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University Counseling Center

Group Therapy and Workshops

Group therapy and workshops are powerful ways to address challenges, offering advantages that individual counseling cannot. The main benefit is the support and feedback given by other participants, creating a space for discussion and building connections. While joining may feel intimidating, self-disclosure happens at your own comfort level and pace.

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Group Therapy

  • Mostly focused on the development of resilience and self-awareness.
  • Generally closed format (i.e., maximum number of participants); no session limits.
  • Includes other participants who wish to receive support around a shared concern or experience.
  • Requires continuous attendance in order for participants to obtain full benefits.
  • Group facilitators will often screen group members before their joining the group.
  • Requires a referral from an SCC Care Coordinator or UCC provider.
  • Understanding Self & Others: Undergraduate Group
    • Understanding Self & Others: Undergraduate Group

    A weekly interpersonal process group for undergraduate students to explore personal growth, increase self-awareness and enhance their experiences in personal/academic settings. In this safe space, group members will practice communicating more honestly and effectively with others while gaining support from peers and therapists. Group topics may include adjustment, loneliness, academic/general stress, social anxiety, and relationships. 

  • Empower: Building Resilience through the Lens of Womanhood
    • Empower: Building Resilience through the Lens of Womanhood

    The Empower Group offers a confidential space for undergrad, graduate, and professional students to:

    • Give and receive support
    • Reflect on the impact of your intersecting identities on your experiences
    • Develop interpersonal skills, such as setting boundaries, expressing emotions, and being vulnerable, that can help you build deeper and more authentic connections with others

    Everyone is welcome!

  • Untangle the Threads of Healing
    • Untangle the Threads of Healing

    Untangle the Threads of Healing is a Creative, Trauma-Sensitive Resilience Group designed for college students who want space to slow down, breathe, and reconnect with themselves. Through accessible expressive art activities, grounding practices, and supportive community, this weekly group helps you discover clarity, steadiness, and renewed strength—no art experience needed. If you’ve been feeling overwhelmed, stretched thin, or simply ready for a gentler way to cope and grow, this space offers a warm, judgment-free environment to heal at your own pace.

  • Rooted in Resilience - Interpersonal Violence Support Group
    • Rooted in Resilience - Interpersonal Violence Support Group

    Rooted in Resilience is a support group, designed for students who have been impacted by interpersonal violence. This could mean experiences of sexual violence, dating violence, domestic violence, emotional abuse, stalking, harassment, and/or childhood abuse. This group is intended to provide a supportive environment for survivors. Time is spent listening, sharing experiences, sharing challenges associated with trauma, and gaining tools and knowledge as students work toward healing. Group is open to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. This group is a collaboration between the University Counseling Center and the Project Safe Center.  No formal referral is required. 

  • Graduate Student Processing Group
    • Graduate Student Processing Group

    The Graduate Process Group is designed to provide a space for graduate students with a broad spectrum of mental health concerns. Group members will offer each other support and feedback in working toward change.

    Common concerns that may be addressed in this group include navigating graduate programs and demands, interpersonal relationship difficulties, transitioning from graduate school to the work environment, individuation, identity concerns, and work/life balance.  

  • Reclaiming Your Reflection

    Reclaim Your Reflection is a semi-structured virtual group which offers college students a supportive space to explore and improve their relationship with their bodies. Each session will focus on key body image topics—including cultural and health ideals, practical strategies and tools for building a more compassionate self-view, and time for open processing and peer support. The group meets weekly on Zoom every Tuesday afternoon from 1:30-3:00 pm, beginning January 20, 2026. All students seeking a space to reflect, learn, and connect are welcome.

Workshops

  • Mostly focused on the development of everyday skills.
  • Workshops tend to be intermittent and take place in series, not requiring continuous attendance.
  • There is no necessary screening (drop-in registrations are welcome).
  • Self-Compassion Workshop
    • Self-Compassion Workshop

    This workshop series is designed to help students become less self-critical and respond to their daily struggles with kindness and compassion, rather than judgment and criticism

  • 4- Week Relationship Compass Workshop: DBT Skills-Focused
    • 4- Week Relationship Compass Workshop: DBT Skills-Focused
    • Learn practical skills for how to establish and maintain interpersonal relationships
    • Identify ways to develop healthy relationships
    • Gain tips for navigating interpersonal conflict