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Group Counseling

Group counseling can provide you with needed support, increase your ability to cope with life's challenges and help you grow as a person. All groups are free and confidential to eligible Whitworth students, and each is facilitated by a counselor. The number of group-counseling sessions is unlimited per student, as appropriate.

Spring 2025 Groups

ACTivate Success

ACTivate Success is a four-session psycho-educational group designed to assist students in learning basic skills to build resilience to make the most out of their time at Whitworth. This group is designed so that students can attend any or all of the sessions to gain skills based on Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (ACT). The four sessions are:

Session 1: Mindfulness

  • Mindfulness skills to increase awareness of thoughts and reactions
  • Recognizing automatic thoughts
  • Understanding relationships among situations/thoughts/feelings/behaviors

Session 2: Openness

  • Skills for learning to tolerate distress
  • Understanding options for actions (leaning in, letting go, the role of avoidance)
  • Introduction to the role of values

Session 3: Values

  • Exploring values (What am I about? What motivates me?)
  • Understanding the differences and relationships between values and goals
  • Goal-setting (outcome-based vs. process-based)

Session 4: Engagement

  • Applying mindfulness skills and embracing values
  • How can I use these skills to move toward the life I want to live?

First session begins Monday, Feb. 27, at 3 p.m. in Schumacher Hall. Contact Maja at mlebon@whitworth.edu for more information.

Healthy Relationships

The Healthy Relationship group is a community group designed for all individuals who are looking for a space to share, learn and enter into conversations about all aspects of a relationship (i.e., boundaries, knowing yourself, what a healthy relationship looks like to you, sex, intimacy, communication, etc.). The goal of this group is to make it possible for individuals to engage in discussions about hopes, fears and questions surrounding romantic relationships while learning about what a healthy relationship can look like. For more information, please contact the counseling center at counselingcenter@whitworth.edu.

ILC

The ILC will now be a closed group. Please contact Sophie Miller to be screened into this group: sophiamiller@whitworth.edu.

Neurospicy

Join fellow neurodivergent students in strengthening mindfulness, distress tolerance, and sensory and emotional regulation skills while also increasing a sense of belonging and social connection. This group is an open group (meaning students can drop in as able or attend every session) and meets every Tuesday from 3:30-4:30 p.m. in the Student Relaxation Center in Lindaman (room 206A) beginning Oct. 1, 2024.