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QueerFemGE+ Healing Abuse. Skills & Empowerment Support Group

QueerFem+ Healing Abuse. Skills & Empowerment Support Group

For adults who have endured sexual, physical, and/or emotional trauma and identify under the queer umbrella as fem, gender-expansive, lesbian, bisexual, transgender, women, female, et al. This healing group offers survivors a safe and confidential space to support each other through discussion, goal-setting, homework, and strategy-building around such themes and topics as:

  • How the current social-political climate is impacting you as a survivor and as a person who identifies as LGBTQIA+
  • Intersectional issues as they relate to trauma healing
  • What my healing looks like to me
  • Dealing with stress, anxiety and fear in these social-political times
  • The triggers with having known perpetrator(s) run the country and one’s own abuse trauma
  • Dealing with childhood issues related to non-supportive or abusive parents and family dynamics
  • Building communication strategies for conflictual situations
  • Why I am more than my trauma
  • Increasing self-empowerment and self-confidence
  • Coping strategies of Fight, Flight, Freeze, Fawn, and Fade vs. Face 
  • Healthier coping strategies
  • Types of boundaries: rigid, flexible, and porous
  • Codependency vs. interdependency
  • Fostering glimmers and gratitude
  • Self-care when there are abusers still in my life
  • Understanding my PTSD
  • Grounding and self-balancing strategies
  • Victim – Survivor – Thriver
  • Managing triggers
  • Negative self-talk and self-beliefs
  • Perfectionism
  • Shame vs self-compassion
  • What if we didn’t live in a “rape culture”
  • What I wish the support people in my life understood about me
  • Self-care is a radical necessity to healing

This 16-week virtual gathering starts in the Fall 2025 and will meet Tuesday or Thursday early evenings, (DTBD) from 430-6p CST.  For more information or to add your name to the wait list.

Using a curriculum created by Irene Greene, this weekly circle will intertwine topics, lectures, discussions, support, sharing, strategies, skill-building, templates, coaching, handouts, reflection worksheets, and resources.

Group members are invited to share their healing journey homework through mediums that work for them, such as talking, story-telling, poetry, deck presentation, art, and music.

Fee: Curriculum packet included. $60/session. Private pay. Two sliding fee slots are available. 

This group is not a therapy group to share the specific details of abuse or trauma memories or process the deeper emotional therapy-related work commonly related to trauma healing. Irene recommends that group members work with a mental health provider one-on-one to guide them through that part of their abuse healing journey. 

Free 30-minute intake consultation: A Zoom intake appointment and completed intake form are required to ensure that the group meets prospective group members’ needs and vice versa. 

Contact Irene Greene for more information.

For more information, contact Irene Greene

General Information about Irene’s Support Groups

The Group is designed and facilitated by Irene Greene, MSED. she/her. Irene is a cisgender lesbian, and has been “out” for over 35 years. Irene is the Chair of the MN LGBTQIA+ Therapists’ Network, which is the professional organization in Minnesota for LGBTQIA+ mental and behavioral health providers. She is a seasoned national group facilitator, mental health provider, LGBTQPIA+ relationship coach, national family conflict coach, and national educator. Over the past twenty-five years, Irene has created and facilitated dozens of groups and trainings on a variety of topics: sexual and physical trauma abuse healing, coming out, general support, COVID-related self-care for medical and helping professionals, isolation and grief, White allyship, moral injury, burnout, compassion fatigue, and wellness. 

Examples of organizations Irene has trained and facilitated: Regions Hospital, St. Paul, MN; Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, Colorado; Anatomy Bequest Program, University of Minnesota; MN LGBTQ+ Therapists’ Network; Headway Emotional Health Services, Twin Cities; The University of Minnesota Advising Program: Office of Undergraduate Education; Telling Queer History, Twin Cities; BECAUSE Conference, St. Paul; The University of Minnesota Department of Earth Sciences; Travis County Texas Prosecutor’s Office, Austin Tx; Way to Grow, MN; State Conference for Headway MN; MN Coalition of Sexual Abuse Programs; MN Department of Corrections; Anti-racism Coalition, New York City; MN United Way; MN Coalition of Domestic Violence; Northstar Street Medics of MN; The Minnesota Aliveness Project; The Family Tree Clinic, Minneapolis, MN; MN Women in Psychology; Touchstone Mental Health, Minneapolis, MN; OutFront-MN.

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