Healing Together

Group Therapy for Adults of Emotionally Immature Parents

VIRTUAL THERAPY IN TAMPA AND THROUGHOUT FL & TX


You’re not alone

Growing up with an emotionally immature parent often meant there wasn’t space for your feelings or needs. You learned to adapt by becoming small, silencing needs & wants, and keeping the peace.

Group therapy offers a space to unlearn those previously adaptive behaviors— which if you’re here means they’re no longer helping you. You get to connect with others who get it, explore how your past shaped you. and heal childhood wounds so you can mold the present into how you want it.

It’s time to heal

Why Group Therapy?

  • Shared Understanding
    Most group members say: "I thought I was the only one." Hearing your experience reflected by others can be profoundly validating.

  • Rewriting Relationship Patterns
    You’ll get to practice setting boundaries, expressing needs, and staying present—skills you didn’t get to develop in childhood.

  • Real-Time Healing
    In a group, you can notice when you’re shrinking, pleasing, or over explaining—and try something different.

  • Affirming Connection
    This work can feel isolating. Group therapy helps you reconnect—with your voice, your emotions, and people who understand.

Is Group Therapy right for you?

How Group Therapy Is Different from Individual Therapy

1. Focus of the Work

  • Individual Therapy centers on your personal history, internal thoughts, and emotional processing. It’s about understanding your story.

  • Group Therapy focuses on how you relate to others. It explores patterns in how you connect, communicate, and respond in real-time relationships.

In group, you learn about yourself through your interactions with others.

2. Feedback and Perspective

  • Individual Therapy offers feedback from one trusted expert—your therapist.

  • Group Therapy provides multiple perspectives. You hear how others experience you, which can reveal blind spots or validate parts of yourself you’ve long questioned.

Group gives you a mirror you didn’t know you needed.

3. Relational Practice

  • Individual Therapy is safe and focused, but it’s still a one-on-one relationship with a professional.

  • Group Therapy gives you the chance to practice boundary-setting, assertiveness, or vulnerability in real time with peers.

You don’t just talk about your patterns—you start to shift them.

4. Pacing and Attention

  • Individual Therapy moves at your pace and can dive deeply into complex or sensitive topics.

  • Group Therapy is shared. Each person has less individual airtime, and the group’s needs influence the session’s flow.

Group is slower, but it often moves you in ways individual therapy cannot.

5. Connection and Community

  • Individual Therapy can feel more private and emotionally safe, especially early in healing.

  • Group Therapy adds the power of shared experience—hearing "me too" from others who genuinely understand.

Group helps break the isolation that many people carry silently.

What You’ll Likely Enjoy:

  • You feel seen and understood—often for the first time

  • Practice setting limits, disagreeing, or expressing needs

  • Learn from people ahead of you on the healing path

  • Normalize experiences that used to feel "too much"

  • More affordable than weekly individual therapy

What You Might Dislike:

  • May feel vulnerable at first to open up in front of others

  • Group pace may feel slow or not always focused on your specific story

  • Triggers can come up (and become growth opportunities)

  • Requires commitment to showing up consistently for yourself and the group

Many clients find that both types of therapy complement each other well. Individual therapy helps you understand your wounds. Group therapy helps you heal them in connection with others.

Current Groups

  • Healing from Emotionally Immature Parents- Psychoeducation Group

    This 12-week psychoeducation group offers a supportive space to understand the impact of emotionally immature parents, reconnect with your true self, and build healthier boundaries and relationships.

    Tuesdays 6:00-8:00pm EST

    Next Group: September 23, 2025

    Investment: $900

  • Healing from Emotionally Immature Parents - Process Group

    Explore the emotions that come up and insights gained from the education group. Co-enroll or take it individually after completing the education group.

    Wednesdays 6:00-7:00pm EST or

    Thursdays 5:00-6:00pm EST

    Next Group: September 24-25, 2025

    Investment: $500

Packages

Double Group

$1200

Enroll in both the Psychoeducation and Process Groups

$200 OFF

Education & Individuals

$3000

Psychoeducation Group & 12 Weekly Individual Sessions

$600 OFF

Process & Individuals

$2600

Process Group & 12 Weekly Individual Sessions

$600 OFF

Double Group & Individuals

$3250

Enroll in both the Psychoeducation and Process Groups plus 12 Weekly Individual Therapy Sessions

$850 OFF

You're Allowed to Take Up Space.

This group is more than therapy. It’s a reclaiming. A place to let go of old roles, find your true self, and be part of a community that supports your growth.

Ready to begin? Reach out today to learn more or join the interest list for our next group cycle.

FAQS

What others have wondered about group therapy

 
  • Group therapy is not right for everyone, however, many people find connecting with others who share similar, or the same, problems extremely validating. If you’re still unsure about whether it is the best choice for you, schedule a free consultation and we can discuss one-on-one about your concerns and needs.

  • Payments for group therapy and packages can be split into smaller payments. Services are required to be paid in full 1 week before the group start date (specific deadlines will be provided when enrolling).

  • Yes, an additional package is available for those who would prefer to have 6 individual sessions (every other week vs. every week).

    Psychoeducation & 6 Sessions: $2100

    Process Group & 6 Sessions: $1700

    Both Groups & 6 Sessions: $2600

  • There are several ways to take the next step:

    1. You can self schedule your free consultation by clicking HERE

    2. You can email me at erica@oceanwavescounseling.com

    3. You can call me at 813-406-0525

    4. Fill out the group therapy inquiry form HERE

More questions? Check out my FAQs page.

Healing is Possible—and you don’t have to do it alone