Let’s Get Social

These groups are for kids who have ADHD, Anxiety, or for kids who have trouble making friends, struggle to connect with their peers, read social cues, and navigate their social world. In this group we work on joining in with friends, conversation skills, taking other’s perspectives, building connections, problem solving, cooperating, being flexible, sportsmanship, teamwork challenges and many more skills. We use fun games, activities, stories, projects, teamwork challenges and play to practice and reinforce friendship and social skills.

Coping Outside the Box

Coping Outside the Box is a weekly therapeutic group. The group will work toward building coping skills with a focus on regulation, anxiety and stress management. We will be using a variety of creative outlets, including but not limited to, music, art, crafts, and mindfulness. Introducing different types of creative and artistic interventions gives participants an opportunity to explore new ways of managing difficult feelings, expressing their thoughts, and supporting themselves emotionally.

Coping and Connecting

Coping and Connecting is a therapeutic group where social skills blend with coping skills. For many kids, social situations can be distressing and these feelings can be difficult to navigate when remaining in a social setting. In this group, participants are engaged in a variety of activities (games, crafts, etc.) to actively practice navigating social nuances and reading social cues. During activities, participants will also be actively practicing regulation, anxiety and stress management skills in order to bridge the gap between knowing the how to do the coping skill and when to actually use the skill while playing with friends. Introducing new and well known interventions gives participants an opportunity to explore ways of managing difficult feelings, expressing their thoughts, and supporting themselves while remaining in a group setting.

Calm Together

Calm Together is an anxiety management and coping skills group for our younger clients. Using play, games, stories, drama, and art, kids will learn ways to recognize, understand and cope with their big (often anxious) feelings. This is a great way for kids to connect with other kids who experience similar things and to gain skills in a fun and supportive group.

Yes And…

“Yes And…” is a therapeutic Improv Group to help teens work on Social Skills and Social Anxiety in a fun, creative and engaging way. Improv offers kids and teens an opportunity to engage with others, be flexible, creative, silly, funny, work through insecurities, connect with peers, and gain confidence. We offer Yes, And…” for Middle Schoolers in Needham. Please reach out with any questions or to sign up.

Clayful Coping

Clayful Coping is a therapeutic group focused on building emotional regulation and coping skills through hands-on clay activities. Through guided and unguided clay projects, group members will learn how to express feelings and build healthy strategies in a safe and creative way. Participants will create meaningful clay items to take home that reinforce the strategies and skills learned during the group.

Go With The Flow

Go With The Flow is a therapeutic group that helps children and teens develop effective strategies for managing stress and anxiety. Using mindfulness, gentle movement, and guided meditation, participants learn to increase self-awareness, regulate emotions, and calm their bodies during challenging moments. The group provides practical coping tools that can be used both in and outside of sessions, while offering a supportive space to build confidence and resilience alongside peers.

Adventures in Connecting

Adventures in Connecting is a therapeutic group that uses role-playing games (RPG), like tabletop or live action games, in a structured way to help individuals build social skills, emotion regulation, and coping mechanisms in a safe, metaphorical space. RPG focuses on collaborative storytelling and problem solving, through creating characters and navigating fictional challenges. In this space, group members are able to practice their communication skills, cooperation skills, frustration tolerance, and problem solving in a safe way where mistakes are okay! Group members learn by working as a team to overcome a challenge and work through mistakes together and identify new ways of approaching a challenge.