A COLORADO TEEN BODY, RELATIONSHIPS, & WELLNESS GROUP AKA PUBERTY EDUCATION THAT ACTUALLY ANSWERS YOUR QUESTIONS

Comprehensive sex education means that we are providing teens with accurate, age-appropriate information about sexuality and their sexual and reproductive health. We integrate a trauma-informed approach to our comprehensive sex education, which means we use our mental health expertise to create a brave, yet safer environment among participants given their lived experience, identities, and value.

Our Group’s Content Outline:

Week 0: Optional Parent & Caregiver Orientation

Week 1: Welcome & Orientation for Teen Participants

Week 2: Personal Values & Defining Sex

Week 3: Gender, Sexual Orientation, & Attraction

Week 4: Puberty, Reproductive Health, & Hygiene

Week 5: Sexual Health, Expression, & Pleasure

Week 6: Body Image & Self-Acceptance

Week 7: Digital Literacy, Digital Citizenship, & Sexual Responsibility

Week 8: Building Healthy Relationships With Others & With Ourselves

Week 9: Consent & Boundaries

Week 10: Safer Sex, Contraception, & STIs

Comprehensive, trauma-informed sex education is shown to support teens:

• Avoid unintended and negative health consequences, such as unwanted pregnancies, HIV infections, other types of STIs, sexual violence, and sexual coercion

• Communication about sexuality and sexual health with parents, peers, and intimate partners

• Understand the signs of healthy and unhealthy relationships

• Understand, value, and feel autonomy over their bodies as well as respect others’ right to bodily autonomy

• Show dignity and respect for all people, regardless of sexual orientation or gender identity

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This teen therapy group is for teens between the ages of 14-18 years old, who are still enrolled in high school, about to enter high school, or are within a high school age-range.

Typically, the participating teen must reside in the state of Colorado. If the participating teen resides in another state, it is required by law that we check the interstate telehealth laws for attending therapy and group therapy across state lines.

The Birds, the Bees, and Everything In Between is an interactive, online therapy sex education group in Colorado that meets every week on Fridays from 6:00 pm - 7:00 pm, beginning on March 1, 2024. Because this teen group meets virtually, we use a HIPAA-secure video platform for each meeting.

This groups schedule is as follows:

• March 1, 2024: Week 1

• March 8, 2024: Week 2

• March 15, 2024: Week 3

• April 5, 2025: Week 4

• April 12, 2024: Week 5

• April 19, 2024: Week 6

• April 26, 2024: Week 7

• May 3, 2024: Week 8

• May 10, 2024: Week 8

• May 17, 2024: Week 10

We will not meet on March 22nd or March 29th due to spring holiday.

Our Teen Sex Education therapy group costs $40 per session, which can be paid per session, via a monthly charge, or in full.

Interfaith Bridge Counseling, PLLC and it’s therapists are considered Out of Network Providers and do not accept insurance. However, upon request, we can offer you a superbill for you to submit to your insurance for possible reimbursement. Though we cannot guarantee that your specific insurance will offer you reimbursement for our services.

If you are a teen participant with Medicaid, you are able to attend this group free of cost.

Yes. Each teen participant is required to make the full ten-session commitment, which is a total of ten weeks, both physically and financially.

This ten session commitment is required as group therapy is a very intimate and vulnerable experience that uplifts and practices community caretaking. Each individual member offers their time and emotional labor willingly in our group therapy sessions, cultivating healthy and long-term relationships with one another. This ten session commitment honors the time, effort, and openness that our group therapy communities value and readily give.

It is important to note that our office is entirely virtual - we no longer have a physical location at this time. Because our office is virtual, you are able to join on a phone, tablet, or computer using the Google Meets app or dialing in once you have been given access to our Google Meets link. Through our virtual office, we are also able to assist you in turning on closed captioning and using the chat feature as additional, accessible ways to engage our virtual office.

It is also important to note that all group attendees reserve the right to accommodations while part of our community. We are more than able to help create solutions and meet sensory needs as requested.

Yes.

We believe that it is our responsibility as a mental health organization and community to promote policies, laws, and programs that affirm, support, and value LGBTQIA+ youth, families, and communities. Therefore, Interfaith Bridge Counseling, PLLC, our staff, and ALL of our services, including our teen groups, are LGBTQIA+ friendly, affirming, and competent.

No, this group is not a part of a specific religion or belief system.

We use the word interfaith because to us, it means the exploration and bridging of various beliefs, values, traditions, cultures, and/or faiths. This is something that we believe all people can relate on, regardless of how they do or do not identify. When we work with people as a whole for who they are and who they aspire to be, this becomes a necessary part of the therapeutic process.