Therapy groups require an initial meeting with the leader/s of that group; contact them if you have interest in joining.  Exact location and/or Zoom links will be provided once you are officially "signed up" for the group.

Building Balance

In this Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT) skills group, you will learn and practice coping strategies to help you better manage your emotional health. It is more like a class than a therapy group. Topics include: mindfulness, emotion regulation, interpersonal effectiveness, and distress tolerance. Each group session consists of a mindfulness exercise at the beginning, introduction of a new skill, discussion/experiential practice, and a skill to practice during the week on your own. This group requires enrollment in CAPS DBT program and a group consult with one of the co-facilitators. Contact humboldtcaps@humboldt.edu and request an Intake with one of our DBT therapists. 

• Facilitators: Elizabeth McCallion and Shane Calhoun
• Day/Time: Mondays 9:30 to 11am
• Location: In person at CAPS at the Student Health and Counseling Building

Mental Mastery (Closed for Fall, please check back in Spring for new offerings)

Do you find yourself struggling with depression, anxiety, and negative self-talk? Do you tend to be impulsive and react quickly? Do you easily feel overwhelmed with life stressors and avoid prioritizing? Do you usually multi-task and feel distracted? Well, you are not alone. There are many coping skills that would help us to reduce some of these behavioral symptoms. Please join me and other students in my Mental Mastery Group Therapy to learn some basic coping skills so you can build a sense of self-efficacy and expand your mental growth. Looking forward to seeing ypu in my group!

• Facilitator: Nassie Danesh
• Day/Time: Thursdays 2:30-4pm
• Location: In person at CAPS at the Student Health and Counseling Building

Post-Traumatic Growth (Closed for fall, please check back in Spring for new offerings)

Trauma affects us emotionally, spiritually, in our relations, and particularly, trauma affects how we feel in our bodies! This group will help you understand and identify your trauma-related responses, help you regulate impulsive and self-destructive behaviors, and modulate the highs and lows of your emotions and arousal. It will be a safe place to learn and to practice exercises that are designed to help you tolerate your own emotions and body experiences so that the past doesn’t control how you feel about the present.  Contact Jacqueline Mayrand if interested in this group.

• Facilitator: Jacqueline Mayrand 
• Day/Time: Tuesdays at 3pm (starting September 26th)
• Location: In-person, contact CAPS for meeting location

Anxiety Wellness Group

Ever wonder why your anxiety doesn’t seem to go away, and why those stress management strategies you read about don’t seem to work?  Come get a better understanding of what anxiety is and how you can begin the path to becoming a calm, worry-free person.  This group draws strategies for managing stress from a number of approaches including CBT, ACT, and exposure therapy to help tailor an anxiety management plan specifically to you to help you get unstuck and living more freely.  If you are open to challenging yourself, this group is designed to help you make changes that last. Contact Shane Calhoun if interested in this group.

• Facilitator: Shane Calhoun
• Day/Time: Wednesdays 1:30-3
• Location: In person at CAPS at the Student Health and Counseling Building

Relating to Self & Others (Closed for Fall, please check back in Spring for new offerings)  

Are you interested in deepening your connections as well as figuring out what gets in your way?  This group will help you to explore and strengthen how you relate to yourself and others in a safe and supportive atmosphere.  Process groups like this one are a great way to feel less alone, try on new ways of being, practice vulnerability, get new perspectives, decrease shame, give and receive support, and work through a variety of psychological challenges (including social anxiety).  With that said, you set your own goals for this group while receiving assistance with those goals from peers and  professionals. Contact Jennifer Blair if interested in this group.

• Facilitators:  Jennifer Blair and Celeste Tamayo
• Day/Time: Mondays 1:30-3pm
• Location: In person at CAPS at the Behavioral and Social Sciences building

Grief and Loss Support

This therapy group is for those experiencing grief in relation to physical loss. Connect with others creatively on this big journey of healing through the arts as well as processing around your unique experiences with support. Contact Erika Demers if interested in this group.

• Facilitator: Erika Demers
• Day/Time: Fridays 2:30-4pm
• Location: In person at CAPS at the Student Health and Counseling Building