The Let’s Talk: Mental Health Office Hours program provides informal, confidential consultation with therapists from SHaW. The service is free of charge and offered on a first come, first served basis. More info like other dates, time and location can be found here.

Students who may benefit from attending a Let’s Talk: Mental Health Office Hours session include:

• Students who want help connecting to resources but are unsure where to begin
• Students who are looking for advice on a non-clinical issue
• Students who are unsure about therapy and are curious about what it is like to talk to a therapist
• Students who may have concerns about the mental health of a friend and seek advice on how to support their friend
  • If a student is not an imminent risk, and is refusing your support in contacting our office, you may also consider contacting the UConn Student CARE Team.

Providers rotate weekly on Fridays! Check out more of our mental health providers here.

Families with Addiction

This group is for students who are or have been deeply affected by having parent(s) or sibling(s) struggling with addictions. May also consider situations where the family member’s primary issue is a severe psychiatric disorder, but that substance use is also present.

To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705

This session is held by Jonathan Beazley, LMFT, SW

In honor of World AIDS Day, the UConn Sexperts will be hosting their annual Condom-a-thon event at Late Night in the Student Union on Friday, December 1st!

This year, we’ll be joined by the HIV/AIDS Alternative Break who will be providing additional education about HIV/AIDS.

Stop by to learn a new safer-sex skill, such as a how to use a condom, or a dental dam, and earn some fun prizes! Condoms, lubrication, and dental dams will also be available for all students. 

For more information about the UConn Sexperts, visit www.studenthealth.uconn.edu/sexperts

The Let’s Talk: Mental Health Office Hours program provides informal, confidential consultation with therapists from SHaW. The service is free of charge and offered on a first come, first served basis. More info like other dates, time and location can be found here.

Students who may benefit from attending a Let’s Talk: Mental Health Office Hours session include:

• Students who want help connecting to resources but are unsure where to begin
• Students who are looking for advice on a non-clinical issue
• Students who are unsure about therapy and are curious about what it is like to talk to a therapist
• Students who may have concerns about the mental health of a friend and seek advice on how to support their friend
  • If a student is not an imminent risk, and is refusing your support in contacting our office, you may also consider contacting the UConn Student CARE Team.

This session is held by Fumi Sowah, LCSW

Introduction to Mindfulness

Gentle Therapeutic Yoga:

SHaW’s Therapeutic Yoga skillfully blends movement and breathwork, with a meditative focus for a full body practice that calms, nurtures, strengthens and opens one into flexibility of body and mind.

Yoga is protective and enlivening.

Freeing you from habitual patterns of tension, this yoga creates a sense of spaciousness within, dissolves stress, strengthens core muscles, joint health, centeredness, postural alignment and groundedness, increases breath capacity and breath awareness, shifts stagnant emotions into movement and release, and is attentive to the subtle stuff of the mind, helping to free us from the driving forces of unconscious actions and thoughts.

You’ll practice yogic techniques that you can bring into your everyday experience for simply living a good day, and for increasing your capacity to be creatively present in your life. A yogic attitude toward self and practice is one of kindness, patience, and tenderness. We grow into our best selves in an inner atmosphere of loving care.

Open to all UConn students, faculty and staff from any campus. No experience required.

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All Recovery Meetings are a gathering for UConn students who struggle with substance use and/or other mental and behavioral health disorders. An All-Recovery meeting is ‘non-denominational’ meaning all pathways of recovery are embraced here. A universal recovery topic is chosen and then the group discusses it. It is not affiliated with any “Anonymous” program although you are likely to hear comments associated with 12-step fellowships. Meetings are facilitated by peers and held online and in person for students from all of UConn’s campuses.

Introduction to Mindfulness

The Let’s Talk: Mental Health Office Hours program provides informal, confidential consultation with therapists from SHaW. The service is free of charge and offered on a first come, first served basis. More info like other dates, time and location can be found here.

Students who may benefit from attending a Let’s Talk: Mental Health Office Hours session include:

• Students who want help connecting to resources but are unsure where to begin
• Students who are looking for advice on a non-clinical issue
• Students who are unsure about therapy and are curious about what it is like to talk to a therapist
• Students who may have concerns about the mental health of a friend and seek advice on how to support their friend
  • If a student is not an imminent risk, and is refusing your support in contacting our office, you may also consider contacting the UConn Student CARE Team.

