Spring 2026 Group Counseling Opportunities
Creative Collective
The Creative Collective provides a supportive environment where participants can explore their emotions and experiences through creative expression. All materials provided, no artistic ability is required! Tuesdays, Feb. 10-March 31, 2-3:15 p.m.
Yoga and Meditation
Drop in to the meditation room for guided yoga and meditation on Tuesdays, Feb. 10-April 14, 3-4 p.m.
Eco Anxiety
Students passionate about earth and concerns about climate change, fostering mindfulness, joy and the exploration of radical imagination will unite to transform anxiety into resilience an build a supportive community. Thursdays, Feb. 12-April 2, 1-2 p.m.
Ink and Insight: A Journaling Group
Join this six-week journal group to help learn how to use journaling as a mindfulness practice! The group will be held on Tuesdays, March 31-May 5, from 10-11:15 a.m.
Group Counseling
While it's natural to feel anxious about joining a group at first, group counseling has many advantages and most participants ultimately find it a very rewarding experience.
- Most students have relational issues: conflict with parents, a recent break-up, loneliness, social anxiety, issues of sexual identity, etc. Group counseling gives students an opportunity to get feedback and practice new relational skills in a safe environment. In fact, group counseling can be more effective than individual counseling for many of our clients.
- Talking with other students helps you to know that others share similar concerns and it is very powerful to know you aren't alone. You also learn that your peers can empathize, even with your most painful feelings, and this alone can lead to a sense of relief, connection and validation.
- Peer feedback is sometimes more relevant to a student and easier to hear than the same thing said by a therapist or parental figure. We find that students can be very caring, but also very direct in their feedback. In fact, learning to give feedback respectfully and compassionately is another benefit of group counseling.
- Giving to others - in the form of listening, caring and feedback - may be helpful in fostering a student’s own healing. We all know how wonderful it feels to help someone else.
Call 715-425-3384 or email counseling.services@uwrf.edu with any questions or to join a group.
Student Health and Counseling
254 Rodli Hall
River Falls, WI 54022
student.health.services@uwrf.edu
counseling.services@uwrf.edu
715-425-3293 (Health Services)
715-425-3884 (Counseling)
Monday-Friday, 8 a.m.-4:30 p.m.
Feedback? Visit students.uwrf.edu/dean-of-students
