Stressed out? Overwhelmed?
Did you know...
Stress is associated with increases in headaches, sleep disturbance, depression and anxiety, digestion problems, alcohol or drug abuse, and even the common cold! Too much stress can compromise your academic performance, your relationships, and even your health.
Let our integrated health professionals teach you how to chill out and thrive in one of our FREE stress management courses. You will learn mindfulness-based stress reduction and self-care skills that you can use right now and for the rest of your life.
Optimizing Your Potential: the Mind-Body Connection
Practice and experience a comprehensive set of mindfulness-based stress management and self care skills, and learn to change your thoughts so they can help you. This intensive class teaches mindful living skills including meditation, yoga, and mindful eating. By learning to pay more attention to your life, you can begin to live with more balance and clarity.
The Spring Optimizing Your Potential class is FULL. Please check back for the next class schedule.
Stress management classes are available only to currently-enrolled UT students and held only during the spring and fall semesters. Call the UHS Health Promotion Resource Center (512) 475-8252 for more information
Stress Management 101
Stress is associated with:
Health
Academic Performance
Relationships
Well-Being
Explore some of the most effective stress management skills for college students including basic relaxation techniques, meditation, and time management.
The Spring Stress Management 101 has begun. Please check back for the next class schedule.
Stress management classes are available only to currently-enrolled UT students and held only during the spring and fall semesters. Call the UHS Health Promotion Resource Center (512) 475-8252 for more information
Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression Management
Join this class to learn:
Contributing factors to depression
Skills to handle thoughts and feelings differently
Mind/body practices to manage depression
The Spring Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression Management class is FULL. Please check back for the next class schedule.
A pre-class interview and information session is required.
The pre-class will be held on Tuesday, February 5th from 3:00 p.m. until 5:00 p.m.
Please call 512-475-8252 to register for this pre-class interview.
Stress management classes are available only to currently-enrolled UT students and held only during the spring and fall semesters. Call the UHS Health Promotion Resource Center (512) 475-8252 for more information
Not interested in a class?
University Health Services and the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center offers additional resources for stress management. The Counseling and Mental Health Center provides workshops on relaxation skills training, time management, and other forms of stress reduction to groups of students, faculty, and staff. To request a workshop, contact Dr. Laura Ebady, CMHC Outreach Coordinator, at (512) 475-6911.
Mindfulness Meditation Group
UT students and staff with meditation experience or interest in learning meditation can drop in to this group. It meets at the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center on the 5th floor of the SSB. No registration necessary.
For more information, contact Cary Tucker, RN, LCSW
or Mary Vance, PhD
MindBody Lab
Unwind at the MindBody Lab, a self-paced relaxation and biofeedback lab where UT students learn and practice stress management exercises and guided meditation using audio tracks in a calm, quiet setting.
The Lab is open Monday - Friday 8:00 am - 4:30 pm in the UT Counseling and Mental Health Center, SSB 5th floor. No appointment necessary. UT ID required.
Lending Library
Check out the UHS Health Promotion Resource Center Lending Library for books, brochures, DVDs, and other media on meditation, mindful eating, stress management, time management, physical health, and emotional well being.
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