Be Known
A Women's Psychotherapy Group
Many of the women I imagine here are the ones everyone else comes to. You hold space for your family, your friends, your clients, your community, and you rarely find yourself held in return. You may have a spiritual, contemplative, or creative practice that keeps you connected to yourself, and you long to bring that same aliveness into how you relate to others. You may also recognize some familiar patterns: withdrawing, caretaking, over-functioning, staying quiet, or finding it easier to understand other people than to let yourself be understood.
Be Known is for women who are open and curious, and who are willing to be emotionally honest in the company of other women. Most of all, this group is for women who sense there is more to be had in their relationships than they are getting, but who don't quite know how to get there.
You don't need group experience, and you don't need to arrive good at this. The group is a place to practice.
Details At A Glance
Thursdays, 12–1:30 pm ET
10 weeks, November 5 through January 28
Virtual, on Zoom
When and Where
Who
Up to 7 women
Located in Maine or New York
$100 per session, or $900 if paid in full by October 19
Payment plans and a reduced-fee seat available
In-network with Aetna in New York; superbill provided for most other insurance
Cost
What does it mean to be known?
For many women, being in a room where nothing is required of you is unfamiliar enough to feel strange at first. Here, that is the baseline. Nobody needs you to smile, explain yourself, perform wellness, or manage how anyone else is doing.
From that ground, we practice authentic relationship, the kind that asks us to be present enough to notice ourselves, curious enough to notice others, and willing enough to let ourselves be seen.
That practice lives in small moments. What happens in you when you need something from the group? When you feel like an outsider, or aren't sure how someone is receiving you? When you have something true to say and don't know how it will land? Can you believe it when someone really does see you, and can you receive their care without feeling you owe them something in return?
Rather than talking about these patterns from a distance, we notice them as they happen and gently try something different: staying present, speaking honestly, listening deeply, sensing inwardly and outwardly, receiving, and allowing yourself to be known.
We move at the pace of trust in each person's body and nervous system. No one is left out or left behind. When discomfort or distrust shows up in the body, we don't push through it. We meet it with loving-kindness, openness, and curiosity, right at the edge of what feels possible.
What does a session look like?
Each week we arrive with a bell, three silent breaths, and a moment of meeting the eyes of the woman beside you, followed by a few minutes of intuitive movement to find ease in the body. We check in briefly, from the body rather than the story.
Then we follow what is alive in the room. Some weeks that is one woman's process; some weeks it is something unfolding between several of us; some weeks it is simply open sharing. We may work through heart-centered conversation, witnessing, relational experiments within the whole group, small groups, or dyads, somatic practice, ritual, or guided rest. The intention is never to manufacture vulnerability or force connection, but to notice what is actually happening and grow curious about it together.
We close with a guided meditation to call your energy back to center, and a round to name whatever needs naming before the week ahead.
The group draws on The Five Ways of Being, developed by Tej Steiner and Greet Heylen: clear, present, real, connected, and heart-directed. These are not ideals to perform. They are qualities we practice returning to, in ourselves, in relationship, and in the room.
Joining
Every prospective member has a short screening call with me, so that we can both feel into whether the group is a good fit. The group closes after the first week, and no one joins midway, so the room stays the same room and trust has time to deepen.
Members commit to all 10 sessions. If you must miss one, you let the group know in advance.
About Corinne Cappelletti, LCPC, LMHC, MFA, CLMA
Corinne is a licensed clinical professional counselor and mental health counselor, longtime yoga and meditation teacher, certified Laban Movement Analyst, somatic movement educator and therapist, dance instructor and choreographer, mother, household herbalist, and co-founder of Shadowlight Center, based in Waldoboro, Maine.
Frequently asked questions
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Yes. Be Known is a closed women's psychotherapy group, and it carries the expectations and protections that come with group treatment. We'll go over all of that, along with fees and insurance, on your screening call.
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Because this is psychotherapy, members need to be physically located in Maine or New York during sessions.
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Yes, and I encourage it. If you aren't in individual therapy and would like it alongside the group, I'm glad to talk about that too.
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You don't need to be expressive, and you don't need to speak constantly. Some discomfort is often part of meaningful relational work, and much of the practice may simply be noticing what happens inside you when you are quiet, seen, or invited into connection. We won't push past your limits; we'll get curious about what happens at the edge of them, together.