True to Herself Therapy
Youth Empowerment Group
Group Facilitators
Art Therapy
Art therapy combines creative therapeutic processes and psychotherapy to enhance self-exploration, healing, and understanding. Through using various art-making materials, clients may express thoughts and feelings that might otherwise be difficult to express through language alone.
It lessens anxiety and stress to help a child overcome negative experiences. Group art therapy offers cohesiveness. It is where the participants feel a sense of belongingness, validation, and acceptance.
Therapeutic Games
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​Improves social skills, social interactions and helps build rapport.
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Improves healthy communication skills.
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Improves frustration tolerance.
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Increases healthy decision making and problem solving skills.
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Improves children reactions and responses to set rules.
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Opportunity to learn and practice coping skills and emotion regulation skills.
Play Therapy
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Normalizes emotions and behaviors that children experience
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Relationship-building and connection
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Allows children to feel seen, heard and witnessed
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Increases self-awareness
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Practice coping skills
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Enhances social and emotional awareness and skills
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Improve problem solving skills
Therapeutic Activities
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Teaches group members better communication skills through group therapy activities.
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Provides group members with a supporting, safe environment to share their thoughts.
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Gives group members new ideas to try when feeling stressed or overwhelmed.
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Introduces group members to peers who are dealing with similar issues and can understand what they are going through.
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Allows group members to practice social communication, social skills and interacting, conflict resolution skills and increasing their sense of belonging.