Group Counseling

Do you find yourself constantly reaching for your phone? Do you find it hard – or impossible even – to sit with your mind in silence? Do you feel like you need to constantly have noise in the background? Do you wish you could be still and enjoy a moment in silence? If so, this group is for you.

This group is designed to help you learn how to unplug, be still and be present in each moment. The silence doesn’t have to be scary. Peace is possible.

• Day/Time: TBD
• Location: TBD

The purpose of this group is to teach students how to process emotions non-verbally via various artistic mediums. Students will gain insight into their emotional states while examining and representing feelings without the limits of a spoken vocabulary.

• Day/Time: Tuesdays, 2:30-4 p.m., starting date TBD

• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830

• Population: All college students
  • Students are able to join at any point throughout the semester
  • No artistic ability required

• Email CAPS@liberty.edu for more information.

If you’ve experienced a “living loss” such as the loss of a close relationship, a romantic breakup, feel homesick due to loss of connection with your family and home community, had a difficult change in your college or family life, expect to lose positive peer supports at the end of the semester, or any other type of meaningful living loss, or a significant loss due to the death of a loved one, this open group is for you.  

• Day/Time: Wednesdays, 2:30-3:30 p.m., start date TBD
  Note: Please arrive by 2:15 p.m.

• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830

• Email CAPS@liberty.edu for more information.

Do you feel stress around eating and/or exercise? Sometimes the most helpful step is realizing you’re not alone. In fact, it’s so helpful we have added a second group! Making Peace with Food uses a variety of evidence based treatment modalities geared specifically towards disordered eating and difficult relationships with exercise and appearance. It also provides a place for group members to find words for their own thoughts, emotions, and experiences in a nonjudgmental environment. Because this struggle can extend far beyond meal times, members can also expect discussion around the way you view yourself, relationships, ways to express your opinions and emotions, anxiety, burnout, depression, perfectionism, self-criticism, and academic pressure.

• Day/Time: Mondays, 10:30 a.m.-noon, start date TBD

• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830

• Pre-screening required. Email CAPS@liberty.edu for more information.

This group is based on motivational psychology and uses techniques and practices to help each individual evaluate their readiness for change. A motivational enhancement group is not counseling or treatment to cure a disorder or a step-by-step training program. Rather, it is designed to utilize motivational strategies to help recognize and engage your own resources toward change, whatever that change looks like.

• Day/Time: TBD

• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830

• Email CAPS@liberty.edu for more information.

A group for individuals in active recovery from addiction.

• Day/Time: TBD

• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830

• Pre-screening required. Email CAPS@liberty.edu for more information.

The purpose of this group is to explore one’s individual schemas, which are unrealized beliefs about the self that affect how you relate to others and create unhealthy life patterns. We’ll be using Jeffery Young’s schema inventories to assess individual schemas, explore origins in childhood, discuss meaning, and discover how to understand and meet our needs in healthy ways. This time is dedicated to helping the group find healing through sharing, discussing biblical application, and finding freedom from self-defeating patterns.

• Day/Time: Wednesdays, 2:15-3:30 p.m., start date TBD

• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830

• Pre-screening required. Email kmacon5@liberty.edu for more information.

The Boundary Bridge is a 6-week group for women where we will explore and learn what healthy relational boundaries are, how to set and implement them, and how to identify and establish healthier, thriving relationships with self and others.

• Day/Time: Thursdays, 2:30-4 p.m., start date TBD

• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830

• Pre-screening required. Email Emily Elrod (enhine@liberty.edu) for more information.

A group for men seeking recovery from addiction.

• Day/Time: Fridays, 9-10 a.m., start date TBD

• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830

• Pre-screening required. Email Ryan White (rjwhite6@liberty.edu) for more information.

A group about dealing with any negative, anxious, intrusive, or depressive thoughts by using Biblical Principles coupled with a Cognitive Behavioral approach.

• Day/Time: TBD

• Location: TBD

• Email CAPS@liberty.edu for more information.