Group Counseling & Workshops

Group Counseling

By nature, human beings are social and talking in a group can provide you with learning opportunities not achievable in individual treatment. CAPS is pleased to share opportunities for you to get together with your peers to talk in confidence about what disruptive life experiences you are having and how to help yourself overcome them.

Benefits of Group Counseling

• Joining a group of strangers may, at first, sound intimidating yet you will quickly experience the benefit of the members’ support.
• Regularly talking and listening to others helps put your own problems in perspective. You can realize that you are not the only one struggling, and you discover creative solutions that worked for your peers.
• The group leader, a licensed clinician with specialized training, will provide you with research-based strategies for managing specific problems.
• Groups have been especially successful in helping students who struggle with stress, eating concerns, problems of intimacy, and bouts of unhappiness or hopelessness.
• Groups have demonstrated success in promoting assertiveness, building community, resolving feelings associated with the death of a loved one, and gaining greater appreciation for all that life offers.

Any questions about the Group program can be directed to the CAPS front desk. Please call 805-437-2088.

Group Offerings - Spring 2026

CAPS will be offering the following groups for Spring 2026:

• Mindfulness Relationships: Creating Healthier Connections
  (Pre-Group Consulation Required)
  Facilitator: Stacy Udolph, LCSW
  Dates: Tuesdays - April 7, 14, 21, 28, and May 5
  Time: 1:30pm - 2:45pm
  Location: Bell Tower East 1804

• First Gen College Student Support Group
  (Drop-Ins Welcome - No Consulation Required)
  Facilitator: Cynthia Saenz, LCSW
  Dates: Wednesdays - April 8, 15, 22, 29
  Time: 3:00pm - 3:50pm
  Location: Bell Tower East 1804

If you are interested in learning more about these groups, please click on the group links below. Please submit the interest form for the Mindful Relationships Group and you will be contacted to schedule your pre-group consultation. No consultation is necessary and drop-ins are welcome for the First Gen College Student Support Group.

If you are interested in the non-active groups, please call the front desk at 805-437-2088 or email caps@csuci.edu.