Description
This group offers a supportive, welcoming space to:
• Explore how neurobiology shapes emotion, behavior, and relationships
• Build capacity to manage complex feelings in real-life interpersonal situations
• Notice recurring emotional and relational patterns
• Develop healthier self-esteem and deeper self-understanding through connection with others
• Practice communication and social skills in the moment, in real time
• Create more emotionally connected and satisfying relationships
• Connect with others who experience anxiety and share coping strategies
• Process grief and loss, including complicated or conflicting emotions
The group is a safe, professionally facilitated space to explore how you relate to others—and how others experience you—while being supported in taking meaningful interpersonal risks.
Group therapy is often described as a “triple E” treatment: Effective, Equivalent to individual therapy, and Efficient, offering depth and growth through shared experience.
Jennifer has over 15 years of experience facilitating interpersonal process groups and has been a Certified Group Psychotherapist since 2013. Her approach is integrative and trauma-informed, drawing from multiple theoretical perspectives to support safety, connection, and meaningful change.
Group Therapist
Jennifer DeSouza, LICSW is a Clinical Social Worker and psychotherapist based in East Arlington, MA with over 10 years of experience providing therapy to adults. She offers in-person and virtual therapy, as well as in-person psychotherapy groups focused on relationships, communication, self-esteem, and emotional regulation.
Clients seek Jennifer’s support for anxiety, depression, trauma, and relationship concerns, often after struggling with long-standing emotional patterns that feel difficult to change. Many have histories of early life stress or attachment-related wounds that continue to impact emotional well-being, self-esteem, and relationships. Jennifer’s attachment-focused, relational approach helps clients understand the roots of these patterns while supporting new and more effective ways of responding in their lives and relationships.
Jennifer’s style is warm, collaborative, and flexible. She tailors therapy to each client’s goals, drawing from relational and attachment-based approaches within a developmental framework. She integrates Trauma-Informed Stabilization Therapy (TIST) and is trained in Attachment-Focused EMDR through the Laurel Parnell Institute. Her work also incorporates a mind–body perspective, with attention to how emotional experiences are held in the body, supporting greater integration and resilience.
Jennifer believes the therapeutic relationship itself is a powerful agent of change. She helps clients develop deeper self-understanding, increase emotional awareness, and respond to themselves with greater compassion, supporting meaningful and lasting change.
Jennifer is a Certified Group Psychotherapist and a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, with advanced training in attachment theory, trauma therapy, and group psychotherapy. Her office is located in East Arlington and is accessible by public transportation.
She is a Certified Group Psychotherapist and a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, with advanced training in attachment theory, trauma-informed care, and group therapy. Her office is located in East Arlington and is accessible by public transit.
