Group therapy

Facilitated by: Lalo Nahui Becerra, LMSW (they/he) and Max Byck, MHC-LP (they/he)

Start Date:  Monday, 3/2

When:  8:00-9:15PM EST

Where: Virtual

Cost: Sliding scale, no one turned away for lack of funds

This group is for people carrying political, systematic, and ecological grief who are seeking a place to process that grief through collective community care.

This space is for tending grief without letting it turn into disappearance, avoidance, or habitual distraction.

together, we will practice staying present with what we are living through and with one another, including grief related to mass violence, genocide, displacement, environmental destruction, and state harm.

The group centers honest grief processing, shared capacity via interdependence, and responsibility.
This includes support through discomfort alongside growth, accountability, and movement that does not rely on individualism, neutrality, or self-erasure.

We will draw from Deepa Iyer’s social change ecosystem map as a guiding framework to explore different roles in collective liberation and to support the rebuilding of political self-efficacy. 

This is a collaborative space shaped by the people who participate in it. The role of the facilitators is to hold the container, support the group process, and tend to safety, pacing, and care.

This group is not:

• A vent-only space

• An organizing training or productivity container

• A debate space about liberation struggles

This group is:

• A place to metabolize grief, name limits, and remain engaged in a world that profits from exhaustion, violence, and disconnection

• A space holding grief related to ongoing and historical genocide and occupation, including but not limited to palestine, the global south, puerto rico, hawaiʻi, and other sites of imperial violence

We believe collective liberation is necessary and possible.

• Participants are encouraged to consider social positionality, access to resources, and the practice of paying it forward when possible

• Small, intimate group (max 8 participants)

• Drop-in allowed, but consistency is strongly encouraged

• Shared community guidelines will be co-created

• Facilitators will follow up individually to assess fit and readiness

• Anti-Blackness, colorism, racism, homophobia, transphobia, xenophobia, misogynoir, sizeism, and ableism will not be tolerated.

  
  Meet your Co-Facilitators:

  Lalo Nahui Becerra (they/he) is a queer, trans, Mexican therapist and spiritual guide offering embodied, decolonial therapy rooted in liberation. They center Black, Indigenous, queer, trans, and gender-expansive people of the global majority, neurodivergent and non-monogamous adults, couples, polycules, and families navigating grief, burnout, identity, intimacy, and systemic harm. Their work de-centers pathologizing western models, integrating somatic, polyvagal, narrative, parts work, and spiritual practices grounded in political context and nervous system care. Healing here is about remembering who you were before oppression tried to name you and building a home within yourself through tenderness, interdependence, and accountability.

  Max Byck (they/he) is a queer, pleasure-positive therapist who offers a warm, collaborative space to understand the roots of guilt, shame, and overwhelming emotion with care and precision. Their work supports individuals, couples, and families navigating ocd, anxiety, trauma, grief, adhd, fnd, autism, and generational patterns, helping them explore the emotional logic beneath their behaviors without judgment. Drawing from internal family systems (ifs), exposure and response prevention (erp), and gestalt, Max integrates analytical depth with steady relational presence to reduce shame and build self-trust. They approach each person holistically, honoring intersecting identities across bodies, abilities, genders, and lived experience, while offering thoughtful challenge, grounded humor, and practical tools that support lasting change.