The Counseling Center offers specialized 1-session workshops to assist JMU students with a variety of goals, including: reducing anxiety symptoms, increasing coping strategies, managing stress, and improving self-care. These include: Anxiety Toolbox, Cope 60, Body Empowerment Blueprint, and Closure to Courage. These free workshops offer numerous evidence-based strategies and interventions and are one of the quickest ways to reduce symptoms. Register to join through Be Involved.
Anxiety Toolbox, Closure to Courage, & Cope 60
The Counseling Center specialized workshops meet for 50-60 minutes. They are structured workshops, similar to an interactive classroom lecture. This is not a group counseling experience. You do not have to disclose personal information and process. This experience is similar to taking a course on decreasing anxiety and improving functioning. For many students who participate, they experience enough of a symptom reduction, they do not need additional clinical services. However, participants can discuss additional services with their facilitator. These programs are highly recommended as a quick and efficient way to reduce symptoms and feel better fast. Some of the program content is also available through our self-help resources.
Anxiety Toolbox:
Offers one of the quickest ways to access evidence-based strategies and interventions to reduce anxiety symptoms. Anxiety Toolbox consists of one 50-minute structured workshop that covers the following topics:
- Understanding anxiety, includiing the situations and thoughts that can increase and maintain your anxiety.
- Effective ways to reduce and manage anxiety, including: relaxation techniques, grounding techniques, breathing techniques, and more!
Body Empowerment Blueprint:
Focuses on better understanding your body, and building skills to help improve your relationship with your body. Body Empowerment Blueprint consists of one 50-minute structured workshop that covers the following topics:
- An introduction to understanding body image.
- The media's impact on body image.
- Diet culture, its impacts and alternative approaches such as intuitive eating.
Closure to Courage:
Offers tools and skills to help you cope, move forward, and thrive following the end of a relationship. Closure to Courage consists of one 50-minute structured workshop that covers the following topics:
- Understanding common symptoms experienced after a breakup or relationship ends.
- Coping skills and strategies for re-establishing routines.
- xploration of personal values and interpersonal relationshp needs to know what you want from the relationships in your life.
Cope 60
Offers the quickest way to learn evidence-based strategies and practice skills to reduce stress symptoms and increase relaxation. In this 60-minute workshop you'll practice and/or learn about:
- Breathing techniques to decrease stress and increase focus
- Muscle relaxation
- Strategies to recognize and challenge unhelpful thoughts
- Grounding techniques
- Stress management resources
Upcoming Specialized Workshop Schedule
See below for the upcoming Specialized Workshops and event registration links. Register to join through Be Involved. For questions regarding scheduled CC workshops, please contact Psychoeducation Outreach Specialist, Karla Kale, at kalekl@jmu.edu.
