Group Therapy in Melbourne and Online
Join a small, therapist-facilitated group program at Unison Mental Health. Our therapy groups offer a structured, relational space to explore patterns, build insight, and feel less alone with what you’re carrying.
We currently offer two therapeutic groups: an Adult Recovery Group for people exploring recovery from substance-use disorder, and an Integration Therapy Group for people who have taken part in psychedelic-assisted therapy and want ongoing support.
Why Group Therapy Can Help
Group therapy can be a powerful compliment or alternative to individual therapy. It gives you the chance to:
- Feel less alone by meeting others who understand aspects of what you are going through
- Notice your patterns more clearly as they show up in real-time with other people
- Practise new ways of relating, setting boundaries, and expressing yourself
- Receive feedback and support from both a therapist and peers
- Build accountability and a sense of shared momentum in your recovery or integration work
You do not need to have everything “worked out” before you join a group. Many people come to group therapy feeling unsure, anxious, or ambivalent; part of the work is to explore and make sense of those experiences together.
Upcoming groups at Unison
Integration Therapy
Finding your footing after medicine-assisted therapy
Medicine‑assisted therapy (or psychedelic-assisted therapy) can open people to deep insight, relief, and connection. It can also stir complex emotions, past trauma, or questions about how to live differently now and in the future. For many people, the hardest part is not the experience itself, but working out how to bring forward what happened into everyday life.
This group is a place to slow down with that question — what now? — alongside others who have taken part in medicine‑assisted therapy and are also finding their way. Together, we’ll pay attention to what has shifted, what still feels unsettled, and what might support you to move forward with a little more steadiness.
This group honours the understanding that transformation doesn’t end when the medicine wears off. Integration is where the profound experience meets ordinary life and learns to coexist with it.
Who This Group Is For
This group is for people who have participated in medicine‑assisted therapy in a clinical, research, or legally‑sanctioned setting, and are now seeking support to integrate the psychological, emotional, or relational effects of that therapeutic work.
If you are feeling disoriented, moved, opened up, or unsure what to do with lingering feelings or thoughts, you don’t have to make sense of that on your own. Many people find that thoughtful integration, held within a therapeutic group, completes a process that began in the assisted sessions themselves.
What We’ll Explore
The program unfolds across six sessions, with each meeting focusing on a facet of integration:
- Mapping the terrain: Sharing experiences safely and establishing goals.
- Meaning-making: Differentiating insight from overwhelm, wisdom from reactivity.
- Navigating discomfort: Understanding resistance, fear, loss, or confusion that may surface post-experience.
- Embodiment: Bringing the awareness into the body — movement, breath, stillness.
- Relationships and boundaries: Making sense of changed perspectives in connection with others.
- Sustaining integration: Developing personal rituals and communities that honour your ongoing growth.
Between sessions, participants are invited to reflect through journaling, creative practice, or mindful presence — whatever allows them to metabolise insight into action.
Program Details
- Duration: 6 sessions, held fortnightly (90 minutes)
- Location: online vis Zoom
- Facilitator: A Unison therapist trained in psychedelic integration and trauma-informed therapy
- Cost: $390 total
Please be aware – We follow strict legal and ethical guidelines in how we offer this group. It is only for people who have taken part in medicine‑assisted therapy in clinical, research, or other legally approved settings. We do not condone or promote the use of illegal substances, and we do not provide information on how to access psychedelics. This is to protect the safety of everyone in the group and to honour the conditions under which this work can be practiced.
Adult Recovery
Addiction often begins as a form of relief from stress, intense emotions, difficult relationships, etc. For many people, the substance or behaviour isn’t the core issue. Over time, the substance used to escape becomes the core driving factor in what prevents a person from moving through what’s difficult in their life.
This group is an invitation to return to yourself.
Recovery is about learning to live differently and to reconnect when the isolation of addiction has set in. While recovery is deeply personal, it doesn’t have to be solitary. Group therapy for recovery is a well established process that offers an additional level of support.
