Bay City, MI Group Counseling

M.P.A. Group NFP, Ltd.

Girl Power (self-esteem group for elementary school girls) is focused on growing a healthy sense of self by building on skills and self-image. The goal is to help these young girls build their sense of self-worth througb identifying and describing their unique gifts and skills.

Girl Talk (self-esteem group for middle school girls) is focused on building positive self-image through a variety of exercises and skills. The goals of the group are to strengthen self-esteem and self-perception, promote awareness about how certain environments can affect self-esteem, and promote resiliency.

The Non-Directive Play Therapy Groups are a one full week group for ages 4 - 6. These groups provide non-directive, experiential based activities for children of all ages. The goal is to offer members of the group the opportunity to experience growth under favorable conditions.

Chill Out Group is an anger management group for children in elementary school. This group is to teach children how to deal with anger in a healthy way to help increase self-control, self-esteem, and to promote a positive attitude.

Chillaxin Group is an anger management group for children in middle school. This group is to teach children how to deal with anger in a healthy way to help increase self-control, self-esteem, and to promote a positive attitude.

Super Social Skills (for boys ages 10-13). This group focuses on learning conversational skills, emotional awareness, how to avoid bullying, self-esteem, managing disappointment, and peer pressure.

Up High & Down Low (for adolescents ages 13-17). This group is geared towards adolescents who are at risk for using substances or are struggling with peer pressure. The goal is to learn how mental illness can increase the risk of substance abuse, learn and practice coping skills and how to say "no".

The Love and Logic Parent Management Program provides educational and experiential exercises. The purpose of this highly effective program is to increase parenting skills, and provide participants with a practical way to manage their responses to children's behaviors in-order to prevent child abuse.



Caring for Children Who Have Experienced Trauma is an evidenced-based trauma model group designed to educate and support parents, foster parents, caregivers, and guardians who care for children who have experienced trauma. Caregivers will understand the impact of trauma, the behavioral effects on children, how to respond to their unique behavioral and emotional challenges, and learn self-care and stress reduction techniques to build healthy relationships with traumatized children.

Evening Fix (f.k.a. Bridges to Barriers)  is a group geared towards gaining knowledge of recovery related issues. These include stages of recovery, relapse prevention, conflict resolution, and coping skills.

Social Skills & Healthy Relationships is a group geared towards building and improving relationships and supports. Participants will learn the characteristics of healthy relationships as well as how to set and enforce boundaries.

Emotional Regulation is a group geared towards increasing understanding of feelings and taking control of emotions. Participants will learn how to manage their emotions, identify how they are feeling and why, identify internal conflicts, and to verbalize their feelings appropriately to others.

Life Skills is a group geared towards increasing basic knowledge of healthy living (nutrition, physical activity, sleep and hygiene), community resource building and utilization, employment (interviewing, resume and job application tips, and meaningful work), and time and money management (financial budgeting and time management).

Meditation/Mindfulness is geared towards stress management and relaxation techniques. Participants will be introduced to meditation and mindfulness techniques. They will leam basic skills to relieve stress, calm their minds, manage pain, and create a sense of lasting peace.

Grief and Loss is a group geared towards increasing the understanding of grief and loss and to cope with grief in healthy and productive ways. Topics include taking back control of grief, understanding how grief impacts everyone in unique ways, addressing guilt or anger about the loss, and moving forward with a life in which lost loved ones remain present.

Conflict Resolution is a group geared towards assisting participants to manage and resolve conflict in a positive way. Participants will learn how to communicate appropriately, how to develop positive coping thoughts and learn about anger distortions.

Stress Busters - Not so Merry? is a 2-day workshop for adults. This is designed to be a stress buster's workshop where participants will learn skills to cope with holiday stress, gain support from peers, and have some problem solving skills that will leave them feeling able to tackle the Holidays with more joy and enthusiasm.