10 week virtual gathering
story group therapy
Story Groups are designed for anyone who is ready for their stories to be witnessed in the presence of others who want the same.
Are you ready to tell your story?
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here's why your story matters
When we tell our stories, we get care and attunement in the areas of our lives we never had before. And when we receive care in places that were missed, our stories begin to reveal a fuller truth. This fuller truth allows access to healing and invites our nervous system to be released from trauma.
Navigating through our trauma healing isn’t easy, but knowing there’s a way through makes it a lot less scary - especially when we are not alone.
limited space available
We are harmed in relationships.
We are healed in relationships.
Story Group is about coming together to help you understand your stories and explore new, fuller truths
Receive tenderness, and to listen to others with an open heart - offering light where one might only see the dark
Hold and be held in kindness and care
Invite new perspectives and opportunities to shift old narratives into meaningful, more supportive stories
SUMMER 2024
STORY GROUP
START DATES
WEDNESDAY - JULY 10, 2024
THURSDAY - JULY 11, 2024
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE
What can you expect?
Story group is a combination of both sharing stories and learning.
10 Consecutive weekly sessions / 2 hr Sessions
8 People per group
Each participant commits to sharing one story with the group
Guidance on how to write and bring your story
Guidance on how to engage and interact with others' stories
Learn about trauma, somatic work, and body regulation
Together we will engage in the essential aspect of connection
What if you could change the meaning behind the stories of your past?
What if you could gain some clarity of certain events and relationships from your past and find new understanding and fuller truth to your experiences?
There are so many layers to you and the experiences of your past (your stories).
Our past is never really past and it influences several areas of our lives, impacting decision-making, behaviors, experiences, and relationships.
In Story Groups we come together to help you understand your stories and explore new truths.
If you tend to feel overwhelmed by negative experiences, thoughts, or emotions you are not alone. You are not "broken" or "the problem," or “powerless”.
Our gatherings are about helping one another widen your view by considering more cohesive truths to your stories so you can be free to live and discover the fullest version of yourself.
limited space available
TIER PRICING
I offer tiered, class-equitable, pay-what-supports-you pricing for my online sessions. I believe that pricing should not exacerbate societal divides.
I also want to help to create a conscious, intentional and value-aligned culture of payment.
Please read the following considerations and then determine which price is appropriate for you.
LIMITED SPACE AVAILABLE
CONSIDERATIONS
Finances, especially in our society, are a nuanced and complex consideration. I believe we should regularly dialogue and check in around which tier currently works and as your financial situation shifts, rates can be re-assessed.
Frequency of sessions is another aspect for consideration.
For a tier-based system to work, it relies on the principles of truthfulness, respect for complexity and accountability. I will never ask for income verification. I trust you to be honest.
Therapy is an investment in you, and it’s important to discern the difference between a sacrifice and hardship.
Sacrifice: You may find that, financially, you’re required to prioritize therapy and cut back on spending in other areas of your life, if there is no significant detrimental impact on your life, then you would consider the Tier One or Tier Two.
Hardship: If paying for therapy would lead to a harmful impact on your financial life life (not being able to put food on the table or pay for utilities) then you’re dealing with hardship and would utilize the community tier.
This tier structure was inspired and directly informed by the work of Alexis J.Cunninfolk and Yvette of Inner Flow Somatic Counseling.
TIER 1 - $500
Choose this tier if you:
- Have salaried positions with benefits
- Comfortably meet your basic needs**
- Have some debt but it does not prohibit you from attainment of basic needs
- If you own your home or property or rent a higher-end property
- Have investments, retirement accounts or have inherited money
- Have a financially secured position or work part time by choice
- Have expendable income
- Can always buy new items
- Can afford an annual vacation or take time off
**By choosing this price, you are “paying it forward” and contributing to a more equitable world by supporting therapeutic access for those with less.
TIER 2 - $300
Choose this tier if you:
- Stress about meeting your basic needs (eg: food, shelter, childcare) but still regularly achieve them
- Have some debt but it does not prohibit attainment of basic needs
- Have employment or access to financial savings
- Have some expendable income
- Are able to buy some new items and thrift others
- Can take a vacation annually or every few years without financial burden
COMMUNITY TIER - $150
Choose this tier if you:
- Are frequently stressed about meeting your basic needs
- Rent lower-end properties or have unstable housing
- Have been denied work based on others biases (e.g., racial, gender, sexuality, cultural, ability, etc.)
- Qualify for government assistance
- Don’t have access to savings
- Have limited expendable income
- Rarely buy new items because you are unable to afford them
- Cannot afford or have the ability to take time off without financial burden
PAY A ONE TIME DEPOSIT AND LET KIM KNOW WHICH TIER YOU CHOOSE
hear from others who have participated in story group
“Story group has given me the gift of receiving encouragement and support from others by way of engaging in my stories of harm. My stories have been very personal and painful, and for years, I kept those stories buried deep down inside. My story group has become my most trusted confidants, and by trusting them to engage in my stories, much light has been shed on events of my life I did not see well. This has been so healing and profoundly life-changing.”
-client
“Storywork is validating the feelings I have always had, yet i have always thought i was wrong for feeling them.”
—client
“Kim is able to be present with me in such a safe and comfortable way that provides containment. She always asks questions that reveal spaces I do not seem to have access to.”
—client
“I've done multiple story group sessions with Kim. I gleaned a lot from hearing other people process their stories in addition to sharing my own. Kim cultivates a safe space to be authentic and vulnerable. It was a good balance of teaching time where we got to learn new concepts along with diving into our stories. ”
—client
Kim Hock
licensed mental health counselor lmhc MA NCC
As someone who has experienced profound trauma and abuse in life I have been, and continue to be, on the journey toward healing.
I’m no stranger to pain and shame. I’ve suffered through the dark night of the soul.
I understand what it takes to step back into the past and navigate the dark stories from where our wounded parts stem.
It wasn’t until I discovered storywork/narrative therapy that I began to experience true healing and transformation. I was guided toward attunement in ways I had never known or understood. When I allowed others to walk with me through the darkness, I was finally able to find my way to the other side.
The truth is, we are not meant to live in the isolation of our own suffering.
We need each other.
When we can allow others to bear witness, to experience, to see our wounds and gently tend to them, that is when the truth is revealed and healing can occur.
I’ve done the work. I’ll always be doing the work. I know what it takes. And from this place, I can guide others to find their way back home to themselves.
We don't heal in isolation. We heal in connection.