This session is held by Sijia (Michelle) Chen, M.S.Ed

Mind and Body: Support and empowerment for students with chronic health conditions.

This biweekly group is for students adjusting to coping with chronic health conditions in a university setting. This is a safe space for students to share their experiences and support each other in managing their health while also managing the challenges of college life. This group is a joint effort between medical and mental health services to ensure that students are cared for in a complete and holistic manner.’

To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705

This session is held by Jennifer Fox, PhD and Ryan Grade BSN, RN

INTERPERSONAL GROUP FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

Graduate Students Interpersonal Groups focuses on promoting emotional wellbeing as you balance academics, relationships, family, and personal responsibilities.Groups offer a supportive confidential space to share your concerns, practice skills and get feedback.

This session is held by Carlos- Gonzalez- Martinez, LCSW

INTERPERSONAL GROUP FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

Graduate Students Interpersonal Groups focuses on promoting emotional wellbeing as you balance academics, relationships, family, and personal responsibilities.Groups offer a supportive confidential space to share your concerns, practice skills and get feedback.

This session is held by Maritza Lugo-Stalker, PsyD

SHaW is hosting Pet Therapy every Tuesday from 5pm - 7pm at the Cordial Storrs House.
Stop by for some pet therapy love!

We’ve also partnered with the The Benton to host Pet Therapy every first Thursday of the month!
Join us in The Benton from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m.

Please note that Pet Therapy is provided on a volunteer basis. We cannot guarantee that dogs will be present the entire time.

Recovery Yoga is for those who struggle with substance use and/or other mental and behavioral health disorders, are affected by a loved one’s disorder addiction, and/or support the recovery lifestyle. It combines trusted recovery meeting formats combined with pranayama breathing and vinyasa yoga. Attendees must have swipe access to UConn Rec and register for the class prior to arrival.

Pet Therapy

Pause for Paws! Pet therapy benefits include reducing stress, anxiety, & building empathy. Stop by to meet the dogs & to destress!

Please note: Pet therapy relies on volunteers & their ability to attend the events.

Introduction to Mindfulness

INTERPERSONAL GROUP FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

Graduate Students Interpersonal Groups focuses on promoting emotional wellbeing as you balance academics, relationships, family, and personal responsibilities.Groups offer a supportive confidential space to share your concerns, practice skills and get feedback.

This session is held by Carlos- Gonzalez- Martinez, LCSW

Neurodiversity Support Group

The Neurodiversity Support group is for students who identify as being on the autism spectrum or as neurodiverse.
Starting college is a time of big changes. You’re meeting new people in a new environment and have new expectations placed on you. Common challenges for students on the autism spectrum have fewer resources and support, building new relationships, adjusting to increased independence, time management, academic challenges, and managing stress and anxiety.

To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705

This session is held by Jessica Doyle, LCSW

Interpersonal Group for Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate Students Interpersonal Groups focuses on promoting emotional wellbeing as you balance academics, relationships, family, and personal responsibilities.
Groups offer a supportive confidential space to share your concerns, practice skills and get feedback.

To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705.

This session is held by Maritza Lugo-Stalker, PsyD

12 Step Recovery Meetings are a gathering for UConn students who struggle with substance use and/or other mental and behavioral health disorders. The 12-step pathway of recovery is used by various mutual aid groups, and those interested in exploring them are welcome to attend. Meetings are chaired by a peer in recovery and held online and in person for students from all of UConn’s campuses.

Pet Therapy

Pause for Paws! Pet therapy benefits include reducing stress, anxiety, & building empathy. Stop by to meet the dogs & to destress!

Please note: Pet therapy relies on volunteers & their ability to attend the events.

Join us in relaxation as we wrap up the semester and create kits to help ease end of semester stress.

December 7th, 2023 12:00-1:00pm Room 150

LIGHT SNACKS AND BEVERAGES PROVIDED!

Introduction to Mindfulness

The Let’s Talk: Mental Health Office Hours program provides informal, confidential consultation with therapists from SHaW. The service is free of charge and offered on a first come, first served basis. More info like other dates, time and location can be found here.

