Quieting the Storm: Empowering Young Women
Mondays 6:30 - 8:00PM
Spring Sessions - 12 Week Group Starting February 3, 2025
Led by Kelly Caul, MSW, LCSW, SEP (she/her)
You are not alone! Amazing things happen when a group of women gather together in community.
Quieting the Storm is a 12-week therapeutic empowerment group for teen girls in high school (an inclusive space for all teen girls). Since 2009, these sacred spaces have offered support and comfort that invites each individual to explore and reconnect with her most authentic selves as she learns valuable tools to help navigate her world.
Individuals find connection with one another while working on building self-compassion, confidence, self-awareness, healthy coping strategies, and skills to develop healthy relationships.
We all need connection.
There is a healing power in connections.
Group therapy offers a safe and rewarding way to connect with and learn from others who are dealing with similar issues.
As a group member, each individual is a valuable resource to the other members as they share their experiences (as much or as little as she chooses!) – both the successes and struggles.
It can be easier for teens to work through challenges with the help of peers in similar situations. This environment provides the opportunity to practice new skills while building trusting and healthy relationships.
Build self-compassion, self-esteem, confidence, and self-awareness
Develop healthy coping tools to deal with stress, anxiety and depression
Discuss ways to survive the pressures and expectations of being a teen
Learn about healthy relationships and find your voice in relationships
Discover, recognize, and develop strengths
These groups offer individuals:
Community - A safe and supportive space to connect with others
Connection - Building trusting and positive relationships with others
A path to Self-acceptance - reconnecting with and honoring their most authentic Selves
Voice - Encouragement to voice their truth and share their story, building self-awareness and acceptance for both their strengths and struggles
Support - As they builds skills and the self-awareness to identify, articulate, and befriend their feelings
Validation - A judgment-free zone and the knowing (and believing!) that they are not alone!
Skills to Cope - Developing new strategies to cope with the pressures and expectations from today's world - releasing perfectionism and embracing healthy striving
Strategies - to reconnect with her Inner Wisdom during the moments of harsh self-criticism and self-judgment
Tools - to work towards better self-care – including self-compassion, mindfulness, shame resilience, boundary setting, communication skills, transitioning to a growth mindset, and gratitude practices
Free 30 minute consultation available for any family interested in exploring whether this group is the right fit. Reach out to Kelly Caul at kkcaul@yahoo.com or 314.952.3199 for more information.
Meet Kelly
Founding Director of Empowered Spaces, Founder of Empowered Therapy, LLC, Psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner in training, Group Facilitator, Community Builder
Kelly (she/her) is a clinical social worker, somatic psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, community builder, group facilitator, space holder for transformational growth and healing, and forever a student.
Through her private practice, Empowered Therapy, she offers both individual and group therapy while specializing in working with women, female adolescents, gender diverse individuals, and parents. Her holistic, collaborative, and non-pathologizing approach focuses on embodiment, empowerment, compassion, and building attuned connections.
As a white cis-hetero woman, she is also deeply committed to holding brave space for the cultivation of compassionate, accountable, anti-oppressive and equitable communities .
Since January 2009, she has been offering therapeutic empowerment groups for girls in middle school, Girls with Strength, and girls in high school, Quieting the Storm.
In addition, she facilitates workshops and trainings for the community on an array of topics that center personal and collective healing and transformation from a trauma-informed, resilience-focused, and anti-oppressive lens.
It is her dedication to personal and collective healing that sparked the beginnings of Empowered Spaces. She opened Empowered Spaces in April 2018 with the primary mission to hold space for deepening connections, co-creating community rooted in care and belonging, and transformational healing.