This critical reflection will analyze a therapy group I attended called the "Hearing Voices Peer Support Group." It allows consumers with schizophrenia to share their experiences with hearing voices in a safe and respectful environment. This allows them to access support and advice from each other to cope with the situation and work to gain more control over what is happening to them. Those involved include two social workers, a consumer advocate, an external facilitator, seven consumers and myself. My role is to help co-facilitate the sessions, using skills such as writing on the board, icebreakers and group engagement. At the beginning of the sessions they play the icebreaker game. I noticed that this was good because it made them feel. This is because the person-centred approach allows you to think and act based on what is important to the individual from his point of view and this contributes to his full inclusion in society (British Association for the Person Centered Approach, 2015). This appealed to me because it recognizes that consumers involved in the group have access to each other's support and advice. The method used in social work practice is self-directed recovery. From my observations the therapy group incorporates self-help approaches. Self-directed recovery helps consumers because it gives them the opportunity to have their voice heard and receive a response (Glover & Roennfeldt, 2013). This was evident during the session where a consumer shared his coping strategies. The consumer's voice was heard and responded to by the facilitator and the rest of the group. Barriers to self-directed recovery for individuals include self-stigmatization and medication side effects. Another barrier for consumers as a collective group is when an individual becomes desperate and passive in their care. Stigma and discrimination also hinder recovery (NSW Consumer Advisory Group, 2009). This is an interesting point, because during the session one of the consumers brought up stigma and discrimination in the community. To me this may be because the consumer may feel like they are struggling with self-directed recovery due to this barrier. This is because many have been to the park for many