Group Care and Workshops

Struggling with stress, tough emotions, or navigating relationships? Join our Coping Well group, designed specifically for students who want to build effective coping strategies and thrive during their studies. Over four weeks, you’ll learn practical skills from Dialectical Behaviour Therapy (DBT) that can help you manage your thoughts, emotions, and daily challenges. Here’s what you’ll gain:

1. Mindfulness: techniques for staying present and focused in the moment.
2. Distress tolerance: strategies for handling difficult emotions and stressful situations without getting overwhelmed.
3. Emotion regulation: tools for managing intense emotions and preventing them from spiraling. 
4. Interpersonal effectiveness: skills for confidently expressing your needs and setting boundaries in your relationships.

Running weekly for 4 weeks on Mondays from 3 to 4:30 p.m., starting November 10 in Thames Hall rm. 3118. A commitment to attending all sessions is required. If you are struggling with active self-harm or suicidal ideation, connect with a group facilitator to discuss if this is the right group for you.

For more information, please contact health@uwo.ca.

This 6-week group is is dedicated to offering compassion and support to individuals navigating the difficult journey of grieving the loss of a loved one. In this non-judgmental space, we will explore ways to move through the grieving process, strategies to manage the complex emotions associated with loss, and find ways to maintain a meaningful connection with your loved one. Our aim is to foster a healing community where you can find emotional support, connection, validation, and receive education as well as strategies to help you cope with the grieving process.

Weekly sessions on Thursdays from 2:30 to 4 p.m. in Thames Hall rm. 3186, starting October 23. Please note: no session during reading week.

Our Group for International Students offers a way for you to connect and share with others as well as a place to find support for the issues that affect you as a student at Western and in Canada.  We will be offering a range of session topics.

Snacks and drinks will be available! Please come and join us for as many or as few sessions as your schedule allows.

Running biweekly on Tuesdays from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m. in Thames Hall rm 3172, October 7 & 21, November 11 & 25, and December 9.

Join Journey Together: Sharing Our Lived Experiences, a support group for Black and Racialized Students. This wellness group aims to create a safe and healing space to share race-related lived experiences including race-related stress, navigating environments, renewal and care. Together in sharing our common lived experiences, we draw a collective voice to:

• not feel alone
• process and learn from each other's wisdom
• create a community to uplift and support one another
• empower through collective healing, growth, and transformation

This group will be co-facilitated by two counsellors from Health & Wellness Services who are themselves persons from racialized backgrounds.

Running monthly, virtually. Students can register throughout the term. For more information, please email health@uwo.ca.

Once signed up, a group facilitator will contact you to do an individual intake which will provide an opportunity to discuss details of the group more fully.

A 90-minute group bringing in relevant topics, discussion, and mutual support for students who identify as part of the 2SLGBTQIA+ (Two-Spirit, Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, and other diverse sexual orientations and gender identities) community.

Running bi-weekly from 2:30 - 4:00 p.m. starting September 25, 2025 and ending in April, 2026.

This four-week group will focus on building blocks of healthy relationships. This group will explore characteristics of healthy relationships, effective communication, conflict management, and the complexities of boundary setting across diverse types of relationships. Each participant will take home their own copy of ‘The Set Boundaries Workbook’ by Nedra Glover Tawwab.

Running for 4 weeks October 23-November 20 on Thursdays from 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. in Thames Hall rm. 3175.