Interested in learning more or getting started with a group? Give us a call at 919.515.2423 (during triage hours*) to speak to a triage clinician and ask about joining a group. If you are already connected to a counselor, please speak with the counselor first.
*Triage hours are: Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. – 3 p.m. (exception of Wednesdays and Thursdays: 10 a.m. – 3 p.m.)
General Groups
Understanding Self and Others (USO)
Understanding Self and Others is a supportive space intended to help students process complex thoughts, feelings, ideas, and experiences (personal, academic, and professional), focus on personal growth, build self-esteem, and give and receive feedback from other group members and facilitor(s). These interactions offer an opportunity to gain insight, knowledge, and skills and explore new ways of thinking and interacting in a safe, confidential environment.
- Wednesdays | 2-3:30 p.m.
- Tuesdays | 3-4:30 p.m.
- Fridays | 3-4:30 p.m.
Cope and Connect
This group is for students to increase understanding of their current experiences and to identify ways to cope and connect with others. Attention will be given to our unique individual experiences and also to the contexts in which we experience them in the service of increasing the capacity to respond more compassionately to ourselves and to one another.
- Wednesdays | 2-3:30 p.m.
Workshops
3 Sessions
For students who would like to address a variety of anxiety-related concerns (e.g. panic attacks, generalized anxiety, test anxiety).
- Receive education on anxiety
- Learn coping skills to manage anxiety-related symptoms
3 Sessions
Designed to promote knowledge and skills for navigating relationships of all types.
- Learn about your relational style and how early life experiences contribute to patterns of interacting
- Beginning to distinguish between healthy and unhealthy relationships
- Build skills for developing positive and rewarding relationships with friends, partners, and family members
For students who would like to learn quick and useful tools to manage stress, psychological pain, anxiety, and other challenges.
- Learn to recognize your internal thoughts and feelings
- Gain insight and develop a sense of what you would like to change in your life and how to accomplish it
- Practice mindfulness and improve coping skills.
3 Sessions
For students who would like to address a variety of depression-related concerns (e.g. low mood, fatigue, numbness, negative thinking, concentration problems, withdrawal from friends or activities).
- Receive education on depression
- Learn coping skills to manage depression-related symptoms
4 Sessions
For students who would like to learn and practice mindfulness.
- Learn to apply mindfulness techniques to manage, stress, enhance focus, improve immune function and overall well-being.
- Practice brining awareness to the present moment with compassion
- Practice mindfulness and improve coping skills
- 5/18 – Wednesdays | 2-3:00 p.m.
Specialty Groups
Activity based, participatory group. for 6 weeks. Covers skills of self-compassion, mindfulness, centering values, and defusion. Helping students work towards meaningful lives in spite of negative thoughts, painful experiences, and fears.
Graduate Students
- Mondays | 2:30-4 p.m.
Undergraduate Students
- Tuesdays | 3-4:30 p.m. | Virtual
Start by learning skills to manage emotional distress and impulsive behaviors by using DBT techniques, moving in to learning about acceptance and mindfulness and end with learning how to employ self-compassion to be able to maintain boundaries and skill use.
- Tuesdays | 2-3:30 p.m. | Virtual
Provide a safe non judgemental support space for the grieving students to share their thoughts, emotions and struggles – grieving human loved ones – since Covid began.
- Wednesdays | 3-4:30 p.m. | Virtual
Self exploration and stress reduction through art, movement, music, and poetry. Drop-in style.
- Wednesdays | 2-3:30 p.m. | Campus Health 2301
This group is designed for Asian, Pacific Islander, and South Asian American-identified undergraduate and graduate students who are looking for support and insight through connection. This is a supportive space intended to help students process complex thoughts, feelings, ideas, and experiences (personal, academic, and professional), focus on personal growth, build self-esteem, and give and receive feedback from other group members and facilitator(s).
- Thursdays | 2-3:30 p.m. | Virtual
Explore life issues, worries, and concerns in a small, safe, confidential setting. Share support and caring with other students in the LGBTQ++ community.
- Tuesdays | 4:30-6 p.m. | Virtual
A space to connect with other self-identified men of color in a welcoming and supportive environment. This group will provide an opportunity to explore and discuss topics related to current events, social norms and gender roles, health and wellness, relationships and familial dynamics, navigating the university system and career path.
- Fridays | 2-3:30 p.m.
Skills group for students struggling with disordered eating that will help participants build healthier lives. The group will teach mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and strategies for reducing social comparisons.
- Tuesdays | 3-4:30 p.m. | Virtual
Survivor group is designed for those who have experienced IPV related traumatic experiences in their lives or who come from backgrounds in which they did not feel safe. The group is open to both grad and undergrad and any gender identity. Members will get support from each other. They learn how their past experiences affected their body and brain and are affecting their lives now and learn how to cope with it.
- Tuesdays | 3:15-4:45 p.m.
Work on making healthier decisions around alcohol/drug/gambling/internet/gaming/porn/masturbation etc. . Students explore how use has led to difficulties, affects behavior, and ways to prevent recurring problems.
- Wednesdays | 3-4:30 p.m. | Virtual
Support and skill-building for those diagnosed with an Autism Spectrum Disorder. Undergraduate and graduate students are welcome.
- Thursday | 3-4:30 p.m.
Learn skills to successfully stay focused and tap into the gifts of the faster than normal ADHD mind to better work for you.
Graduate Students
- Wednesdays | 3-4:30 p.m.
Undergraduate Students
- Tuesdays | 3-4:30 p.m. | Virtual
A support-based counseling group for students who identify as gender-diverse including but not limited
to those who identify as transgender, nonbinary, genderqueer, genderfluid, or agender. Find community, talk though concerns and support others through this connecting and safe space.
- Fridays | 1-2:30 p.m. | Virtual