SOCIAL EMOTIONAL GROUPS
Now Enrolling for Kindred Kids
Tuesdays at 4:15pm
Grades 3-5th
Kindred Kids is a therapy group for kids who are in grades 3-5. Members will feel safe, connected, and supported. Children will build their skills in emotional self-awareness, peer friendships, and coping. Via practice of the expressive arts, a parallel process will also take place where children will learn coping strategies to utilize when feeling angry, stressed, or anxious in relation to self or others. Yoga, art, music, play, and EMDR group therapies will facilitate the ongoing social emotional learning of each child. This group is limited to 6 children.
This group is facilitated by Daisy Lopez-Duke. It is inspired by the need to help children develop healthy social emotional learning while learning positive coping skills when experiencing overwhelming emotions, and situations.
Investment- $195 one time intake appointment fee and then $50/week
Now Enrolling in this year-round group!
Mondays at 5:15-6:15pm
Grades 6-8th
Meets in person in Frederick
Kindred Tweens is a therapy group for middle schoolers of all genders and identities. In this group, members will feel safe, connected, and supported. Middle schoolers will build skills in emotional self-awareness, peer friendships, and coping. Via the expressive arts, a parallel process will also take place where group members will learn coping strategies to utilize when feeling angry, stressed, or anxious in relation to self or others. Mindfulness, expressive arts and brain based group therapies will facilitate the ongoing social emotional learning of each member. This group is limited to 6 individuals.
This group is facilitated by Daisy Lopez-Duke. It is inspired by the need to help tweens have a safe space to process the overwhelming changes that happen in the middle school years.
Investment: $195 one time intake appointment and then $50/week
Now Enrolling for Kindred Homeschoolers
Fridays at 11am
Kindred Homeschoolers is a nature based therapy group for ages 11-14. Sessions are held outdoors every week, weather permitting. Participants will have a safe space to develop friendships, explore healthy ways to communicate, and cope with stressors.
This group is facilitated by Katrina Cutshall-Clark. It is inspired by the desire to create a fun, nature-based experience for homeschoolers that are wanting more time in nature, while honoring their mental wellness. Expressive arts and nervous system based therapies like brainspotting will be used when appropriate to support group members in building healthy coping and social relationships.
Investment: $50/week, 1 hour a week.
Now Enrolling for Kindred Chosen
Thursdays at 3pm
Kindred Chosen is a therapy group for teens 14-18 who are looking for a safe place to feel heard, understood, and supported in their mental health and lgbtqiap2 identity.
This group is facilitated by Anna See-Jachowski. It is inspired by the need to help adolescents who feel 'different' feel a sense of belonging. In this group, kindred teens with differing sexual orientations and gender identities choose to be themselves and grow in who they are. They will gain expert guidance in navigating mental health struggles like trauma, anxiety, peer issues, and other life stressors, while also feeling safe to show up as they are. Expressive arts and nervous system based therapies like brainspotting will be used.
Investment: $50/week
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I am the Colors of the World is a social emotional learning group for kids to connect with fellow peers while learning about diversity, tolerance and peace building. Children will build their skills in emotional self-awareness, peer social skills, and positive coping. Via practice of the expressive arts, a parallel process will also take place where children will learn coping strategies to utilize when feeling angry, stressed, or confused in relation to self or others. Through the use of story telling, and formal learning on other cultures and diverse people, kids will learn ways in which we are a like and different and process in a healthful way via art, music, and story writing. This group is limited to 6 children.
This group is facilitated by Vanessa Durrant, owner of Kindred Tree Healing Center. It is inspired by the need to help children grow up in a world that values differences, social emotional learning, and equity building practices. Vanessa is a licensed psychotherapist, reiki master, yoga teacher, and also a homeschooling mother.
Investment: $350 in lump sum
