Need Help Now?
If you would like to speak to a clinician immediately, please call 855-854-1747 or text or call 988 for the national crisis support line. You can also call CAPS at 805-437-2088 for a crisis appointment.
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 - Fall '24
CAPS will be offering the following groups for Fall 2024, Mindfulness for Wellness, Working with Grief and Loss, Healing from Trauma and Thrive with Pride. If you are interested in learning more about these groups, please fill out the interest form for your desired group. If you are interested in the non-active groups, please call the front desk at 805-437-2088 or email caps@csuci.edu.