Therapist-Guided Support Groups used to learn, practice, and build the skills for deeper healing
Experiential workshops and ongoing spaces rooted in Internal Family Systems and Nonviolent Communication.
Welcome to Flourish Groups
A way to personally customize your mental health care plan for results
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Mental health is an ongoing process not just a recovery process. Healing a mental health condition is a more specialized process, guided by a trained professional, but mental health flourishing is the result of many small choices made about how you relate to yourself and the people you are in relationship with. Flourishing mental health is a necessary ingredient for the healing process in the similar way that an exercise coach supports someone recovering from a heart condition.
Mental Health Flourishing is a continuum of well being marked by varying degrees of life satisfaction, social connection, mental capacity and engagement. The absence of flourishing in all 5 categories is called languishing. People often seek counseling when they are languishing and wounded. The absence of flourishing often interferes with deep healing opportunities that modern counseling can provide. Therefore, people can spend a lot of time in therapy supporting their daily flourishing without getting to the deep healing that is possible. Actively supporting Mental Flourishing can make room for deeper healing to occur. (“Languishing” C. Keyes 2024)
Flourish groups are specifically designed to promote mental well-being and fit into the life you are already living.​
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​​They are enlightening but not specifically therapeutic because the emphasis is not on a person's history, symptoms or reduction of symptoms. Instead, they are focused on an expanding perspective, growing in personal awareness and insight skills. They are accessible and affordable; structured but fun and safe; inclusive and welcoming to individuals from all backgrounds.
Self Led or Spirit Led
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Every group is centered around increasing Self Leadership, the central concept of Internal Family Systems. Beyond Self Leadership is the capacity for Spirit leadership for people who use a spiritual practice for health and well being. The skills practiced in all Flourish groups fit into with the IFS, NVC, and the IFIO models of therapy .
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Deep psychological healing is often interrupted by dealing with daily life stressors. Small investments in flourishing maximize one on one counseling.
What Are Flourish Groups
Therapist-facilitated experiential learning and practice groups designed to support the soft skills associated with the IFS model of healing.
3 Flourish Group Offerings
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Starter
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Focus
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Healing
Starter Flourish Groups
Who are they for:
Busy, multitasking, task driven, multiple hat wearing people.
Curious and skeptical,
Working a care plan and needing additional support
Why consider it
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A reliable way to accelerate healing work
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Scheduled self care time
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Flexible and affordable
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Instructional and experiential
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Low energy and cost investment with a high return on improved mental health
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Don’t have the resources for individual therapy but want to support your mental well bing
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Introduction to Jennifer’s approach and style, easy way to try on services before diving into deeper work
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More access to individualized services with Jennifer
What to Expect:
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No judgement or performance expectations
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Introduction to psychotherapy language
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Repeatable scientific based exercises
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Autonomy, privacy
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Therapist guided
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Personalized experience
Focus Flourish Groups
Who are they for:
Group of people with shared values and knowledge
People interested in specific mental health topics
People who want to expand their knowledge to applied skills
Groups with shared purpose or task to complete
Why consider it:
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Incorporate mental health flourishing with other areas of expertise
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A fresh alternative to traditional one-on-one talk therapy—fun, relational, practical, and experiential
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Deepen and expand mental health flourishing skills
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Be able to apply skills in a specific way or role of life
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Become proficient in mental health flourishing skills
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Prioritized invitation to premium counseling services with Jennifer
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Share knowledge and skills with others in broader community
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Dedicated time for personal development
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Develop a working knowledge of Self leadership
What to Expect:
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Observable, measurable growth
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Deliberate practice
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More personal coaching from Jennifer
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Opportunities to connect with nature
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More Personalized practice
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Emphasis on applying the soft skills often used in deeper therapeutic work
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Dynamic instruction and discussion
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Supportive community
Healing Flourish Groups
Who are they for:
People curious about IFS therapy
Ideal for people who want to understand and experience IFS more as a therapeutic experience.
People with some flourishing skills
Extroverts, interpersonal personality types
Why consider it
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A structured and effective way to experience the IFS healing process.
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Get exposure and experience to IFS as a therapeutic model
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Priority invitation to premium counseling services with Jennifer
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Experience collaborative Self leadership
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Science supported method for enhancing healing and well-being
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Less intensive therapy experience
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Broader learning and deepening interpersonal skills
What to expect:
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3 hour sessions
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3 people prepared to participate in IFS
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Structured and supportive
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Therapist guided
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Personal autonomy
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Unlike any other kind of therapeutic group experience
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One of time deep healing opportunity
Why People Say These Groups Work
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Supportive, break from daily stress
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Meet my need for community
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Reduces my feelings of loneliness
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An essential part of my work week
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Informative and life-changing
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Only 1 woo in woo woo
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Started my curiosity for counseling
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Strengthens my work in counseling
Flourish groups are a great introduction to IFS/NVC models of therapy and Jennifer’s professional style.
Flourish groups use the Jennifer’s Shared Community Pricing Initiative which promotes an inclusive, economic approach to group learning. With Shared Community Pricing, the total cost is shared across the participating community, allowing people to participate in every season of life. This initiative encourages participants to contribute according to their available resources, more when they have more and less when they have less.
FAQs About Therapist-Guided Groups in Upstate, SC
Do I need to be in therapy to join?
No. These groups are open to anyone who are curious and confidently seeking dynamic growth. They have therapeutic benefits but are not therapy groups.
Are these groups religious?
No, but they honor the role religion or spirituality may play in someone’s growth. They include opportunities to explore how to integrate one’s spiritual practices.
What’s the difference between this and group therapy?
These are wellness communities, not clinical therapy groups. They focus on improving health rather than reducing symptoms, and on discovering possibilities rather than solving problems. Sessions are designed for experiential learning, high autonomy, and structured, supportive interactions.
Jennifer welcomes people from all races, ethnicities, ancestry, gender expressions, national origins, financial situations, abilities, sizes, religions, sexual orientations, and socioeconomic backgrounds.
