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 licensed clinical social worker and psychotherapist based in East Arlington, MA, offering in-person and virtual therapy for adults. With over 10 years of experience, she also leads in-person psychotherapy groups focused on relationships, communication, self-esteem, and emotional awareness.
Many of Jennifer’s clients are thoughtful, capable individuals who feel stuck—whether in patterns of anxiety, dissatisfaction, self-doubt, or relationships that aren’t working as they’d like. They’re often ready for deeper self-understanding and meaningful, lasting change, but aren’t sure how to get there.
Jennifer specializes in anxiety, dissatisfaction, and relationship concerns, helping clients better understand themselves and shift long-standing patterns that no longer serve them. Her relational, insight-oriented approach supports clients in developing clarity, confidence, and more fulfilling connections—with both themselves and others.
Her style is warm, collaborative, and in-depth. Jennifer tailors therapy to each person’s goals, integrating attachment-based and relational approaches with a mind–body perspective to support emotional balance and resilience.
She believes that therapy works best when it feels genuine, engaging, and grounded in a strong therapeutic relationship. Through this process, clients
build greater self-awareness, strengthen emotional insight, and learn to respond to themselves with more clarity and intention.
Jennifer is a Certified Group Psychotherapist and a Fellow of the American Group Psychotherapy Association, with advanced training in attachment-based therapy and group psychotherapy. Her office in East Arlington is conveniently located and accessible by public transportation.
