Session 01:

Intergenerational Trauma

Explore how experiences of intergenerational trauma including residuals of forced migration, survival, and refugee/immigrant family dynamics can shape the ways we relate to ourselves and others across generations.

October 21, 2026 · 75 min · Virtual

READY TO GO DEEPER?

Healing can feel especially isolating when you come from a Southeast Asian immigrant/refugee family or community where survival often came before emotional wellbeing.

Maybe you've spent years carrying family expectations, keeping the peace, taking care of everyone else, or minimizing your own needs. Maybe you're beginning to recognize how intergenerational trauma, emotionally immature family dynamics, financial stress, people-pleasing, burnout, and internalized shame have shaped the way you move through the world.

You may understand why these patterns exist AND still not know what to do with everything you're carrying.

The SEA Healing Series exists to shift that.

This is an identity-based support space where Southeast Asians from the diaspora can reflect together and be honest about the parts of healing we don't always get to talk about including grief, anger, guilt, exhaustion, resentment, confusion, and desire for something different.

Together, we'll explore how our family histories, cultural experiences, relationships, and survival patterns continue to show up in our lives today while making space for safety, connection, choice, and most importantly, JOYYY!

This group may be a good fit if:

• You identify as Southeast Asian and are 21 or older.

• You want to better understand how intergenerational trauma and family survival patterns may be impacting you today.

• You recognize patterns associated with emotionally immature parenting or complicated family relationships.

• You experience guilt, difficulty setting boundaries, people-pleasing, overfunctioning, burnout, or putting others' needs before your own.

• You want to better understand your relationship with money and begin healing from negative experiences of financial trauma.

• You want to explore and heal internalized shame shaped by cultural expectations/family/society while also reconnecting with joy, self-acceptance, and your authentic self.

• You're looking for culturally informed, trauma-aware peer support with other Southeast Asians who may understand a version of what you're navigating.

• You want a structured space that combines psychoeducation, personal reflection, and meaningful group discussion.

This group may not be a good fit if:

• You are seeking the series as a replacement for individual psychotherapy or trauma treatment. This is a peer-supported educational and discussion space designed to complement, not replace, individualized mental health care.

• You are primarily seeking treatment focused on physical or sexual abuse recovery.

• You are currently experiencing significant self-harm or safety concerns that require more intensive clinical support.

• You are experiencing an acute mental health crisis or currently need a higher level of care than a support group can provide.

• You are looking for individualized diagnosis, assessment, or treatment within the group setting.

You don't have to heal alone. There is power in healing alongside people who are committed to understand where you come from.

Format:

Virtual Support Group