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:

  • A space where you can be with peers who truly get it, and where your struggles are met with understanding, not judgment. 
  • Feeling less alone in your experiences and gaining a sense of belonging.
  • Diverse perspectives and coping strategies that can help you better understand your own challenges.
  • An opportunity to build and practice skills in a safe and supportive environment.

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.

2024-2025

Support & Community

 

BIPOC Therapeutic Performance Group

The power of story can't be matched...especially when paired with the healing of therapy. Now you can do both.

 

Circle of Support 

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.

  • In person: Tuesdays 3:00-4:30pm, starting week 2, October 9.
  • Online: Wednesdays, 11 am - 12:15pm, starting Week 2, October 9.
  • We will end Wednesday of Week 9, November 27 and then start again *Week 2 of Winter Term 1/13*
  • To join, email circleofsupport@oregonstate.edu to request meeting location or
  • Zoom link.

 

Grief and Loss

Engage in a warm, supportive forum for coping with the emotional impact of a major loss.

  • Thursdays 1:00pm to 3:00pm, starting week 3, January 23rd at CAPS
  • Group is only open to students who have experienced a major loss but accepts new members each week.
  • Nothing is required to join. Please check in at CAPS front desk at the start time. Questions? Email amanda.poe@oregonstate.edu or alyssa.stanger@oregonstate.edu

 

Living with Chronic Pain & Illness

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, January 20th at CAPS

  • Group is only open to students who identify as living with chronic pain or illness but accepts new members each week.

  • Nothing is required to join. Please check in at CAPS front desk at the start time. Questions? Email ellen.davis@oregonstate.edu.

 

Rally Point: A Veterans Support Space 

A place for current and prior service members to process the challenges of the college experience as a non-traditional student. 

  • Wednesday 2:30-4pm, starting week 1, October 2 in 150 Snell
  • Group is continuing Winter 2025 
  • To join or ask questions, email donald.phillips@oregonstate.edu.

 

Student Autism Community Meetings 

 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

  •   January 15, 2025  April 9, 2025

  • Zoom Meetings

    February 19, 2025  May 14, 2025

  • Students should connect with Justin Bowman justin.bowman@oregonstate.edu to get location and Zoom information

 

TransForm! A Gender Spectrum Support Group

Open to students who identify as transgender, gender non-conforming, non-binary, and gender questioning.

 

Trauma-Informed Yoga class

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. 

 

Women of Color Support Group

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.

 

Therapy & Skill Building

 

Creating Calm

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.

  • Wednesdays 12:30-2pm, starting week three, January 22nd at CAPS
  • Group is open to new members each week. Please arrive at start time.
  • Nothing is required to join. Just drop in at start time. Questions? Email ellen.davis@oregonstate.edu.
 
DBT Skills

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.

  • Beginning Winter 2025 
  • Mondays or Wednesdays 2:30-4pm, depending upon student preference 
  • To join, email james.morrell@oregonstate.edu to schedule an individual pre-group meeting. Members must also be in individual counseling at CAPS or with another provider.

 

Finding Peace from Family Chaos 

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.

 

Mindful Self-compassion & Support

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.

 

Understanding Self & Others for Undergrads

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.

 

 

View our fall 2024 group details on a PDF poster (may not include every group)