SUD Recovery Process Group
GREY DONNELLIn person, 1 hour, 1st and 3rd Thursdays at 6:30 PM. Enrolling now. The standing room for accountability and honest conversation in recovery.
CLINICIAN TO CLINICIAN
For Therapists: A Group for Your Client, and You Keep the Client
If you are a therapist with a client who would benefit from a group, The Community exists to be the group room that does not cost you the relationship. You tell your client about us, your client contacts us and joins a group here, and you remain their individual therapist. With your client’s consent, if desired, the two rooms can collaborate instead of working in parallel silence.
Group-only rate $25 per session. Your client's individual therapy stays with you.
Written by The Community's clinical team.
Medically reviewed by A. Umair Janjua, MD, FAPA
QUICK FACTS
- Questions
- Call 404-590-2993 or email welcome@communityatlanta.com with any questions
- How clients join
- You tell your client about The Community; your client contacts us directly
- Your client stays yours
- Group-only rate, $25 per session; collaboration with your client's consent, if desired
- screening
- Every group begins with a screening conversation with the facilitator
- Fit exclusions
- Active psychosis, active thought disorders, or inability to practice emotional containment: warm referral out
- Full walk-through
- On this page, start to finish
THE ARRANGEMENT, IN FOUR LINESTHREE STEPS, ONE CALL
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You tell your client about us, your client contacts us and joins a group here, and you remain their individual therapist.
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The group-only rate is $25 per session, for clients receiving no individual services here.
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With your client’s consent, if desired, the two rooms can collaborate instead of working in parallel silence.
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Every group here begins with a screening conversation with the facilitator: fit, readiness, and safety, the same three checks every member gets.
01SAFE FOR YOUR THERAPY RELATIONSHIP
Why This Arrangement Exists
The structure here is deliberately safe for your therapy relationship. The group-only rate is $25 per session, for clients receiving no individual services here. The Community’s own clients have a group at their individual frequency inside their individual fee; your client gets the same rooms on group-only terms while their individual therapy stays exactly where it is: with you.
02THE CLIENT CONTROLS THE SCOPE
How Coordination Works
With a signed consent, you and the group’s facilitator may collaborate in both directions: group themes inform your sessions, your treatment direction informs the group’s holding of your client. The client sets the scope of the consent. Collaboration with you happens only with your client’s consent, if desired.
03FIT, READINESS, SAFETY
Screening Protects Your Client
Every group here begins with a screening conversation with the facilitator: fit, readiness, and safety, the same three checks every member gets. If a group is the wrong room for your client right now, the facilitator says so directly and warmly rather than seating a poor fit, and the client hears the reasoning. Some situations are better served outside a group, and we treat naming that as part of the service.
04ADULTS 18+, SCREENED ONE BY ONE
What Your Client Can Join
All groups are for adults 18 and over, and every one begins with a screening conversation with its facilitator. Seven groups are enrolling now.
GREY DONNELLThursday Process Group
BOB DAY + GREY DONNELLIn person, 1 hour, 2nd and 4th Thursdays at 6:30 PM. Enrolling now.
Wednesday Process Group
BOB DAY + MARK ANDERSONIn person, 1 hour, 1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 6:30 PM. Enrolling now.
The Lunch Bunch
TODD VALENTINEVirtual, 30 minutes, weekly on Wednesdays at 12:15 PM. Enrolling now.
Tuesday Process Group
TODD VALENTINE + MARK ANDERSONVirtual, 1st and 3rd Tuesdays at 6:30 PM. Enrolling now.
Professionals Group
TODD VALENTINE + MARK ANDERSONIn person, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays. Enrolling now. A private, supportive space for professionals who carry a great deal and are accustomed to functioning at a high level.
Anger Management
ERICA WELSH · CLOSED COURSEVirtual, Thursdays at 6:30 PM, a 12-week closed course. Enrolling now. An official completion certificate is available for participants who need documentation for court requirements.
COMING SOON AS THEY FORM
Coming later: Building Better Relationships (Grey Donnell and Todd Valentine), a closed men’s cohort on relational intimacy whose application and screening include 90 days of sobriety, coming in early 2027; and Feelings 101 (Erica Welsh), a course in emotional vocabulary for clients who manage feelings instead of having them, coming Spring 2027.
The full catalog with current status lives on the groups page.
05SCOPE, STATED PLAINLY
What The Community Is, and Is Not
This is an outpatient therapy practice with a group-centered model, not a substance use disorder treatment program, or any other kind of treatment program. Recovery groups here support recovery and do not replace treatment, and the same is true of every group.
Group pricing in full lives on the pricing page.
06THREE STEPS, ONE CALL
How Your Client Gets Started
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Your client contacts us directly
Tell your client about The Community and give them our website to look at for themselves. Your client then contacts us directly: they call the main line, 404-590-2993, or write to welcome@communityatlanta.com. We don’t take a client’s details from their therapist; the first contact always comes from the client.
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Same-day response on weekdays (by phone or email)
A clinician gets back to them with a same-day response on weekdays (by phone or email).
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The screening conversation gets scheduled
The screening conversation gets scheduled with the relevant facilitator. If you have questions of your own, call or email us anytime. Collaboration with you happens only with your client’s consent, if desired.
07ASKED AND ANSWERED
Frequently Asked Questions
Can my client join a group here without becoming your client?
Yes. The group-only rate exists exactly for this arrangement: your client attends a group here at $25 per session and receives no individual services at The Community. Their individual therapy remains with you, and the group participation changes nothing about that clinical relationship. It only enhances your client’s self-awareness.
Will I know what happens in my client's group?
Only with your client’s consent, if desired. With a signed consent, you and the group’s facilitator may collaborate in both directions: group themes inform your sessions, your treatment direction informs the group’s holding of your client. The client sets the scope of the consent.
Which clients are not a fit?
The warm exclusions are the same for every member: active psychosis, active thought disorders, or an inability to practice emotional containment mean a group is the wrong room, and we say so directly with a referral out. The Community is also not a substance use disorder treatment program; recovery groups support recovery, they do not replace treatment.
What will it cost my client?
The group-only rate is $25 per session, including Anger Management. Building Better Relationships, our trauma and recovery intensive, is $50 per session for 12 sessions. The screening conversation covers those details before anyone commits to anything.
How fast can screening happen?
When your client calls or emails on a weekday, they get a same-day response (by phone or email); the screening conversation with the group’s facilitator gets scheduled from there. Fit, readiness, and safety are checked before any first session, and if the answer is not this group or not right now, your client will hear the reasoning.
08SAME-DAY ON WEEKDAYS
Connect Clinician to Clinician
Questions? Main line 404-590-2993, or welcome@communityatlanta.com.
Serving the north metro in person and anywhere in Georgia by telehealth.