Women's Groups & Circles
Small facilitated groups for women tending grief, transition, creativity, and the return to the body. Held in community, because some healing does not happen alone.
Embodied group therapy for highly sensitive women age 20 to 29, led by Patricia Ramirez, MHC-LP. An eight-week closed group for women who feel deeply, get overstimulated easily, and have learned to live in their heads to cope. We open each session with a brief somatic flow and then work with what is present.
In person in Manhattan. Starting the first week of January 2027. To learn more about the group, click here. Reach out to Patricia for more details.
Current groups
The Nest is an in-person therapy group for women who want a place to slow down, move, talk, and listen, prepare the body for the demands of life, and to work with whatever this season of life is bringing up. Gentle prenatal and postpartum yoga, somatic and energetic practices inspired by Tami Lynn Kent's pelvic bowl work and her books Wild Feminine and Wild Mothering, and DreamBirth® Imagery developed by Claudia Raiken are woven into the group psychotherapy itself, so that the emotional and relational work of becoming a mother can happen in the body as well as in words.
In person in Waldoboro. Starting November 30. To learn more about the group, click here. Reach out to Corinne for more details.
If you're in crisis, or having thoughts of harming yourself or your baby, please don't wait for a group. Call or text 988, or the National Maternal Mental Health Hotline at 1-833-852-6262, any time of day.
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.
Online via Zoom. Starting December 10. To learn more about the group, click here. Reach out to Corinne for more details.
What is a women's therapy group?
A women's therapy group is a small, closed circle of women who meet weekly with a therapist to work on what they are carrying, together. It is not a support group where you share and move on. It is a place where the relationships in the room become part of the work: how you show up, what you hold back, what happens when someone reflects you back to yourself.
Our groups are somatic. Each one opens with a short practice to land in the body before anyone speaks, because most of what women are taught to carry lives below the level of words.
Why a group instead of individual therapy?
Because some things only shift when you are witnessed. Individual therapy gives you one relationship to work in. A group gives you six or eight, and it shows you the patterns you cannot see alone: the way you take care of everyone before yourself, the way you go quiet, the way you apologize for taking up room. Many women do both, and the group is where the individual work gets tested.
Our groups are led by licensed women therapists at Shadowlight who are also longtime yoga teachers, mothers, and highly sensitive people themselves. Each group has one facilitator, so the person who screens you is the person who will be in the room every week.
Who leads these groups?
How do I join a women's group?
Reach out about the group that interests you. Each begins with a short call to make sure the group is a fit for you and for the women already in it. Groups are closed once they begin, so if a start date has passed, ask to be added to the list for the next cohort.
Have questions or ready to take the next step? We’re here to help.