Group Counseling
Counseling Center

This art-based group focuses on healing from trauma through empowerment, support, coping tools, and self-compassion. Art-filled activities, skill development, and relationship building will help develop resilience, care, hope, and healing.

Learn about your inner world through connection with others. Dreams are rich visual landscapes that inform us of our waking lives.  This group creates a safe, interactive space to share your dreams and how they relate to the challenges you may be experiencing in life.

Fishing for Friends is a therapy group for students who want to identify their fears in social situations and begin to face those fears. We’ll work on skills to help you reach your goals, wherever you are. Through being together in a safe and confidential space, we’ll learn, explore, and try new skills to build our social confidence.

The Indigenous Student Support Group is a safe, confidential space where Indigenous students can share their thoughts and feelings on various topics and build community through connection, support, and shared experiences.

Wondering how to be you, where you fit? Out and proud and want to talk about it? The LGBTQIA+ Student Support Group is an inclusive, affirming support group offered by the Counseling Center for students who identify as LGBTQIA2S+ or who are questioning their gender identity or sexual orientation. With support and facilitation from therapists, you will connect with peers, and we’ll navigate topics like identity, sexuality, dysphoria/euphoria, healthy relationships, stigma, coming out, being you, and more.

Drop in for Fall 2026! No appointment needed.

Dates to be determined, contact Jen at 970-247-7212 or counselingcenter@fortlewis.edu for more information.

A drop-in group for meditation and mindfulness. We will engage in meditation practice and discuss how meditation is the training ground for mindfulness. Topics to cover: Benefits of mindfulness / Self-Compassion / Meditation as the antidote to an obsessive, compulsive, busy, distracted mind. Bring your questions and desire for practice. All are welcome- beginners to advanced practitioners. You are welcome to attend once or every week. There is no need to pre-register, just drop into the group.

The Men’s group is a supportive, collaborative, interactive, and safe environment. Members of various backgrounds come together to support one another through encouragement, validation, and feedback. Topics discussed in this group include, but are not limited to, concerns related to academics, career, interpersonal relationships, and emotional regulation.