A facilitated closed group to reveal, explore and shift patterns of self and other. An Interpersonal Group acts as a psychotherapeutic container of shared practice grounded in safety, honesty, and ownership of feeling.
Thursday evenings 6:30–8:00pm
October 1st to December 3rd 2026,
2nd Floor, 17–19 View Point, Bendigo VIC 3550
Applications close: September 28th
One or two places are open to people who aren’t already in individual therapy with me.
Not the right fit if you're in acute crisis or looking for a structured skills program.
“There is no human deed or thought that lies fully outside the experience of other people.”
— Irvin D. Yalom
Interpersonal Group Therapy is the model created by Irvin Yalom, the world's most widely read living psychotherapist. Individuals gather in a small, consistent group to explore how they show up in relationship. Through interaction and feedback, members gain insight into their relational patterns, develop new ways of connecting, and discover they're not alone in how they struggle. The group is the instrument of change — not a classroom, not a support group.
We work with what's alive in the room — between members, in the silence, in the moment. There's no agenda, no topic for the week, except for what members bring. The focus is on the here-and-now: what you're feeling, what you're noticing in relation to others, what's hard to say. The leader supports the group to hold the collaborative conditions for honest sharing, allowing the group's 'work' to happen.
90 minutes weekly, 10-week terms. The first term is a beginning. Change can be immediate, although Interpersonal Psychotherapy Groups can become the highlight of people's week, and most people experience the deepest change over 12–24 months of consistent group work.
After the first term, the group decides together whether to continue. New members may possibly join at term boundaries.
Individual therapy helps you understand your patterns and potentially shift them with a trained therapist. An Interpersonal Group gives you a live relational space where patterns don't just get talked about, they show up, in real time, with multiple other people who are there for similar reasons. Shared vulnerability, witnessed over weeks and months, builds something that insight alone doesn't reach.
A small, closed group. Most members are also in individual therapy with me. One or two places are open this term to people who aren’t — you don’t need to be in therapy with me, or with anyone, to apply.
Thursday, from October 1st. The group described on this page. Applications close September 28th, and the intake call comes first.
Wednesday, from February 3rd 2027. A second group, open to anyone, for those who can’t make October. The same intake call covers both.
Both run 90 minutes weekly, in 10-week terms, in central Bendigo, at the same cost.
Term: Thursday October 1st to Thursday December 3rd 2026 — ten consecutive weeks
When: Thursday evenings 6:30–8:00pm
Where: 2nd Floor, 17–19 View Point, Bendigo VIC 3550
Applications close: Monday September 28th
Cost: $800 for the term ($80/session). Paid in full, or in two payments of $400. Missed sessions aren’t refunded. If cost is a barrier, reach out.
Medicare and private health rebates are not available for the group.
No. Individual therapy alongside the group is recommended but not required, and if you don’t have a therapist I can help find one. If you do have one, my being able to speak with them from time to time is a condition of joining. Group work can stir things up between sessions, which is part of why a therapist alongside it helps.
Almost everyone is. No pressure to speak early on — but the work does require leaning into that discomfort eventually. That's what we're here to practise.
Attendance matters — the group depends on people showing up. If you need to miss one, let me know when you sign up. More than two absences makes meaningful work difficult, and we'd check in about timing.
No. The group focuses on relational patterns, not narrating personal history. Disclosure is never required.
The discovery call is designed to answer this. We talk through where you're at and whether the group fits.
Book a free 15-minute intake call before September 28th. We'll talk through where you're at and whether the group is the right fit.
Looking for one-to-one work instead? Individual sessions run 50 minutes, in Bendigo, Kyneton or online.
Trained in interpersonal group psychotherapy under Dr Tra-ill Dowie. Integrative-attachment and relational in approach — present, direct, and interested in what's alive in the room. I don't direct the group toward a particular outcome; I hold the conditions for the group's own work to happen.
Clinical supervision with Dr Tra-ill Dowie PhD.
Phone: 0490 333 809
Email: book@sebkitchentherapy.com
Bendigo / Central Victoria
Kyneton / Macedon Ranges
Online — Australia & internationally
