Weekly individual therapy for Upolu, Savai'i, and the Samoan diaspora.

Grouport serves teens/adolescents (ages 11+), adults, couples, and families. Our teen therapy program consists of group therapy, individual therapy, and family therapy, or a combination based on what’s appropriate and the level of care your teen needs. So teens often combine group therapy + individual therapy at the level that meets their needs or they do our intensive outpatient program for more acute needs.

If you experience technical difficulties, first try refreshing your browser or reconnecting to your internet. If that doesn’t work, try a private browser, a different web browser, or try joining from another device. Your therapist will be there while you try to reconnect. If problems persist, contact our technical support team by emailing them at support@grouporttherapy.com. We can often resolve issues quickly. We also recommend testing your connection a couple of minutes before your session to prevent any issues.

No, therapy sessions are not allowed to be recorded for confidentiality reasons. However, if you want to remember specific exercises or coping skills from your session from material that is being referenced during the session, you can ask your therapist to have our administrative staff email you the resources after your appointment if the therapist is willing to provide such materials to email to you. Certain types of sessions, like our DBT groups, come with reading manuals that we universally provide and you can review on your own time at your own pace outside of sessions. You can also take notes during sessions.

Online individual therapy addresses anxiety, depression, social anxiety, grief, trauma & PTSD, relationship issues, life transitions, anger management, Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), Bipolar, Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD), self-esteem, stress management, emotion regulation skills (DBT groups), chronic illness, parenting challenges, substance use recovery, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and much more. So, we offer pretty much any kind of group where shared experience and peer feedback add value. Groups are often organized around specific themes so you're with people dealing with similar situations.

Online individual therapy duration varies by person. Some people attend for months and others attend for years. It’s totally based on what’s helpful for you and there’s no standard timeline. Minimum commitment to see clinically significant results is typically 8-12 sessions since individual sessions need time to build cohesion and trust. So you can go for as long as it’s helpful for you and there’s no set duration. You can leave when your goals are met or continue ongoing support for maintenance, whichever works best for you. This is why we also provide the flexibility to cancel at any time.

You don't need identical problems to benefit from online individual therapy. So while your exact situation might be unique, you'll be with people who have similar struggles. Even really different problems often share underlying patterns like isolation, fear, shame, difficulty trusting. Those commonalities matter more than identical circumstances. If you have a particular diagnosis then diagnosis-specific individual sessions would be helpful and that’s why individual sessions are typically structured around certain diagnoses like a trauma group, eating disorder group, OCD group, a BPD group, or it can be a group that focuses on a particular type of treatment like DBT, CBT, EMDR that’s helpful for certain things or it might be a general group for folks who have commonalities of some sort.

Yes, and actually online individual therapy is highly effective for social anxiety specifically. Initial anxiety about joining is normal and expected. It's practice in a safe environment and you get to work on the very thing that scares you with support right there. Most people with social anxiety find that the fear of individual therapy is way worse than the reality. Social anxiety only improves through experience and not avoidance, so group provides a structured opportunity for this. Many people who have social anxiety find that individual therapy is the number one driver of their improvement.

Big life changes, moving, career shifts, relationship changes, becoming a parent, dealing with empty nest, retirement, create stress anywhere. Therapy supports you through transitions, helps you adapt to change, and processes grief about what you're leaving behind.

Burnout from work, caregiving, activism, or other demands affects people globally. Symptoms are similar across cultures, exhaustion, cynicism, reduced effectiveness. Therapy helps you address burnout, set boundaries, and figure out if you need to change your situation or just change your relationship to it.

That's a personal decision. You don't need to be in crisis to benefit from therapy. Some people view therapy as preventive care or personal development investment. Others only go when problems are severe. Consider this though, therapy costs money, but so does letting problems fester. Damaged relationships cost you. Missed work costs you. Physical health impacts from stress. Crisis interventions later. Preventive therapy can be cost effective long term.

Yes, and returning diaspora are one of the clearest fits. If you built a therapy habit in Auckland, Sydney, or Melbourne and came home to Upolu or Savai'i to find almost no private practice on-island, Grouport rebuilds that continuity. You join a weekly video sessions of one-on-one members led by a licensed therapist for $103 per session, all in English, without needing to route through the Mental Health Unit at Tupua Tamasese Meaole Hospital in Apia. You can join right away from home and keep the therapeutic routine you already know works for you.

Samoa Standard Time works in your favor here. Because Samoa sits at UTC+13, US evening groups (7pm to 9pm Pacific) land mid-afternoon the next day in Apia, and late-morning US Eastern groups fall in the early Samoan morning, so most working professionals and students can find a weekly slot that fits around work, school, or family obligations. You pick a recurring group time when you enroll, sessions run 60 minutes over HIPAA-secure video, and you join right away from home in Apia, Salelologa, or anywhere with a stable connection.