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Navigating The Holidays
A Four-week Online Therapy Group

NEW YORK  |  VIRTUAL SESSIONS  |  4-WEEK SKILLS-BUILDING GROUP

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Tuesdays 10-11:15am | October 27 - November 17

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Thursdays 7-8:15pm | October 29 - November 19

Feel More Authentic for the Holiday Season

This four-week therapy skills-building group offers a space for adults in New York who want a different way to navigate holiday relationships.

 

Each week will combine focused education, guided reflection, and small-group practice around real, manageable holiday situations.

 

Facilitated by Sabrina Luciano, LCSW and Jonathan Berg, LCSW​​​​​​​

Do holiday plans leave you saying yes before you know what you want? Does someone else's disappointment quickly turn into guilt, overexplaining, or second-guessing?

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The hardest part of boundaries is often not knowing what to say. It is staying connected to yourself when someone you care about wants something different.

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This is not simply an assertiveness class or a workshop about learning to say no. It is an active, professionally guided therapeutic space where you will develop practical tools for making relational choices while staying connected to yourself and the people who matter to you.

Core Focus Areas

  • Practical Boundary Tools: Clear frameworks to sort through competing wants, obligations, and expectations and make more intentional holiday decisions.
     

  • Nervous System Regulation: Grounded practices to stay present when guilt, anxiety, urgency, or anticipated disappointment begins to take over.
     

  • Clear Communication Strategies: Practical structures for making requests, redirecting conversations, and setting limits without overexplaining, defending, or persuading.
     

  • Guided Practice: Structured small-group exercises to rehearse real holiday situations and build confidence navigating discomfort and pushback.
     

  • Personalized Takeaway Plans: Simple tools for preparing for difficult decisions, recognizing your boundary alarm, planning what to say, and knowing how to respond when someone pushes back.
     

  • Repair Tools: Concrete ways to take responsibility for how something was communicated without automatically retracting the underlying need or boundary.

Staying Connected To What Matters: The Role of a Group

While individual therapy offers deeper personal exploration, group work creates an opportunity to practice boundaries where they actually happen: in relationship with other people.

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Through small-group practice, participants learn to remain connected to their own wants, limits, and choices while navigating the feelings and expectations of others.

Program Details and Enrollment Logistics

  • Time Commitment: 4 weekly 75-minute virtual sessions
     

  • Two Options Available

    • Tuesdays 10-11:15am | October 27 - November 17

    • Thursdays 7-8:15pm | October 29 - November 19
       

  • Small-Group Practice: Structured breakout exercises to practice each week's capacity in real time.
     

  • Enrollment: Brief screening process required prior to participation. 
     

  • Fees: $90 per session, or $310 upfront for all four (save $50)

This brief screening helps us determine whether the group may be a good fit and whether to invite you for an intake conversation. Completing this form does not guarantee enrollment.

This workshop includes discussion, experiential exercises, and structured breakout practice with other participants. How do you feel about participating in this format?
I'm comfortable participating
I may feel nervous, but I'm willing to participate
I'm unsure whether this format is right for me
I don't want to participate in group exercises or breakout practice
Is there anything right now that may make a short-term therapeutic group difficult for you to participate in safely or consistently?
No
Unsure
Yes

If yes or unsure, we can talk more about this during the intake.

Are you 18 or older, able to participate from a private space, and able to attend while physically located in New York State?
Which group are you available to attend for all four sessions?

This form is not monitored for emergencies. If you are experiencing a mental health emergency or are concerned that you may not be able to keep yourself or someone else safe, call 911, go to your nearest emergency room, or call/text 988.

What happens next:

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  1. We’ll review your responses to determine whether the workshop may be a good fit.

  2. If it looks like a potential match, we’ll email you to schedule a brief intake with one of the group facilitators.

  3. After the intake, we’ll confirm whether the group is the right fit and, if so, provide everything you need to enroll.

 

Please allow 2–3 business days for us to review your submission.

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