Online therapy for loneliness from just $25/session with licensed therapists (PhD, PsyD, LCSW, LMHC, LMFT) specializing in evidence-based approaches including CBT, interpersonal therapy, and behavioral activation. At Grouport, we offer online individual therapy, online group therapy, and virtual IOP options designed to help you understand the patterns keeping you isolated, develop the skills and confidence to build meaningful connections, and create a life that includes the belonging you have been missing.
Whether you prefer personalized one-on-one care or the shared support of a therapist-led group, our online loneliness therapy connects you to expert guidance from the comfort of your own home. Online therapy is especially well-suited for loneliness because the isolation itself makes it harder to seek help in person. Starting from home removes the barrier of walking into an unfamiliar office alone, and group therapy in particular provides an immediate experience of connection.
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At Grouport, we offer a range of online therapy options to help individuals experiencing loneliness understand what is keeping them disconnected, develop the skills and confidence to build relationships, and create a life that includes the meaningful connection every person needs. Many members choose to mix and match therapy formats.
Online therapy for loneliness: personalized, flexible, and therapist-led. Understand the patterns keeping you isolated, build the skills and confidence to connect, and create a life that includes the belonging you deserve.
Whether you're interested in group therapy, individual sessions, couples or family therapy, or IOP, or a combination, you'll start by selecting the type of support that fits your needs. You can also choose the care frequency that works best for you. Complete our onboarding form and sign up directly for the plan that suits you best.
After signing up, you'll connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will walk you through available therapists, group options, and scheduling. You'll make the final choice about your care, including which therapists you'll meet with and when, based on your goals, preferences, and schedule.
Attend your weekly online sessions, whether group, individual, couples, family, or IOP, at the cadence that works best for you. Our team will be here to support you every step of the way, ensuring you're happy with your care plan and helping you make changes whenever needed.
Whether you're interested in online group therapy for loneliness, individual therapy sessions, a combination of both, or our virtual IOP for more intensive care, you'll start by selecting the format that fits your needs and schedule. You can customize the frequency of sessions and even pair live therapy with our DBT self-guided program for added support between sessions. Just complete our onboarding form and sign up directly for the plan that suits you best.
After signing up, you'll connect with a dedicated care coordinator who will discuss your mental health challenges, goals, and preferences. They'll walk you through the range of therapy options best suited to your needs for managing loneliness. You'll make the final choice about your care, including which therapists you'll meet with and select session times that are most convenient for you.
Attend your weekly online therapy sessions to build coping skills, mood regulation strategies, and stability tools tailored to loneliness. Our team will be here to support you at every step of the way, ensuring you're happy with your care plan and helping you make changes whenever needed.
Loneliness is more than just being alone. It is a clinically characterized by intense fear and avoidance of situations where escape might feel difficult or help unavailable. If these patterns year, therapy can help you break the cycle.
Common signs to watch for include:
If you recognize these patterns in yourself or a loved one, working with a licensed therapist can help.
Loneliness is not just an unpleasant feeling. It is a condition that progressively damages your mental health, physical health, cognitive function, and quality of life. The longer it persists, the harder it becomes to break the cycle, because loneliness itself changes how you perceive and respond to social situations.
Chronic loneliness is one of the strongest predictors of depression and anxiety. The persistent absence of meaningful connection creates a sense of hopelessness and worthlessness that deepens over time. Loneliness also increases the risk of substance use, as people turn to alcohol, food, or other substances to fill the void that connection should occupy.
The health consequences of loneliness are severe and well-documented. Chronic loneliness increases the risk of cardiovascular disease by 29%, stroke by 32%, and dementia by 50%. It weakens immune function, increases inflammation, disrupts sleep, and elevates cortisol. The U.S. Surgeon General has compared its mortality risk to smoking 15 cigarettes a day.
Loneliness changes your brain. It activates your threat detection system, making you perceive social situations as more hostile and people as less trustworthy than they actually are. This hypervigilance causes you to misread neutral interactions as rejection, pull away from potential connection, and confirm the belief that people do not want you around. The loneliness literally makes itself worse.
