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 Finding Secure Attachment:

A Relational Group Therapy Experience 

A virtual weekly process group for adults of all genders ready to explore how they show up in relationships—whether happily single, anxiously dating, grieving, partnered or exploring.

You’ve read the books. You understand your attachment style.
But when you’re in close relationships—dating, crushing, partnered, or in conflict—old patterns still take over.

This is not a psychoeducation or skills group.
This is a relational process group, where the work happens between members in the here-and-now.

What You’ll Get

In this group, you will come to understand:

  • How you show up in relationships in real time 

  • The roles you take on (pursuer, distancer, manager, fixer, avoider)

  • What happens in your body when closeness, conflict, or vulnerability arise

  • How you experience others—and how others actually experience you

Why a Process Group?

Process groups are one of the most effective ways to create lasting behavioral change because they allow you to:

  • Receive honest, real-time feedback about how you are experienced

  • Notice your automatic assumptions and reactions

  • Practice direct communication, rupture and repair

  • Learn to tolerate closeness, conflict, and vulnerability in a contained way

  • Develop a stronger, more grounded sense of yourself in relationships

Ultimately, what you learn about yourself in group begins to foster the internal secure base you carry into dating, partnership, friendships, and family dynamics.

This Group is For You if:

  • Have insight but struggle to make real change in relationships

  • Feel anxious, avoidant, or conflicted in intimacy

  • Want to understand how you are experienced by others

  • Are ready for deeper relational work beyond coping skills and surface level sharing

  • Are open to a new experience of vulnerability, even if it’s uncomfortable at first

While this is a process-oriented group, our shared lens includes:

  • Attachment wounds & relational trauma

  • Breakups, abandonment anxiety, and avoidance

  • Shame, self-criticism, and people-pleasing

  • Emotional regulation in relational contexts

  • Boundary setting, repair, and secure relating

Grounded in:
Attachment Theory • Relational/Psychodynamic Therapy • Polyvagal & Somatic Awareness • Mindfulness • Parts Work

📅 Start Date: May 2026

Format: Virtual, 75 minutes weekly, 5:15-6:30pm on Tuesdays

Commitment: 6-month commitment

Fee: $400/month + $50 40-minute 1:1 Clinical Consultation (credited towards first month upon enrollment) to establish that the program is a fit
Monthly tuition reserves your ongoing space in the group and is not prorated for absences.

A small number of sliding scale spaces are offered on an as-needed basis

If you’ve been in therapy and are looking to keep growing, this group offers an affordable way to continue on that path while deepening self-understanding through real-time relational experience and honest feedback from others.

Contact me to learn more and schedule a consultation. I look forward to hearing from you.

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About Your Facilitator

Sam Gennuso, LMFT (Lic. #142532)

I’m an attachment-focused, trauma-informed relational therapist in Oakland. My work is shaped by both clinical training and my lived experience navigating insecure attachment and shame, finding my voice (and getting to keep my stutter), and building secure lasting inner security over time.

I support people who feel stuck in codependency, people-pleasing, and harsh self-criticism to build relationships that feel more honest, mutual, and secure—starting with the relationship they have with themselves.

In group, I bring warmth, humor, attunement, and directness, and I care deeply about creating a space where members can be real and grow.

I hold a master’s in Clinical Psychology, as well as specialized training in group therapy (at The Psychotherapy Institute) and EMDR (Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing).