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Current Groups

Group Counseling - Fall 2024

Every semester, the Carruth Center for Counseling and Psychological Services offers a variety of groups. Counseling groups are often the best way to work on areas of concern, especially when those concerns deal with issues that directly affect your relationship with others. Groups give you contact with peers as well as a therapist in a safe and confidential environment.

For our group counseling sessions, we ask that students sign up for the semester. The groups meet one time a week and vary in time. Students must meet with a clinician for an initial appointment in order to get signed up for the group. Please call us at 304-293-4431, schedule an initial appointment via our online scheduling tool, or reach out directly to the group clinician.

Fall 2024 Groups:


Understanding Self & Others (USO)

Interpersonal process groups aim to support students with any social or interpersonal concern (e.g., challenges making or keeping friends, difficulty trusting others and being vulnerable, family conflict). These groups involve reflecting on communication and relationship patterns, providing and receiving feedback, and practicing different ways of relating in the group space. Discussion topics include family dynamics, how early experiences impact current relationships, coping with changing levels of intimacy, and initiating conversations and relationship dynamics with an emphasis on here-and-now exploration.

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Creative Arts Group

This group will be a space for students to learn how to use creative arts to cope with difficulties, understand themselves, and connect with others. We will explore a variety of creative domains, such as art, music, and writing as a path to wellness and understanding. No artistic ability/experience required!

Get More Out of Life Group (Part of the Well-Being Adventure Series)

In partnership with Adventure WV and as part of the Well-Being Adventure Series, group members will learn tools from both positive psychotherapy and therapeutic adventure to increase their well-being. Group members will be supported to develop their strengths, practice more gratitude, interact more constructively with friends and loved ones, get more enjoyment out of their daily activities, and feel more optimistic about their future. These goals will be achieved through members participation in ecotherapy, ongoing celebration of one another’s strengths during problem-based group development, and processing with each other their unique experiences utilizing the tools they acquire during sessions and in integrative activities assigned between meetings each week. The group experience will culminate with an outdoor experience such as backpacking, aerial adventure and camping, or paddling.

Graduate Student Support Group

The graduate student support group provides a space for students to discuss common experiences of graduate school including thesis/dissertation, research and teaching expectations, and concerns with graduate advisors, funding, and family and other relationships. Students have benefitted from receiving support and guidance from others who have gone through similar events, as well as having a devoted space to vent and process their graduate school experience.

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