Students who may benefit from attending a Let’s Talk: Mental Health Office Hours session include:

• Students who want help connecting to resources but are unsure where to begin
• Students who are looking for advice on a non-clinical issue
• Students who are unsure about therapy and are curious about what it is like to talk to a therapist
• Students who may have concerns about the mental health of a friend and seek advice on how to support their friend
  • If a student is not an imminent risk, and is refusing your support in contacting our office, you may also consider contacting the UConn Student CARE Team.

This session is held by Ashley Smith, M.A.

INTERPERSONAL GROUP FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Undergraduate Students Interpersonal Groups focuses on promoting emotional wellbeing as you balance academics, relationships, family, and personal responsibilities.
Groups offer a supportive confidential space to share your concerns, practice skills and get feedback.

This session is held by Daveon McMullen, PsyD

Gentle Therapeutic Yoga:

SHaW’s Therapeutic Yoga skillfully blends movement and breathwork, with a meditative focus for a full body practice that calms, nurtures, strengthens and opens one into flexibility of body and mind.

Yoga is protective and enlivening.

Freeing you from habitual patterns of tension, this yoga creates a sense of spaciousness within, dissolves stress, strengthens core muscles, joint health, centeredness, postural alignment and groundedness, increases breath capacity and breath awareness, shifts stagnant emotions into movement and release, and is attentive to the subtle stuff of the mind, helping to free us from the driving forces of unconscious actions and thoughts.

You’ll practice yogic techniques that you can bring into your everyday experience for simply living a good day, and for increasing your capacity to be creatively present in your life. A yogic attitude toward self and practice is one of kindness, patience, and tenderness. We grow into our best selves in an inner atmosphere of loving care.

Open to all UConn students, faculty and staff from any campus. No experience required.

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This group is a space created for female Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) - identifying students to cultivate vulnerability, safety, trust, connection, and growth. Bloom provides a place for group members to discuss issues unique to their experience at a predominantly white institution (PWI), including academic stress, relationships, race/ethnicity related stress, familial pressures and navigating cultural expectations. There will be an emphasis on healing, maintaining healthy relationships and setting boundaries. Bloom means to be open, blossom and to maintain flourishing conditions that help us grow. It’s time to Bloom.

To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705

This session is held by Chantaul Smith, LMFT

Growth Through Grief

This weekly clinical group supports students grieving the death of a loved one and students coming together to support and empower each other during times of grief.

To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705

This session is held by Jennifer Fox, PhD

The Let’s Talk: Mental Health Office Hours program provides informal, confidential consultation with therapists from SHaW. The service is free of charge and offered on a first come, first served basis. More info like other dates, time and location can be found here.

Students who may benefit from attending a Let’s Talk: Mental Health Office Hours session include:

• Students who want help connecting to resources but are unsure where to begin
• Students who are looking for advice on a non-clinical issue
• Students who are unsure about therapy and are curious about what it is like to talk to a therapist
• Students who may have concerns about the mental health of a friend and seek advice on how to support their friend
  • If a student is not an imminent risk, and is refusing your support in contacting our office, you may also consider contacting the UConn Student CARE Team.

Providers rotate weekly on Fridays! Check out more of our mental health providers here.

Families with Addiction

This group is for students who are or have been deeply affected by having parent(s) or sibling(s) struggling with addictions. May also consider situations where the family member’s primary issue is a severe psychiatric disorder, but that substance use is also present.

To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705

This session is held by Jonathan Beazley, LMFT, SW

Introduction to Mindfulness

Gentle Therapeutic Yoga:

SHaW’s Therapeutic Yoga skillfully blends movement and breathwork, with a meditative focus for a full body practice that calms, nurtures, strengthens and opens one into flexibility of body and mind.

Yoga is protective and enlivening.

Freeing you from habitual patterns of tension, this yoga creates a sense of spaciousness within, dissolves stress, strengthens core muscles, joint health, centeredness, postural alignment and groundedness, increases breath capacity and breath awareness, shifts stagnant emotions into movement and release, and is attentive to the subtle stuff of the mind, helping to free us from the driving forces of unconscious actions and thoughts.

You’ll practice yogic techniques that you can bring into your everyday experience for simply living a good day, and for increasing your capacity to be creatively present in your life. A yogic attitude toward self and practice is one of kindness, patience, and tenderness. We grow into our best selves in an inner atmosphere of loving care.

Open to all UConn students, faculty and staff from any campus. No experience required.

