Asian Student Collective | Conscious Connecting | Coping with COVID-19 | Dating/Domestic Violence Support Group | DBT- Skills Based Forum | Entre Familia| Flutter | Gathering Compassion | Grief and Loss | Healing Hearts | LGBTQIA Safe Space | Mindfulness for Depression | Perfectly Imperfect | Parent Support Group | Relational patterns in Adult Dating (RAD) |Sexual Assault Support Group | Spirit Child Group | Tackling Transfer
Download a PDF copy of all our Group Therapy handout and SHCS workshops.
If you are self-referring for a group, please contact the SHCS front desk to schedule a brief screening to confirm eligibility. All groups will require a group screening, and will be held via Zoom (please see zoom etiquette below) using an ecrypted, HIPAA-compliant, password-protected link.
The list below will help you make the most of your group telehealth experience. Please follow these guidelines when attending any group:
This support group is for all domestic and international students who identify as Asian, Pacific Islander, and/or Desi. This group offers a space for community building and to give and receive support for healing and empowerment.
This group provides a safe place for students to practice new ways of connecting with others as they learn new ways to view themselves through feedback and group support. They can also address fears, problems, or patterns that can get in the way of fulfilling relationships. Through the process of connecting with other people in this format, members often find they can navigate relationships with more satisfaction, leading to more fulfillment in their lives.
COVID-19 and the dramatic change to our society can cause a variety of feelings. This group's purpose is to provide the support and tools for resiliency when feeling impacted by COVID-19 and our changing times.
This is a confidential support group for students who are seeking connection, community, support and understanding in their unique and shared journeys of healing connected to dating or domestic violence. This includes any type of intimate partner harm experienced and can be past or present abuse. The group members typically decide on the topics of discussion based on what is happening in their lives, on social media and in the news.
Various perspectives are shared in seeking understanding and reducing shame as well as what has worked in terms of coping. Some come with the intention of listening and supporting, at times wanting to share something specific as well as any other purpose connected ot ones healing. This is a confidential group open to any gender. Please contact, Christa, the Sexual Violence Advocate and Educator to schedule a pre-group meeting.
Do you struggle with overwhelming emotions? Do you have impulsivity or cravings that you want to overcome? Do your ways of responding to stress tend to make things worse in the long run? If any of these are true for you, DBT skills are a great resource. In this group, you’ll learn and practice skills drawn from Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) including distress tolerance, mindfulness, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness. This will help you understand why you do what you do and start moving toward your goals with more hope and confidence.
This group provides Latinx students a space to share, learn, and explore issues related to their culture, family, academics, as well as any other issue affecting them. The group also focuses on building community, mutual support, and empowerment. This group is conducted in English and Spanish.
This is a support group for undocumented and mixed status students. The group creates a safe and confidential space to give and receive support around the experiences of being undocumented or mixed status.
Are you interested in developing a kinder relationship to yourself? Gathering Compassion
provides a safe space to practice self-care and learn about the different ways compassion
and mindfulness can help you cope with everyday stress. The goal of the group is to
learn to manage painful emotions and life’s difficulties through the daily cultivation
and practice of self-compassion.
The group could be a good fit for individuals who have difficulty self-soothing, are
hard on themselves, struggle with self-criticism, or feel alone in their suffering.
It is open to individuals of all genders, ethnicities and cultures. Each week includes
a mindfulness practice, an introduction to a compassionate self-care topic, and a
discussion on how compassion can be of use in a variety of situations.
Our Grief and Loss Group provides a safe environment for you to look at your old beliefs about dealing with loss, which losses have affected your life, and take actions that will lead you to complete unresolved emotions that may still be causing you pain.
In collaboration with The Elizabeth Hospice agency, our group will provide a framework for understanding grief to most importantly understand your own grief in context. The process and stages of moving through grief will be both explained and explored in a safe space of support, understanding, kindness, acceptance, and compassion. If you are interested solely in this group and no other counseling services, you may schedule an appointment with Dr. Peters directly for a group screening.
This group is designed for people affected by sexual trauma, and is open to people of all genders and cultural backgrounds. The group provides a safe and empowering space for students to gain support, connect with each other, and learn coping skills that can help them move toward healing.
This group will provide a safe and supportive environment for persons who identify as LGBTQIA, those who might be questioning their sexual orientation or gender identity, and those who would like support as they navigate the coming out process. Come join us to meet new people, build a sense of community, and to share your experiences (both the benefits and challenges) of being LGBTQIA.
This group helps students learn and use Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) skills to manage depression, stress and anxiety.
This group offers a safe place to help you stop focusing on your perceived imperfections and start feeling more self-compassion. You'll learn to celebrate your body instead of feeling ashamed of it. This group will promote discussions of the obsession with physical appearance and with body- xing options. It helps you discover your personal body image strengths and vulnerabilities and then guides you in creating new, life-changing experiences of mindfulness and body acceptance.
In this group, members will both offer and receive support to and from other student-parents, as well as trade parenting ideas, secrets, strategies, and psycho-education regarding healthy and positive parenting. This support group combines ongoing support with education and practical parenting advise for CSUSM Students.
This group will provide psychoeducation on romantic relationships and explore patterns in dating relationships. Group members can come to process past and/or current romantic relationships. Topics will include: attachment styles in romantic relationships, vulnerability, how to communicate relational needs, settng boundaries, working through conflict, understanding unhealthy relationship patterns, and working through past relational wounds in order to secure a happy and healthy romantic relationship.
This support group is for students who are seeking connection, community, support and understanding in their unique and shared journeys of healing connected to sexual assault. Some members come with recent experiences of sexual assault and others are facing current impacts of past sexual assault. The group members typically decide on the topics of discussion based on what is happening in their lives, on social media and in the news.
Various perspectives are shared in seeking understanding and reducing shame as well as what has worked in terms of coping. Some come with the intention of listening and supporting, at times wanting to share something specific as well as any other purpose connected to ones healing. This is a confidential group open to any gender. Please contact Christa, the Sexual Violence Advocate & Educator to schedule a pre-group meeting.
This group is for students who grew up with addiction in their families. Members will increase understanding of the impact of addiction in their lives, examine the thoughts and behaviors shared by many adult children of addiction, and gain insight and strategies for overcoming childhood trauma associated with childhood familial addiction.
This group provides an opportunity for students to bond over their recent transfer to CSUSM. Students will be able to learn from and share with fellow transfer students e ec ve ways they have adapted to being at a new university. In addition, students will be guided through learning strategies to help them persist through school and succeed academically.