Loneliness impairs cognitive function, concentration, and decision-making. It reduces motivation, creativity, and the ability to collaborate effectively. You may disengage from colleagues, avoid team activities, or struggle to find meaning in your work. Career advancement often depends on relationships, and loneliness undermines the professional connections that support growth.
Humans are wired for connection, and without it, life feels flat. Chronic loneliness erodes your sense of purpose, making it hard to care about goals, hobbies, or the future. The things that should motivate you feel pointless when there is no one to share them with.
Prolonged loneliness often leads to the conclusion that something is wrong with you. You may believe you are fundamentally unlikable, too boring, too awkward, or too different to connect with others. These beliefs are symptoms of the loneliness, not accurate assessments of who you are, but they feel absolutely real and they prevent you from taking the social risks that could disprove them.
Starting therapy when you are already exhausted and unmotivated can feel like a big ask. Here is what your first few sessions typically look like.
Your therapist will ask about your social life, your history with connection, and what loneliness feels like for you. When did it start? What has changed? What do you wish was different? There is no shame in this conversation. Loneliness is a universal human experience, and acknowledging it is the first step toward changing it.
Together, you will explore what is maintaining your loneliness: social anxiety, self-defeating beliefs ("I am not interesting enough"), avoidance of social risk, a life transition that disrupted your social network, or a history of painful relationships that taught you connection is not safe. Understanding the pattern is essential for breaking it.
You and your therapist will define what progress looks like for you. This might include initiating one social contact per week, attending a group or event you have been avoiding, deepening an existing relationship, challenging a specific belief about your likability, or simply practicing vulnerability in a safe setting. Goals are practical and achievable.
Your therapist will introduce evidence-based techniques tailored to your situation: cognitive restructuring for beliefs about rejection, behavioral activation to rebuild social activities, interpersonal skills for deepening relationships, and gradual exposure to social situations. You will leave your first session with a clear plan and a first step to take.
See how our therapy options have helped our members experience life-changing results
Stephanie
“Grouport is time flexible and affordable and if it didn’t exist, I don’t know where I would go. I had looked into other places before Grouport and there really wasn’t any option like it.”
Michael
“I highly recommend this to anyone who is struggling with anxiety or depression. The therapists are top notch and have made me feel really comfortable and my anxiety has improved tremendously in only a few sessions!”
Isabel
"I joined Grouport to work on myself and to heal. I’m learning so much at every session! The change I see not only in myself but in my fellow group members is abundantly encouraging and profoundly fulfilling. Group therapy with Grouport is a powerful healing tool."
Sheldon
“I was feeling very down at the end of 2020 and I was ready to do something drastic that I know I'd likely regret. The group definitely helped show me that there are people who feel the same way as I do.”
Nancy
“The therapy from Grouport is high quality and convenient. I am becoming much more self aware and am liking myself more. My relationships at work are better and I’m much happier.”
Emily
“I like the connection you can make with total strangers and the confidentiality it comes with.”
Danielle
"Grouport can help you with your issues. Their therapists are well trained to work with you on your issues. I felt my anxiety greatly improve after only a few sessions. I highly recommend it!"
Glenn
"Grouport's approach to DBT is a real strength. This approach provides tools and methods for working with difficult emotions and getting a handle on them. It has given me hope where other approaches have failed."
At Grouport, our virtual loneliness therapy integrates several evidence-based techniques designed to help you understand the patterns keeping you isolated, develop the skills and confidence to connect, and build a life that includes genuine belonging:
Research identifies maladaptive social cognition, the distorted way lonely people perceive social situations, as the primary driver that maintains loneliness. CBT for loneliness targets these specific distortions: the tendency to assume rejection before it happens, to interpret ambiguous social cues as negative, to believe you are fundamentally unlikable, and to catastrophize the consequences of social risk. By systematically testing these beliefs against reality, CBT recalibrates your social threat detection system so you can see opportunities for connection that the loneliness was hiding from you.
Behavioral activation for loneliness systematically rebuilds the social activities, routines, and environments that create opportunities for connection. Loneliness often leads to withdrawal, which eliminates the contexts where connection could happen, which deepens the loneliness. Behavioral activation breaks this cycle by scheduling specific social activities (joining a class, attending a meetup, reaching out to an old friend) and building them into your weekly routine regardless of how you feel. The key insight is that motivation follows action, not the other way around: you do not wait until you feel social to engage, you engage and the feeling follows.
