Our group therapy services in Nashville and Franklin offer you support and understanding through professionally-led sessions.
Nashville Child and Family Wellness offers support, psychoeducation, and therapeutic group therapy for children, adolescents, and adults.
Groups are a powerful, affordable way to acquire support, therapy, and skills for many issues. We offer numerous groups—led by experienced, licensed professionals—under the categories listed below. If, after reading this, you would like more information, please email us at info@nashvillefamilywellness.com.
Explore Our Group Therapy Options
Child, Adolescent & Family Groups at NCFWC
We offer a variety of groups to teach coping skills to children, adolescents, families and adults. Some of these groups are for certain age groups and some target specific issues, such as anxiety, depression, ADHD, social skills, and emotional dysregulation. Each group’s curriculum draws from evidence-based programs to meet its goals. All are led by experienced therapists.
DBT Skills Group
High school age range (14-18, still in high school)
We offer DBT Skills Groups for Adolescents in a multi-family group format. The
DBT Skills group aims to increase client capabilities by teaching evidence-based coping skills and reviewing assigned practice homework to reinforce learning.
Skills focus on increasing distress tolerance, improving emotional regulation, and enhancing interpersonal relationships. At NCFWC, we offer DBT Skills group for those enrolled in our Comprehensive DBT program, as well as for those wanting to learn the skills as part of another type of treatment plan.
DBT-A Skills groups rotate through three, eight-week modules, with new participants being able to start at the beginning of each module. Teens are required to attend with at least one parent. Teens are also required to have an individual therapist, whether through NCFWC or within the community. Group size is limited to seven teens/families.
Currently, we have one group, which is in-person at the Nashville location.
Friendship Social Skills Group
Younger Age Group: 6-8 years-old (usually K-2nd )
Older Age Group: 8-11 years-old (usually 3rd -5th /6th )
Our Friendship Groups follow the evidence-based curriculum created to help elementary and school aged children develop the basic social skills necessary for making and keeping friends. This program is recommended for children with ongoing social difficulties such as difficulty gaining acceptance by peers, social exclusion, and victimization. It is particularly helpful for children who struggle with impulsivity, disruptive behaviors, social anxiety, learning disabilities, attention difficulties, and developmental challenges.
Each Friendship group at NCFWC is split into two 7-week modules. Groups meet weekly for 90 minutes with opportunity to practice new skills through targeted lessons, social snack time, and game play. Parents do not attend regularly with the child.
The group supports children with strengthening self-control, coping with anger, and building interpersonal problem-solving skills in a low stakes environment that can be generalized to their everyday. We offer a separate group for each of two age-ranges, 6-8 and 8-11. Leaders will help determine which group is the best fit for any 8-year-old based on development and the current group make-up.
Social skills:
– Meeting and greeting
– Initiating conversations, including others, joining in
– Having conversations, asking questions, listening
– Talking about feelings
– Understanding and recognizing feelings
– Friendly competition, good sportsmanship, good teamwork
– Cooperating and negotiating
– Understanding different points of view
– Helping and sharing
– Thinking before you act, calming down
PEERS Social Skills Group
Ages 12-17
This group uses the PEERS curriculum which provides evidence-based social skills for adolescents (12-17) with social difficulties, particularly those with diagnoses of autism spectrum disorder or attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder. The PEERS group at NCFWC is split into two 8-week modules. Groups meet weekly for 90 minutes. Adolescents and caregivers have separate but concurrent sessions, with teens learning and practicing social skills and parents learning how to coach their teens to use skills outside of the session.
The group focuses on building social skills such as:
-Initiating, maintaining, and exiting conversations
-Choosing appropriate friends
-Navigating get-togethers with friends
-Handling teasing, bullying, and other forms of social rejection
-Good sportsmanship
-Handling disagreements, rumors, and gossip
Place: Nashville Child and Family Wellness Center: 85 White Bridge Road, Suite 302
Day/Time: Thursday’s from 5:30pm-7:00pm
RO DBT Skills Class
Learning skills to enhance mindfulness, radical openness, social signaling and social connectedness. Ages 15+
NCFWC offers a RO DBT skills class that is implemented with fidelity to the model by the treatment developer, Dr. Thomas Lynch. The RO DBT skills class at NCFWC is split into three 10-week modules. The class meets weekly for 90 minutes in which participants will review homework of the skill(s) learned the week prior, as well as learn new skills and concepts.
Throughout the classes and modules, participants will learn skills, techniques, and concepts to increase receptivity and openness to feedback in order for new learning to occur, practice flexibility in responses, as well as enhance intimacy and connectedness within relationships. RO DBT considers these areas core features for psychological health and will help overcome compulsive overcontrol tendencies that are otherwise interfering with and impairing quality of life.
– Increase openness to feedback
– Increase emotional expression
– Decrease tendencies for hyper-detailed focus and cautious behaviors
– Practice flexibility in responding
– Enhance intimacy and connectedness within relationships
– Decrease loneliness and increase a life worth sharing