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Struggling with stress, tough emotions, or navigating relationships? Join our Coping Well group, designed specifically for students who want to build effective coping strategies and thrive during their studies. Over four weeks, you’ll learn practical skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) that can help you manage your thoughts, emotions, and daily challenges. Here’s what you’ll gain:

1. Mindfulness: techniques for staying present and focused in the moment.
2. Distress tolerance: strategies for handling difficult emotions and stressful situations without getting overwhelmed.
3. Emotion regulation: tools for managing intense emotions and preventing them from spiraling. 
4. Interpersonal effectiveness: skills for confidently expressing your needs and setting boundaries in your relationships.

Running weekly for 4 weeks on Mondays from 2 to 3:30 p.m., in Thames Hall rm. 3189.

Dates: February 23 and March 2, 9, & 16

To get the most out of this group, attendance at all 4 sessions is required. 

If you are currently experiencing self-harm or suicidal thoughts, crisis support is available here.

This 6-week group is is dedicated to offering compassion and support to individuals navigating the difficult journey of grieving the loss of a loved one. In this non-judgmental space, we will explore ways to move through the grieving process, strategies to manage the complex emotions associated with loss, and find ways to maintain a meaningful connection with your loved one. Our aim is to foster a healing community where you can find emotional support, connection, validation, and receive education as well as strategies to help you cope with the grieving process.

Weekly sessions on Fridays from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m. on the following dates: Feb 6, 13, 27 and March 6, 13, 20. in Thames Hall rm. 3189. Please note: no session during reading week.

Our Group for International Students offers a way for you to connect and share with others as well as a place to find support for the issues that affect you as a student at ÌÒ×ÓÊÓƵ and in Canada.  We will be offering a range of session topics.

Snacks and drinks will be available! Please come and join us for as many or as few sessions as your schedule allows.

Running biweekly on Tuesdays from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in Thames Hall rm 3175-3176.

Dates and Topics: 

1. January 27 - A conversation on friendships
2. February 10 - Feeling burnt out? How to recover and renew during February winter break 
3. February 24 - Building meaningful connections
4. March 10 -  “I’m stressed” – Let’s talk! (about what stresses you out and ways to de-stress)
5. March 24 - Celebrating our accomplishments

Join Journey Together: Sharing Our Lived Experiences, a support group for Black and Racialized Students. This wellness group aims to create a safe and healing space to share race-related lived experiences including race-related stress, navigating environments, renewal and care. Together in sharing our common lived experiences, we draw a collective voice to:

• not feel alone
• process and learn from each other's wisdom
• create a community to uplift and support one another
• empower through collective healing, growth, and transformation

This group will be co-facilitated by two counsellors from Health & Wellness Services who are themselves persons from racialized backgrounds.

Running virutally Bi-weekly on Tuesdays from 10:30 a.m. to 12 p.m. on the following dates: February 10 & 24 and March 10 & 24, and April 7. Students can register throughout the term. For more information, please email health@uwo.ca.

Once signed up, a group facilitator will contact you to do an individual intake which will provide an opportunity to discuss details of the group more fully.

Learn2Thrive is an initiative aimed to help students thrive, academically and personally, this program is a collaboration between Wellness and Learning Development & Success. 

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This group offers a safe, supportive space for male students to reflect on what it truly means to be a man today, beyond stereotypes and social expectations. We’ll explore how masculinity, emotional health, and relationships intersect in everyday life.

Together, we’ll talk about how men cope with pressure, express emotions, and build genuine confidence and connection. It’s a space to be real, to listen, and to grow, both as individuals and as brothers in the journey toward healthier, more authentic living.

Open to all male-identifying students.
Confidential • Supportive • Growth-focused

Running from 2 to 3:30 p.m. in Thames Hall rm 3189 on the following dates: January 28, February 11 & 25, and March 11 & 25.

This is an in-person, women’s support and wellness group for students who have lived experiences with immigrant parents. The group‘s purpose is to create a supportive and affirming space to share and process experiences of growing up and navigating life with immigrant parents and/or caregivers and of living between multiple cultural worlds.

In sharing lived experiences, we give our stories voice to:

• not feel alone in our experiences
• learn from each other’s wisdom
• empower through personal growth and understanding
• affirm and validate each other’s feelings, experiences, and development

This group will be co-facilitated by two Mental Health Counsellors from Health & Wellness Services who themselves are women who have lived experience with immigrant parents.

Running weekly on Wednesdays: February 4, 11, 25 and March 4 
Time: 2:30 pm to 3:45 pm
Location: Thames Hall, Room TBA

Students can register throughout the term.

Please see below for “How To Register” for a mental health group.

A 90-minute group bringing in relevant topics, discussion, and mutual support for students who identify as part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and other diverse sexual orientations and gender identities) community.

Running bi-weekly on Thursdays from 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. in Thames Hall rm 3118.

Dates: January 15 & 29, February 12 & 26, March 12 & 26, and April 9.

This four-week group will focus on building blocks of healthy relationships. This group will explore characteristics of healthy relationships, effective communication, conflict management, and the complexities of boundary setting across diverse types of relationships. Each participant will take home their own copy of ‘The Set Boundaries Workbook’ by Nedra Glover Tawwab.

Running for 4 weeks (February 26 and March 5, 12 & 19) on Thursdays from 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. in Thames Hall rm. 3175.