EMOTIONAL REGULATION SKILLS GROUP % - Terri Kirwan

Trauma Recovery/ Emotional Regulation Skills Group

INTRODUCTION TO EMOTIONAL REGULATION SKILLS (ERS)

Weekly, 10 Week Online Group

If you want to improve mood, relationships and joy while lowering stress, this is the group for you! Drawing from the evidence-based practices of DBT, CBT and EBT, this group teaches mindfulness, emotional regulation, and interpersonal skills. Repeated use of these skills over time rewires the brain to lower stress, maintain emotional balance, increase natural pleasure, replace negative core beliefs, and create a secure attachment to self and others. This group is extremely helpful for people dealing with the secondary symptoms of TRAUMA or STRESS: Difficulty with Emotional Regulation, Depression, Anxiety, BPD, Relationship Issues, Enmeshment/ Distancing, Dissociation, People Pleasing, Addiction Recovery, Over-Working/ Eating/Drinking… JOIN AND IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF YOUR LIFE TODAY!

Create an Inner Sanctuary and a Supportive Inner Voice
Understand and Identify your 5 Brain States
Learn 5 skills to Lower Stress and Boost Your Brain State
Identify the Unreasonable Expectations, Irrational Thinking patterns, Negative Core Beliefs and Enmeshment Patterns that Create Stress
Learn how to Stay Connected to Yourself while Intimately Connecting with Others without Enmeshment or Disengagement (Anxious or Avoidant Attachment)

NEXT GROUP:

WHEN: January 13th – March 31, Tuesdays, 5:30 – 7:00PM

WHERE: ONLINE Group for your convenience

COST: $600.00/ 210.00 Monthly
(Let me know if payment plan needed.)

ONGOING ONLINE ERS GROUPS AVAILABLE AFTER COMPLETION OF THE INTRO TO ERS GROUP

SPACE LIMITED. CALL TODAY TO REGISTER 720-732-4050

What Participants have said…

As a result of my ERS group work, I am calmer and more confident each day. I trust that when stressors crop up, I have the skills to guide myself to a better perspective and more peace. I can set boundaries and avoid enmeshing with others, while staying connected to myself. Practice with group-mates really helped me grow. Instead of old anxieties, I can focus on savoring what I love now, and I’m actually getting frequent glows of sheer joy!

My Dream has come true! A program has finally been designed … with ways of helping myself, by myself, in any situation, anywhere. I am not helpless anymore! I can move through my day knowing how to restore and maintain emotional balance in my world. I have arrived!

Since my ERS groups the re-wiring of negative core beliefs to positive ones just keeps getting stronger; for example, I can actually set boundaries now and feel good about myself even if others grumble, and I can feel compassion for others without falling into enmeshing and trying to fix. ERS work has allowed me to be my real self with safety and self-honoring — so instead of waves of brain fog and anxiety from old wiring, I feel clear-minded and capable in my life and feel flushes of joy and eagerness for what’s next!

Participating in the ERS Skills group for the last 2.5 years has literally changed my life. The group provided the structure and support to really learn and practice these skills in an ongoing way which I would not have done on my own. I have gone from believing that I am not good enough and that my needs don’t matter to truly believing that I AM good enough and I DO matter! I am now in the third stage of switching these beliefs and behaving in ways that reflect this. I have left an unfulfilling relationship and found a truly fulfilling job because I believe I am worth it today! Most important, I have changed my relationship to myself. The inner critic has been largely replaced with a supportive inner voice and today, I know that no matter what stressors arrive in my life, I will love and take care of myself. ERS Group Participant

I was very reluctant to join a group, and it was hard for me at first. But the group was so supportive and allowed me to see that I am not the only one who experiences feelings of self-doubt and low self-worth. The group and the skills helped me to “rewire” my old belief that “there is something wrong with me”. Today, I believe that “there is nothing wrong with me” and I’m on my way to believing “I am good”. This has made a huge difference in my relationship with others and how I experience my life. Today, I am much happier and living more “Above the Line”!

What I notice most about doing this work is how I am not so driven by my emotions anymore. I feel a sense of calm that I didn’t feel before. I used to get into rages very easily, but that is no longer the case. I really love this work and Terri Kirwan is an outstanding facilitator. ERS Group Participant

Since my ERS groups I trust myself more and am calmer and more confident each day, as I read my brain states and use the ERS skills to guide me safely through any triggers and hurts to a more resourced place. Practice with group-mates helped me feel validated and inspired and helped me build my skills into habits that now serve me every hour of every day.

I just wanted to take a moment out of my day to send you a thank you. You’ve truly taught me so much, and I couldn’t be more grateful. I feel like you really helped me start growing up. Not everyone gets that chance, and it just really hit me hard in this moment. I’m really struggling right now with trying to help my father, who refuses to help himself. I found myself in a terrible emotional state as I mindlessly did a physical task and my brain went down every negative track it could think of. When I realized what was happening, I stopped what I was doing and took some deep breaths, focusing on what I could see and hear and smell around me, and I checked in with my inner child. I had a strong moment of knowing…. that there was only me to take care of me and that I knew how to do that. No there’s no “solving” anything for someone else, and it’s painful. But I realized in that moment that I was so grateful I knew what to do to really help myself. Which is accept reality, and tend to my needs the best I can, and that’s truly going to be the only way to really help myself get through anything hard, better. Many people, like my father, never get the chance to learn this hard adult reality. And I just was overwhelmed with gratitude in this moment that I did get the chance, and that I AM learning. And you (and the ERS skills) are entirely to thank for that. So, from the bottom of my heart, thank you.

Professional

In September of 2016, I joined The Rose House team as Executive Director. At that time, I was privileged to have Terri Kirwan, LPC on my staff in a Primary Therapist position… Terri’s clinical expertise in addiction and trauma, along with her calm, direct approach with clients moves them through the stages of change… One of the valuable skills Terri brought to The Rose House was her ability to take women through 5 states of emotional regulation using specific corresponding tools. During periods of dysregulation, we continuously saw women benefit from this process, often in ways that directly prevented them from leaving treatment or potentially hurting themselves… She is supportive, non-judgmental and is always dedicated to the best for her clients. Ann Matino, LCSW, Executive Director, The Rose House.

Terri has exceptional therapy skills, including understanding how stress affects our body’s functioning, and what to do about that. Dr. Valerie Andrews PhD, MA