Sometimes a problem is better addressed through group counseling than individual appointments. Talking to other students who have had similar experiences provides support and perspective. A counseling group can be powerfully healing — for some students, one of the most rewarding experiences during their NYU years. To sign up for a group, you must arrange to speak to the group leader (except where noted) by calling (212) 998-4780.
Toolkits are workshops ranging from one to four sessions in duration, and are designed to help students develop and practice new skills to enhance personal, academic, and social well-being.
Fall 2009 Schedule:
- Queer Women's Group - Group
2:00 - 3:00 p.m.
This is a process group for women who identify within a queer spectrum to discuss various issues, including those relating to family, relationships, and identity.
- Making Peace with Food - Group
2:00 - 3:15 p.m.
Do you obsess about your weight and shape? Never feel thin enough? Spend too much time thinking about what you will, or won't, eat next? This group is for students with eating problems who want to explore, understand and change these frustrating ways of coping.
- CBT Anxiety Toolkit - Toolkit
4-week workshop beginning the 1st Monday of each month.
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
A four session workshop series offering students the opportunity to learn practical skills to manage their anxiety. Workshops are didactic and provide students the opportunity to practice skills with the assistance of a cognitive behavioral therapist. Students must attend all four sessions to gain maximum benefit.
- Stress Management Toolkit - Toolkit
Two-part workshop beginning the 2nd and 4th Monday of each month.
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Are you juggling academic, social, financial or family pressures and feeling overwhelmed? Learn the basic principles of stress management, assess your stressors, deepen awareness of the impact of excessive stress and create a specific plan for managing your stress. Participants will experience relaxation using various techniques for stress management, including exercises in meditation, breathing, progressive muscle relaxation and guided imagery.
- DBT: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy - Group
4:30 - 5:45 p.m.
This skills training group will teach students how to regulate emotions with constructive coping skills.
- Gay and Bi Men: The Issues We Face - Group
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
This process-oriented group is for gay and bisexual men to come together and share their experiences. Among the concerns discussed are coming out, homophobia, relationships, belonging, and finding a way to integrate one's sexual orientation into his overall identity.
- Support Group for Students with Chronic Illness - Group
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
* Location: Primary Care *
This is a support group for students who suffer from chronic pain or illness to come together, share experiences, improve self-care, and learn basic stress reduction tools.
- Substance Use: Exploring Choices and Change - Group
6:30 - 7:45 p.m.
This group provides a nonjudgmental opportunity for students to discuss concerns about their substance use, identify motivations and triggers, and consider making changes in their behavior.
- Q-Chat (online)
No group leader clearance required
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
An open, anonymous chat room for questioning and coming out students.
- In a New York Minute: Time Management Toolkit - Toolkit
2-part workshop beginning the 1st and 2nd Tuesday of each month.
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Get a grip on time. Time management is one of the biggest challenges students face. This class addresses some of the primary hurdles to good time management, and offers tips and solutions for using time more effectively.
- Getting a Grip: A CBT Approach for Depression - Group
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
This skills-based therapy group focuses on increasing your ability to manage symptoms, identify triggers, and increase coping strategies to manage depression via lectures, handouts, and skill-based homework assignments.
- Mindfulness Toolkit - Toolkit
Two-part workshop beginning the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of each month.
5:00-6:00 p.m.
Mindfulness-based techniques are effective for coping with difficulties in life and in improving the overall quality of life. Learn basic principles of mindfulness and practice a variety of ways of being in the present moment. By learning to experience the present we can find solutions to everyday problems, learn to manage difficult emotions, improve academic performance, enhance social and communication skills and enhance our capacity to respond rather than react to life.
- Recognizing Your Social Potential (Undergraduate) - Group
5:00 - 6:15 p.m.
This group is appropriate for undergrads who are dissatisfied with their social lives, often because they have difficulty initiating relationships (acquaintances, friendships or romantic relationships) or have difficulty achieving the quality of relationships they would like with other people.
