All groups require a pre-group appointment with the group leader. Stop by CAPS or call (909) 537-5040 to schedule your pre-group appointment today.
Managing Your Moods
3-WEEK GROUP -- Offered 3 times this quarter!
Weeks 2-4: Tuesdays: 1/15, 1/22 and 1/29 -- CLOSED for Winter 2019
9:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Weeks 5-7 : Wednesdays: 2/6, 2/13 and 2/20-- CLOSED for Winter 2019
3:30-4:30 p.m.
Weeks 8-10: Mondays: 2/25, 3/4 and 3/11
1:30 - 2:30 p.m.
Managing Your Moods is informed by dialectical behavior therapy and is designed for students who experience overwhelming emotions that feel difficult to manage. The sessions consist of the following modules with each week building upon the prior week’s topic of discussion: Session 1- Distress Tolerance, Session 2 - Emotional Regulation, Session 3 - Mindfulness. By the end of the group, you will have strategies for better managing overwhelming emotions.
Overcoming Anxiety Group -- CLOSED for Winter 2019
Mondays
10:40 - 11:50 a.m.
Do you find yourself constantly worrying, stressed, overwhelmed, or in a panic? You’re not alone! This group is for you to find new ways to manage anxiety (including constant worries, social anxiety, racing thoughts, and panic attacks). Come check it out!
AMAC (Adults Molested as Children) Group -- CLOSED for Winter 2019
Tuesdays
10:30 - 11:50 a.m.
This group provides a safe, empowering, and supportive environment for survivors of childhood sexual abuse to continue to grow along the path to increased self-empowerment. This group will decrease feelings of isolation while building collective inner strength, self-worth and healthy coping skills to thrive in life.
Courage, Compassion, Connection Group -- CLOSED for Winter 2019
Tuesdays
2:00 - 3:20 p.m.
This group aims to help you cultivate courage so you can be emotionally honest with yourself and others, set boundaries, and allow yourself to be vulnerable. You will also increase your connection to others and nourish a resilient spirit. In embracing who you are rather than who you think you should be, you will grow in compassion toward yourself and others!
Meditation Group -- CLOSED for Winter 2019
Tuesdays
4:45 - 6:00 p.m.
This group aims to introduce you to various forms of meditation that will increase awareness and compassion for self and others as well as reduce feelings of anxiety and disconnection. No prior experience necessary! Take part in this ancient practice that has been shown to improve both mental and physical well-being!
LGBT+ Group -- CLOSED for Winter 2019
Wednesdays
10:30-11:50 a.m.
This group provides a safe, empowering, and confidential space for those who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, questioning, intersex, asexual, or pansexual to receive support with identity, coming out, and relationship issues.
Understanding Self and Others Group -- CLOSED for Winter 2019
Wednesdays
2:00-3:20 p.m.
This interpersonal process group is for those who want to explore their own identity, find new ways to connect and communicate with others, and also understand what may be getting in the way of achieving these goals.
Women's Group -- CLOSED for Winter 2019
Wednesdays
4:00 - 5:20 p.m.
Women’s Group is intended to be a safe, supportive, and confidential place where female students can explore and work through issues in an interpersonal context that accurately reflects real life.
Transform Your Lens Group -- CLOSED for Winter 2019
Thursdays
10:30-11:40 a.m.
This group is for everyone who struggles with inaccurate thoughts such as you are “not good enough,” “not smart enough,” etc. The goal of this group is to introduce you to a simple yet effective strategy that will empower you to CATCH, CHECK, and CHANGE your negative thinking. You can TRANSFORM your negative thoughts into positive statements that will assist you in living your best self. Less anxiety – less doubt – more BALANCE!
All-Gender Empowerment Support Group
Fridays
Noon - 1:30 p.m.
For survivors of intimate partner violence, sexual assault, stalking, and child abuse. Receive support, take part in healing activities, and increase coping skills. Share your story - or feel free not to. This group is completely confidential. There is no pre-appointment needed and you may come as often as you choose. For more information on the Support Group please contact Marina.Rodriguez2@csusb.edu or see the website at: www.csusb.edu/survivor-advocacy-services
Veterans Support Group
Fridays
Noon - 1:30 pm
Location: Veterans Success Center
Veterans Support Group provides a space for former service members from all branches (Including current Reserves, National Guard, and both those who have and have not been deployed) to come together to support each other as they make the transition from military life to civilian student life. Group provides an opportunity for veterans to serve other veterans.
What is group therapy?
In group therapy, approximately 4-10 individuals meet face-to-face with trained group therapists. During the group meeting time, members decide what they want to talk about. Members are encouraged to give feedback to others. Feedback includes expressing your own feelings about what someone says or does. Interaction between group members is highly encouraged and provides each person with an opportunity to try out new ways of behaving; it also provides members with an opportunity for learning more about the way they interact with others. It is a safe environment in which members work to establish a level of trust that allows them to talk personally and honestly. Group members make a commitment to the group and are instructed that the content of the group sessions are confidential. It is not appropriate for group members to disclose events of the group to an outside person.
Why is group therapy helpful?
- People tend to recreate in the group the difficulties that brought them there. With the direction of the group therapist, the group is able to give support, offer alternatives, and comfort members in such a way that these difficulties become resolved and alternative behaviors are learned.
- People can learn new, healthier ways of relating to others in group.
- One of the most helpful aspects of group is for members to learn that they are not alone and that there is hope and help. It is comforting to hear that other people have a similar difficulty or have already worked through a problem that deeply disturbs another group member.
- People feel free to care about each other because of the climate of trust in a group.
- As members gain comfort in being in the group, they will be able to speak more freely. The psychological safety of the group will allow the expression of those feelings which are often difficult to express outside of group. Members can then more easily ask for the support they need.
If you are in need of a disability-related accommodation to participate, please contact Counseling and Psychological Services three working days in advance at (909) 537-5040 or psychcounseling@csusb.edu