Hofstra University’s Student Counseling Services is offering
a variety of groups for your student this Spring.
Is your student they having trouble communicating with
roommates, a significant
other, or building healthy relationships? Our Healthy
Relationship Group on Mondays at 7 p.m. can help. This group
offers students new skills to develop healthy relationships, while learning
signs to distinguish external relationships that have a negative impact on their
life and academic success.
Is your student shy or anxious in social situations? Do they
have trouble making new friends?Encourage your student to attend Social
Anxiety Group on Wednesdays at 6 p.m. This group offers techniques to reduce
anxiety in social situations with friends, professors, and roommates. Your
student will also learn new strategies to become comfortable in social settings.
The Emotion
Management Group on Fridays
at 3 p.m. is designed to teach
students how to manage intense feelings that may affect their daily coping
skills.
Is your student feeling overwhelmed or having difficulty
balancing academics stress? Refer your student to The Coping Essentials Group on Tuesdays at 4 p.m. This is a great way
for your student to learn new ways to manage their thoughts, feelings and
behaviors that impact their daily college career and personal
relationships.
If your student is interested in cultivating their natural
wisdom by meditation, advise your student to nurture their mindfulness through relaxation
on Wednesdays at 8 p.m. at the Mindfulness Meditation Group. This is
another inspiring group which focuses on, “building connectivity of mind, body
and emotions,” by acquiring new strategies that will allow the student to relax
and reduce anxiety or stress, while embracing the present moment.
The International
Students Group is held on Thursdays
at 7 p.m. helps international students adjust to cultural changes and new
tactics of how to interact with their American peers.
Hofstra University is also offering a Recovery Group on Wednesdays at 7 p.m. that offers new learning techniques to
maintain effective ways to coping with urges and managing a balanced life
through recovery.
For more information, please encourage
your student to contact Student Counseling Services at (516) 463-6791 or hofstra.edu/Student
Counseling. There is no charge for
participation in groups. Attendance is limited in attendance to current Hofstra
students. All groups meet at Student Counseling Services, located in the Joan
and Arnold Saltzman Center Community Services Center on the South Campus (across
the street from the Netherlands Complex).