Group Counseling

The purpose of this group is to provide Latino students with a comfortable and safe environment to have conversations surrounding their identity, feelings of isolation, stigmas around mental health, and bonding over cultural traditions and values.

• Day/Time: Thursdays, 3:30-4:30 p.m., starting September 5th

• Location: DeMoss Hall 3114H

• Email CAPS@liberty.edu for more information.

To be a man, do you have to look like a superhero and be ready to stop an alien invasion? Do muscles make you more of a man? Is masculinity defined by the sports that you watch, the amount you can lift, and the amount of emotion you can suppress? Healthy Mind, Healthy Body is a men’s only group focused on discussing topics related to men, our bodies, and much more. It is a place to process what it means to be a man, what is masculinity, and other such topics.

• Day/Time: Mondays, 10-11 a.m., starting September 16th

• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830

• Email CAPS@liberty.edu for more information.

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 September 3rd

• 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., starting August 28th
  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, starting September 23rd

• 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: Tuesdays, 2:30-4 p.m.

  Substance Use
  August 27
  September 3
  September 10

  Problematic Pornography Use
  September 17
  September 24
  October 1

  Disordered Eating
  November 5
  November 12
  November 19

• 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: Fridays, 10:30-11:30 a.m., starting September 13th

• 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., starting September 18th

• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830

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

Stressed out? Over-extended? Overwhelmed? Sometimes opportunities can start to feel like burdens, and even small things on your schedule can feel heavy. This is a small group (maximum of 12 participants) that will meet three times over the course of two months to discuss ways to prevent and manage stress to help you lighten the load.

• Day/Time:

  September 10 - 10:30 a.m.
  September 23 - 10:30 a.m.
  October 7 - 10:30 a.m.
  

• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830

• Pre-screening required. Email jtcross2@liberty.edu for more information.

A group for men seeking recovery from addiction.

• Day/Time: Fridays, 9-10 a.m., starting September 16th

• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830

• Pre-screening required. Email 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: 

  September 13 - 1 p.m.
  September 27 - 1 p.m.
  October 18 - 1 p.m.
  

• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830

• Email CAPS@liberty.edu for more information.