The purpose of this group is to teach students how to process emotions non-verbally via various artistic mediums. Students will gain insight into their emotional states while examining and representing feelings without the limits of a spoken vocabulary.

• Day/Time: Thursdays 2:00 P.M. – 3:30 P.M. (Open), February 9th – April 27th
• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830
• Population: All college students
  • Students are able to join at any point throughout the semester
  • No artistic ability required
• Email  CAPS@liberty.edu for more information

The purpose of this group is to provide leaders around campus a time and space to discuss the various challenges they often face alone. We’ll be discussing the many pressures involved in being a leader, which will include psychoeducation and how to develop skills that will help the person lead him/herself well. This time is dedicated to helping them find healing through sharing and applying biblical principles to leading themselves well.

• Day/Time: Thursdays 2:00 P.M. – 3:00 P.M. (Open), February 9th – April 27th
• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830
• Population: GSAs, Resident Assistants, Resident Shepherds, church leaders
• Email CAPS@liberty.edu for more information

Our relationships with our bodies are complicated. Culture can create pressures to look a certain way and feel shame when we don’t. What do you feel when you think about your appearance, size, or shape? Do you believe your body is good in this current moment? Your body is so much more than your size or appearance. This group is designed to generate conversation around cultural impacts of body image and promote thought changes. Group targets tangible ways to aid you in feeling at home in the body you were given and learn to live comfortably within it. It will target cultural topics and ways to reorient our perspective of the purpose of our bodies in practical ways. This group is currently being offered for women. However, we know men are not exempt from this struggle. If you’re a male interested in this group, contact our office.

• Day/Time: Mondays 11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. (Open), February 6th – April 24th
• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830
• Email  CAPS@liberty.edu for more information

This group is a space for men to come and talk about what it means to be a man within today's culture and how today's culture impacts our views of ourselves. It is a space to discuss multiple topics that pertain to men and to broaden our minds to how we perceive ourselves and our fellow man. To help answer the question, how do I have both a healthy mind as well as a healthy body?

• Day/Time: Fridays 11:00 A.M. – 12:00 P.M. (Open), February 10th – April 28th
• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830
• Email  CAPS@liberty.edu for more information

This group will be offered as a closed, small group experience for five weeks during the semester. Relying on scriptural support, the contemplative Christian tradition, and psychological sciences, students will learn how to sit in silence with God, trusting in Him during moments of uncertainty, worry, and anxiety. All participants will be provided with the reading material and excused from convocation each Friday the group is held.

• Day/Time: Friday Mornings (Screening Required)
• Location: DH3114
• Email  CAPS@liberty.edu for more information

If you have difficulty saying no to others, usually feel guilty when you do, and are interested in developing healthy boundaries with your family, friends, or peers, the Healthy Boundaries group is for you. This is a 10 week group education format covering faith-based principles provided in the book “Healthy Boundaries” (2017 edition) by John Townsend and Henry Cloud. The closed group is designed to be educational by teaching how to set healthy limits with others that are biblically based. Participants will not be asked to share personal content from their study guide with the other group members during our meeting.

• Day/Time: Monday Afternoons (Screening Required)
• Location: DeMoss Hall, Room 3114
• Email  CAPS@liberty.edu for more information

Do you feel stress around eating and/or exercise? Sometimes the most helpful step is realizing you’re not alone. In fact, it’s so helpful we have added a second group! Making Peace with Food uses a variety of evidence based treatment modalities geared specifically towards disordered eating and difficult relationships with exercise and appearance. It also provides a place for group members to find words for their own thoughts, emotions, and experiences in a nonjudgmental environment. Because this struggle can extend far beyond meal times, members can also expect discussion around the way you view yourself, relationships, ways to express your opinions and emotions, anxiety, burnout, depression, perfectionism, self-criticism, and academic pressure.

• Day/Time: Friday Afternoons (Screening Required)
• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830
• Email  CAPS@liberty.edu for more information

Explore the stages and process of change. In this 4 week group, students will learn about the progression individuals go through to modify problematic behavior. The group setting will enable participants to acquire and refine new skills while learning more about themselves. Anyone who has a desire to reduce or discontinue the use of substances, pornography, or disordered eating will find utility in the material.

• Day/Time: Monday Afternoons (Screening Required)
• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830
• Email  CAPS@liberty.edu for more information

This psychoeducational group gives students an opportunity to come and learn a holistic Christian sexual ethic. The group offers educational, contemplative, and discussion components to bolster the students’ understanding of Christian sexuality. However, since sexuality is not an isolated topic, the group will ultimately discuss what it means to be human within a Christian worldview. We’ll discuss God, the body, desire, relationships, sexuality, and how cultural influences can muddle our understanding of these core Christian realities. We’ll help you form a clear vision for what a Christian sexual ethic is and how to process what that means for day to day life.

• Day/Time: Wednesday Afternoons (Screening Required)
• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830
• Email  CAPS@liberty.edu for more information

An aftercare group for students who have worked through their dependence on substances and are striving for ongoing sobriety. This weekly meeting will focus on identifying triggers, bolstering resilience, and creating an environment where those in recovery can support others on their recovery journey.

• Day/Time: Friday Mornings (Screening Required)
• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830
• Email  CAPS@liberty.edu for more information

The purpose of this group is to explore one’s individual schemas, which are unrealized beliefs about the self that affect how you relate to others and create unhealthy life patterns. We’ll be using Jeffery Young’s schema inventories to assess individual schemas, explore origins in childhood, discuss meaning, and discover how to understand and meet our needs in healthy ways. This time is dedicated to helping the group find healing through sharing, discussing biblical application, and finding freedom from self-defeating patterns.

• Day/Time: Wednesday Afternoons and Thursday Mornings (Screening Required)
• Location: Counseling and Psychological Services, Green Hall 1830
• Email  CAPS@liberty.edu for more information