Spring Session Starts March 4th, 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 teen feeling overwhelmed or stressed? The spring season often comes with a mix of excitement and challenges—from big milestones like graduations to stressful periods like increasingly challenging work and final exams.
Our Teen Support Group offers a consistent, safe, and therapeutic space for your teen to build coping skills, self-awareness, emotional resilience, and meaningful peer connections. If your teen is feeling burned out, our Teen Support Group can provide fresh energy and helpful social-emotional tools to navigate this season with confidence.
With our Teen Support Group, teens 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 teens who are:
Seeking extra support and skill-building
Navigating academic stress, such as school transitions, ACT/SAT testing, and workload
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
Twelve in-person one-hour sessions at our Lakeview, Chicago office:
March 4th
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
Registration and Attendance Commitment
Our Spring Teen Support Group is a closed group, meaning the same members will attend each week in order to build group consistency and connection.
Commitment Options:
$50 per session for families who can commit to attending at least 9 of the 12 sessions
$55 per session for families who are unable to commit to the minimum attendance requirement of 9 out of 12 sessions
Cancellation Policy
Because consistency is essential to the success of our Teen Support Group, we will be implementing a cancellation policy:
Sessions cancelled with more than 24 hours notice will be charged 50% of the session fee
Sessions cancelled with less than 24 hours notice or no-shows will be charged 100% of the session fee
If more than 3 sessions are missed, an additional $25 late/missed session fee will apply per missed session.
This policy supports group continuity and ensures fairness to the other participants. If you have any questions or you have a specific reason for missing a session, please reach out to us — we’re happy to find a solution for your teen.
Why consistency matters
Group therapy relies on consistency to build emotional safety, trust, and group cohesion. When teens attend regularly, they’re better able to foster meaningful peer relationships, feel safe practicing new skills, and benefit fully from the group.