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 two-part workshops designed to help students develop and practice new skills to enhance personal, academic and social well-being. All students interested in participating in a toolkit workshop should call (212) 998-4780 for further information and registration.
Spring 2012 Schedule:
- 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
First four Mondays 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.
- Biofeedback - Toolkit
4:00-5:00 p.m.
The focus will be on training students to learn the biofeedback technique to manage their stress (using the emWave Personal Stress Reliever).
Sign-up is required.
- Chilling Out: A CBT Approach for Anxiety - Group
6:00 - 7:15 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.
- Getting a Grip: A CBT Approach for Depression - Group
6:00 - 7:00 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.
- 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
First and second 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.
- Gay and Bi Questioning Men: The Issues We Face - Group
5:00 - 6:00 p.m.
This group is designed for men struggling with issues related to coming-out.
- Relationship Skills Group: Building and Enhancing Social Interactions (Undergrads) - Group
6:00 - 7:00 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.
- Mindful of Medication - Group
7:00 - 8:00 p.m.
- 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.
- Sexual Encounters and Safety - Group
6:00 - 7:15 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.
- 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
First four Thursdays of each month.
3:00-4:00 p.m.
Learn the skills of emotional regulation. In four sessions, students will learn about Mindful Constructive Focusing, Interpersonal Effectiveness, Distress Tolerance and Emotional Regulation. These courses run year round, with each of the four topic areas recycling every month. Students may attend one section, or all four.
- Relationship Skills Group: Building and Enhancing Social Interactions (Grads) - Group
4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
This group is appropriate for grads 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
- 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.
- Choices and Change - Group
6:00 - 7:15 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.
- Sweet Dreams: Insomnia Toolkit - Toolkit
First 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
Last 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 and Wellness Health Services at (212) 998-4780.