When Your Mind Won’t Switch Off

A 12-Week Live Online Therapeutic Group

For people who feel mentally exhausted by overthinking, analysing, replaying and trying to solve everything in their minds.

Some minds rarely seem to rest.

A conversation ends, but the thinking continues.

A decision has been made, but the mind returns to it.

Something uncertain happens, and suddenly dozens of possibilities appear.

You may replay what you said, imagine what someone else meant, question whether you made the right choice or try to solve situations that have not even happened yet.

When Your Mind Won’t Switch Off is a therapeutic group for people who feel caught in cycles of overthinking, mental checking, rumination and constant analysis.

The aim is not to stop thinking.

It is to develop a different relationship with your thoughts — one in which thinking becomes a useful tool rather than a place you feel trapped inside.

When Your Mind Never Seems to Rest

You may recognise yourself if you often:

• replay conversations long after they have ended

• analyse what other people may have meant

• question decisions after you have already made them

• imagine different outcomes repeatedly

• find it difficult to fall asleep because your mind becomes more active at night

• mentally rehearse future conversations

• worry about things that have not happened yet

• search for certainty before allowing yourself to relax

• repeatedly ask yourself whether you made the right choice

• feel mentally tired even when you have not been physically busy

• find it difficult to stay present because your thoughts are somewhere else

• become stuck trying to understand why something happened

• feel that thinking more should eventually produce clarity

• notice that the more you analyse, the less certain you sometimes feel

• struggle to stop thinking even when you know there is nothing more you can do

Overthinking often begins as an attempt to find an answer.

But sometimes the search for the perfect answer becomes the very thing that keeps us stuck.

Why Does the Mind Keep Going?

The mind naturally tries to protect us.

Thinking ahead can help us prepare.

Reflecting can help us learn.

Analysing can help us understand.

But when uncertainty, fear or emotional discomfort becomes difficult to tolerate, thinking may become a strategy for trying to regain control.

The mind may begin to believe:

“If I think about this long enough, I will finally feel certain.”

“If I understand exactly what happened, I will feel better.”

“If I prepare for every possibility, nothing will surprise me.”

The difficulty is that many emotional situations do not have perfect answers.

Relationships involve uncertainty.

Decisions involve risk.

The future cannot be completely predicted.

And another person’s thoughts cannot always be known.

When the mind tries to solve what cannot be fully solved, thinking can become repetitive rather than productive.

Productive Thinking or Overthinking?

Not all thinking is overthinking.

Helpful reflection usually leads somewhere.

It may help us make a decision, understand a situation or choose an action.

Overthinking often feels different.

It circles.

It repeats.

It asks the same questions in slightly different ways.

It creates more possibilities without creating greater clarity.

A useful therapeutic question becomes:

“Is this thought helping me understand something — or am I trying to remove uncertainty by thinking?”

Learning to recognise this difference can be an important step toward reducing mental overload.

What We Will Explore

Across the 12-week therapeutic cycle, we will explore:

Your patterns of overthinking
Recognising when, where and around which situations your mind becomes most active.

Rumination
Understanding why the mind repeatedly returns to past conversations, mistakes, losses or unresolved experiences.

Future-oriented worry
Exploring how imagined possibilities can create emotional responses to events that have not happened.

The search for certainty
Understanding why some questions feel impossible to leave unanswered.

Mental checking
Recognising repeated internal questions such as “Was that right?”, “What if?”, “Are you sure?” and “What does this mean?”

Decision-making
Learning to make choices without repeatedly reopening the decision afterward.

Overthinking in relationships
Exploring the tendency to analyse messages, tone, silence, distance and another person’s behaviour.

The relationship between thoughts and emotions
Understanding how anxiety, insecurity, guilt, fear and uncertainty may intensify thinking.

Learning when to stop solving
Developing awareness of when reflection has stopped being useful.

Returning to the present
Building greater capacity to move attention from imagined possibilities back toward what is actually happening now.

When Overthinking Becomes a Form of Avoidance

Sometimes thinking feels productive because we are doing something.