Who This Group Is For
The Adult Recovery Group is open to adults (18+) who are in some stage of recovery — early, ongoing, or somewhere in between — from substance use or other addictive patterns (such as gambling, technology, or compulsive behaviours).
You might be attending individual therapy, working a 12‑step program, or exploring recovery in your own way. You may still be working through what feels right for you, this OK, the central requirement is willingness: a desire to understand your behaviour and work toward change with honesty and openness.
What We’ll Explore
Over six fortnightly sessions, we’ll explore what recovery means for you. Together we’ll reflect on:
Origins of addiction: Understanding the emotional and relational functions substances or behaviours have served.
Shame and self‑forgiveness: Learning to approach your history not with blame, but with curiosity and tenderness.
Emotional regulation: Building capacity to feel without numbing, to pause before reacting.
Relating in recovery: Rebuilding trust — both inwardly and with others — after disconnection.
Identity and belonging: Letting go of the “addict” label and discovering the fuller person underneath.
Sustaining growth: Exploring relapse prevention through compassion, not fear.
The process blends psychoeducation with reflective practice and conversation. What begins as storytelling often becomes meaning‑making — an embodied sense that “I am not my addiction; I am someone learning to live in the presence of it.”
Program Details
Duration: 6 sessions, held fortnightly (each 90 minutes)
Location: In‑person (Melbourne) and online
Facilitator: Unison therapist experienced in addiction recovery and trauma‑informed practice
Cost: $390 total
This is a group that operates as a bridge between clinical treatment and real life — a space that’s structured enough to feel safe but human enough to be real.
In recovery, isolation is the enemy. This group offers company for the long road — people who understand the pull of old habits and the fragile hope of starting again.
How to Get Started
Joining a Unison group begins with a brief intake conversation with one of our therapists. This ensures that the group setting is the right fit for your current stage of exploration.
To register:
- Contact Unison through our enquiry form below or email us at contact@unisonmentalhealth.com.
- Complete a short intake call (15–20 minutes).
- Confirm your place with payment of $390.
- You’ll receive welcome details, including location or online access links, before your first session.
Spaces are limited so early registration is encouraged.
Group Therapy FAQs
Group therapy is a form of psychotherapy where a small number of people meet together with one or two therapists. The group becomes a safe place to explore your experiences, notice relational patterns, and practise new ways of being alongside others who are also working on themselves.
Group therapy may be helpful if you want connection with others, are curious about how your patterns show up in relationships, or would like more support than individual therapy alone is offering. If you feel very unsafe in groups or are in acute crisis, we may first recommend individual support or other services.
Some of our groups run in person in Carlton (inner Melbourne) and others are offered online, which means you can attend from elsewhere in Victoria or interstate. The format for each group is listed in the program details, and we will confirm this with you during intake.
Yes. Because group therapy is relational and closed (the same members meet each time), we always complete an intake conversation and, in some cases, a separate pre‑group session to make sure the group is likely to be appropriate and safe for you.
Group therapy sessions are billed up front in full, with fees varying by group. Generally, group therapy programs at Unison include six 90-minute fortnightly sessions. The set of six sessions is covered in the initial fee of $390.
Confidentiality is very important in group therapy, and we take it seriously. Your therapist is bound by professional confidentiality, and we ask all group members to agree that what is shared in the group stays in the group.
However, we cannot guarantee that other participants will never talk about the group or share something outside of it. Part of the work of group therapy is weighing up what feels safe to bring, and your therapist will support you with this.
Like all therapists, we also have legal and ethical duties to act if we believe there is a serious risk of harm to you or someone else. We will explain these limits to confidentiality clearly before the group begins, and you are always welcome to ask questions about them.
A one off fee of $390 will cover your full attendance to the group therapy program. No refund is available for missed sessions so please consider your decision to commit to a group program carefully.