Group Therapy at The Red Door
Healing doesn’t have to be lonely.
A New Way to Heal
Hi, I’m Emily, founder of The Red Door Therapy & Wellness Solutions and a licensed therapist who believes that healing happens best through relationships with others. I created these groups because I’ve seen how powerful it can be when people show up as their whole selves and find they’re not alone.
You don’t have to figure it all out in your head or carry it all by yourself. Group therapy is where tender hearts, big feelings, and busy brains come together in a space that feels safe, steady, and real. Whether you’re navigating grief, anxiety, ADHD, or relationship patterns, healing in community can be a powerful turning point.
These groups aren’t about performing or pretending. They’re about coming as you are and discovering that’s more than enough.
💬 Why Group Therapy?
Sometimes, the most healing thing is to hear, “Me too.”
Group therapy provides:
🔄 Real-time emotional support and feedback
🧠 Skills and strategies grounded in ACT (Acceptance and Commitment Therapy)
🤝 A space to practice connection without people-pleasing
🌱 Shared insight and momentum from others on a similar path
It’s not just therapy, it’s a mirror, a soft place to land, and a space where your inner experience is welcomed, not minimized.
📅 Ready to Take the First Step?
We’ll start with a free consultation call to make sure group is the right fit. No pressure, just space to ask questions, explore options, and get the support you need.
You don’t have to figure this out alone. Let’s help you find a group where you feel supported, seen, and just a little more like yourself again.
🔍 Find Your Group
Each of our groups is designed to meet you at the messy middle, where things are tender, complex, and deeply human. Explore the group that speaks to you!
Women’s Mental Health Group: The Space You’ve Been Needing
Online Group Therapy—shared struggles, real connection, lasting change.
Women’s mental health—shared struggles, real connection, lasting change.
Women’s Mental Health Group: The Space You’ve Been Needing
You’ve been carrying it all, managing work demands, keeping the household running, remembering every little thing no one else notices, absorbing the weight of current events, and trying to hold it together when your mind and body feel out of sync. On the outside, you’re capable, composed, and dependable. Inside, you’re running on empty.
This group is the space you’ve been needing—a place where you don’t have to explain why you’re tired, why your brain won’t turn off, or why the smallest request can feel like too much. Here, you’ll connect with other women who carry their own invisible load and know exactly what it’s like to keep going when you’re running on fumes. Together, we’ll create a space that feels lighter just by being in it, where understanding runs deep, validation comes easily, and you can finally explore how to navigate life’s pressures with more compassion, flexibility, and steadiness.
Through the lens of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), we’ll focus on more than just “managing” stress; we’ll work on building the skills to respond to pressure without losing yourself in it. You’ll find room to rest without guilt, set boundaries without second-guessing, and reconnect with the parts of yourself that have been buried under responsibility.
Because it’s not about doing more, it’s about finally having space to breathe and to connect with other women who get it. When you’re surrounded by people who understand the invisible weight you’ve been carrying, you start to feel less alone, more grounded, and more able to show up for yourself.
Led by Emily MacNiven, LPC
Want to Learn More About How Group Therapy Works?
Explore this blog post from Emily: Co-Regulation in Action: How Group Support Meets the Nervous System
A space where the weight is shared, understood, and lightened together
This group has flexible, ongoing enrollment and welcomes new members at any point. Covered by most insurance plans.
Day & Time
Mondays:
2:30-4:00pm MST
3:30-5:00pm CDT
4:30-6:00pm EST
Permission to Be Uncertain
Online Group therapy that helps you unhook from obsessive thoughts, expand your tolerance for uncertainty, and feel more like you again.
This group helps you quiet the noise, reconnect with your values, and build relationships that don’t require you to shrink.
Online Group Therapy for OCD, Anxiety Loops, and Perfectionistic Overthinking
Permission to Be Uncertain
If your mind is stuck in “what if” mode, chasing certainty, replaying conversations, or performing endless mental rituals just to feel okay, you’re not alone. It’s exhausting to live in a brain that won’t settle until everything feels just right. But that search for certainty often makes things feel worse, not better.
