Group Counseling

This group incorporates principles from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) to help individuals manage depressive and anxious symptoms. 

Graduate and non-traditional students can connect with others around their unique experiences and receive support as they manage stress, anxiety, depressive, or other symptoms, and relationship concerns. 

This group creates a safe space where students can learn to utilize music (and potentially other forms of creativity such as writing, visual art, movement) as positive coping skill and as a way to connect to self and others. Integrate ways to explore/express emotions, build self-esteem, and develop sense of empowerment.

This group is helpful for students who are wanting to alleviate and manage anxiety and/or depression, share personal experiences, improve relationships and communication skills, increase self-awareness, and engage in personal growth.

Anxiety Skills Mini Group is a 2-session group that teaches coping skills for anxiety. The group describes where anxiety-related stress comes from and explores myths about stressful symptoms and uncertainty. Students will practice exercises that help them to become more comfortable with anxiety-related stress and uncertainty.

Students learn and practice skills that will help them navigate their world more easily, including mindfulness, skills to manage distressing emotions and thoughts, and skills that can help a person have more effective relationships.

Students learn powerful strategies to help accept and move beyond body image imperfections while identifying valued life areas where body image distress “gets in the way." This is an eight-week semi-structured group based on an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) model for body image acceptance. 

Resisting Distraction Mini Group is a 2-session group where students can learn about attention differences and connect with peers to practice strategies that will improve focus and reduce distraction, within a Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) framework. 

Using Biofeedback technology, students learn how to reduce stress, regulate emotions, improve focus and performance, and enhance resilience. This 6-week group consists of 1-hour weekly group sessions where students will learn the techniques with Heartmath’s HRV technology. In addition, students will schedule 30 minutes per week to practice with the technology on their own.

This is a support group for transgender, gender non-binary, gender non-conforming, and gender fluid individuals. Members can find connection with others, receive support, and also learn about resources that may be useful to them.