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Whether you're facing personal issues, emotional concerns, or simply seeking a supportive community, our confidential groups can help you manage stress more effectively, improve your mental well-being, and build resilience. Group counseling also provides unique benefits that individual counseling cannot offer, such as:
If you’re hesitant about group counseling, know it’s a step worth considering. Last year, 95% of surveyed CAPS group members agreed or strongly agreed that what they learned in their group could help them relationally, academically, and emotionally. Explore the groups we’re offering and find details on how to join each group below. If you have general questions about our groups program, please email the Groups Coordinator at autumn.cote@oregonstate.edu.
The power of story can't be matched...especially when paired with the healing of therapy. Now you can do both.
Circle of Support is open to OSU students of all genders, providing a safe space for survivors of interpersonal and gender-based violence (including sexual/physical assault, emotional abuse, stalking, bullying, sexual harassment, and reproductive coercion) to share, connect, and heal. Hosted by CAPS, CAPE, and Cascades Student Wellness.
Join us to connect with others and share compassion as we discuss the challenges of living with and managing chronic illness and pain.
Tuesdays 3-4:30pm, starting week 3, October 15th at CAPS
A place for current and prior service members to process the challenges of the college experience as a non-traditional student.
A DAS ran Group where students with Autism have the opportunity to come together to discuss their OSU experience, ask questions and connect.
In person meetings
October 9, 2024 January 15, 2025 April 9, 2025
November 13, 2024 February 19, 2025 May 14, 2025
Open to students who identify as transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and gender questioning.
CAPE Survivor Advocacy is hosting a Trauma-Informed Yoga class for survivors of gender-based violence. This class is led at a gentle to medium pace. All bodies and levels of movement are welcome and modifications will be offered. Limited yoga mats are available – please bring your own mat if possible.
This drop-in group offers a supportive space for OSU students who identify as women of color. Topics may include intersectionality, microaggressions, oppression, racism on campus and in Corvallis, and building community solidarity.
Create art together as a way to self-soothe, calm your nervous system, discover yourself, express emotions, and identify unhelpful thoughts and behaviors. It’s therapeutic and fun! No need to be “good at art”— everyone is an artist, and the process matters more than the product. Supplies will be provided.
Engineering students struggling with social anxiety can join our 6-session series in a safe, supportive environment to share experiences, learn coping strategies, and build social confidence. Presented by the College of Engineering Wellness Program.
Learn and practice skills for managing challenging emotions. Explore distress tolerance concepts and techniques, and practice them in group sessions, with additional skills to work on each week for better mastery.
This group will focus on teaching DBT skills for regulating emotions when feeling overwhelmed and distressed.
A therapy group for students who have faced significant distress or challenging family dynamics, impacting their core beliefs about themselves and others. Examples include emotionally immature parents, abuse, substance use, mental illness, narcissism, or generational trauma. This group offers a safe, nonjudgmental space to increase self-awareness, explore family dynamics, and connect with peers who share similar experiences.
Thursdays: 2:00pm-3:30pm, starting week 3, October 17th
Making friends can be hard. Many of us need help learning how. Come learn in a supportive space.
Self-compassion is offering ourselves warmth and understanding when we suffer, fail, or feel inadequate, rather than ignoring our pain or self-criticizing. This 6-week therapy group helps students practice self-compassion to boost mental well-being. It includes brief education, mindful meditations, and processing in a confidential, interactive setting.
In a safe and energizing group of peers, learn more about yourself and work on interpersonal goals to help you have more effective and more intimate relationships with others.
In a safe and energizing group of peers, learn more about yourself and work on interpersonal goals to help you have more effective and more intimate relationships with others.
Wednesdays 3:00–4:20pm, at CAPS – Check in at Front Desk
Starts when we have a minimum of 6 members.
View our fall 2024 group details on a PDF poster (may not include every group)