The Stopping Overshopping Group Program is a comprehensive, 13-week educational coaching experience designed to teach specific skills, tools, and strategies to help you eliminate overshopping. Group coaching offers a powerful, time-tested combination of peer support, encouragement, and feedback under the guidance of a trained professional. The presence of others with the same addiction helps members bear their isolation, failure, guilt, and pain, and greatly reduces their fears of judgment and humiliation. Further, shopping addiction therapy group coaching helps break through the denial of the destructive behavior, leading to awareness rather than avoidance of the problem. The group fosters hope: members share triumphs and disappointments and grow from both. Highly supportive, the group has educational and experiential components and includes homework and goal setting each week.
This group will be conducted in a telecoaching format for people who both live in and outside of the the New York metropolitan area. Before registration for each group, we always hold a free teleseminar so that you can get a good idea of what the group will be like and whether it’s something that feels like a good fit for you.
If you’re thinking about trying this group program, ask yourself this: “Are you concerned about your shopping and spending?” If the answer is yes, we can help.
The focus of the 13-week Shopping Addiction Telecoaching Group is on providing help for shopping addiction through changing problematic buying behavior. The program employs a wide array of techniques to achieve this goal. You’ll acquire many practical tools and learn a variety of relevant skills and strategies in a confidential space, while building relationships and gaining confidence and support from your peers.
What will I learn?
- How to identify triggers, cues and consequences of your overbuying
- How to manage and control overspending urges
- How to mindfully engage with catalog, TV, Internet, and store buying
- How to track your spending and evaluate your proposed purchases
- How to set relevant, achievable goals and go after them
- How to learn what you’re really shopping for and how to get that
- How to deal with the inevitable lapses and relapses that are part of recovery
The group is in email contact during the week in between sessions and after each group meeting, the group gets a debriefing email from the group coaches, recapping progress toward goals, reviewing the most important points that came up during the group, and previewing the work for the next week.
Why group?
This powerful 13-week help for shopping addiction coaching group offers a time-tested combination of peer support, encouragement, and feedback under the guidance of a nationally recognized expert in this problem to help you conquer the urge to overshop. The presence and support of others who share your challenge helps to transform isolation to hope, and offers the encouragement each group member needs to stay motivated and create healthy change. Group coaching also helps break through the wall of denial of this self-destructive behavior, leading to awareness and positive action rather than avoidance and fostering hope. Members share triumphs and disappointments and grow from both.
When does the group meet?
The current 13-session telecoaching group is now closed.
Please fill out the form below if you would like to be notified when we begin the next group.
Each group member receives:
A copy of: To Buy or Not to Buy: Why We Overshop and How to Stop
by April Lane Benson, Ph.D.
The companion Shopping Journals
What’s the fee?
The fee for the 13-week group is $1550 (including book & journals). Group members who pay in full by the first group meeting will receive a 10% discount.
How do I get started?
This 13-session telecoaching group is now closed. Please fill out this form if you would like to be notified when the next group will begin.