Find your community. Support your wellbeing. Join a group this Fall.
Looking to connect, grow, or heal this semester? Fort Lewis College offers a variety of group counseling sessions designed to support student mental health, personal development, and community building. These groups provide a safe, inclusive space to explore challenges, learn new skills, and share experiences with others who understand.
Whether you're navigating identity, building confidence, processing trauma, or simply seeking meaningful conversation, our fall groups offer something for everyone. Led by experienced facilitators, each group is tailored to meet specific needs—from art-based healing and nature therapy to support for Indigenous and LGBTQIA2S+ students.
Most groups are free and open to all students. Scholarships and payment plans available where applicable.
Contact the Counseling Center at 970-247-7212 or counselingcenter@fortlewis.edu to learn more and sign up.
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.
Building Social Confidence 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.
Join us as we share how climate anxiety is impacting our mental, physical, and emotional health and explore ways we can help each other navigate the toll and shift to resilience or action. Hosted by the Counseling Center, Environmental Center, and Faculty.
Drop-ins welcome.
This is a 7-week trauma-informed series designed to support individuals in healing by reacquainting them with their bodies and building grounding and compassion-based skills. Each class offers yoga, along with a discussion and guided activities. Scholarships and payment plans are available.
Free Sampler Class offered Tuesday, September 23, from 5-6:15 pm.
Student rates, scholarships, and payment plans are available.
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.
Got an Inqueery? Wondering how to be you, where you fit? Out and proud and want to talk about it? The Queer and Questioning 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 2025! No appointment needed.
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.
Do you love being in nature and noticing its calming power? Join us for a transformative experience where we will engage in 2 group sessions on campus to share our relationship with nature, followed by a 3-day, 2-night river trip on the Upper San Juan River. There will be a lot of time to commune with nature, learn about rafting, and get to know each other. FLOW will completely outfit this trip with gear, food, and guides. There will be one follow-up group after the trip to integrate the experience.
Pre-groups: Monday 9/30 and 10/7 from 4:00-5:30 at the Counseling Center.
River trip: Leaves from FLC around 11:00 Friday morning, 10/17, and returns to FLC around 5:00 on Sunday, 10/19.
Location: 260 Noble HallPhone: 970-247-7212Local Crisis Hotline: 970-247-5245Email: counselingcenter@fortlewis.edu
Fall/Winter Terms:8 a.m. - noon, 1-5 p.m., Monday-Friday
Summer:8 a.m. - noon, 1-5 p.m., Tuesday & Thursday