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Support & Skills Groups

Support & Skills Groups – Overview

~ LGBTQIA+ Healing Abuse. Skills & Empowerment Support Circle ~ Coming Out Later in Life Support Groups ~ Sexual Abuse Healing Support Group ~ Older Queer Women’s Support Group ~ Political Trauma Stress & Building Resiliency

Do you want to experience the connection, acceptance, and strength of sharing intentional space with others addressing similar challenges?

Are you feeling isolated, alone, afraid, or anxious?

Do you want to learn concrete strategies to help you hold consistent boundaries and sustainable self-care habits?

Would it help you to discuss your concerns in a confidential setting?

Do you want skills to help you deepen your emotional connections with yourself and others?

Do you want to be in a setting that strives to be socially conscious, feminist, LGBTQPIA+ inclusive, sex-positive, and anti-racist?

Deep healing and personal growth ensue when committed people join together to compassionately listen, gently support, and vulnerably share their thoughts, feelings, challenges, wisdom, and dreams.

 

Join a support group!

 

Support Groups Currently Offered by Irene Greene

New group! Starts in April 2025: Political Stress Resiliency Support Group for Progressive Adults

The following educational, support, and coaching groups are offered in rotation. More information for each group is available on their individual web pages. Contact Irene Greene or call or text her at 612.874-6442.

LGBTQIA+ Healing Abuse. Skills & Empowerment Support Group For adults who have endured sexual, physical, and/or emotional trauma and identify as LGBTQIA+. Topics include boundaries and codependency, developing healthier coping strategies; glimmers and gratitude; self-care, shame and self-compassion; understanding my PTSD; grounding skills, managing triggers, and political trauma stress. This 16-week virtual group starts in Fall 2025 and meets Thursdays, 430-6p CST. Strategies, skills, resources, worksheets, support. Curriculum packet. $60/session. Private pay. Sliding fee slots available. Complimentary 30-minute intake consultation is required.

Contact Irene Greene for more information.

IT’s YOUR TIME – An Older Queer Women’s Support Group  An LGBTQ Women’s 50+ Support Group to Honor Our Courage Over the Decades, Embrace the Present, and Envision Our Future. This 12-week virtual support and skill-building group is designed for socially progressive LGBTQ+ women aged 50-ish and over who want to acknowledge and honor their experience and wisdom, discuss their aging-related concerns about identity and health, increase their emotional wellness, and learn healthier boundary-setting and communication skills to improve their relationships with friends, partner(s), and family members.

This virtual group meets once a year. The next group will be held in Winter 2025. It is open to LGBTQ women 50+ who live anywhere. Contact Irene Greene for more information and to get on the waiting list.

Sexual Abuse Healing Support Group This virtual group meets on Wednesdays at 430-6 p.m. CST.  Contact Irene Greene for more information and to add your name to the waiting list or text for more information: 612.874.6442 | Sexual-Abuse-Group-Flyer-Greene 

 

 

 

 

Women Coming Out Later in Life – This virtual Coming Out Later in Life Group is offered two times a year. The next group starts in Winter 2025. Free 30-minute intake consultations happening now. The group meets on Thursdays, 430 – 6 p.m. CST. Contact Irene Greene for more information.|  Coming-Out-Support-Group-Flyer-Greene

 

 

 

 

 

Political Trauma Stress Support & Building Resiliency Skill-Building Support Group – Coming in mid-2025 – waitlist and more information

Twin Cities LGBTQ+ Executive Director’s Support Group – This bi-weekly group is for LGBTQ+ executive directors of non-profit organizations that are located in the Twin Cities. The group has been meeting since 2017. For more information, contact Irene Greene

I believe in the personal and communal healing and connection that evolves from a healthy group experience. A well-structured support group’s nurturing, validating, and safe foundation can be life-changing.  

About the Groups

Since 1983, I have designed and facilitated dozens of skills, support, psycho-educational, and coaching groups. I have also provided group dynamics training for counselors, therapists, and clergy. Designing and facilitating groups is a meaningful,  fulfilling, and enjoyable part of my work as a helping professional.

These educational, support, and skills coaching groups provide opportunities for like-minded humans to learn together, problem-solve, give and receive mutual support and validation, envision and define personal goals for growth, healing, and change, and share experiences, resources, and information. The groups combine a strengths-based, confidential, and collaborative approach and balance differences regarding neurodiversity and introverted and extroverted personalities.

These groups are designed for socially conscious folks who hold a fundamental consciousness of how the systemic layers of oppression, injustice, white supremacy, patriarchy, and trauma influence our personal, interpersonal, and community health and well-being. Members are asked to commit to an intention of being anti-racist, poly-friendly, sex-positive, and LGBTQPIA+-affirming.

 

 

Logistics About the Groups

  • Weekly agenda, curriculum packet, and discussion topics
  • Rate: $55-65/session for 75-90 minute groups. Sliding fee slots are available.
  • Confidential.
  • These are not drop-in groups, and members rarely miss a session.
  • All groups are currently offered via telehealth.
  • Free 30-minute Zoom intake appointments are required for all groups.
  • I often have waiting lists for each group.
  • Contact Irene Greene for more information or to be added to a waitlist.
  • If you are currently in individual or relationship counseling or coaching, I may ask you to sign a Release of Information Form so that I may connect with your provider.
  • Minneapolis-based and open to folx in MN and beyond
  • Designed and Facilitated by Irene Greene, MSED. She/Her. Irene is a cisgender lesbian. A seasoned, engaging, and highly experienced group facilitator and national trainer.

The Groups are Designed and Facilitated by Irene Greene, MSED. she/her. A seasoned 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: coming out, COVID-related self-care for medical and helping professionals, isolation and grief, White allyship, sexual and physical trauma abuse healing, moral injury, burnout, compassion fatigue, radical self-care, rest, and wellness. Based in Minneapolis, MN.

Examples of Groups 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 Coalition of Domestic Violence, Northstar Street Medics, MN; The Family Tree Clinic, Minneapolis, MN; MN Women in Psychology; Touchstone Mental Health Annual Conference, Minneapolis, MN.

For more information and to schedule your free 30-minute Zoom consultation, contact Irene Greene