Our Group Offerings

Whether you're longing for ongoing community, a closed healing group, or a restorative retreat experience there are several ways to engage in this work.

“The Human in the Therapist”

How Complex Trauma Shows Up in the Work We Do — A Group to Talk About the Parts We Don’t Talk About Enough

Therapists are human — with our own inner systems, wounds, histories, and survival strategies. For those of us who specialize in or carry the imprint of complex trauma, the emotional demands of this work can activate parts of us we’re not always prepared to acknowledge, let alone explore. This is a group to get to know you and your “therapist parts” with others who are desiring the same. So much healing happens in the experience of no longer being alone in it. There is power in seeing each other and this is a space to do that.

As a therapist who specializes in work with other therapists here are just some of the real, often unspoken experiences many therapists face —particularly those with complex trauma histories or parts shaped by early caregiving roles:

✦ Burnout that feels more like depletion of the soul than simple exhaustion

✦ The challenge of balancing your own healing while holding space for others

✦ Navigating the need to make a living while doing deeply emotional labor

✦ The weight of client tragedies — death, relapse, suicide — that sit with you long after hours

✦ Vicarious trauma and the cumulative impact of exposure to others' pain

✦ Emotional and energetic output

✦ Constant calls to “show up” during crises, volunteer, and not be affected — as if we are not human, too

✦ Internal pressure to love the job always — and guilt when resentment creeps in

✦ Struggles with work/life balance

✦ Parts of us shaped by our own trauma history

If any of these statements landed for you feel free to reach out to learn more. I’m glad you found this offering and I’d love to hear from you!

“What’s So Complex About Complex Trauma?” - A group for IFS curious or informed clinicians to learn how to utilize IFS with their clients

This is a group for clinicians who work with complex trauma and would like to integrate IFS into their work. This group explores how complex trauma may show up in the therapy room and how to use IFS to deepen self compassion and curiosity in your clients.

In this group you will learn to:

  • Understand the layers of complex trauma

  • Support clients in hypoarousal (shut down) or hyperarousal (overwhelm)

  • Help clients move to insight and unburdening

  • Navigate ruptures in the therapeutic relationship with care and curiosity

  • Prevent burnout and tend to your own system as a trauma-focused therapist

  • Understand your own history to identify therapist triggers

  • Learn the difference between empathy and compassion in clinical work

  • Explore the appropriate use of self-disclosure in trauma therapy

Feel free to reach out to learn more if this sounds like something that you could benefit from! I’d love to hear from you.

When Caring is Complicated

A Therapy Group for Complex Trauma Survivors Caring for Aging Parents

Caring for an aging parent is never easy — but for adult survivors of complex trauma, it can be profoundly disorienting.

You may find yourself asking:

  • Why am I so irritable?

  • Why can’t I just be kind?

  • What’s wrong with me?

  • Shouldn’t I be over this by now?

These are common questions when old wounds resurface in the caregiving dynamic. Parts of you may carry shame, resentment, or deep confusion as you navigate the paradox of supporting someone who may have hurt, neglected, or misunderstood you in your most formative years.

This group is a space for adult children of aging parents who are actively engaged in caregiving and healing — a place to:

  • Be witnessed by others who understand the emotional complexity

  • Explore the parts of you that feel triggered, obligated, or unseen

  • Work with the internal conflict between compassion and boundaries

  • Release self-judgment and tend to your own needs with care

  • Learn how to stay connected to Self in the midst of stress and past pain

If you need a place to be seen and heard and known about the realities of caring for your aging parent, please reach out! You deserve a place too.

Sara Bryan is a Licensed Professional Counselor, Certified IFS Therapist, and Approved IFS Consultant with a deep passion for creating safe, compassionate spaces for healing. She specializes in complex trauma, IFS, and therapy for therapists — and brings both professional expertise and lived experience to the groups she facilitates.

Whether you’re a therapist navigating your own internal world, a trauma survivor seeking community, or someone walking the layered path of caregiving, Sara brings presence, clarity, and deep respect for the courage it takes to show up. Sara is a mom to an elementary schooler and a middle schooler, and is married to a fellow therapist — all of which further inform her grounded, relational approach to the work.

Her facilitation is grounded in the belief that healing happens in connection.

About Your Group Facilitator: Sara Bryan, LPC