Thursdays, 7pm - 8:30pm In person in central Seattle, Madison Valley neighborhood Cost: $50/week, private pay only Process groups offer us a unique opportunity to hold and be held in our process within a growth and healing oriented community. In a process group, the individuals form a circle in which they mirror, play, experiment, enact, and care for one another. This format is fundamentally experiential and has the potential to be deeply transformative. Group work is a rare and sacred opportunity to transcend the individual and feel into collective healing. For this reason, process groups are profound tools for healing isolation, working through issues of trust, and building skills that lead to a life of connection and right relationship. Intake session(s) required. Rolling admission means you can join anytime there is space open in the group.

Wednesdays, 6:30pm - 8:00pm In person in central Seattle, Madison Valley neighborhood Cost: $50/week, private pay only Co-facilitated by Kk (they/them), MA, MEd, LMFT, and Blaze (they/them), MA, LMHCA. Kk and Blaze have been playful collaborators for the past decade and are delighted to be facilitating this group together after supporting trans, queer, and poly individuals in their own seperate private practices. Visit OddFlockTherapy.com to read Kk's full bio and learn about their practice. You can read more about Blaze and their practice here. This peer support group focuses on bringing trans and gender expansive people together to build our capacity to experience pleasure and ease in our bodies as a mode of healing, growth, and resistance. This group is an oasis, a space for rest, connection, and gentle transformation. Trans and gender expansive individuals are often forgotten or ignored in their process of integrating erotic belonging in their bodies, communities, and the collective psyche. Sex, desire, the erotic, and/or the absence of desire are central to self-actualization, and have beautiful, strange, exhilarating, and sometimes dysregulating manifestations in all bodies, including those of trans and gender expansive people. Together, we will explore the space of trans and gender expansive desire and absence of desire. We will encounter the meaning of queer erotic wholeness and use it for healing. This support group will be co-led by myself and my trans non-binary partner. This group is an offering from our own experience as embodied, trans therapists, sexual-beings-in-healing, and advocates for liberation. We ask for a three month minimum commitment to attending weekly groups. You are invited to continue attending after that period for as long as the space is supportive to you. New members will be accepted as space opens. The cost of this group is $50/week, cash pay only. Please apply at any time!

Tuesdays, 9am - 11am In person in central Seattle, Madison Valley neighborhood Cost: $65/week, private pay only Process groups offer us a unique opportunity to hold and be held in our process within a growth and healing oriented community. In a process group, the individuals form a circle in which they mirror, play, experiment, enact, and care for one another. This format is fundamentally experiential and has the potential to be deeply transformative. Group work is a rare and sacred opportunity to transcend the individual and feel into collective healing. For this reason, process groups are profound tools for healing isolation, working through issues of trust, and building skills that lead to a life of connection and right relationship. Intake session(s) required. Rolling admission means you can join anytime there is space open in the group.

Mondays, 5pm - 7pm In person in central Seattle, Madison Valley neighborhood Cost: $65/week, private pay only Process groups offer us a unique opportunity to hold and be held in our process within a growth and healing oriented community. In a process group, the individuals form a circle in which they mirror, play, experiment, enact, and care for one another. This format is fundamentally experiential and has the potential to be deeply transformative. Group work is a rare and sacred opportunity to transcend the individual and feel into collective healing. For this reason, process groups are profound tools for healing isolation, working through issues of trust, and building skills that lead to a life of connection and right relationship. Intake session(s) required. Rolling admission means you can join anytime there is space open in the group.

Affinity group support for queer identified polyamorous individuals and relationships in the greater Seattle area.

For your benefit, I request that you only join a group if you feel you can stay for at least 3 months and attend weekly (except while on vacation or sick). It takes about 3 months to really feel into the rhythm of group work and to sink into the dynamic. Most group members stay for over a year and some stay for much longer. You are welcome to stay as long as the group continues to benefit you and your goals.

Group work prepares you to bring your healing into action and into relationship. Through your work with group members you will: Learn to attune to yourself and others, Practice giving the care that is asked of you and asking for the care you want, Be accompanied in rites, rituals, and ceremonies that bring meaning to life, Practice boundaries and healthy conflict, Improve your ability to be seen and witnessed, Play! Feel viscerally that you are not alone and that you do belong.

No. There are a few things that might prevent you from joining one of my groups. Other groups have different rules and norms, so keep in mind these are just my guidelines. I request that people who struggle with substance use have ~6 months sobriety under their belts before joining a processing group. I do not admit new members who have attempted suicide in the past 12 months or self-harmed in the past 6 months. I ask that everyone who is in recovery from an eating disorder have adequate nutrition for the past 6 months. My groups are not appropriate for people in the early stages of healing from dissociative disorders and are not a good fit for people with Dissociative Identity Disorder. People with extreme attachment trauma may have a great deal of difficulty in my groups and should join only after careful consideration of the risks and benefits. You must be able to reliably attend in-person meetings, which sometimes prevents people with inconsistent transportation or certain types of disabilities from attending. All of these considerations are for your safety and the safety of other group members. I do not draw boundaries around group lightly, as I believe that group work should be accessible to all. If you struggle with any of the above concerns, please check out the following outpatient resources that may fit your needs:

YES! Groups are designed to help you through those feelings of anxiety and fear in a safer environment. Many people worry they will not be liked, they will take up too much space (or not enough), that they will dislike others, or that they will be bored. In group, we work openly with these concerns to support a sense of safety, belonging, and compassion to self and others within the group and within all other areas of your life. Most people who start with a group come in with anxiety about joining group.

Unfortunately, no. These groups are carefully held, closed community spaces and are not open for observation or drop in participation. This preserves the group's sense of safety and trust, both of which are very important to this type of work. However, I do occasionally host "sampler" events to introduce folks curious but unsure about group work. Sign up for my mailing list below to be notified about these events.

The first step is to send me an email at blaze@creaturepsychotherapy.com. Let me know which group or groups you're interested in joining and we will set up a free consult call. After that, I'll send you some paperwork and we do 1 to 3 intake sessions to prepare you for group work. Within a few weeks, you will have your first group session. Some groups are still in the recruiting stage. When this is the case, we will do the consult call but hold off on the intake session until the group starts. Sometimes it take several months for a new group to fill.