Groups
Healing What’s Within: A Restorative Group for Women
Come home to yourself — through your story, your body, and your sacred inner life.​
This 8-week group offers a safe, supportive space for women to explore disconnection, attachment, and healing through story, somatic practice, and compassionate reflection. Drawing from Chuck DeGroat’s Healing What’s Within, IPNB, and trauma-informed body-based tools, we’ll work gently with the places we’ve learned to hide or overextend — and begin the slow, sacred work of reconnecting to who we really are.
Includes psychoeducation, nervous system regulation, journaling, story-sharing, and trauma-informed movement.​
8 Week Group for Women
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Meeting for 8 weeks: January 13 - March 3, 2026
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​Tuesdays, 1-2:30PM
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South Austin Office (2312 Western Trails Blvd, Suite B204)
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Cost $240 for all 8 sessions​
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Please bring a yoga mat or blanket, portions of the group will include somatic practices on the floor​
​If you are interested in joining this group, please follow the link below to complete an interest form. After submitting the interest form, you will be contacted by one of the factilitators to schedule an initial consultation session.
Facilitators
Sarah Dwelle MA, LPC Associate
Supervised by Allison Eckelkamp, MA, LPC-S
and Pamela Allen, MA, LPC-S
We heal not by fixing ourselves, but by coming home to ourselves.
Relational Care Group
A Relational Care Group is a safe space where you can share your story with others in order to experience healing and transformation. It is modeled after Curt Thompson's Confessional Community and will incorporate practices from Interpersonal Neurobiology (IPNB), narrative therapy and spiritual formation. As you share and respond to stories, you start to experience feeling known and knowing others. Vulnerability begins to get easier. Shame starts to diminish. You experience healing, empowerment and community.
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You will have an opportunity to practice:
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Vulnerability: Transparently revealing your story acknowledges that we are in need of others' help and protection and that they are in need of ours.
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Embodiment: Paying attention to how our body responds and being curious about why our body is attempting to bring our attention to.
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Rupture and Repair: As we experience vulnerability we may also experience some hurt, this gives us an opportunity to practice resiliency and repair work in relationships.
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Imagination: As we embrace the truth of our stories, we can also imagine doing something different for a different outcome.
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Creativity: Trauma and shame often prevents us from creative work. Through healing trauma and removing shame we can explore the possibility of creating new endeavors.
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THE DETAILS
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There is a 3-6 month minimum commitment, depending on the group and facilitator.
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Each group will have 4-8 participants.
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The cost is $60/90-min session. In order to secure your spot, there is a $60 deposit which will be applied towards the first session
2026 Dates TBD
After completing the registration form, we will contact you to schedule a 15-20 min intake call with the facilitator to see if the group is a good fit for you at this time.
WHAT TO EXPECT
​​​​Each Relational Care Group will run for 90 min/session.
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We will begin and end on time.
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Each session starts with a grounding exercise.
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Usually there is a component of “business”: old, new, unfinished, tabled topics from prior meetings, etc.
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There will be some teaching components during the first month of meeting.
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The group will have 3 rounds of storytelling for each person, utilizing the framework of Curt Thompson's Storytelling Liturgies. Sharing and responding to stories is the primary work.
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Spiritual formation practices may be incorporated so participants should be willing to explore those practices.
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Each session ends with a reflection exercise.