Groups and Workshops

Encontrando Communidad: Latine/Hispanic Support and Process Group

This therapy group is for both undergraduate and graduate students who identify as Latine/Hispanic and are looking for a community to find support. The content of the group is based on topics of interest the members wish to bring. Common themes may include navigating family expectations, cultural roles, challenges pursuing higher education and balancing responsibilities, finding your own identity, navigating multiple cultures, disconnect with family.

Spring 2025

Thursday, Weekly, 2:15 PM - 3:45 PM, (April 3 - May 1)

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“Do I Even Belong Here?": Understanding, Unlearning, and Uprooting Imposter Phenomenon Workshop

In this two-part workshop, the focus is on understanding and pushing back against Imposter Phenomenon.

Facilitators will explore how to identify and learn healthy tools and strategies for uprooting self-doubt, building self-confidence, and practicing self-compassion in our academic, professional, and relational lives--leading up to finals week, graduation, and beyond.

Two options for this workshop series are available:

Spring 2025 Workshops:

Offering #1:

Thursday, 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM...

Career Planning: Surviving and Thriving at Cal

This 4-week group is designed to help clarify your values related to career planning and set goals for managing stresses associated with imposter syndrome, socio-cultural-familial influences, and indecision. The group will include exercises to increase career self-awareness and strategies for navigating challenges in academic and career planning. Students will also have the opportunity to share their experiences, and give support to their peers experiencing similar stressors.

Spring 2025

Thursday, 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM (April 3 - April 24)

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Empowerment through Expression Workshop

Expression comes in many forms, and our ability to express is tied to our well-being. This workshop takes a holistic approach to cultivate empowerment and a sense of self-understanding through creative expression.

Facilitators will lead activities exploring our mind-body connection, relationships with others and with ourselves, and embracing the inherent wisdom of the natural world.

Students interested in this space need no previous experience or even comfort with the arts or creative expression. The power is in the process, not the product.

All students,...

Empowering Social Connectedness

This single session peer-led psychoeducational workshop is designed to introduce strategies to improve social connection to Berkeley students struggling with loneliness, isolation, and lack of belonging.
Spring 2025

Thursday: Every other Thursday, 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM (Begins March 20)

Location: Zoom/Virtual

Staff Facilitator: Alex Bennett, Peer Facilitator: Kirthana Nore

Managing Emotions (10 Weeks)

This group, based on Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT), is designed to teach students skills to manage and regulate emotions more effectively. In a structured and supportive environment, participants will learn skills to modify behavioral, emotional, and thinking patterns associated with problems in living that cause misery and distress. Participants MUST be in concurrent weekly individual therapy to participate in this group.

This group requires a brief pre-group meeting with the group facilitator(s) before joining.

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Healing From Trauma (EMDR)

This group is for students who are experiencing post-traumatic stress, and are interested in processing past experiences of trauma through Eye Movement Desensitization Reprocessing (EMDR) in a group format, using art. While the group will involve reprocessing trauma in a group setting, students will not share with one another about specific traumatic experiences.

Students can self-refer and will meet with a group facilitator in advance of the group to make sure it's a good fit.

Spring 2025

Mondays, 2:15 pm - 3:45...

My Parents Never Went to College - First Generation BIPOC Student Support Group

This student support group is open to undergraduate/graduate BIPOC students who are the first in their families to attend college. In this group, we will create a safe space to exchange information, share experiences, and promote community because we are stronger together. This group is here to support students with navigating college by developing skills and gathering resources to achieve your academic and personal goals + aspirations.

We will explore topics such as imposter syndrome, cultural challenges, mental health, family pressure, financial responsibilities, and more. The...

Managing Emotions (4 Weeks)

This 4-week group is designed to introduce students to Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT) principles and skills. Participants will learn mindfulness, distress tolerance, emotion regulation, and interpersonal effectiveness skills to manage emotions more effectively. We STRONGLY recommend that participants are in concurrent individual therapy for the duration of the group.

Spring 2025 Schedule Offering #1

Tuesday, Weekly, 11:00 AM - 12:15 PM (March 4 - March 25)

Location: Tang Center 3220

Facilitated by: Emily...

Understanding Self and Others

This therapy group is designed to foster greater self-awareness and more satisfying relationships by exploring how your background and upbringing affect your relationships, becoming more aware of your thoughts and feelings, and exploring your “here-and-now” feelings with other group members.

This group requires a brief pre-group meeting with the group facilitator(s) before joining.

Spring 2025

Understanding Self and Others (9 Week)

Mondays, 1:15 PM - 2:45 PM; (March 3 - May 5)

Virtual/Zoom

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