Through a needs assessment and research it is noted that this age range struggles the most in relationships and "loses themselves" in this life stage.

Online Assessment: https://www.gallup.com/cliftonstrengths/en/strengthsfinder.aspx

I will also reach out to other providers for referrals for clients that they see individually who could benefit from a group healing after a breakup or divorce.

Each participant will need to ensure they can meet twice a week, each for a 45-minute session at the local library in a conference room.

According to Texas 

Administrative Code § 681.35, a licensed professional counselor must provide counseling in a context of a professional relationship, regardless of setting. Before services begin, the LPC must obtain signed informed consent for the fees and arrangement of payment, counseling purposes, goals, and techniques, any restrictions placed on the counselor, the limits of confidentiality, any intent of the LPC to use another individual to provide counseling treatment intervention to the client, supervision of the LPC by another health care professional, the contact information for the Council, and the established plan for the custody and control of the client’s mental health records in the event of the LPC’s death, incapacity, or the termination of the counseling practice. 

1. You are not required to share, unless you choose to do so.

2. Confidentiality

3. Be respectful of everyone's time, story, and emotional regulation.

Additional group norms will be discussed and established with the group during the first session. These norms will be talked about and agreed upon before members sign their informed consent and agree to participate in this group.

1. Finding, having, and keeping a growth mindset.

2. Setting healthy, firm boundaries with any and everyone for the sake of valuing and prioritizing oneself.

3. Being able to identify one's "red flags" and gaps.

4. Doing the work to fill their own gaps and heal from their "red flags" to establish healthier future relationships.

These mindsets and behaviors are essential for the work it takes to grow and heal from our past traumas. If members show up daily, understanding the importance of the lists above, growth, healing, and emotional maturity will happen.

Step 1: We will meet and focus on building relationships with each other. We will mingle, have casual conversations, and organically get to know each other. The leader will ask open-ended questions for everyone to talk about. The questions will be well thought out and intended to build trust and rapport with group members.

Step 2: Members will group up with 2 other people they feel they connected with the most, and will further discuss/answer prompted questions. This will be for them to feel that they have already created a friend group of people they trust, connect with, and can open up to. Each member will be on a journey of healing and self-discovery that not everyone they have formerly known will understand or accept, so these relationships will be crucial.

Step 3: Their group will be prompted to plan outings together. Each group will have to plan at least one outing a month.

Quinney, D. M., & Fouts, G. T. (2003). Resilience and divorce adjustment in adults participating in divorce recovery workshops. Journal of Divorce & Remarriage, 40(1-2), 55–68. https://doi.org/10.1300/J087v40n01_04