But thinking can also keep us at a safe distance from feeling.

Instead of experiencing disappointment, we analyse why it happened.

Instead of recognising fear, we calculate every possible outcome.

Instead of accepting that someone may not give us the answer we want, we search endlessly for hidden meaning.

Overthinking can therefore sometimes protect us from emotions that feel more difficult to tolerate directly.

Therapeutic work creates space not only to examine thoughts, but also to ask:

“What might I feel if I stopped analysing this?”

The answer may be uncertainty.

Sadness.

Fear.

Anger.

Vulnerability.

Or simply the uncomfortable reality that some questions do not have immediate answers.

In Positive Psychotherapy

Positive Psychotherapy recognises that capacities such as reflection, conscientiousness, planning, responsibility, intelligence and attention to detail can be important strengths.

The problem is not that a person thinks deeply.

The difficulty arises when a valuable capacity becomes unbalanced.

Reflection may become rumination.

Planning may become constant anticipation.

Responsibility may become excessive self-monitoring.

Attention to detail may make it difficult to see the larger picture.

The therapeutic task is therefore not to teach someone to “think less.”

It is to help restore flexibility between thinking, feeling, acting and allowing.

Positive Psychotherapy also invites us to consider how our mental energy is distributed across different areas of life.

When the mind is constantly occupied by analysis, there may be less space for the body, relationships, rest, creativity, pleasure, meaning and the present moment.

Instead of asking only:

“How can I stop these thoughts?”

we may also ask:

“What are these thoughts trying to achieve?”

“What am I afraid will happen if I stop thinking about this?”

“What would it mean to trust myself without knowing everything?”

Thoughts Are Not Instructions

A thought can feel urgent without being important.

It can feel convincing without being accurate.

It can appear repeatedly without requiring an answer.

One of the most important shifts can be learning that you do not need to respond to every thought your mind produces.

You can notice:

“I am having the thought that something may go wrong.”

without immediately needing to solve it.

You can recognise:

“My mind wants certainty.”

without giving it another hour of analysis.

You can allow a question to remain unanswered for now.

This does not mean ignoring reality.

It means developing the freedom to decide which thoughts deserve your attention and which can be allowed to pass.

What This Group Can Help You Develop

The group can support you in developing:

• greater awareness of repetitive thinking patterns

• improved ability to distinguish reflection from rumination

• greater tolerance for unanswered questions

• healthier decision-making

• reduced mental checking and reassurance-seeking

• awareness of emotional triggers behind overthinking

• greater ability to remain present

• healthier responses to uncertainty

• improved ability to disengage from repetitive thought loops

• increased trust in your own decisions

• greater awareness of overthinking in relationships

• healthier ways of responding to worry

• greater emotional flexibility

• more mental space for rest, connection and everyday life

You Do Not Have to Solve Everything Tonight

Not every thought needs an answer.

Not every conversation needs another interpretation.

Not every decision needs to be reopened.

Not every possibility needs to be prepared for.

Sometimes the most helpful thing we can do is recognise that we have thought enough.

There may still be uncertainty.

But uncertainty does not mean that more thinking will create certainty.

Sometimes peace begins when we stop asking the mind to solve what only time, experience or acceptance can answer.

You do not need to silence your mind.
You can learn not to follow it everywhere it goes.

Group Details

12 Weekly Sessions
Wednesdays | 19:00–20:30
90 minutes per session
Live Online
12 May 2027 – 28 July 2027

New participants join at the beginning of the 12-week therapeutic cycle, allowing the group to develop continuity, trust and a consistent therapeutic space.

Session Dates

May 2027
12 May
19 May
26 May

June 2027
2 June
9 June
16 June
23 June
30 June

July 2027
7 July
14 July
21 July
28 July

Final session: 28 July 2027

Fees & Payment Options

Pay Per Session
€30 per 90-minute session

Monthly Prepayment
€25 per session when all sessions scheduled for that month are paid together in advance.

The monthly prepayment option applies when all scheduled sessions within the calendar month are paid in advance.

Joining the Group

If you would like to participate, please complete the registration form below.