This closed group is a series of 6 sessions for adults who grew up without a diagnosis and treatment for childhood ADHD to come together & support one another.
This is a Mindfulness-& Presence based therapeutic space which offer a slow, accepting, and experiential environment that is essential for individual progress and healing. The Group Space focuses on:
- Building Community: Establish a supportive environment for participants to share experiences.
- Developing Skills: Discover inner resources & strengthen capacity to manage overwhelm
- Individual Journeys: Recognize individual therapeutic goals & explore beneficial environmental support and behavior changes.
- Empowering Knowledge: Provide clinical insights into experiences of adults who grew up with ADHD
Highlights:
- Small group 4-8 people
- Trauma informed, mindfulness based
- Supported by expert professional
Therapeutic Approach
Our approach utilizes a Presence Oriented Psychotherapeutic Approach™, integrating mindfulness and contemporary psychological practices such as attachment theory, somatic work, parts work, and trauma resolution.
This approach emphasizes on “Presence” as an essential mechanism of therapeutic change. It brings in practices and wisdom from Mindfulness, ancient wisdom traditions, and western psychology to aid capacity for presence.
How This Approach Enhances the Space ?
Mindfulness-& Presence based therapeutic spaces offer a slow, accepting, and experiential environment that is essential for individual progress and healing. It can benefit individuals who grew up without a diagnosis or treatment for ADHD in several ways:
- Embodied Integration: Supports the integration of experiences, helping individuals connect with their bodies.
- Regulation Skills: Teaches techniques to manage overwhelm and promote self-regulation.
- Inner Resources: Assists in discovering and strengthening personal coping mechanisms.
- Self-Care: Encourages individuals to learn how to care for themselves in each moment.
Additionally, this modality can address various challenges that often accompany undiagnosed ADHD.
Session Details
- Dates: Nov 7, Nov 14, Nov 21, Nov 28, Nov 5, Dec 12, 2024
- Days: Thursday
- Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM IST
- Mode: Online via Zoom
Who can join?
- Adults aged 21 and above who grew up without a diagnosis or treatment for ADHD.
Please Note:
- If needed, post registration the facilitator may connect over a brief call on what you are seeking from the space, prior to first session.
- Registered members would be attending all the 6 Sessions.
- This closed group space will have a maximum of 8 participants allowing for individual and collective work
Meet the Facilitator
Aditi Boratkar
RCI certified Clinical Psychologist & Therapist
Aditi Boratkar is an associate with Just Being’s counseling team and a teaching assistant for the Advanced PG Diploma in Mindfulness and Presence-oriented Psychotherapy.
She is a certified professional by the Rehabilitation Council of India (RCI) (reg. A66567, 2019), qualified in Clinical diagnosis, Psycho-diagnostic assessments, Treatment planning, Counseling and psychotherapeutic processes, Research in psychology
More about Aditi
Education and Training
- Master of Philosophy (M. Phil.) in Clinical Psychology (2019)
- Master of Arts in Psychology (2017)
- Mindfulness and Presence-Oriented Psychotherapy Practitioner (2022)
- Psychological Counseling (2020)
- Rational Emotive Behavior Therapy (2016, 2017)
- Dance/Movement Therapy (2016)
Professional Experience
- Assistant Teacher: Invited to work at her M.Phil institute in 2021, gaining valuable teaching experience.
- Ethics Committee Member: Indian Association of Dance Movement Therapy (reg. PC0035)
- Serving on the committee since 2021, Elected to lead the committee in 2024
Clinical Focus & Expertise
- Experienced with adults facing challenges such as Depression, Borderline personality disorder, Addictions, Difficulties from conflicting family environments and inadequate social support
- Training in behavioral management for parents and children, gained through Dance movement therapy with children with special educational needs and residency and teaching at a psychiatric hospital
- Employs a phenomenological approach to promote a felt sense of wholeness.
Participation Fee:
Rs. 9000/- per participant (Inclusive of 18% GST)
Register NowFrequently Asked Questions (FAQs) about Group Therapy:
1.What is group therapy in general?
Group therapy is a psycho-social form of support held by a trained facilitator. It provides a space for members to share and explore their inner experiences and feelings in an atmosphere of safety and trust. This process fosters new insights and learnings as well as interpersonal support.
2. How is this different from individual therapy sessions?
- We can gain a lot from listening to each other faced with similar life situations and dilemmas. This creates a sense of a common humanity and makes us feel less isolated in our challenges.
- Listening to others and witnessing their process, tunes us in to our own experiences and our inner sense of guidance. This process facilitates deeper therapeutic change.
- Group spaces can be powerful encounters with ourselves.
3. How does a Group therapeutic Space work?
- In a group therapeutic space, the same members meet for a specified period.
- Each member will have a space for reflection and inquiry. Group members can share, as and if they feel comfortable what is going on for them.
- The space is facilitated by a trained therapist/counselor who ensures that a conducive atmosphere is held and also plans for the progression of the group.
- The modality used is Mindfulness and Presence Oriented Approach™. Simple practices of mindfulness will accompany looking at inner experiences as well as life situations.
4. What is a Mindfulness and Presence Oriented Approach™ to group therapy?
- Mindfulness and Presence Oriented Approach™ uses mindfulness as a base. The emphasis is on the awareness generated from paying attention to thoughts, feelings, sensations in the present moment. From here we enter into an inner space of quiet and from this space examine the life situations we are faced with, our belief patterns, emotional reactions and behavioural responses. Then if we might, we choose to respond differently from a place of insight and awareness, thus initiating an organic change response.
- The approach is somatic (including body awareness) and trauma informed.
- It is rooted in the orientation that fundamentally we are ok and we can see whatever we are faced with in a moment to moment unfolding way, allowing our own inner wisdom and that of the group to guide us with the able support and accompaniment of the therapist in this process.
For any questions, feel free to mail us at justbeingcenter@gmail.com or WhatsApp at +91-84080-36828
