Groups & Workshops
The Counseling Center will be offering therapy support groups. Our groups are both general and focused on specific issues that affect college student life.
These sessions are facilitated by a therapist who encourages contributions from all group members, allowing participants to benefit from shared experiences.
- Feel a sense of validation, acceptance, and understanding—you may find you are not alone in your concerns
- Learn more about yourself and how you are experienced by others
- Learn from others’ experiences
- Help others by sharing your experience
- Feel encouraged as you see others grow and succeed as they overcome their concerns
- Learn specific tools to address the unique concerns you have
- Learn to navigate daily life better and to feel more emotionally in control
- Learn that taking a risk, trying something new, and stretching yourself may be worth it
Below is a list of our most popular groups, we run different groups in Fall and Spring semesters. Group meeting days & times will be updated at the beginning of the semester.
If you are living in California and are interested in attending any of the groups below. Please email the facilitator listed in the description.
Groups & Workshops
For students who are exploring their gender identity and/or identify as transgender, gender fluid, and/or gender nonconforming in their identity and expression. Topics include: coming out to oneself and others, identity-affirming relationships, coping with gender binary norms, accessing health and social services, issues related to the transitioning process and negotiating gendered environments.
If interested, contact Matt at matt_gragg@liashapiro.com
Safe and confidential space to discuss coming out, being out, relationships, family, community, discrimination, and self-acceptance.
If interested, contact Raquel at raquel_jackson@liashapiro.com
Mondays at 3pm
The Counseling Center
For students who have lost someone to death recently or are impacted by a past loss. We focus on sharing experiences and learning about the grieving process and ways to cope. Validation of your feelings is a crucial aspect of this group.
If interested, contact Matt at matt_gragg@liashapiro.com
This group is for BIPOC-identifying individuals seeking a cultural and social justice-oriented space to discuss racial anxieties and systematic oppression distress. This space will be held for the BIPOC community to share their experiences, listen to others, and gain support from their community. While promoting conversation surrounding racial trauma, the students will learn skills to develop healthy coping mechanisms and feel empowered through their unique perspectives.
If interested, contact counseling_center@liashapiro.com
Mondays, 4pm
The Counseling Center
Name of Group TBD (Support Group for Students with Invisible and Visible Disabilities)
This group holds a safe and confidential space for students with invisible and visible disabilities. This group will create a space where students can talk to members of their community, share their experiences, and promotes open dialogue to discuss their day-to-day lives.
If interested contact counseling_center@liashapiro.com
Wednesdays, 3pm
The Counseling Center
The overall goal of DBT skills training is to help you increase your resilience and build a life experienced as worth living. DBT skills are aimed at teaching a synthesis of how to change what is and how to accept what is. Skills teach you both how to change unwanted behaviors, emotions, thoughts, and events in your life that cause you misery and distress as well as how to live in the moment, accepting what is. This group will run 8 weeks.
If interested, contact counseling_center@liashapiro.com
Meeting at: TBA
This group offers the opportunity to process the impact substances have had both personally and academically on your life. Gain psychoeducation and coping skills to decrease the current negative effects that drugs and alcohol have. Gain skills to address self-defeating thinking, emotions, and actions through self-empowerment.
If interested, contact counseling_center@liashapiro.com
Meeting at: TBA
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For survivors of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, stalking, and child abuse. Receive support, take part in healing activities, and build resilience. Share your story - or feel free not to.
If interested, contact counseling_center@liashapiro.com
Meeting at: TBA
Learn more about mindfulness, meditation, and stress management. We will discuss basic principles of mindfulness and engage in mindfulness exercises. This group increases self-understanding and self-acceptance as well as compassion for yourself and others.
If interested, contact counseling_center@liashapiro.com
Meeting at: TBA
This group is for students who struggle with their mood. Students struggling with depression and/or mood swings are welcome. We discuss coping skills and how to best manage moods in various situations.
If interested, contact counseling_center@liashapiro.com
Meeting at: TBA
This group is a supportive environment for students to practice assertive communication skills and increase their confidence in managing social situations. Learn how to recognize non-verbal cues as well as social norms.
If interested, contact counseling_center@liashapiro.com
Meeting at: TBA
Graduating from college is an important transition and a rewarding experience. While exciting, it can also pose some challenges when adjusting to new people, routines, and environments. If you are struggling with the concept of what’s next after graduation, this group will provide you with tools and the space to manage the emotions and find healthy ways to succeed in adjusting to life after graduation.
If interested, contact counseling_center@liashapiro.com
Meeting at: TBA