Group Counseling and Support Sessions
During the 2024-2025 year, the Counseling Center will be offering free counseling groups to support students in their personal and academic lives.
Please contact us about any group you are interested in or would like more information about:
LGBTQIA+ Group
Mondays, 2–3 pm
This group is led by a LGBTQIA+ therapist and provides a safe, supportive and confidential space to explore topics such as connecting and building community with other LGBTQIA+ students at Baruch, navigating family dynamics related to your LGBTQIA+ identity, exploring your LGBTQIA+ identity, exploring your LGBTQIA+ identity in the context of your religious or spiritual identity and getting support for coming out.
If interested, please contact Dr. Lynn Kaplan at lynn.kaplan@baruch.cuny.edu.
Relationship to Self and Others Group
Tuesdays, 1–2 pm in person
This group provides a confidential space for students to discuss, explore, and receive feedback on their own interpersonal style in order to build confidence, alleviate social anxiety and loneliness, and foster a sense of connectedness with others. Through their experience in the group, students will have the opportunity to explore new ways of relating both within the group and in their lives.
If interested, please contact Frank Luo at frank.luo@baruch.cuny.edu.
BIPOC Relationship to Self and Others Group
Tuesdays, 12–1 pm in person
This group provides a confidential space for BIPOC students to discuss, explore, and receive feedback on their own interpersonal style in order to build confidence, alleviate social anxiety and loneliness, and foster a sense of connectedness with others. Through their experience in the group, students will have the opportunity to explore new ways of relating both within the group and in their lives.
If interested, please contact Lynn Kaplan at lynn.kaplan@baruch.cuny.edu.
Coping Skills Group
Wednesdays, 2–3 pm
Using evidence based and mindfulness practices, this group will focus on building skills to cope with everyday stressors that impact our mental health and wellbeing.
A new 8-week Coping Skills Group is starting.
Please contact Dr. Jael Amador at Jael.Amador@Baruch.cuny.edu if you’d like to join this group.
Relationship to Self and Others Group
Thursdays, 1–2 pm in person
This group provides a confidential space for students to discuss, explore, and receive feedback on their own interpersonal style in order to build confidence, alleviate social anxiety and loneliness, and foster a sense of connectedness with others. Through their experience in the group, students will have the opportunity to explore new ways of relating both within the group and in their lives.
If interested, please contact Brooklyn Do-Wengler at brooklyn.do-wengler@baruch.cuny.edu.
Black Mental Health Matters (BMHM) Support Sessions for Baruch Students
Fridays, 2–3 pm via Zoom
Dear Black students,
In light of ongoing racial violence and injustice towards Black, African American and African descendant communities, the Baruch Counseling Center invites you to join Black Mental Health Matters. These support sessions aim to foster and support the growth, networking, collaboration, success, and well-being of Black Students. Past topics have included:
- Self-care
- Being Black at Baruch
- Intersecting identities
- BLM movement and advocacy
- Power and privilege
- Finding motivation
- Coping with loss
- Developing community
- Power dynamics in and out of the classroom
- Microaggressions
- Food/Housing/financial insecurities
…and much more. If you are a Black student who is interested in finding a safe space to meet and talk with others who may have similar experiences, then these support sessions are for you. These support sessions are led by two Black Psychologists, Dr. Jael Amador and Dr. Gary Dillon, who work from a social justice and multicultural framework.
To participate in these support sessions, send an email to Dr. Jael Amador at Jael.Amador@baruch.cuny.edu from your Baruch student email account and we will send you the Zoom link.
In solidarity and support, Drs. Amador & Dillon