Workshops

Counseling and Psychiatric Services offers workshops to support students in coping with stress, anxiety and other concerns. Below are a list of workshops available.

Anxiety Toolbox

A two-session series that provides life-long tools to use during anxiety-triggering situations. 

  • Department: CAPS
  • Audience: Students
  • Length of Presentation: Two - 1 hour sessions
COVID Series

The COVID workshop series is composed of 4 independent workshops designed to help you cope COVID-19 related changes in your life. 

  • Department: CAPS
  • Audience: Students
  • Length of Presentation: Four- 1 hour sessions
e-Ask an Advocate

No appointment is necessary. This is a free and confidential* service. CU Boulder affiliates are seen on a first-come, first-served basis for brief consults on traumatic experiences.

  • Department: OVA
  • Audience: Students, staff, faculty
  • Length of Presentation: 15 minutes
Feel Better Fast

A three-part series designed to support positive life changes focusing on mindfulness techniques and coping strategies.

  • Department: CAPS
  • Audience: Students
  • Length of Presentation: Three - 1 hour sessions
Feel Good Friday

This powerful, guided meditation can undo stress, soothe the nervous system, and help individuals feel relaxed and revitalized. If practiced regularly, the meditation teaches a method for feeling calm, easeful, and resilient, even when facing life’s challenges.

  • Department: CAPS
  • Audience: Faculty, Staff, Students
  • Length: 1 hour
Healthy Living

Topics vary on a weekly basis to include body image, nutrition and eating, physical activity, sleep, stress management and self-care. Jane Reagan, a registered dietitian at Wardenburg, will join our CAPS provider every other week to cover eating and topics related to body image.

  • Department: CAPS, Medical Services
  • Audience: Students
  • Length: 1 hour
Identity and Sexual Exploration

This informal consultation with a queer-friendly Nurse Practitioner and Counseling Psychologist can provide insight into areas such as sex and sexuality questions, initiating sexual health exams and testing, gender-affirming treatment options, and relational health. 

  • Department: CAPS
  • Audience: Students
  • Length: 1 hour
Let's Talk

First-come, first-served drop-in informal and confidential consultation with a counselor.

  • Department: CAPS  
  • Audience: Students
  • Length: A typical session lasts 10 to 20 minutes
Love Shouldn’t Hurt: A Workshop on Abuse in Relationships

This is a free, virtual, 4-week workshop for CU Boulder students.  The purpose of this workshop is to provide introductory psychoeducation on intimate partner abuse, with an emphasis on increasing awareness and understanding of domestic violence, exploring its psychological impact, and empowering both survivors and secondary victims (those who support people with abusive partners) with knowledge of their rights, options, and resources.  Rotating topics weekly for 4 weeks in two separate sessions.​

Registration required.

  • Department: Office of Victim Assistance
  • Audience: Students
  • Length of Presentation: 4 - 60 minute sessions
Navigating Difficult Conversations

This workshop is a two-part series that provides tips and tools to help you navigate discussions of difficult or controversial topics with people you care about. The workshop will teach you how to build better and stronger relationships even when you don't agree! 

  • Department: CAPS
  • Audience: Students
  • Length of Presentation: 2 - 60 minute sessions