why you’re so tired.

Contact Margaret if interested in joining: margaret@rowantreechicago.com

Mondays 6:00-7:00pm
Ongoing Group | Virtual | Adults 18+

Pay What You Can

Facilitated by Keeton Phillips, MSW, LSW

This TGNC support group, facilitated by a licensed Genderqueer clinician, is aimed at creating a safe supportive space for individuals to discuss, question, explore, and connect with other individuals who identify outside the gender binary. Topics of discussion, usually shared, are “being trans enough”, internalized transphobia, navigating interpersonal relationships, gender identity and expression, transitioning process (social, legal, and medical), and resource sharing. This group is open to any individual (18+) who Identifies as TGNC.