Spring 2026 Group Counseling Opportunities
Drop-in Guided Yoga
Tuesdays through April 14 from 3-3:30 p.m. in the Meditation Room, 255 Rodli Hall. No sign up or experience necessary, all bodies are welcome. Staff will help you learn yoga poses to help reduce stress, build body awareness and find calm.
Drop-in Guided Meditation
Tuesdays through April 14, 3:30-4 p.m. in the Meditation Room, 255 Rodli Hall. No sign up or experience required, all meditation levels welcome. Practice observation of thoughts, feelings and sensations from a place of self-compassion and non-judgment.
Ink and Insight: A Journaling Group
Join the six-week journal group to learn how to use journaling as a mindfulness practice. The group will be held on Tuesdays, March 31-May 5, 10-11:15 a.m. in the Counseling Office, Rodli 254. Contact Counseling to reserve your spot!
Check back in fall 2026 for additional group counseling opportunities such as the Creative Collective and Eco-anxiety!
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
