The Psychology Group Fort Lauderdale

The Psychology Group Fort Lauderdale Centrally located in east Ft. Lauderdale, The Psychology Group offers effective therapy services delivered with competence and compassion.

Dolly tells us to know yourself, accept your humanity, work toward happiness, allow mistakes, preserve a life outside wo...
08/26/2026

Dolly tells us to know yourself, accept your humanity, work toward happiness, allow mistakes, preserve a life outside work, respect other people’s paths, and carry love forward after loss.

08/20/2026

Investing in your mental health doesn’t always mean buying more things.

Sometimes it looks like finally using your PTO. Sometimes it’s setting a boundary that feels uncomfortable at first. Sometimes it’s picking up a hobby you’re terrible at simply because it brings you joy. And sometimes, it’s finding a therapist who helps you feel seen, challenged, and supported.

The best investments aren’t always the ones with the biggest price tags, they’re the ones that make your everyday life feel a little lighter.

What would you add to this list? 👇

If you’re thinking about starting therapy, our clinicians are here to help you find the support that’s right for you.

08/18/2026

A fair criticism can become an unfair conclusion pretty quickly.

Yes, psychological language can be overused, misused, and even weaponized. Therapists can overvalidate. Pop psychology can flatten complicated experiences into tidy labels.

But “therapy culture sometimes gets things wrong” is not the same claim as “therapy is making people weak.”

Good therapy should help people tolerate discomfort, question their own assumptions, act according to their values, and respond more flexibly to difficult experiences.

Critique what deserves critique. Just be careful with the sweeping cultural narrative that comes after it.

08/06/2026

Are therapists to blame for adults cutting off their parents?

The article cites a striking statistic: about 1/3 of estranged parents believe a therapist influenced or recommended the cutoff. But that measures parents’ beliefs about therapy sessions they did not attend. It does not tell us what the therapist actually said, whether estrangement was already being considered, or whether therapy caused the decision.

Most therapists are not sitting across from clients telling them, “You should stop speaking to your family.”

Ethical therapy is usually much less directive. We ask questions, identify patterns, explore consequences, and help clients decide what aligns with their values, safety, and wellbeing.

In rare, high-risk situations, we may be more direct about safety. Unethical therapists can also misuse their influence.

Sometimes parents minimize the harm their adult child experienced and blame the person who helped them establish firmer boundaries.

There may also be a generational shift: many younger adults are questioning the belief that loyalty and respect require them to tolerate harmful treatment indefinitely. What one generation considered “just how family is,” another may no longer be willing to accept.

Clients may also say, “My therapist told me to,” even when the decision was their own. Borrowing a therapist’s authority can make a painful, brave choice feel easier to defend.

None of this means therapy is beyond criticism. A therapist may reinforce one interpretation too quickly, magnify a client’s certainty, or contribute to a premature and extreme decision. Families may also feel excluded, or unfairly characterized.

Those possibilities deserve serious discussion. But so do the experiences of adults who spent years trying to repair relationships, communicate their pain, and establish boundaries before deciding that distance was necessary.

The better question is not, “Who is to blame?”

It is: Was the decision explored carefully, made freely, grounded in reality, and consistent with the person’s safety and long-term values?

Back-to-school irritability, silence, exhaustion, and attitude don’t always mean something is wrong.Your child may be ad...
08/05/2026

Back-to-school irritability, silence, exhaustion, and attitude don’t always mean something is wrong.

Your child may be adjusting to more structure, more social pressure, less downtime, and a lot more stimulation.

How parents respond during this transition has an impact.

Sometimes connection looks like being available without pushing.
Sometimes it means protecting their privacy.
Sometimes it means helping them separate a grade, mistake, or bad day from their identity.
Sometimes it means noticing what looks like laziness may actually be overwhelm, discouragement, or fear of failure.

These small moments can help your child feel less judged and more supported as they adjust.

If your child or teen is having a harder time than usual, schedule a callback with us at the link in our bio.

08/04/2026

🚨Warning: Spoilers below. 

This scene from Degrassi: Next Class shows how easily deeper pain can be missed when an adult decides what a teen is experiencing before fully assessing it.

The counselor is kind and well-intentioned, but she moves from “you seem stressed” to problem-solving before asking enough questions. Maya feels misunderstood and stops sharing.

Unfortunately, Maya later attempts su***de. That outcome is not the counselor’s fault. The takeaway isn’t that adults should always know exactly what’s wrong. It’s that understanding has to come before intervention.

Dr. Rachel Christopher specializes in working with teens and helping them feel safe enough to talk about what’s really going on.

Schedule a callback with Rachel through the link in our bio.

08/03/2026

If you missed it, a clip from the Mel Robbins podcast recently went viral and has since been removed.

Relationship experts Drs. John and Julie Gottman were asked how to tell your partner you’re no longer attracted to them because they’ve gained weight.

They demonstrated using the communication skill “Gentle Start-Up,” but then the conversation took a turn.

The first miss is that weight and appearance are not neutral “requests.” This is what happens when we teach people how to say the hard thing before we ask whether the hard thing is actually theirs to say.

As the role-play continued, it insinuated that if the partner lost weight, more s*x would follow. The promise of more s*x became the motivation for changing their body.

That’s where José disagrees.

Communication skills like Gentle Start-Up are designed to reduce defensiveness. They’re not a free pass to say anything we want. And when s*xual connection becomes contingent on changing your partner’s body, the conversation can start to feel less like an invitation and more like coercion.

In José’s experience as a certified s*x therapist, people rarely become more s*xually confident when they feel like their body is being evaluated. More often, they become self-conscious, anxious, and disconnected from themselves.

A more helpful question isn’t, “How do I get my partner to change their body?” It’s, “What am I actually missing?”
Is it playfulness? Confidence? Novelty? Emotional closeness? Feeling desired? Shared vitality?

Those conversations open the door to intimacy. Making your partner’s body the obstacle to being wanted usually closes it.

07/31/2026

Some days (or weeks… or months) just hit like an unexpected rainshower.

Life has a way of throwing us into the deep end when we least expect it, leaving us feeling totally washed up, exhausted, and over it. But you don’t have to stay stuck in that place.

Therapy isn’t about pretending the storm didn’t happen, it’s about giving yourself a safe, warm space to dry off, rest, and find your peace again.

If you’re ready to trade the chaos for some comfort, we’re here when you’re ready to recharge.

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2601 E Oakland Park Boulevard #502
Fort Lauderdale, FL
33306

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Monday 9am - 7pm
Tuesday 9am - 7pm
Wednesday 9am - 7pm
Thursday 9am - 7pm
Friday 9am - 7pm
Saturday 9am - 1pm

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