All Programs are virtual

COFFEE WITH A LILAC TREE COUNSELOR

Free Program! Join one of our Lilac Tree Counselors for a coffee (or tea!) and chat in a one-time small group format (max. 6 clients) via Zoom offering general conversation, connection, and support for coping through separation, divorce. All welcome, must pre-register.

NEXT SESSION:

Thursday, DECEMBER 19 - 10:30am Cost: Free Program! Topic: General Support

Pop-Up Support series

Join one of our Lilac Tree Staff for a one-time interactive support group discussion focused around a topic or title or stage of the process. These are 1 meeting only, support-based interactive group meetings, and are limited to 8 or 9 attendees. Feel free to contact us and let us know what topic you would like us to cover or offer more often?

Tuesday DECEMBER 17 - 12noon - 1:30pm Cost: $25 Topic: Facing the Holidays - open to all

support groups

Facing separation, trekking through a divorce or embarking on a new life after divorce can be a challenging, isolating, and sometimes vulnerable period in your life. Lilac Tree offers shelter and respite. We offer a compassionate, safe, and supportive environment.

We offer support groups for every stage of the process: 

• Contemplating OR In the Process of Separation or Divorce

• Navigating Life After Divorce Series (a mix of support meetings and informal conversations with professionals)

Our Lilac Tree Support Groups are peer-based support groups, facilitated by one of our Lilac Tree Counselors, all with years of experience in relationship breakdown, separation and divorce (and more).

Finding community, friendship and support from other people at the same stage of the process, facing similar challenges can be empowering, and provides a safe, supportive, positive environment from which to learn and grow. This is your moment to empower yourself, learning to seek and receive peer-based support.

We offer Support Groups regardless of gender identity, however, each group is single gender.

Our groups fill fast! Please contact us to be on a waitlist - we are always planning extra groups. Call us today 847.328.0313. Below are groups currently filling for the Fall 2024, Winter 2025 Groups coming soon!

Costs are detailed below, but in general are $45 per session.

For Women - Contemplating

Currently Filling:

• THURSDAYS Lunchtimes - Starts JANUARY 16 - Contemplating Separation and/or Divorce 12noon - 1pm (4 weeks) $45 per meeting, total cost $180 ***NEW Group - 2 spaces still open!

For Women - In The Process

Currently Filling:

• MONDAY Evenings - Starts JANUARY 13 - GENERAL Group: In the Process 6pm - 7:30pm (8 weeks) $45 per meeting, total cost $360. ***4 spaces open

• WEDNESDAY Mornings - Starts JANUARY 8 - TOPIC: Divorcing Later in Life 10am - 11:30am (8 weeks) $45 per meeting, total cost $360. ***NEW Group - Just Opened - 4 spaces open

• WEDNESDAY Mornings - Starts JANUARY 15 - TOPIC: Mothers with Minor Age Children 10am - 11:30am (8 weeks) $45 per meeting, total cost $360. ***NEW Group - Just Opened - 7 spaces open

• THURSDAY Afternoons - TOPIC: Leaving Someone with Narcissistic Tendencies 4pm - 5:30pm (8 weeks) $45 per meeting, total cost $360. ***PROGRAM is FULL*** (Please consider another group, or call us to discuss options)

• FRIDAY Mornings - Starts Late JANUARY / Early FEBRUARY - GENERAL Group: In the Process 10am - 11:30am (8 weeks) $45 per meeting, total cost $360. ***NEW Group - Just Opened - 8 spaces open

  We are always building new groups, please call the office to be added to the waitlist for priority registration for the next group 847-328-0313, and consider an Information Session appointment in the meantime for immediate support.
  
  

For Women - Navigating Life After Divorce.

1st Wednesday of the Month

NEXT Meeting: DECEMBER 4th 12noon - 1pm Conversation with a Financial Advisor - join us to chat and Q&A with Beth Kraszewski, CFP®, CDFA®, CLU®, President PWA, Purposeful Wealth Advisors.

A new monthly drop-in / pop-up type program for those already divorced or fully separated, or feeling ready to face what life after divorce will look like.

• These groups are meant for those who are finished (or almost finished) with the legal elements of their process and now facing a new stage of life.

• They will focus mostly on the emotional elements of navigating a life post divorce or separation, creating your new identity, developing boundaries as a co-parent, taking care of yourself, finding new passions, focus and friends, managing a single household budget/finances and any other topics you need.

• You can attend any meeting you want, as many meetings as you want, when you want.

• Let us know if you would like a specific topic and we will try to arrange that!

• MEETINGS:

  • Will always (*except during holidays) be the 1st WEDNESDAY of the Month

  • Lunchtimes 12pm - 1pm

  • Cost $45 per meeting - you can pay per meeting / month Register now!

  • Upcoming Meeting Dates:

    October 9th (2nd Wednesday) - Conversation with an Estate Planning Attorney

    November 6th - General Support Meeting

    December 4th - Conversation with a Financial Advisor - join us to chat and Q&A with Beth Kraszewski, CFP®, CDFA®, CLU®, President PWA, Purposeful Wealth Advisors.

    
    

For Men - In The Process or Divorced

We are close! to starting a Men’s Support Group! Please contact us!

YOU deserve support and self care - contact us today 847.328.0313.

Group Requirements

What is important to us, is that you access the support you need, and join the right type of group for yourself.

To join any group, please call us and talk with Amy, our Intake Coordinator, or Julie, one of our Divorce Counselors, at 847.328.0313 or discuss during a Personalized Information Session appointment with one of our counselors.

SIZE & START DATES

Virtual Support Groups are limited in size and vary depending upon the length or topic of the group. Start dates are expected and only finalized when the group is full. All groups are run via Zoom and are managed by a Lilac Tree staff member or volunteer supporting the counselor when possible. All Zoom rooms are waiting room enabled, and on time and regular attendance is required, as rooms are locked as the meeting begins.

COSTS

Costs vary depending on length, size, and topic of the group. We are always adapting to client needs and ideas and we vary groups and thus costs. The shorter the length, the more staff time needed to organize and manage.

Typically, our costs are as follows:

• 4-week groups are $45/ hr.

  • 1 hour groups are a total cost of $180

• 6-week and 8-week groups are $30 / hr. ($45 / session)

  • 1.5 hour groups are $45 a meeting, and a total cost of $360 (usually split into 2 payments)

Commitment Payments are $180 to secure a spot in a group. Fees are payable in installments, one to secure your spot in the group, a Commitment Payment, and the second or third is due before the start of the group once a start date is confirmed. Typically this means there’s a few weeks in between each payment. Payment plans or fee assistance can been arranged - just ask! Our Ila Chaiken Scholarship Fund offers partial fee assistance for each group on a first come, first served basis.

Please note that we are unable to issue refunds, even for Commitment Payments, once a group start date is confirmed and communicated to a group, unless the space is able to be filled before the group begins.

If you are interested in any support program or want more information please

Call 847.328.0313 or email info@thelilactree.org