Why we offer groups
The idea of sharing your story with people you do not know can feel intimidating at first. In practice, participants are consistently surprised by how rewarding the experience turns out to be. Hearing your own struggle described out loud by someone else does something no individual session can replicate.
Groups are also practical. They reach more people at a lower cost per person than individual therapy, they lower the barrier to a first appointment, and they create weekly accountability that is difficult to build any other way. For many people, group is the first door they are willing to walk through.
- Group provides support
- Group provides a sounding board
- Group promotes social skills
- Group propels you forward
- Group teaches you about yourself
Our groups
Every group is structured, skills-based, and confidential, and each one ends with a written plan you take home. Groups run four to six weeks, cost $25 per person per session, and no diagnosis is required to participate. All participants are screened before admission so the group is a good fit.
Calm & Confident
An Anxiety Skills Group for Teens
"Worry doesn't have to run the show."
For teens living with persistent worry, test and performance anxiety, panic, social fear, perfectionism, school avoidance, or stress-related stomachaches, headaches, and trouble sleeping.
What they walk away with
- A clear, shame-free understanding of what anxiety is doing in the body
- Practical skills to calm down in a classroom, a car, or a hallway
- Tools to catch and challenge anxious thinking
- A step-by-step plan for facing avoided situations
- A written personal coping plan at the end of the group
Finding the Light
A Depression Support Group for Teens
"You are not lazy. You are not broken. And you are not alone."
For teens experiencing persistent sadness or irritability, loss of interest, fatigue, withdrawal, low self-worth, changes in sleep or appetite, or a drop in grades and motivation.
What they walk away with
- Accurate language for what they are feeling
- An understanding of the depression cycle and why withdrawal makes it worse
- Behavioral activation skills: move first, let the feeling follow
- Self-compassion in place of the inner critic
- A personal safety and coping plan and a map of trusted adults
Steady Ground
An Anxiety Skills Group for Adults
"Turn the volume down on the noise you carry all day."
For adults managing generalized worry, panic attacks, social anxiety, health anxiety, work stress, overthinking, and the racing mind that will not shut off at night.
What you walk away with
- A working understanding of the anxiety cycle and the role of avoidance
- Regulation skills you can use at your desk, in the car, or in a hard conversation
- The difference between productive problem-solving and unproductive worry
- Tools for rumination, reassurance-seeking, and 3 a.m. spirals
- A written maintenance plan for when symptoms return
Rebuilding
A Depression Support Group for Adults
"Getting your life back, one week and one step at a time."
For adults living with persistent low mood, loss of motivation, fatigue, isolation, guilt, difficulty functioning, and depression tied to grief, loss, life transition, or chronic stress.
What you walk away with
- Accurate information about what depression is and what changes it
- Behavioral activation skills that restart momentum when motivation is gone
- Tools for the harsh internal voice most people never say out loud
- Structure and accountability from a group that notices when you are not there
- A written relapse-prevention plan and personal warning-sign list
Whole & Well
A Support Group for Single Women
"Building a full life, not a waiting room."
For single women, never married, divorced, widowed, dating or not, who are navigating loneliness, outside pressure, questions of worth, or repeated relationship patterns. This is not a dating class.
What you walk away with
- A sense of identity and worth that does not depend on relationship status
- Honest conversation about loneliness versus solitude
- Insight into your own relationship patterns
- Written personal values, standards, and non-negotiables
- A concrete plan for building friendship and community on purpose
Bridge
A Transition Group for Women Separating or Divorcing
"You will not always feel the way you feel right now."
For women who are considering separation, in the divorce process, or in the first years after. Women with and without children are welcome.
What you walk away with
- Permission to grieve a marriage without being told to move on
- Skills for managing anger, betrayal, and emotional reactivity
- A business-like framework for communicating with a former spouse
- Guidance on protecting children from the middle of the conflict
- A path back to identity and self-worth after the marriage
Still Standing
A Group for Women Managing Everyday Crisis
"For the woman who is holding everything, and is tired."
For women carrying a constant load of caregiving, work, children, aging parents, money, and health who feel depleted, overwhelmed, or stuck in survival mode. You do not have to be in a catastrophe to belong here.
What you walk away with
- Recognition of what chronic stress and burnout are doing to your body and mind
- A triage framework for priorities, decision fatigue, and the word "enough"
- Regulation skills that work on a bad day, not just a calm one
- Boundary skills, and honest work on the guilt that follows them
- A weekly rhythm you can actually sustain
Strong Together
A Support Group for Parents of Children with Special Needs
"Nobody has to explain it here. Everybody already knows."
For parents, guardians, and kinship caregivers raising children with autism, ADHD, developmental delays, learning disabilities, medical complexity, or behavioral and emotional disorders, at any stage.
What you walk away with
- A room of parents who do not need the backstory explained
- Language for grief, guilt, and chronic sorrow, and permission to feel all of it
- Practical advocacy skills for IEP and 504 meetings and medical systems
- Behavior support strategies you can use at home tonight
- Attention to your marriage, your other children, and your own health
Iron Sharpens Iron
A Support Group for Men
"Strong enough to say it out loud."
For men navigating the pressures of life, work, marriage, fatherhood, single life, dating, loss, or simply the weight of holding it all together without anyone to talk to. No diagnosis required.
What you walk away with
- A room of men who get it, with no judgment and no performance
- Honest conversation about stress, anger, and what is underneath it
- Tools for communicating with a spouse, partner, or children
- Perspective on purpose, identity, and being single or married on purpose
- A plan for handling pressure without shutting down or blowing up
Who leads our groups
Every group is led by licensed clinicians who are trained and experienced in group work. Each group is structured, confidential, and grounded in evidence-based approaches, so you can expect real skills, not just conversation.
Is group the right fit?
Our groups are designed for people with mild to moderate symptoms who are able to participate safely in an outpatient setting. Anyone in acute crisis, with active suicidal thoughts, active psychosis, or untreated substance dependence will be connected with individual or higher-level care first, and is welcome in group once stabilized. All participants are screened before admission.
Schools, churches, pediatric practices, attorneys, and community organizations are welcome to refer directly. With the participant's consent, RCS can provide attendance confirmation and a general summary of the skills covered.
Ready to join a group?
Complete the registration form and a member of our team will follow up with a brief screening and next steps. You can also call us at 205-675-6592.
Register for a groupQuestions first? Email info@rcsbham.com
