Commitment to Social Justice

The month of June recognizes and celebrates important social justice work, including Pride Month, Black Lives Matter Month, and the holiday of Juneteenth. As reflected in our public statement AGPA remains firmly committed to all DEIA work despite ongoing governmental actions affecting individuals and communities.

Help Group Grow

At the Group Foundation, we dedicate ourselves to changing lives through group psychotherapy by advancing the most effective and innovative approaches to group therapy education, training, research, and community outreach. Millions of people face the challenge of living with a mental illness, and with the power of group, we can provide support to those in need. Donate today because mental health is essential, and group can help.

AGPA Connect 2025 Recordings Now Available
Plenary session recordings are now available in the AGPA Learning Center. Please visit the ‎Recordings: AGPA Connect 2025 section for the Sally B. Henry Institute Opening Plenary, ‎‎"Process and Possibility – The Power of People in Groups" with Suzanne Phillips, PsyD, ‎CGP, AGPA-DF; the Conference Opening Plenary, "Multicultural Psychotherapy: An Ethical ‎Responsibility" with Melba J.T. Vasquez, PhD, ABPP; the Anne & Ramon Alonso Plenary, ‎‎"Decolonizing the Bifurcation Between 'Interpersonal' and the 'Sociocultural': Theory, ‎Research, and Implications for Group Practice" with Daniel José Gaztambide, PsyD; and ‎the Mitchell Hochberg Memorial Public Education Event, "Healing Tribal Division: The ‎Problem and Promise of Group Dynamics in a Polarized Society" with Tania Israel, PhD.  

ONLINE INSTITUTE — "Attachment-Focused Therapy and Racial Inequities: Who Speaks and Who Listens," Led by Carlos Canales, PsyD, CGP, AGPA-F, SEP

Attachment-focused therapy aims to promote trust and relational proximity by examining an individual's emotional manner towards their social environment. Racial advantages and inequities readily induce differentiation, comparison, and disconnection accompanied by complex distressing feelings. These emotional states often manifest as direct attacks to relating, inherently separating and challenging trust in groups. If the process of attachment is the Yin enlivening relationality, racial inequities represent the Yang perturbing and defying its development. This institute aims to explore security in spite of racial inequities.

This Online Institute will be presented in July of 2025 – dates and registration coming soon so keep an eye out!

Past webinars on a wide variety of areas can be accessed on demand in the AGPA Store.  Interested in presenting?  The E-Learning Committee is always looking for great topics to present for our monthly webinars. Submit a proposal here.