Interpersonal therapy focuses on the specific relational patterns contributing to your loneliness. This might include difficulty with intimacy and vulnerability (keeping people at a distance to avoid getting hurt), unresolved grief over lost relationships or social networks, role transitions that disrupted your community (retirement, relocation, divorce, becoming a parent), or interpersonal deficits in initiating and deepening relationships. IPT helps you develop the relational skills needed to build and maintain the kind of connections that actually reduce loneliness: ones with emotional depth, reciprocity, and genuine understanding.
Social skills training provides concrete, practical tools for the specific social behaviors that build connection. This includes initiating conversations, reading and responding to social cues, self-disclosure (sharing personal information at appropriate depths), active listening, maintaining contact over time, and navigating conflict without withdrawal. For people whose loneliness stems from never having learned these skills, or from being out of practice after years of isolation, social skills training fills a critical gap that insight alone cannot address.
ACT helps you pursue meaningful connection even while the fear of rejection, the discomfort of vulnerability, and the pain of loneliness are present. Rather than waiting until you feel confident to reach out (a wait that can last years), ACT teaches you to take values-driven social action in the presence of difficult emotions. If connection and belonging are values you hold, ACT helps you move toward them even when your mind is telling you it is not safe, you are not good enough, or it will not work. This is especially powerful for loneliness because avoidance of social discomfort is often the primary mechanism keeping you stuck.
DBT skills, particularly interpersonal effectiveness and distress tolerance, provide practical tools for building and maintaining connections. The DEAR MAN technique helps you express needs, set boundaries, and ask for what you want in relationships. Distress tolerance skills help you sit with the vulnerability and discomfort of putting yourself out there socially without retreating. Emotion regulation helps you manage the shame, sadness, and frustration that loneliness generates so these emotions do not drive further withdrawal.
Every Grouport therapist is a licensed, accredited mental health professional with specialized training in social isolation, interpersonal difficulties, and connection-building.
Our therapists typically have over a decade of clinical experience across diverse settings, with specialized expertise in loneliness, social isolation, interpersonal difficulties, and connection-building, and evidence-based interventions like CBT, interpersonal therapy, behavioral activation, and social skills training.
We continually evaluate outcomes through internal studies and outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne.
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80%
of our members start with moderate to severe mental health symptoms
70%
of our members feel significantly better within just 8 weeks
50%
of our members achieve remission levels within just 8 weeks
Group, individual, couples, family, IOP, and teen therapy — all online, all therapist-led. Mix and match care options to fit your needs — and get discounted pricing when you bundle.
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Loneliness often co-occurs with other mental health conditions. Our licensed therapists are experienced in treating a wide range of challenges, and many members address multiple concerns simultaneously through our flexible therapy options.
Grouport provides online group therapy, individual therapy, couples therapy, family therapy, teen therapy, intensive outpatient program (IOP), all held virtually over video chat. We also offer a DBT self-guided program. Many members combine multiple therapy types to best fit their needs.
Loneliness is not a formal psychiatric diagnosis in the DSM-5, but it is a clinically significant concern that has profound effects on mental and physical health. The U.S. Surgeon General has declared it a public health epidemic. Chronic loneliness is a risk factor for depression, anxiety, substance use, cardiovascular disease, and cognitive decline. It is a presenting concern that therapists take seriously and that responds well to evidence-based treatment.
Yes. Research shows that therapy, particularly CBT targeting maladaptive social cognition, is the most effective intervention for chronic loneliness, more effective than simply increasing social opportunities alone. This is because loneliness is maintained by distorted thinking patterns (expecting rejection, misreading social cues, believing you are unlikable) that prevent you from connecting even when opportunities are available. Therapy addresses these patterns at their root while simultaneously rebuilding social engagement.
