UHC Well-Being & Prevention Programs: Mental Health
Welcome!
Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) invites you to participate in the following free workshops, events, and services, including all the other self-care resources and pre-recorded sessions listed below.
Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) invites you to participate in the following free workshops, events, and services, including all the other self-care resources and pre-recorded sessions listed below.
Let's Talk
Let’s Talk is a drop-in service hosted by CAPS clinicians that offers informal, confidential consultation.
During a Let's Talk session, you can speak with a clinician about concerns, get help problem-solving, and learn more about counseling services at CAPS and other resources available to you at UGA and in the Athens area.
Let's talk consultations are:
Let’s Talk is a drop-in service hosted by CAPS clinicians that offers informal, confidential consultation.
During a Let's Talk session, you can speak with a clinician about concerns, get help problem-solving, and learn more about counseling services at CAPS and other resources available to you at UGA and in the Athens area.
Let's talk consultations are:
- Free for UGA students
- Offered on a first-come, first-served basis, no appointment necessary
- Confidential
- Informal and not intended to be a substitute for traditional counseling
- A one-on-one, 10-15 minute informal consultation with a staff member from Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS)
- New insights and solutions to your concerns and information about resources on and off campus
- Other Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
- Let’s Talk via Zoom can only be accessed on the day of the session. If you would like to access Let’s Talk today, click here
- Consultations will occur in the order in which students log in. Please remain in the Zoom waiting room in which you are directed, unless provided an alternative Zoom link via the chat function, to maintain your place in the order.
- Although Let’s Talk consultants are mental health professionals, Let’s Talk consultations do not constitute mental health treatment.
- Let’s Talk conversations are not part of students’ releasable records.
- Limits to confidentiality – When there is an immediate threat of harm to you or others, Let’s Talk consultants are required by law to report this. When a minor, elderly person, or someone otherwise incapacitated is being abused, Let’s Talk consultants are also required by law to report this.
- If your Let’s Talk clinician assesses that you could benefit from a higher level of care, every effort will be made to refer you to other appropriate resources at the university and in the surrounding community.
SELF CARE RESOURCES
Stress & Anxiety Management Workshop
Join us for this four-part series on managing stress & anxiety. The first lesson focuses on understanding what anxiety is and assessing how it shows up in our lives. Learn how to identify your own stress and anxiety as it arises, and explore some early warning signs, triggers, and ways of coping with these sensations. In the next three sessions, learn to develop practical skills on calming your mind & body, while learning how to create a lifestyle conducive to managing stress.
Join us for this four-part series on managing stress & anxiety. The first lesson focuses on understanding what anxiety is and assessing how it shows up in our lives. Learn how to identify your own stress and anxiety as it arises, and explore some early warning signs, triggers, and ways of coping with these sensations. In the next three sessions, learn to develop practical skills on calming your mind & body, while learning how to create a lifestyle conducive to managing stress.
Facilitated by Krista Garrett, PhD, CAPS Psychologist & Jas McCalla, UGA Clinical Mental Health Master’s Student
CAPS Self Care Page
During this time, CAPS staff remains actively engaged in supporting the mental health needs of the UGA community in a variety of ways. Please explore our updated CAPS: Self Care page, as we have included a robust list of new resources to help you navigate what’s going on. We will continue to update this page as more resources become available.
During this time, CAPS staff remains actively engaged in supporting the mental health needs of the UGA community in a variety of ways. Please explore our updated CAPS: Self Care page, as we have included a robust list of new resources to help you navigate what’s going on. We will continue to update this page as more resources become available.
Led by Dawn Healy, LCSW, from CAPS
Join in this compassion-based mindfulness practice via youtube