Group therapy is powerful, dynamic, and effective as an intervention that provides clients with opportunities to address numerous concerns, including relationships, depression, anxiety, family issues, career issues, and other life experiences (Conyne, 1997). Recent empirical work has supported the notion that group work is just as effective as individual therapy (Seligman, 1995). Given this research and the fact that group work is generally more cost-effective than individual counseling, it is a wonder that group therapy is not more consistently considered as a psychotherapeutic option. Because of the advantages it can offer lesbian, gay, or bisexual (LGB) clients, group therapy is emerging as a therapeutic force that must be considered systematically as a potential intervention by those who provide therapy for this population.Group counseling is unique in the therapeutic benefits it can offer toLGB clients. One such benefit is the opportunity it provides to LGB clients to identify and express feelings about being a "hidden minority" (Fassinger, 1991) and to have those feelings validated by others who share this status.In addition, group therapy affords LGB clients opportunities to openly de-183