12-Week Group Program
Break the Cycles That Keep You Stuck in Relationships.
A professionally facilitated group experience that uses neuroscience and psychoanalytic depth to help you understand — and finally change — the relational patterns you've carried your whole life.
12Weeks
Structured Program
90Min
Weekly Sessions
8Max
Cohort Size
16+Yrs
Clinical Experience
The 12-Week Journey
A Structured Path Through the Unconscious.
Each phase builds on the last — moving from awareness, through active exploration, to lasting integration. Nothing is rushed. Everything has a purpose.
Understanding the architecture of your relational world
The Relational Self
Mapping your relational history and identifying the core patterns that have shaped your connections.
Attachment & the Brain
How early attachment experiences wire the nervous system and create templates for adult relationships.
The Unconscious Contract
Exploring the unspoken rules and expectations we bring into every relationship.
Defenses & Protection
Understanding the psychological defenses that once protected us but now limit our capacity for connection.
01
Foundations
Understanding the architecture of your relational world
The Experience
What to Expect Inside the Group.
This is not a lecture series or a support group. It is a carefully held space where neuroscience, psychoanalytic depth, and the power of shared human experience converge to create real, lasting change.
Neuroscience-Informed Processing
Every session is grounded in interpersonal neurobiology. You'll understand not just what you feel, but why your nervous system responds the way it does — and how to work with it, not against it.
Drawing on the work of Daniel Siegel, Allan Schore, and contemporary relational neuroscience.
The Group as Therapeutic Agent
The group itself is the primary instrument of healing. Witnessing others, being witnessed, and navigating real relational moments together creates change that individual work alone cannot replicate.
Maximum 8 participants per cohort to ensure depth, safety, and genuine connection.
A Container of Safety
Before any deep work begins, we build a genuine sense of psychological safety. Confidentiality, clear agreements, and careful facilitation create the conditions where real vulnerability becomes possible.
Structured group agreements established in Week 1 and revisited throughout.
Psychoanalytic Depth
We go beneath the surface. Rather than focusing only on behavior change, we explore the unconscious roots of your patterns — the early experiences and internalized relationships that still shape you today.
Informed by object relations theory, attachment theory, and relational psychoanalysis.
Live Relational Learning
The group creates real relational moments — moments of connection, misattunement, and repair. These live experiences, processed in real time, are where the deepest learning happens.
Each session includes structured reflection and open group processing time.
Integration Between Sessions
Each week includes a brief reflective practice to carry insights into daily life. Change doesn't happen only in the room — it happens in the moments between sessions, in your actual relationships.
Optional journaling prompts and somatic awareness practices provided weekly.
Limited Enrollment
Join the Waitlist for the Next Cohort.
Each cohort is intentionally small — a maximum of 8 participants — to ensure the depth, safety, and genuine connection this work requires. Spots fill quickly.
12 weekly 90-minute sessions via secure video or in-person (Connecticut)
Facilitated by Mariana Batista, M.A., LPC — 16+ years clinical experience
Maximum 8 participants per cohort for genuine depth
Weekly reflection materials and integration practices included
HIPAA-compliant, confidential, and professionally held
Mariana Batista, M.A., LPC
Licensed Psychotherapist · Psychoanalyst · Author
Reserve Your Spot
Join the waitlist and be first to know when the next cohort opens. No commitment required.