Group Therapy

Mindful Minds

This 60-minute supportive group is designed to provide education on depressive symptoms while teaching practical coping skills. Students will explore strategies-mindfulness practices, mindful sleep routines, and mindful coloring reduce stress, improve mood, and promote emotional well-being. 

Mondays from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. for 4 weeks  
In-person only 
Polytechnic Campus, Academic Center Building, Room 92 

Healthy Relationships 

This 90-minute group explores healthy relationship topics like setting boundaries, navigating disagreements, and effective communication. Students gain valuable insights and practical tools each week to cultivate meaningful connections with family, friends, partners, and co-workers. 

Mondays from 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. for 4 weeks  
In-person only
Tempe Campus, Student Services Building, Room 334 

Art Expressions 

This 90-minute group focuses on emotional expression through art therapy. Students do not need to have art skills or previous experience with art. 

Mondays from 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.  
In-person only 
Tempe Campus, Student Services Building, Room 334 

Peak Performance

This 60-minute group is designed for students that are struggling with academics, motivation, and are currently attempting to complete a goal in which they are experiencing issues of negative self-critic, anxiety, perceived lack of control, plateauing, or fear of failure. 

Mondays from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. for 4 weeks  
In-person only  
West Valley Campus, University Center Building, Room 221

Senior Year

This 90-minute process group supports students who are in their senior year and have had an increase in anxiety or depression symptoms due to their upcoming life change through graduation.

Mondays from 3:30 - 5:00 p.m. 
In-person only
Tempe Campus, Student Services Building, Room 334

Make & Take Coping Tools for Managing Stress 

This 60-minute group offers a creative, hands-on approach to managing stress in a healthy, practical way. The students will get a chance to make their own coping tools while connecting with other students who are navigating similar experiences. 

Tuesdays from 1:00 - 2:00 p.m. for 6 weeks  
In-person only  
West Valley Campus, University Center Building, Room 221 

Healthy Relationships  

This 60-minute group offers a supportive space to explore what healthy relationships look like. Each session focuses on topics like setting boundaries, handling conflict, communicating effectively, and understanding emotional needs. Students will gain insight and practical tools to build stronger, more meaningful connections with family, friends, partners, and co-workers. 

Tuesdays from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. for 6 weeks  
In-person only  
Polytechnic Campus, Academic Center Building, Room 92 

Breaking Free: Overcoming Perfectionism 

This 60-minute open group is for students who feel intense pressure to meet unrealistic standards and notice this impacting their academic, professional, social, and personal life. Participants will learn about the causes and impacts of perfectionism as well as some tools and strategies to overcome perfectionistic tendencies. 

Tuesdays from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. for 2 weeks  
In-person only  
Downtown Phoenix Campus, Ed Pastor Post Office, 2nd floor - Room 208 

Calm Within: Mindfulness for Anxiety 

This 60-minute mindfulness-based group for students looking to reduce anxiety and build inner calm. Building new skills to help students respond to stress with clarity and compassion. 

Tuesdays from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. for 6 weeks  
In-person only  
Tempe Campus, Student Services Building, Room 334 

Zzzz Zone: Rest & Reset 

This 60-minute group helps students improve sleep through practical strategies, relaxation techniques, and creating a sleep-friendly environment, even in dorms. This group is ideal for students struggling with falling asleep, staying asleep, irregular schedules, or racing thoughts, and provides tools to rest, reset, and recharge. 

Tuesdays from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. for 6 weeks  
Telehealth

Morning DEW (Developing Emotional Wellness)  

This 60-minute group will help you gain the ability to handle stress better, regulate emotions more consistently, use mindfulness for improved focus day to day, and improve your relationships with others.

Wednesday from 11:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. for 6 weeks
In-person only  
West Valley Campus, University Center Building, Room 221

Chess and Life: Moving Towards Resilience 

This 90-minute group helps develop skills in life through the understanding of chess pieces and strategies for playing the game of chess. The group will spend time each week on life strategies connected to each chess piece as they relate to the playing of the game. 

Wednesdays from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. for 7 weeks  
In-person only  
Tempe Campus, Student Services Building, Room 334 

Facing Anxiety 

This 60-minute anxiety group is a supportive space where people come together to learn practical tools. This is to help you understand your anxiety, challenge unhelpful thoughts, and build confidence in handling life’s stress. 

Wednesdays from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. for 6 weeks  
In-person only  
Tempe Campus, Student Services Building, Room 334 

Growing Through Connections

This 90-minute group will help to enhance relationships and communication skills by exploring interpersonal dynamics in a supportive, student-centered environment. Through guided group interactions, the student receives valuable feedback, gains a deeper insight into relational patterns, and develops practical skills to build stronger, more meaningful connections with others.

Thursdays from 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. 
In-person only 
Tempe Campus, Student Services Building, Room 334

Good Mourning 

This 90-minute group is for students who have experienced the pain of losing someone close to them. This group will help students connect with their emotions and gain insights into their unique grieving process through education and therapeutic interventions in a safe, compassionate and supportive setting. This group will also help students find healthy ways of honoring and incorporating their loss into their lives. This group offers six topics for each round and two rounds of the group will be hosted this semester. 

Coming back Spring 2026
In-person only  
Tempe Campus, Student Services Building, Room 334 

Sparking Connections

This 90-minute group will teach social skills and strategies that help develop connections with empathy and kindness. Topics will be conversations, active listening, understanding body language, setting boundaries, and building self-confidence. 

Thursdays from 3:00 - 4:30 p.m. for 6 weeks  
In-person only  
Tempe Campus, Student Services Building, Room 334

SUPPORT CIRCLE - Habits for Life: Building Organization/Time Management

This 60-minute group is for students who would like to improve making or keeping a schedule/routine, organizing, prioritizing, staying on task, and following through with tasks or projects. Join this Virtual Circle for tips, hacks, and strategies you can use in college and throughout your life.

Zoom Self Registration
This drop-in support group does not require an initial consultation appt.  

Thursdays from 3:00 - 4:00 p.m. 

Focus Hub

This 90-minute group is for college students seeking a compassionate and understanding community to navigate the journey of ADHD. Together, we can embrace our strengths, support each other through difficulties, and celebrate our successes. Let's grow and learn together as we embrace life with ADHD.

Fridays from 9:00 - 10:30 a.m. for 10 weeks
In-person only  
Tempe Campus, Health Services Building- 451 E University Dr, Tempe, AZ 85281
Room 262

Growing Through Relationships (Graduate Students Only) 

This 90-minute group will examine how early life experiences shape current relational patterns. The group provides a supportive space for students to reflect on unresolved developmental issues and how these impact emotional functioning and interpersonal relationships. Through shared dialogue and feedback, individuals work toward greater self-understanding and relational growth. 

Fridays from 1:00 - 2:30 p.m. for 8 weeks  
In-person only  
Tempe Campus, Student Services Building, Room 334

Think, Feel, Act: Skills for Change 

This 60-minute group will focus on understanding depression, coping skills, protective factors, behavioral activation, academic and practical skills, building a healthy lifestyle, and maintaining progress. 

Fridays from 2:00 - 3:00 p.m. for 6 weeks  
In-person only  
Tempe Campus, Student Services Building, Room 334 

Dance with Anxiety 

This 60-minute group helps students understand and shift their relationship with anxiety from avoiding or resisting it, to acceptance, curiosity, and co-operation. 

Fridays from 3:30 - 4:30 p.m. for 5 weeks  
In-person only  
Polytechnic Campus, Academic Center Building, Room 92