Women's Relational Trauma Support Group
Much of your experience in the relationship has felt like a roller coaster. You frequently feel unsafe and often question whether your feelings are valid. You find yourself questioning whether your perceptions of your experiences in disagreements, warrant their reactions. You find yourself glorifying possible scenarios and fixate on the cycles of the ups and downs. You frequently cancel your plans and obligations, with hopes to hear from them, despite being in emotional distress. You experience a significant amount of anxiety if periods of time pass, without having contact with this person. You find yourself feeling conflicted with wanting to complete tasks for yourself and thinking about how to save the relationship. You often feel sad, insecure, and doubtful within your romantic partnership. If you have experienced abuse in a relationship, this group is appropriate for you. You consider being alone, a frightening concept and you find means to satisfy loneliness. You experience magical thinking and often play out scenes of love and romance in your imagination, which may not have any plausibility. Join this group if you have been left feeling uncertain of who you are after experience relational trauma.
Is this group right for me?
Structured, closed group facilitated by Briana Lefman, MS, CRC, CCTP, LPCC
This group is intended for women whose trauma stems from interpersonal relationships—especially those involving abandonment, emotional manipulation, chronic invalidation, or inconsistent caregiving. Many participants identify having anxious or avoidant attachment patterns, difficulty trusting others, or frequent relational ruptures.
The group explores:
How developmental and relational trauma impacts adult relationships
The overlap between trauma, attachment styles, and nervous system dysregulation
Emotional identification and expression in the context of relational safety
Fears of abandonment, rejection, or enmeshment
Shame around needs, closeness, and vulnerability
Boundary work within attachment wounds
Through guided interventions, psychoeducation, and facilitated discussion, members gain insight into their relational dynamics while learning how to create safety, connection, and boundaries that honor their authentic selves.
Support Group FAQ
These groups are didactic and interactive in nature, meaning that the facilitator (a Licensed Psychotherapist) leads and structures the group. Each week, the group facilitator guides all discussions, and processes by providing education, answering questions, and teaching structured exercises and interventions.
Sharing is not required, however attendees are always given the opportunity to do so, if they yearn for emotional and intimate interpersonal connections.
These groups are designed as an interactive experience in which participants learn how to connect with vulnerability while gaining insight into emotional needs. Participants have the options to utilize an anonymous Pseudonym faux name if they choose to do so. All participants are kindly asked to have their cameras on to add to the cohesive experience. Our encrypted platform is HIPAA compliant and has full confidentiality secure limited access to registered group attendees only.
No. Cards are kept on file on an encrypted, secure platform in which are charged the week in which the cycle begins. *Payment plans are available
First, we need you to please complete this brief pre-screening form so that we can reach out to you to schedule a free phone consultation to discuss the group of your choice. After the completion of the phone consultation, we will complete enrollment by sending you the consent forms. After all consent items are completed, you are registered and will receive all of the confidential schedule information and the virtual link to access the 8 – week group.
Yes. We assist you in this decision during our phone consultation and will help you determine if based on your personal circumstances, whether adding an additional avenue of support will be beneficial or would be better suited for deferment. Many participants will choose to either repeat a group cycle or join a different topic, after the completion of a cohort cycle.