- Sexual Encounters and Safety - Group
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
This group helps students who have had sexual encounters or experiences that left them feeling scared, ashamed, uncomfortable, confused, or unsafe in any way.
- Sons and Daughters of Substance Abusing Parents - Group
6:30 - 7:45 p.m.
This is a support group for students who have a parent who uses or has used alcohol or drugs.
- Drop in Meditation - Toolkit
Drop-in every Wednesday (no sign-up required).
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
Feeling overwhelmed and stressed? Having difficulty focusing? Meditation is known to reduce stress, increase ability to focus and harness our creative potential. Meditation is the practice of non-judgmentally attempting to focus your attention on one thing at a time. This weekly drop-in meditation provides an opportunity to learn and practice various meditation techniques including attention to breath, guided visualizations, mindfulness meditation, and more.
- Getting to Know You: A CBT Approach to Social Anxiety - Group
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
This group is for people who have severe anxiety in social situations, such as speaking in public, going on job interviews, or asking someone for a date. The group uses proven techniques to help you feel more comfortable in these situations.
- DBT: Dialectical Behavioral Therapy - Group
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
This skills training group will teach students how to regulate emotions with constructive coping skills.
- Emotional Eaters - Group
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
Do you cope with stress by comforting yourself with food? Swallow anger along with food you're not really hungry for? This group will provide a safe place to explore how feelings can turn into binge eating, and how to find other, more productive ways to cope with stress and challenging feelings.
- Getting a Grip: A CBT Approach for Depression - Group
6:00 - 7:00 p.m.
10/8/09 - This group is full and is now closed. Please check back in the Spring for enrollment.
This skills-based therapy group focuses on increasing your ability to manage symptoms, identify triggers, and increase coping strategies to manage depression via lectures, handouts, and skill-based homework assignments.
- Bereavement - Group
12:30 - 1:30 p.m.
This group helps students who may be feeling isolated in their grief, providing a safe, supportive space to talk about death and loss with others who share similar experiences, and helping students with the rebuilding of new relationships.
- Life Skills Toolkit - Toolkit
4-week workshop meeting Thursdays. Students can begin any week.
3:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Learn the skills of emotional regulation. In four sessions, students will learn about constructive focusing, people skills, stress tolerance, and managing emotions. These courses run year round, with each of the four topic areas recycling every month. Students may attend one section, or all four.
- Chilling Out: A CBT Approach for Anxiety - Group
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
This skill-based therapy group helps those who have anxiety problems, such as panic attacks, general worrying, or out-of-control thoughts. Participants will be able to share their current stressors as well as learn techniques to face their everyday anxiety.
- Making Peace with Food - Group
6:00 - 7:15 p.m.
Do you obsess about your weight and shape? Never feel thin enough? Spend too much time thinking about what you will, or won't, eat next? This group is for students with eating problems who want to explore, understand and change these frustrating ways of coping.
- Mindful Living - Group
11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Mindfulness-based techniques are effective for managing stress, enhancing relationships, finding solutions to everyday problems and improving the overall quality of life. Learn principles of mindfulness and practice a variety of ways of being in the present moment.
- Sweet Dreams: Insomnia Toolkit - Toolkit
2-part workshop beginning the 1st Friday of each month.
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Can't sleep in the city that never sleeps? If so, this is the toolkit for you. The nature of insomnia will be discussed and tips and tools for dealing with sleeplessness will be provided.
- Say it Loud, Say it Proud: Public Speaking Toolkit - Toolkit
2-part workshop beginning the 3rd Friday of each month.
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Public speaking is one of the most common fears for students. This two-session workshop provides education and techniques to deal with public speaking problems. Students will also have a safe, supportive opportunity to practice public speaking skills learned in this session. All public speaking phobics welcome!
To sign up or for more information on any of these groups or toolkits, please call Counseling & Behavioral Health Services at (212) 998-4780.