Group Psychotherapy

Group psychotherapy is a form of psychotherapy during which one or several therapists treat a small group of clients together as a group. Although initially adopted to decrease costs and increase efficiency, practitioners soon recognized a number of positive therapeutic benefits that could not be gained from one-on-one therapies. Group therapy often consists of "talk" therapy, but may also include other therapeutic forms than such as expressive therapy, psychodrama, and even non-"talk" types of therapy, such as the TaKeTiNa Rhythm Process.

In group therapy the interactions between the members of the group and the therapists become the material with which the therapy is conducted, alongside past experiences and experiences outside the therapeutic group. These interactions are not necessarily as positive as reported as above, as the problems which the client experiences in daily life will also show up in his or her interactions in the group. Nevertheless, this allows such problems to be worked through in a therapeutic setting, generating experiences which may be translated to "real life." Group therapy is not based on a single psychotherapeutic theory, but takes from many what works.