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Mental health care has largely been organized around 1:1 relationships between clinicians and individuals.
Individual therapy remains essential, but on its own, it cannot meet the scale, diversity, or timing of today’s mental health needs.
Group therapy allows multiple individuals to receive support at the same time, creating shared context, perspective, and continuity that individual care cannot provide alone.
Group care introduces shared experience and relational learning
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Clinicians can support more people without increasing individual caseloads
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Individuals gain perspective without losing professional guidance
Despite its effectiveness, group care is used far less than it could be.
Groups are often:
Groups are often:
• difficult to discover
• harder to fill consistiently
• challenging to sustain without administrative support
As a result, many clinicians interested in offering groups face logistical barriers that individual care does not require.
Shared care models can reduce barriers to access while maintaining clinician-led standards.
Affordability
Affordability
Sharing clinician time across a group can lower the cost of access, without reducing clinical standards or structure.
Earlier points of engagement
Earlier points of engagement
Group care allows individuals to engage sooner, before challenges escalate to the point of requiring crisis intervention.
Care not limited to one-to-one schedules
Care not limited to one-to-one schedules
Group formats make support available in ways that aren’t constrained by individual appointment availability.
By building infrastructure centered on group care rather than adapting tools designed for 1:1 therapy, Together Groups aims to make group support easier to discover, easier to access, and easier to sustain, without shifting operational burden onto clinicians or individuals.
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