Group Therapy and Support

Wednesdays 1-2:15 p.m.

Fridays 10-11:15 a.m.

Do you have difficulty developing or maintaining close relationships? Are you wondering what keeps you from connecting with others and having satisfying relationships?

Explore thoughts, feelings and behaviors surrounding issues such as conflict, anxiety, depression, trust, and boundaries. Members have an opportunity to practice new behaviors to enable them to create healthy relationships in life.

Not being held Fall 2024

This group offers a weekly space for members to explore their relationship with food and their bodies in an environment that fosters connection with others who share these experiences. The group structure involves a combination of peer support and connection, experiential activities, and readings/metaphors integrated within group discussion.

Mondays 3-4:15 p.m.

This is a weekly six session group devoted to helping students encounter depression and anxiety (and other problems) differently and pursue a full and meaningful life.

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT) is a relatively new form of therapy which helps you relate differently to your anxious feelings, depressed moods, worrying mind, self-defeating behaviors, and/or anything else that causes you problems. The aim of ACT is to limit the ways these run your life.

You discover you are not alone.

When in individual therapy your therapist will not share how they coped with the same issues you are struggling with but in group members do share their experiences. By talking with peers who are going through the same things, you may experience quicker and more longer-lasting results as compared to individual psychotherapy. In groups, a place of safety, caring, understanding, and validation is created.

You gain problem solving skills.

You can hear what others have tried and what has worked for them and what has not. You are able to offer the other members feedback based on your own experiences as well as receive feedback on issues you are struggling with.

You develop awareness.

Group members may bring up issues that strike a chord with you which you might not have been aware or of known how to bring up yourself. This may enable you to explore your issues at a deeper level.

You give and receive feedback.

We often worry about what others think of us or how we come across in social interactions. In group, you are given feedback in a respectful, gentle way, with the assistance of a therapist. You're able to hear, and then, use this feedback to help you have more fulfilling interpersonal relationships and better understand what gets in the way.

It's normal to have some discomfort about participating in group. You control what, how much, and when you share with the group.

You can be helped by listening to others, but you gain the most by voicing your thoughts and feelings. It often takes a few meetings to feel comfortable and to see that you are making progress