Location: Group Counseling - Why Group Counseling?
Group Counseling
Groups provide a safe environment
in which you can experiment with new behaviors, improve communication skills,
and receive feedback from other students with similar concerns and interests.
Counseling Services has an extensive Group Program with updated
offerings each quarter. Some groups focus on specific skills and themes while
others provide support for specific groups of students. Some of the groups
offered by Counseling Services require that you complete an initial intake session with
one of the group leaders in order to carefully assess appropriateness of the
group for your needs. Other groups are considered "drop-in groups" and have no
requirements for participation beyond current registration as a UCSB student.
Click here for more information about groups offered this quarter at Counseling Services.
Why would someone choose Group Counseling instead of Individual?
Some of the benefits
of group are:
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allows you to be less isolated
as you work on your issues
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helps you to realize you're not
alone in your struggles
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provides multiple perspectives
on issues and how you are seen by others
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provides an ideal means for
practicing and learning new interpersonal behaviors
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helping others helps you to see
your own issues differently and to feel you have something to offer others
Research has
documented group therapy's power in helping people with many types of issues.