Psycho-Educational, Support & Skills Virtual Groups
~ Political Stress & Building Resiliency ~ Queer Sapphic Healing Abuse, Skills & Empowerment ~ Coming Out Later in Life ~ Sexual Abuse Healing & Skills ~ Older Queer Women’s Support ~
Do you want to experience the connection, acceptance, and strength of sharing intentional space with like-minded others who are addressing similar challenges and experiences?
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 a supportive place to set goals and learn 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, Queer-inclusive, sex-positive, and anti-racist, neurospicy-inclusive, and fosters a healing-justice and trauma-informed lens?
Deep healing and personal growth ensue when committed people join together to listen compassionately, support gently, and share their thoughts, feelings, experiences, challenges, wisdom, and dreams.
In the groups I facilitate, I continue to humbly witness the personal and communal healing and connection
that evolve from a healthy group experience.
A well-structured support group’s nurturing, validating, and safe foundation can be life-changing.
Types of Psycho-educational, Skill-Building, Support, and Coaching Groups offered by Irene Greene, MSED
The following educational, support, and coaching groups are offered in rotation. Goal-setting, strategies, skills, resources, worksheets, templates, support, and a curriculum packet. Optional individual project.
Irene is an experienced national educator and group facilitator. She has developed and facilitated over 60 groups in the past ten years.
For more information: Contact Irene Greene
A Trauma and Abuse Healing Support Group for Lesbian, Sapphic, and Queer Superheroes!
Feminist | Strengths-based | Sex-positive | Trauma-informed | Skill-building | Curriculum | Resources
For lesbian, bisexual, sapphic, and gender expansive adults who have endured sexual, psychological, physical, emotional neglect, and/or political or oppression trauma, are currently or recently in regular individual therapy, coaching, or a related healing modality, and hold a socially-conscious and progressive framework.
Topics: What are your queer superhero powers? Trauma healing goals, personal strengths, assessing your resilience, identifying and managing triggers, emotional regulation skills, self-care, soothing strategies, building self-confidence, identifying your PTSD symptoms and healthy and unhealthy coping strategies, reducing shame and blame, and building empowerment and assertiveness skills. The group also discusses, through a queer lens, the current social-political increase of oppression and fascism, and its similarities to each person’s abuse experiences and triggers.
The group meets in twelve-week blocks, and members have the option to re-up for the next 12-week block. The group will have a maximum of 10 members.
Depending on the interest, two weekly groups may be offered. Starts in June.
Complimentary 30-minute consultation. $60/session for 12 weeks. Two adjusted fee slots. Required intake appointment is $205.
For more information and to schedule your complimentary 30-minute consultation, use this link to the Group Interest Google Form: Which Superhero Support Group(s) Are You Interested In?
Part of Irene’s “Superhero Healing & Resilience Series”
Coming in June 2026. For progressive adults involved in activism or impacted by the federal occupation and fascism.
No “art experience” or “skill” is needed.
Starts in June. The group will have a maximum of 10 members.
Complimentary 30-minute consultation. Required intake appointment is $205. $60/session for 12 weeks. Sliding fee slots available. Contact Irene Greene.
For more information and to schedule your complimentary 30-minute consultation, use this link to the Google form: Which Superhero Support Group(s) Are You Interested In?
Part of Irene’s “Superhero Healing & Resilience Series”
Sexual Abuse Healing Support Group for Straight Female Allies and Queer Sapphic People. This 20-week ongoing virtual group meets on Wednesdays from 430-6 p.m. CST. This group has been meeting for a while and has a waitlist. The next openings will be in Fall 2026.
Feminist | Strengths-based | Sex-positive | Trauma-informed | Skill-building | Curriculum | Resources
Topics: What are your superhero powers? trauma healing goals, personal strengths, assessing your resilience, identifying and managing triggers, emotional regulation skills, self-care, soothing strategies, building self-confidence, identifying your PTSD symptoms and healthy and unhealthy coping strategies, reducing shame and blame, and building empowerment and assertiveness skills. The group also discusses the current social-political increase of oppression and fascism, and its similarities to each person’s abuse experiences and triggers.
For adult queer women, gender-expansive, sapphic, and heterosexual female allies who are in or recently were in therapy or a related healing modality, and hold a socially-conscious and progressive framework. (This is not a therapy or abreactive memory group.)
Zoom. Private pay. $55/meeting. Sliding fee slots available. Required intake appointment: $205. Contact Irene Greene.
Part of Irene’s “Superhero Healing & Resilience Series”
Sapphic Coming Out Later in Life Virtual Support Group – Next group starts in June 2026
For age ~35+, identify as lesbian, bisexual, queer, late bloomer, sapphic, later-in-life lesbian, etc., share a romantic and/or sexual attraction to women, and hold a socially-conscious and progressive framework.
This is a 12-week virtual group offered on Zoom.
The group combines support, coaching, learning, and sharing. The group’s format includes weekly themes, a resource packet, and optional homework. The resources include information related to divorce and children, self-care, conflict management and communication, and problem-solving and decision-making strategies.
Complimentary 30-minute consultation. $60/session for 14 weeks. One intake appointment is $205. Two adjusted fee slots are available. Participation in the group includes one optional 50-minute coaching session for 1/2 of the usual fee of $205.
Contact Irene Greene for more information.
Part of Irene’s “Superhero Healing & Resilience Series”
IT’s YOUR TIME – An Older Queer Women’s Support Group An LGBTQ Women’s ~40+ 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 and radical LGBTQ+ women aged 50-ish and over who want to acknowledge and honor their experience, and wisdom, discuss their aging-related concerns about limitations, identity, and health, discuss the impacts of the current social-political increase of oppression and fascism in our communities, 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 start in early Winter 2026. It is open to LGBTQ women ~40+ who live anywhere and hold a socially-conscious and progressive framework. Contact Irene Greene for more information and to be added to the waiting list.
Twin Cities LGBTQ+ Executive Director’s Support Group – This biweekly group is for LGBTQ+ executive directors of nonprofit organizations located in the Twin Cities. The group has been meeting since 2017. For more information, contact Irene Greene
Details about Irene’s Groups
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.
Since 1983, I have designed and facilitated dozens of skills, support, therapy, 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 related to neurodiversity and between introverted and extroverted personalities.
- For each of these virtual groups, participants will receive a curriculum, worksheets, resources, and the option to develop a goal-setting and self-improvement project.
- The groups have about 5-10 members.
- Rate: $55-65/session for 75-90 minute groups. Sliding fee slots are available.
- Confidential.
- These groups are educational, support, and coaching groups. They are not therapy groups.
- 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.
- 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
About Irene Greene, MSED. (she/her. lesbian) 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: political trauma stress and resiliency, 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, and radical self-care 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, OutFront MN; PFund of the Upper Midwest.
For more information and to schedule your free 30-minute Zoom consultation, contact Irene Greene
MOST OF MY SERVICES ARE CURRENTLY OFFERED ONLINE – TELEHEALTH | SOME WORKSHOPS ARE IN PERSON
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