Tanya Cole-Lesnick -The Power of Group Therapy; Clear Energetic Clutter

Tanya Cole-Lesnick has been a psychotherapist (licensed clinical social worker) and coach since 1995. She received her master’s degree in social work from New York University after group therapy changed her life. She has extensive experience in outpatient hospital mental health, private practice, and wellness center settings. From those experiences over the years she has identified her most important focus—helping people to live lives that light them up. She does this by helping clients to access and honor their truth, to change habits that don’t serve them, and to heal faulty narratives so that they are living in alignment inside and out. Her work revolves around intimate groups as the sharing of inner worlds and being human together in a safe space is what she finds to be the most powerful way for lives to transform. Tanya Cole-Lesnick Vroom Vroom Veer Stories Grew up in Chevy Chase Maryland in a suburban area around DC; played soccer and did track in High School; when she started getting interested in boys her grades suffered a little bit Worked as a Graphic Artist after college and was struggling finding a long-term love relationship; found a therapist even with the shame and stigma around therapy Her therapist suggested group therapy which she was afraid to try but did it anyway because she trusted her therapist She went through a whole group session without saying anything; in the 2nd session a man in the group told her "I could feel your neediness right away"   Group therapy was so transformational for her that she went back to school to be a therapist herself and really fell in love with group and mostly helping women Learned there is nothing wrong with us, what we are feeling is just part of the human condition Traditional Roles for women are celebrated as "she does it all" which is probably impossible to fulfill all those roles with perfection; Being a Good Girl and doing what you "should" can make you feel like you will never measure up Sharing your secrets and things you are ashamed of in group gives others in group the permission they need to say "oh me too"; my shame was a little different but still just as shameful Going through the discomfort of sharing shame is difficult for sure; but it's worth the relief to realize that carrying shame is part of the human condition and we need to keep "wiping the slate clean"; it never gets easier but you always feel better after doing that Connections Website Instagram