This group creates a compassionate, judgment-free space to learn a different way of responding to obsessive thoughts and compulsive behaviors. Grounded in ACT, we’ll work on unhooking from those thoughts, expanding your tolerance for uncertainty, and reconnecting with a sense of purpose and peace, even when your brain is loud.
Group therapy helps you see you’re not the only one living with these intrusive fears. You’ll gain skills, perspective, and encouragement in a space where honesty and hope coexist.
Led by Emily MacNiven, LPC
Want to Learn More About How Group Therapy Works?
Explore this blog post from Emily: You Don’t Have to Hold It All Alone: Why Group Support Might Be Exactly What You Need
It’s okay to not feel certain. And it’s still possible to live a full, meaningful life.
Join when you’re ready—this group has flexible, ongoing enrollment. Covered by most insurance plans.
Day & Time
Wednesdays:
2:30-4:00pm MST
3:30-5:00pm CDT
4:30-6:00pm EST
Voice without Apology
You’re tired of walking on eggshells.
Online Group therapy that helps you unhook from people-pleasing, speak your truth without spiraling, and feel connected without abandoning yourself.
Online Group Therapy for Communication, Boundaries, and People Pleasing
Voice Without Apology
You rehearse every word. You over-explain, avoid conflict, or say yes when you meant no. Deep down, you want connection, but you’re stuck in patterns that leave you resentful, misunderstood, or emotionally exhausted.
This group is for people who are ready to stop shrinking in relationships. Through ACT-based tools and guided group support, you’ll learn how to name your needs, set boundaries without guilt, and stay present—even when conversations get hard.
Group therapy offers something individual work can’t: real-time connection, shared courage, and the chance to practice saying the hard things out loud in a safe, supportive space.
Led by Emily MacNiven, LPC
Want to Learn More About How Group Therapy Works?
Explore this blog post from Emily:
Why Group Support Is a Game-Changer for Healing Relationship Wounds
Your voice matters—even when it’s messy, uncertain, or takes up space.
Join when you’re ready—this group has flexible, ongoing enrollment. Covered by most insurance plans.
Day & Time
Mondays:
1:00-2:30pm MST
2:00-3:30pm CDT
3:00-4:30pm EST
Small Step Sundays
Sunday Scaries–focused group therapy space for teachers, where instead of going big and pushing harder, you slow down, take smaller steps, and create more breathing room before the week begins.
Online Group Therapy for Teachers Who Dread the Week Before It Even Starts
Small Steps Sundays
By Sunday afternoon, the weekend has slipped through your fingers. You’ve prepped lessons, half-folded laundry, maybe even answered a few emails… and yet, the weight is still there. It’s not just about Monday’s to-do list. It’s the knowing that you’re about to spend another week pouring out energy you don’t have, making decisions from the moment you wake up, and carrying the invisible emotional labor no one else notices.
Your brain doesn’t just spin on Sundays, it spins all week. But by late Sunday, the dread sharpens: Here we go again. The weekend “rest” you tried to have feels erased before it even lands.
That’s where Small Steps Sundays comes in.
Instead of revving yourself up to power through another week, we slow down. We take the pressure off “fixing” everything at once and focus on what your nervous system actually needs to get through, and grow through, what’s ahead. We trade in all-or-nothing pushes for bite-sized shifts that stack over time.
This group is your place to:
Drop the mask and be honest about what’s heavy without fear of judgment.
Work with your “always on” mind instead of trying to shut it down.
Interrupt burnout loops before they pull you under.
Practice boundaries without guilt, even in a culture that asks for endless giving from teachers.
Trust your own yes and no, instead of second-guessing every decision.
Grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), we’ll focus less on erasing your thoughts and more on reshaping your relationship to them, so you can make space for rest, presence, and what matters most.
Because sometimes the bravest thing you can do on a Sunday is take a smaller step, and still believe it counts.
Learn more about this group!
Want to Learn More About How Group Therapy Works?
Explore this blog post from Emily:
I Can Hold It Together at School—So Why Is Everything Else Falling Apart?
You’ve spent the weekend trying to recover, only to feel the weight of the week pressing in by Sunday night.
