Group Therapy & Workshops
What is the difference between groups and workshops?
Both groups and workshops are powerful treatment modalities. Their power lies in the support and feedback given by other participants as well as by the facilitators. They offer a supportive and affirming space for students to discuss challenges and build connections. Appropriate self-disclosure within groups and workshops may take place at the student’s own comfort level and pace. While joining a group or workshop can feel intimidating, these treatment modalities offer advantages that cannot be found in individual counseling.
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GROUP THERAPY:
- Mostly focused on the development of resilience and self-awareness.
- Generally closed format (i.e., maximum number of participants); no session limits.
- Includes other participants who wish to receive support around a shared identity or lived experience.
- Requires continuous attendance in order for participants to obtain full benefits.
- Group facilitators will often screen group members before their joining the group.
- Requires a referral from an SCC care coordinator or UCC provider.
GROUPS – FALL 2025
Please select a group for more information.
When: Fridays from 2:00 -3:30 pm, starts 9/5/25
-Group runs in 3-week cycles
Location: UCC
This 3-week group helps students explore embodied resilience through expressive arts and somatic grounding techniques. It is trauma-informed, strengths-based, and focused on expanding students’ capacity for emotional regulation, mindful awareness, and creative self-expression. The group runs on a rolling three-week cycle, so students can join on any week and continue until they get all three modules. Students can also repeat sessions for reinforcement.
No Formal Referral Required
If interested in this group, please email viviana.a.grice@vanderbilt.edu
Time: Thursdays, 1:00 - 2:30 PM
Location: UCC
The Graduate Process Group is designed to provide a space for graduate students with a broad spectrum of mental health concerns. Group members will offer each other support and feedback in working toward change. Common concerns that may be addressed in this group include navigating graduate programs and demands, interpersonal relationship difficulties, transitioning from graduate school to the work environment, individuation, identity concerns, and work/life balance.
Limited spots available. If interested in this group, please contact jaclyn.bogner@vanderbilt.edu or li-cih.hsu@91ºÚÁÏÍø.Edu.
When: Wednesdays 5:00 - 6:00 pm, Starting September 3rd
Location: Project Safe
Rooted in Resilience is a support group, designed for students who have been impacted by interpersonal violence. This could mean experiences of sexual violence, dating violence, domestic violence, emotional abuse, stalking, harassment, and/or childhood abuse. This group is intended to provide a supportive environment for survivors. Time is spent listening, sharing experiences, sharing challenges associated with trauma, and gaining tools and knowledge as students work toward healing. Group is open to undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. This group is a collaboration between the University Counseling Center and the Project Safe Center.
No formal referral is required.
If interested in this group, please email sarah.jordan.welch@vanderbilt.edu.
When: Resuming on 10/24/25: Fridays, 2:30 - 4:00 PM
Location: UCC
Understanding Self & Others is a weekly interpersonal process group for undergraduate students who want to explore personal growth, increase self-awareness and enhance their experiences in personal and academic settings. In this safe space, group members will practice communicating more honestly and effectively with others while gaining support from peers and therapists. Group topics may include adjustment, loneliness, academic/general stress, social anxiety, and relationships.
Group Screening required as a prerequisite.
To schedule group screening or for more information, email mikaila.robinson@vanderbilt.edu.
WORKSHOPS:
- Mostly focused on the development of everyday skills.
- Workshops tend to be intermittent and take place in series, not requiring continuous attendance.
- There is no necessary screening (drop-in registrations are welcome).
WORKSHOPS – FALL 2025
Please select a workshop for more information.
Round 1: 9/8, 9/15, & 9/22, 10 am - 11 am
Round 2: 10/2, 10/9, & 10/16, 2 pm - 3 pm
Round 3: TBD
Location: Zoom
In this workshop, you will
- Understand what anxiety is and how it impacts us
- Explore how thoughts and behaviors affect anxiety
- Develop strategies to better cope with anxiety
Attendance to all three sessions is required, as each week builds upon the previous one.