Counseling Workshops

Are you interviewing for a job or internship?  Join us for a one-hour workshop designed to equip you with strategies to help you combat stress while teaching you how to enhance your interviewing skills. You will also learn how to apply a variety of mindfulness and cognitive behavioral therapy techniques to manage stress.

Co-hosted by Counseling and Wellness Services and Career Development Services.

• Wednesday, June 7 | 12:00-1:00 pm

Are you looking for new ways to manage your stress during COVID-19? In this workshop, we'll identify and address unhealthy behaviors before they become a barrier to your success. Learn to better manage your stress levels and reverse unhealthy coping behaviors. We will discuss healthy methods of coping and will equip you with solid strategies to combat the stress in your daily life.

• Please return in the fall for an updated schedule.
• Registration required. Via Zoom.

Do you find it difficult to cope with change? Is it challenging to "bounce back" from a difficult situation? Join us for a skills-based workshop designed to help foster the sense of resilience needed to achieve your academic, personal and professional goals. Learn how to cultivate a more positive and adaptive perspective, reduce stress, develop self-compassion, and mobilize your strengths to effectively deal with life's many challenges.

• Please return in the fall for an updated schedule.
• Registration required. Via Zoom

Do you struggle to effectively navigate the relationships in your life? Do you experience difficulty having your needs met within relationships?

Join us to learn strategies to enhance self-awareness, while developing self-care skills, to more effectively engage in relationships. Learn conflict resolution skills by developing more effective methods of communication, while learning how to identify the signs of healthy vs. unhealthy relationships.

• Please return in the fall for an updated schedule.
• Registration required. Via Zoom

Do you find it difficult to make friends, focus on academics or feel confident in social situations? Join us for a cognitive behavior therapy informed workshop designed to help you to better understand how your thoughts can impact your feelings and behaviors.

Learn skills to reduce excessive thinking, social anxiety and stress related to academic performance and social interactions. This workshop is designed for undergraduate students who wish to better manage their anxiety and stress levels.

• Please return in the fall for an updated schedule.
• Registration required. Via Zoom

Are you finding it a challenge to manage competing academic demands, while staying on top of assignments? Falling behind academically can lead to increased stress and can cause problems in multiple areas of one’s life.

This workshop is designed to help you approach your academic demands differently by discovering new pathways of thinking. You will be encouraged to challenge unhelpful thoughts and re-frame your thinking, which can often lend to productive outcomes, including increased focus and heightened academic success.

• Please return in the fall for an updated schedule.
• Registration required. Via Zoom

Do you experience difficulty with focus and concentration? Are deadlines and assignments causing you to feel stressed? Is it hard to be productive when faced with life’s daily distractions?
Learn how mindfulness practices can help sharpen your attention and awareness. Enhance your academic performance by reducing stress/anxiety and through cultivating a greater capacity for emotion regulation and awareness.

Join us for this interactive workshop and experience firsthand how mindfulness practices can improve your academic and interpersonal functioning by increasing your capacity for distress tolerance, reducing rumination and increasing focus and concentration. Harness the power of your mind by learning new skills designed to improve your capacity for heightened focus and concentration.

• Please return in the fall for an updated schedule.
• Registration required. Via Zoom

Do you feel nervous or self-conscious around others?  Are you avoiding social events or classes? It can be difficult to perform your best or feel successful while struggling with social anxiety. Discover how social anxiety can inhibit your ability to form deep connections with others and negatively impact academic performance.

This workshop will showcase strategies to ease social anxiety in both social and academic interactions. You will learn new strategies to reduce social anxiety and problematic thinking patterns while practicing self-compassion.  Come and develop new skills to help you become more engaged, active, and successful in your social and academic life.

• Please return in the fall for an updated schedule.
• Registration required. Via Zoom