Depending on your perspective, group therapy for social anxiety and social phobia is either an obvious choice or terrifying idea (in fact, you might believe both things at the same time!). The challenge is recognizing that difficulty and anxiety related to social interactions are ultimately best taken on in a social interaction (group therapy). At the same time, one must recognize that just getting in the door of a group therapy session for someone with social anxiety or social phobia may be a serious challenge.
In our practice, for those interested in group therapy to help with social anxiety and social phobia, we begin the work with short-term, individual therapy. How short term? This all depends on us. The objective here is to give you help right away with your social anxiety and the other reasons that brought you into therapy. But we're also working on building what we need in order to add a more challenging environment, group therapy, to our work. While individual therapy can be very helpful for social anxiety and social phobias, group therapy, once you're ready, is a much more powerful approach.
