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Quieting the Storm: Therapeutic Empowerment Group for Young Women - Spring Sessions

  • Empowered Spaces 7602 Big Bend Boulevard St. Louis, MO, 63119 United States (map)

Quieting the Storm: Empowering Young Women

Mondays 6:30 - 8:00PM | 12 Week Group Starting February 6, 2023

Led by Kelly Caul, MSW, LCSW | she/her

Founder of Empowered Therapy and Empowered Spaces

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 groups for adolescent girls (a space that welcomes all teens that identify or are identified as female). Since 2009, these sacred spaces have offered support and comfort that invites each individual to explore and reconnect with her most authentic self as she learns valuable tools to help navigate her world.

Young women 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 young woman is a valuable resource to the other members as she shares her 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 teenage woman

  • Learn about healthy relationships and find your voice in relationships

  • Discover, recognize, and develop strengths as a woman

These groups offer young women:

  • Community - A safe and supportive space to connect with other young women

  • Connection - Building trusting and positive relationships with other girls

  • A path to Self-acceptance - reconnecting with and honoring her most authentic Self

  • Voice - Encouragement to voice her truth and share her story, building self-awareness and acceptance for both her strengths and struggles

  • Support - As she builds skills and the self-awareness to identify, articulate, and befriend her feelings

  • Validation - A judgment-free zone and the knowing (and believing!) that she is 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 Wise Woman 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.

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Meet Kelly

Founding Director of Empowered Spaces, Founder of Empowered Therapy, LLC, Psychotherapist, Somatic Experiencing Practitioner, 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.

Education & Training

As a trauma-sensitive clinician, I have been trained in several different approaches for healing that are rooted in mindfulness, self-compassion and acceptance, attachment theory, neurobiology and a deep understanding of the nervous system:

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