For the 2023-2024 academic year, the following psychotherapy groups are available and may be of interest to our clients:
Meaning-Making and Healing through the Art
Facilitated by: Milena Lukic LMFT / Tuesdays from 9:30 am to 11:00 am
The clinician facilitating this offering describes this group as follows:
Trauma re-arranges the way humans exist, feel in the world, and relate to others. Trauma tends to shatter one’s worldview and lead to a sense of disempowerment and disconnection from self and others, which is why we often say that Trauma is not over even when the Traumatic event is over. Research shows that the effects of trauma are often stored in the body and in the form of fragmented and sensory memory, and that talk therapy may not be enough to promote healing for everyone. The goal of this group is to create a trauma-informed and empowerment-based space where students can engage in making meaning through the art activities to strengthen a sense of safety, reframe traumatic memories, and increase their sense of resiliency and reconnection with themself and others. This is an experiential and skill-building group that will merge art activities and resiliency skills to cultivate space for witnessing one another, relational healing, and connecting through the arts.
Each participant will be provided with a workbook/journal which they will use for their collage-making, affirmation-writing, coping-strengthening, poetry-creating, self-loving, or journaling.
Students do NOT have to be in therapy or have any knowledge of art. Open to all genders and identities and any CMH or RSVP student who experienced gender/power-based harm or any interpersonal trauma.
Surviving to Thriving after Unhealthy Relationships
Facilitated by: Sarah Bowling, LMFT / Tuesdays 2:30pm- 4pm, tentatively beginning September 12th
The clinician facilitating this offering describes this group as follows:
Surviving to Thriving after Unhealthy Relationships is an eight-week, semi-structured psycho-education group for women and non-binary identifying individuals who have experienced unhealthy relational dynamics or intimate partner violence. Group members will focus on collectively healing their relational experiences by exploring and recognizing signs of power and control, learning practical strategies to manage triggers, evaluating and processing unhealthy relational dynamics, and nurturing healthy detachment to serve as a springboard into a new level of clarity, autonomy, and self-love.
See the complete list of psychotherapy groups available for USC Students.
All programs dates and times are subject to change. If you are interested in joining a group, please fill out a counseling group interest form in MySHR, under “Messages.”