Understanding Self and Others
This group meets weekly and provides a supportive environment for students to discuss the meaningful and challenging aspects of their lives. Students get to explore and be curious about how they build relationships, and learn to observe and identify what relational patterns work and do not work for them. Students often gain insight into their identity and self-concept, improve their self-esteem, approach relationship and/or communication patterns in new ways, and explore difficult feelings and how to resolve them. Everyone works together toward their goals by providing encouragement to one another, giving and receiving feedback, experimenting with new ideas and behaviors, and connecting in deep ways. Facilitated by staff counselor Allyson Black-Foley LICSW and Post-graduate fellow Emma Galvin LCSW
Time: TBD - Will not start until at least the end of April
Location: TBD
This group requires a 30 min pre-group meeting to join. Please contact CCMH at (413) 542-2354 or ccmh@amherst.edu to schedule this meeting.
Beyond Words: Healing Sexual and Relational Trauma
This group is open to all genders seeking support and healing around unwanted sexual contact, or abusive sexual experiences at any age that might include sexual assault, intimate partner or dating violence, harassment or any relational abuse. This group will meet weekly. In group, participants will learn about how these difficult experiences show up in the mind, body and heart through engagement with positive coping strategies, discussion about how trauma and negative experiences impact sense of self and relationships of all kinds. Facilitated by staff counselor Crystal Richey, LMHC and Post-graduate fellow Nicole Torres Collado
Time: Fridays 3-4pm, starting March 3
Location: Cadigan Center
This group requires a 30 min pre-group meeting to join. Please contact CCMH at (413) 542-2354 or ccmh@amherst.edu to schedule this meeting.
Grief Group
If you are experiencing grief due to the loss of a loved one, we invite you to join this facilitated weekly group, in which we will create a warm, supportive space for dealing with the emotional impact of your loss. Facilitated by Cailin Qualliotine PsyD, staff counselor and Britt Billmeyer-Finn LICSW, staff counselor
Time: TBD
Location: Hitchcock House
This group requires a 30 min pre-group meeting to join. Please contact CCMH at (413) 542-2354 or ccmh@amherst.edu to schedule this meeting.
Managing Anxiety through Art
This group will draw upon art-making practices such as painting, drawing, collage-making, and crafts to support students as they manage anxiety. Each week, students will engage in creative approaches designed to help them to feel calmer and more connected to themselves and others. No artistic ability or experience is required to join and participate in this group. Facilitated by Cailin Qualliotine PsyD, staff counselor and Post-graduate fellow Emma Galvin LCSW.
Time: TBD
Location: Hitchcock House
This group requires a 30 min pre-group meeting to join. Please contact CCMH at (413) 542-2354 or ccmh@amherst.edu to schedule this meeting.
Finding Balance: An Athletic Therapy Group
This is a weekly therapy and support group for athletes of all genders to explore athletic experiences at Amherst and beyond. In this group, we will explore the impact and experience of athletics personally and interpersonally. Together we will explore our identities, losses, gains, hopes and fears in regards to our athletic journeys including coping with setbacks, injury, individual/team experiences and more. As long as you consider yourself an athlete you are invited into this space. You are not required to be on an athletic team. Members of athletic teams are also welcome. This is a group meant to deepen our understanding of how athletics in its various contexts and experiences impacts our sense of self. Facilitated by Britt Billmeyer-Finn LICSW, Staff Counselor and Garrett Fitzgerald Program Director for Mental Health Promotion
Time: Mondays from 10-11am
Location: Hitchcock House
This group requires a 30 min pre-group meeting to join. Please contact CCMH at (413) 542-2354 or ccmh@amherst.edu to schedule this meeting.
ADHD Support Group
This group meets weekly on zoom. This group offers space for students with ADHD to share their experiences with one another, learn from and connect to each other, notice their strengths and how ADHD impacts their life, sense of self and relationships. Facilitated by staff counselor Britt Billmeyer-Finn LICSW and senior clinical case manager Meg Kroeplin LICSW
Time: Tuesdays from 4-5pm
Location: via zoom (link to be provided)
This group requires a 30 min pre-group meeting to join. Please contact CCMH at (413) 542-2354 or ccmh@amherst.edu to schedule this meeting.
Wise Mind DBT Group
This group meets weekly and offers a space to students who might be experiencing traumatic stress, anxiety/panic, intrusive or difficult thoughts as well as emotions or physical experiences that are dysregulating. This group uses mindfulness techniques and distress tolerance skills to support students in deeping their understanding of what is happening, how to slow down the process and be able to make choices about how to care for oneself. Facilitated by staff counselors Cassiel Owens LICSW and Britt Billmeyer-Finn LICSW
Time: Mondays from 3-4pm
Location: Hitchcock House
This group requires a 30 min pre-group meeting to join. Please contact CCMH at (413) 542-2354 or ccmh@amherst.edu to schedule this meeting.