Counseling Services

Kathryn Jones • Mar 27, 2019 •5:35 pm

How to Succeed at Overloading

I have overloaded three out of four semesters at Arcadia—by choice. Overloading is when you take more than 18 credits per semester; the usual course load is 16. We aren’t allowed to overload while doing FYSAE, so my first Spring semester was normal. First-semester freshmen are not allowed to...

Feb 22, 2019 • Mary Alice DiFilippo

Eating Concerns Awareness

Take part in our Eating Concerns Awareness event, part of the National Eating Disorders Week #ComeAsYouAre Think you might have an eating issue-take a screen given by our Arcadia counseling staff. Join the Active Minds group and make a heart to post. Join the Counseling staff and...

Jan 30, 2019 • Mary Alice DiFilippo

AU Lead/Boosting Interpersonal Effectiveness

This is an AU Lead series workshop. Join the counseling staff and improve your skills in relationship strategies, saying "no", establishing priorities and dealing with interpersonal conflict. RSVP to baldwinp@arcadia.edu by 2/21.

Jan 18, 2019 • Mary Alice DiFilippo

CALM: Come And Learn Mindfulness

CALM is a group to relax, manage stress, cultivate compassion for yourself and others. Learn how mindfulness can quiet your internal critic and change the relationship with yourself.

Jan 17, 2019 • Mary Alice DiFilippo

Interpersonal Support Group

A space for students to offer mutual support to each other and encourage the exchange of genuine and honest feedback. Group members are able to increase self-awareness and develop more meaningful connections with people in their lives.

Jan 17, 2019 • Mary Alice DiFilippo

Graduate Student Mindful Self Compassion Group

Learn new tools for self-acceptance and building inner strength and resilience. This group is for graduate students and a certificate of attendance will be granted for those attending 8 or more sessions. Space is limited to 12 students so email today for a spot difilipm@arcadia.edu

Jan 17, 2019 • Mary Alice DiFilippo

Social Skills Group

Do you feel overwhelmed when attending social events and activities on campus? Not feeling connected with others on campus and unsure how to make friends? Come be a art of a welcoming and inclusive group. The group practices social skills with peers, discusses challenges related to college...

Jan 17, 2019 • Mary Alice DiFilippo

Queer Space

Queer Space is a LGBTQIA+ safe, non-judgemental group for graduate and undergraduate students. The group explores and discusses LGBTQIA+ related issues including gender, family, current events, identity and expression.

Caitlin Joyce • May 14, 2018 •10:48 am

Finding Inner Peace with Invisible Illness

When one thinks of the phrase “coming out,” usually the first topic that comes to mind is sexuality. However, there are multiple aspects of one’s identity than can be difficult to talk about, elements of ourselves which are not often visible to those around us. These identities can incorporate a...

Altamuro ’19, Kubicz ’21 Win Counseling Services’ Poster Contest

Thursday, May 10, 2018 - 16:30

Alexandra Altamuro ’19 and Raquel Kubicz ’21 are the winners of the Alcohol and Other Drugs Program poster contest, which showcased the perceived versus actual statistics of alcohol and drug use among college students. Altamuro won first place with “... Read More

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Kathryn Jones • Feb 26, 2018 •3:48 pm

Managing Mental Illness While Abroad

As a person who’s dealt with mental illness for most of my formative years, deciding to study abroad was one of the biggest and scariest decisions of my life. Around 10th grade, my mental health was at an all-time low. I was tired of living as a captive to my own brain, so I begrudgingly decided...

Olivia Armacost • Feb 16, 2018 •5:25 am

In Control— or Controlled?

“I am the one thing in life I can control.” Riding the train back to Arcadia for my second semester, this phrase found its way into my mind and lingered (courtesy of the superb lyrics of Lin Manuel Miranda and the ever-powerful delivery of Leslie Odom Jr. in Hamilton). A simple-but-true doctrine...