Group Therapy for Social Anxiety in Massachusetts

Inclusive, Improv-Inspired Support for Adults Navigating Social Anxiety

Struggling with social anxiety? You’re not alone.

Our online group therapy program helps adults in Massachusetts build confidence, connection, and self-trust through a culturally responsive and low-pressure experience.

The group blends improv-inspired activities, trauma-informed guidance, and community support to gently shift how you relate to others and to yourself. Sessions are playful, grounding, and welcoming to all comfort levels, offering a new way to practice presence, connection, and self-expression without pressure to perform.

What Is Group Therapy for Social Anxiety?

Group therapy offers a supportive space to connect with others who understand what you’re going through. Facilitated by a therapist experienced in social anxiety and improv-based approaches, this group focuses on:

  • Practicing social skills and presence in real-time

  • Exploring your anxiety with curiosity and care

  • Using play, storytelling, and light improv to break cycles of overthinking

  • Building relational confidence and reducing isolation

  • Rewriting internal narratives shaped by shame or fear

Whether you’re new to therapy or looking for something more creative and interactive, this group invites you to engage in your healing journey with support, imagination, and care.

Who This Group Is For

This group welcomes adults 18+ in Massachusetts who:

  • Feel anxious or self-conscious in social settings

  • Struggle with overthinking, people-pleasing, or fear of judgment

  • Want to feel more at ease in conversations and group dynamics

  • Are looking for a creative, supportive alternative to traditional therapy

  • Value a space that is inclusive and culturally responsive

  • May identify as BIPOC, LGBTQIA+, neurodivergent, or exploring identity and want a space that honours lived experience

No improv or therapy experience is needed. We honour your pace, your voice, and your process.

Group Facilitator & Therapist

Blessing Egbuogu, MSW, LCSW

Associate Psychotherapist

Blessing is a trauma-informed therapist who specializes in supporting clients through anxiety, racial identity, life transitions, grief, and self-worth. As a Nigerian American woman with lived experience navigating bicultural identity and high-pressure expectations, Blessing brings empathy, depth, and cultural humility into every room she enters.

Her clinical work is grounded in relational, strengths-based, and holistic practices that affirm each person’s truth and lived experience. Blessing is passionate about group healing and community-centered spaces, especially for people who have felt silenced or isolated in more traditional therapy settings.

She believes improv can unlock confidence, connection, and curiosity, essential ingredients for healing social anxiety. Through this workshop, Blessing hopes to offer a playful yet grounding space where participants can experiment, laugh, and discover new ways to relate to themselves and others.

Group Therapy Details

Format: Online
Duration: 1-hour weekly sessions
Next Cycle Starts: TBA
Cost: Sliding scale available. Please contact us/register to learn more.
Location: Available to adults residing in Massachusetts

What to Expect in a Session

  • Grounding and check-in

  • Group connection exercises

  • Guided improv or creative activity

  • Sharing, reflection, and optional discussion

  • Practical takeaways for daily life

You will never be pressured to perform, speak, or share beyond your comfort. This is a space for brave, not perfect.

    • Explore how social anxiety shows up in your life

    • Get grounded in the group culture: consent, care, and connection

    • Gentle warm-ups to build safety and set intentions

    • Identify your social anxiety “scripts” and survival strategies

    • Explore internalized messages around visibility and belonging

    • Challenge shame and perfectionism

    • Move from self-judgment to self-compassion

    • Experiment with spontaneity, silence, and laughter

    • Reflect on how race, gender, class, and neurodivergence shape social safety

    • Explore who you feel safe around - and why

    • Practice boundary-setting and saying no with care

    • Practice presence without apology

    • Reclaim voice, gesture, and expression

    • Improv prompts to try being “too much,” on your own terms

    • Share a vulnerable moment in community (with choice and pacing)

    • Practice active listening and connection-building

    • Affirm what it means to be brave in relationship, not just alone

    • Reflect on moments you’ve felt included or longed to be

    • Explore “belonging” beyond performance or fitting in

    • Co-create scenes that centre care, joy, or authentic connection

    • Reflect on what shifted for you over 8 weeks

    • Practice voicing your needs, wins, and hopes

    • Close the group with connection, choice, and celebration