Join when you’re ready—this group has flexible, ongoing enrollment. Covered by most insurance plans.
Day & Time
Sundays:
3:00-4:30pm MST
4:00-5:30pm CDT
5:00-6:30pm EST
You Want Connection—But Friendships & Dating Feel Like Emotional Landmines…
Welcome to
Brave Connections
Online group therapy for Online group therapy for rejection sensitivity, social anxiety, and overthinking in relationships.
Online Group Therapy for Navigating Adult Friendships & Dating with Social Anxiety or Rejection Sensitive Dysphoria (RSD)
Brave Connections
You want connection, but sometimes it feels like your mind is working against you. A delayed text, a shift in tone, or an awkward silence can send you spiraling into “what did I do wrong?” Instead of feeling excited about friendship or dating, you’re bracing for the moment it all unravels.
Whether it’s:
The build-up before reaching out,
The awkwardness of small talk,
Or the post-conversation replay that leaves you exhausted
Your nervous system is in survival mode while your heart longs for connection. That’s not weakness; it’s the reality of navigating friendships and dating with social anxiety or rejection sensitivity. Here’s the good news: it doesn’t have to stay this way.
This group is for women navigating adult friendships and dating with tender hearts and busy, noisy minds. Together, we’ll explore how to:
Unhook from mental loops that keep you stuck.
Soothe the fear of rejection and the pressure to “get it right.”
Shift from self-abandonment to self-trust in your relationships.
Build resilience to show up authentically, even when vulnerability feels risky.
Grounded in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) and supported by creative reflection, this group gives you more than strategies; it gives you a space where you don’t have to perform, prove, or apologize.
Instead, you’ll find women who get it and learn how to move from isolation and self-doubt to connection, confidence, and self-compassion.
Led by Emily MacNiven, LPC
Want to Learn More About How Group Therapy Works?
Explore this blog post from Emily:
Am I Too Much or Not Enough? How Group Therapy Helps You Date Without Losing Yourself
Because connection shouldn’t mean silencing yourself, overthinking every word, or bracing for rejection
This group has flexible, ongoing enrollment and welcomes new members at any point. Covered by most insurance plans.
Day & Time
Wednesdays:
1:00-2:30pm MST
2:00-3:30pm CDT
3:00-4:30pm EST
Grief Isn’t Always Loud. But It Always Deserves a Place to Land.
Welcome to The Things We Carry:
Online group therapy for grief, transitions, and letting go.
Online Group Therapy for Grief, Transitions, and Letting Go
The Things We Carry
Want to Learn More About How Group Therapy Works?
Explore this blog post from Emily:
Grief Isn’t a Problem to Solve—It’s a Tender Story to Hold (Together)
Grief isn’t always loud. It can show up in the stillness after loss, in the ache of a relationship that’s changed, or in the quiet unraveling of how things used to be. Sometimes it’s caused by death. Sometimes by a thousand tiny goodbyes. Either way, the sorrow is real, and it deserves space to breathe.
This group offers a gentle place to lay down what you’ve been carrying, whether you're grieving a loved one, the loss of a role or relationship, or the turning of a life page you didn’t choose. Through ACT-based support and creative reflection, we’ll explore how to honor what was, make space for what is, and begin to trust the unfolding of what’s next. No fixing, no pressure, just presence, softness, and the slow work of letting go.
You’ll also be invited to engage in guided creative expression to help give form to the feelings that words can’t always reach.
Led by Emily MacNiven, LPC
You don’t have to move on. You just need a place to rest while you move through.
Join when you’re ready—this group has flexible, ongoing enrollment. Covered by most insurance plans.
Day & Time
Tuesdays:
2:30-4:00pm MST
3:30-5:00pm CDT
4:30-6:00pm EST
Take the next step
Ready to Join—or Just Exploring?
Whether you’re all in or still figuring things out, the next step is the same: fill out the form below. I’ll reach out personally to answer your questions, help verify your insurance if needed, and guide you through what comes next, whether that’s scheduling your intake session or simply starting a conversation.
No pressure, no rush, just real support, at the pace that works best for you.