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Current Groups

Group Counseling 

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 relationships 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 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 2025 Groups:

Creative Arts Group: Healing Through Creativity.

Stressed? Anxious? Just need a space to vibe and create? This group is your go-to spot for using art, music, and creativity to work through life’s chaos. No need to be the next Bob Ross or Beyoncé — this isn’t about talent, it’s about expression.

We’ll do things like making pottery, painting out your mood, building playlists that match your feels, jewelry making, decoding song lyrics that hit too hard, and even crafting some origami magic (yes, folding paper can be therapeutic) along with many other creative possibilities. 

Led by Carruth counselors, this group is all about connection, self-expression, and finding better ways to cope. Whether you're dealing with social anxiety, depression, or just love the idea of processing life through creativity, this is your space. It’s judgment-free, pressure-free, and experience-free — just bring yourself.

Mondays 5:30 - 7PM with Sara and Joshua

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. 

Mondays from 5:00 - 6:30PM with Jay and Barb


    Overcoming Obsessions and Countering Compulsions:
    Managing OCD Symptoms

    Living in the cycle of intrusive thoughts and repetitive behaviors can feel isolating, but you’re not alone. This weekly 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. Together with a small group of peers, you’ll explore practical tools, reflect on your progress, and work through challenges using proven treatments like Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP). With encouragement and tailored guidance, you’ll gain the skills and confidence to make meaningful changes beyond group.

    (Prior diagnosis of OCD is not necessary to join. Interested participants who do not have an OCD diagnosis are encouraged to schedule a screening to assess whether their concerns would be a good match for the group.)
    Wednesdays from 3:30 - 4:30PM with Cody and Hannah

    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 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.
    Mondays from 4:00 - 5:30PM with Chris and Cody


    Your Inattention Please! ADHD Support 

    This group will offer practical skills to support ADHD students as well as space to talk about navigating college – and life in general – with a neurodivergent brain. Skill topics will include increasing motivation to begin academic work, sustaining focus, organization, time management, emotional regulation and interpersonal issues. These skills will allow you to best manage the challenges and incorporate the strengths of your unique ADHD brain. The group will also incorporate interpersonal processing – opportunities to reflect on communication and relationship patterns, provide and receive feedback, and practice different ways of relating in the group space. No official diagnosis is required.
    Thursdays from 5:30 - 6:45PM with Megan D and Ashley L


    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, initiating conversations and relationship dynamics, with an emphasis on here-and-now exploration.
    Wednesdays from 3:30 - 5:00PM with Brie and Emma

    Men's Support Group

    Many men do not receive enough support in facing mental health challenges in their lives due to social stigma and masculine norms.  This group will provide this much-needed supportive and shame-free space for students identifying as men to connect with each other and discuss issues related to mental and emotional health.   As a group, we will strive to cultivate vulnerability, self-awareness, compassion, and courage to help each other become the men we want to be.  Topics of discussion will vary but may include relationships, intimacy, anger, substance use, body image, and self-esteem. 
    Tuesdays from 5:30 - 7:00PM with Adam and Tinh