Spring Session Starts March 11th, 2026!
Weekly on Wednesdays from 6:30 – 7:30 PM CST
In-person at Introspective’s Lakeview location
Blue Cross Blue Shield PPO insurance accepted!
Is your tween feeling overwhelmed, withdrawn, or misunderstood? Middle schoolers today are navigating many changes, both internally and externally. Our Middle School Support Group gives tweens space to feel supported and empowered.
With our Tween Support Group, your middle schooler will:
Identify and regulate their emotions
Understand the connections between thoughts, emotions, and behaviors
Build confidence and self-esteem
Navigate communication and relationship skills
Learn mindfulness and positive coping skills
Explore group role-play and experiential learning
Participate in peer feedback and group processing
Learn tools to better manage comparison, identity pressures, and social media stress
This group is designed for middle schoolers who are:
Seeking extra support and skill-building
Navigating academic stress,
Struggling with friendships, mood, stress, or complicated family dynamics
Wanting a safe place to practice communication and coping skills
Exploring identity and belonging, particularly with the complexities of tech, AI, and social media
Transitioning from higher levels of care (such as PHP or IOP)
Meet Your Teen Support Group Leader, Bridget Iaccino, LCSW
Bridget brings a warm, trauma-informed, and relational approach to her work, seeing her clients as so much more than what they’ve experienced. Her integrative, client-centered style draws from psychodynamic therapy, parts work, schema-focused approaches, and mindfulness-based CBT. Drawing from her yoga training, she also uses Polyvagal-informed, mind-body practices, and somatic awareness. For younger clients, she uses her training in Child-Centered Play Therapy to create a space where kids can express themselves and build emotional skills.
Bridget brings deep expertise supporting children, teens, adults, parents, and families navigating life transitions, trauma, anxiety, depression, and ADHD. Throughout her career, she’s worked and advocated within schools, the foster care system, and juvenile and federal justice settings. Bridget attended Loyola University Chicago, where she earned a bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology and a master’s of social work with a specialization in Mental Health.
Dates
Eleven in-person one-hour sessions at our Lakeview, Chicago office:
March 11th
March 18th
March 25th - OFF FOR SPRING BREAK
April 1st
April 8th
April 15th
April 22nd
April 28th
May 6th
May 13th
May 20th
May 27th