Group Counseling
Every semester, the Carruth Center offers a variety of groups. Counseling groups are often the best way to work on areas of concern, especially when they affect your relationships with others. Groups give you contact with peers and 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 once a week and vary in time. Students must schedule an initial appointment with a counselor to enroll.
If you are interested in
joining a group, please fill out this survey: Group sign-up - Carruth Center
Once you have completed the survey, a counselor will contact you to schedule a
time to meet and discuss the group.
Fall 2026 Groups:
Build Your Social Confidence
Do you want to connect with others but aren’t sure where to start? Do worries about saying the wrong thing or making a bad impression prevent you from putting yourself out there? This 8-week skills building group provides a safe space to work through issues related to social anxiety. “Build Your Confidence” is an evidence-based treatment designed to help relieve stressors, learn practical skills, and realize you are not alone in managing college-related worry and panic. You will leave feeling more confident in your social interactions and with skills that serve for the rest of your academic career.Mondays from 4 - 5:00PM. Email Spring or Sarah with questions.
Get More Out of Life (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 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. Tuesdays from 3 - 5:00PM. Email Kelly or Jamilyn with questions.
Managing Your Emotions
This group aims to teach you to manage your emotions through skills like mindfulness, distress tolerance, and emotional regulation. This group may be helpful if you tend to experience strong emotions, frequent changes in mood, and difficulty managing the stress of daily life. You will learn how to use helpful coping skills, gain insight into your emotions, and improve relationships through better communication skills. Tuesdays from 3:30 - 5PM. Email Sara or Mia with questions.
Graduate Student Support
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 benefited 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. Wednesdays from 3:30-4:30PM. Email Jay or Jenna with questions.
Unmasked: ADHD and Autism Support Group
This group will offer a safe space for students with ADHD and autism to share their experiences, frustrations, and joys of being a neurodivergent person living in a world designed for neurotypical people. In this space, students can feel free to be their true selves, explore what it means to “unmask”, and speak honestly in a group of peers who understand the neurodivergent experience. The group will be led by two neurodivergent therapists who get it and who can also provide tips and tricks to help navigate college and the world in general with a neurodivergent brain. No official diagnosis is required. Thursdays from 3:30 - 4:45PM. Email Megan or Ashley with questions.