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Current Groups

Group Counseling - Spring 2025

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 schedule an initial appointment with a counselor to enroll. Please call us at 304-293-4431, schedule an initial appointment via our online scheduling tool, or reach out directly to the group clinician.

Spring 2025 Groups:

Creative Arts 

Students will be guided through art-based activities while learning to explore their emotions, reduce stress, and develop healthy coping strategies. You’ll also have opportunities to share experiences, feelings, and struggles with support and feedback from other group members.  


Graduate Student Support 

Join other graduate students to share common experiences ranging from thesis/dissertation stress to funding and relationship concerns and everything in between, where you will be able to connect with and receive support from other graduate students in this confidential space.  


Overcoming Obsessions and Countering Compulsions:
Managing OCD Symptoms

This group brings together students who share an OCD diagnosis or struggle with intrusive thoughts/compulsive actions to support one another and work toward improving difficult symptoms. With a small group of peers, you’ll explore practical tools, reflect on your progress, and work through challenges using proven treatments. Prior diagnosis of OCD is not necessary to join.

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

This group combines outdoor adventures with tools from positive psychology to boost your well-being. Through activities like backpacking, camping, or paddling, you’ll build on your strengths, practice gratitude, improve relationships, and find more joy in your daily life—all while getting outside and connecting with nature. It’s the perfect mix of personal growth and outdoor fun!  


Your Inattention Please! ADHD Support 

Need a space to share experiences, challenges, and wins related to ADHD?  Check out Your Inattention Please! Whether it’s dealing with distractions, impulsivity, managing emotions, or sensory overload, you’ll connect with others who get it. Plus, you’ll pick up useful skills and strategies to manage challenges and embrace the strengths that come with ADHD.  


Understanding Self & Others (USO)

USO groups are all about helping you navigate social and relationship challenges. Whether it’s figuring out family dynamics, improving communication, building stronger connections, or handling changing levels of intimacy, you’ll have a space to talk it out, get feedback, and practice new ways of relating—all in a supportive, judgment-free environment.  

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