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Introduction to Mindfulness

Mind and Body: Support and empowerment for students with chronic health conditions.

This biweekly group is for students adjusting to coping with chronic health conditions in a university setting. This is a safe space for students to share their experiences and support each other in managing their health while also managing the challenges of college life. This group is a joint effort between medical and mental health services to ensure that students are cared for in a complete and holistic manner.’

To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705

This session is held by Jennifer Fox, PhD and Ryan Grade BSN, RN

INTERPERSONAL GROUP FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

Graduate Students Interpersonal Groups focuses on promoting emotional wellbeing as you balance academics, relationships, family, and personal responsibilities.Groups offer a supportive confidential space to share your concerns, practice skills and get feedback.

This session is held by Carlos- Gonzalez- Martinez, LCSW

INTERPERSONAL GROUP FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

Graduate Students Interpersonal Groups focuses on promoting emotional wellbeing as you balance academics, relationships, family, and personal responsibilities.Groups offer a supportive confidential space to share your concerns, practice skills and get feedback.

This session is held by Maritza Lugo-Stalker, PsyD

Introduction to Mindfulness

INTERPERSONAL GROUP FOR GRADUATE STUDENTS

Graduate Students Interpersonal Groups focuses on promoting emotional wellbeing as you balance academics, relationships, family, and personal responsibilities.Groups offer a supportive confidential space to share your concerns, practice skills and get feedback.

This session is held by Carlos- Gonzalez- Martinez, LCSW

Neurodiversity Support Group

The Neurodiversity Support group is for students who identify as being on the autism spectrum or as neurodiverse.
Starting college is a time of big changes. You’re meeting new people in a new environment and have new expectations placed on you. Common challenges for students on the autism spectrum have fewer resources and support, building new relationships, adjusting to increased independence, time management, academic challenges, and managing stress and anxiety.

To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705

This session is held by Jessica Doyle, LCSW

Interpersonal Group for Undergraduate Students

Undergraduate Students Interpersonal Groups focuses on promoting emotional wellbeing as you balance academics, relationships, family, and personal responsibilities.
Groups offer a supportive confidential space to share your concerns, practice skills and get feedback.

To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705.

This session is held by Maritza Lugo-Stalker, PsyD

Introduction to Mindfulness

INTERPERSONAL GROUP FOR UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Undergraduate Students Interpersonal Groups focuses on promoting emotional wellbeing as you balance academics, relationships, family, and personal responsibilities.
Groups offer a supportive confidential space to share your concerns, practice skills and get feedback.

This session is held by Daveon McMullen, PsyD

Gentle Therapeutic Yoga:

SHaW’s Therapeutic Yoga skillfully blends movement and breathwork, with a meditative focus for a full body practice that calms, nurtures, strengthens and opens one into flexibility of body and mind.

Yoga is protective and enlivening.

Freeing you from habitual patterns of tension, this yoga creates a sense of spaciousness within, dissolves stress, strengthens core muscles, joint health, centeredness, postural alignment and groundedness, increases breath capacity and breath awareness, shifts stagnant emotions into movement and release, and is attentive to the subtle stuff of the mind, helping to free us from the driving forces of unconscious actions and thoughts.

You’ll practice yogic techniques that you can bring into your everyday experience for simply living a good day, and for increasing your capacity to be creatively present in your life. A yogic attitude toward self and practice is one of kindness, patience, and tenderness. We grow into our best selves in an inner atmosphere of loving care.

Open to all UConn students, faculty and staff from any campus. No experience required.

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This group is a space created for female Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) - identifying students to cultivate vulnerability, safety, trust, connection, and growth. Bloom provides a place for group members to discuss issues unique to their experience at a predominantly white institution (PWI), including academic stress, relationships, race/ethnicity related stress, familial pressures and navigating cultural expectations. There will be an emphasis on healing, maintaining healthy relationships and setting boundaries. Bloom means to be open, blossom and to maintain flourishing conditions that help us grow. It’s time to Bloom.

To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705

This session is held by Chantaul Smith, LMFT

Growth Through Grief

This weekly clinical group supports students grieving the death of a loved one and students coming together to support and empower each other during times of grief.

To join this group therapy session, please call SHaW at 860-486-4705

This session is held by Jennifer Fox, PhD