Yes, every Grouport therapist is accredited and licensed. Our network includes Licensed Psychologists (PhD, PsyD), Licensed Social Workers (LCSW), Licensed Mental Health Counselors (LMHC), and Licensed Marriage and Family Therapists (LMFT). Our therapists specialize in evidence-based approaches including CBT, interpersonal therapy, behavioral activation, and social skills training.
Absolutely. This is one of the most important things to understand about loneliness. Loneliness is not about the number of people around you; it is about the quality and depth of your connections. You can be married and lonely if the relationship lacks emotional intimacy. You can have a full social calendar and feel lonely if the interactions stay surface-level. What matters is whether you feel genuinely seen, understood, and valued by the people in your life.
Loneliness and depression overlap significantly but are distinct. Loneliness is specifically about the gap between the connection you want and the connection you have. Depression is a broader condition involving persistent low mood, loss of interest, and other symptoms that may or may not be related to social connection. However, chronic loneliness is one of the strongest predictors of depression, and depression can cause social withdrawal that deepens loneliness. Treating one often improves the other.
Group therapy is one of the most effective formats for loneliness because it directly addresses the core problem: disconnection from others. In a therapy group, you experience real human connection in a safe, structured environment. You practice vulnerability, receive acceptance, hear that others share your struggles, and develop relational skills in real time. Many people find that the group itself becomes the first genuine connection they have experienced in years.
Many people begin noticing shifts in their thinking patterns and social behavior within 6-8 weeks. Building new relationships and deepening existing ones is a longer process that unfolds over months. Some people benefit from shorter-term therapy focused on breaking specific patterns, while others engage in longer-term work to address underlying attachment issues or social anxiety. Your therapist will work with you to determine the right duration for your needs.
Finding the right therapy starts with understanding your needs. If you prefer personalized attention, individual therapy helps you understand and change the specific patterns keeping you isolated. If you want to experience connection directly, group therapy is especially powerful for loneliness. For more intensive support, our virtual IOP offers multiple weekly sessions. Not sure where to start? Schedule a free call with a care coordinator who can help you build a personalized plan based on your situation, goals, and schedule.
We offer flexible therapy options with straightforward pricing:
Online Group Therapy: Averages $32/session ($140/month).
Online Individual Therapy: Averages $103/session ($448/month).
Online Couples Therapy: Averages $114/session ($492/month).
Online Family Therapy: Averages $148/session ($640/month).
Virtual IOP: Averages $311/week ($1,348/month).
Online Teen Therapy: Averages $103/session ($448/month).
DBT Self-Guided Program: One-time fee of $500.
Payment Options: Monthly, Quarterly (Save 10%), Biannually (Save 15%). No long-term commitment. Switch therapists anytime. Cancel anytime!
Yes. We offer separate therapy groups for Adults (18+) and Teens and Adolescents (under 18). Our teen therapy programs are tailored for adolescents. Adolescent loneliness is increasingly common and is a significant risk factor for depression, self-harm, and academic disengagement. Teens may lack the social skills, confidence, or opportunities to form meaningful peer connections, and early intervention during this critical developmental period can make a lasting difference.
Chronic loneliness can develop from many pathways: a life transition that disrupted your social network (relocation, divorce, retirement, becoming a parent), social anxiety that prevents you from engaging, a history of rejection or painful relationships that taught you connection is not safe, insecure attachment patterns from childhood, a naturally introverted temperament combined with insufficient deep connection, or simply the structure of modern life (remote work, frequent moves, digital communication replacing in-person contact). The common thread is a persistent gap between the connection you need and the connection you have.
Our therapy outcomes are backed by outcomes studies with researchers from leading universities such as Carnegie Mellon, University of Essex, and University of Cologne. 80% of our members start therapy with moderate to severe symptoms. Within just 8 weeks, 70% of members see clinically significant reduction in anxiety and depression, and 50% achieve remission levels.
You can cancel your subscription at any time. No long-term commitment is required. Simply email us at support@grouporttherapy.com and we will send you a quick cancellation form to fill out. If your sessions occur within the member portal, you can also cancel under the manage subscription tab.
Whether loneliness has been quietly eroding your health, your happiness, and your sense of belonging-related anxiety, or looking to prevent another year of lost months, therapy can help you take back control. Start building a life where the seasons don't dictate how you feel.
