Check out our wide variety of FREE groups, workshops, and classes offered for NDSU students by the Counseling Center each semester. Please check back often for updates!

Art in Therapy

Thursdays 1:00 pm – 2:30pm, starting on January 16th

Any student who is interested in learning more about themselves & building new skills for stress management is encouraged to attend this group. No artistic skills or experience necessary to participate and benefit from Art in Therapy. We will have a variety of projects for intentional discovery and self-reflection. This will allow you to experience how engagement in expressive arts can improve your social interaction and help you meet and build new relationships with others in the group. The group will meet in the Counseling Center (212 Ceres Hall). For questions, please email terrijann.mullerdahl@ndsu.edu

Diversity, Solidarity, and Empowerment Group

Mondays 1:00 pm – 2:00 starting on January 27th. 
A support group for Black, Indigenous, and People of color (BIPOC) undergraduate and graduate students
to develop support and build solidarity. Not a therapy group, but a forum to discuss the complexities of racial trauma and foster understanding.
We may discuss current events, books, movies, and/or our own racial experiences.

This group will meet in the Center for Community and Belonging (formerly Office of Multicultural Programs), Memorial Union Room
178. Please email terrijann.mullerdahl@ndsu.edu to join. Please email terrijann.mullerdahl@ndsu.edu to join.

NDSU CARES Workshops

NDSU CARES is a Campus Awareness, Referral and Education program for Suicide Prevention.

This one hour of training may help you save a life!

Please call the Counseling Center  at 701-231-7671 for more information.
or email Annette annette.ruiz@ndsu.edu.

WHY MENTAL HEALTH FIRST AID?

MHFA teaches you how to identify, understand, and respond to signs of mental illness and substance use disorders. This training gives you the skills that you need to reach out and provide initial support to someone who may be developing a mental health or substance use problem and help connect them to the appropriate care.

What MHFA Covers

• Common signs and symptoms of mental illness
• Common signs and symptoms of substance abuse
• How to interact with a person in crisis
• How to connect someone with help
• Newly added: Expanded content on trauma, addiction, and self-care

Thanks to funding provided by the NDSU Student Government and the NDUS System Office, we are pleased to announce that registration is now open for Mental Health First Aid (MHFA) training. Registration is free to members of the NDSU community (i.e., faculty, staff and students) and includes all modules and materials necessary to obtain MHFA certification once completed.

The blended learning option consists of participants completing a 2-hour self-paced online course, followed by a 5.5 hour in-person skills application instructor-led session. The self-paced online course must be completed prior to attending the in-person skills application session. Both sessions must be completed to obtain MHFA certification.

The in-person skills application session will occur from 9am-4pm on Wednesday, March 19^th. Training sessions are capped at 30 participants per session and sessions will be held in the NDSU Memorial Union (Hidatsa). There will be a break for lunch and all participants will need to attend the entirety of the in-person training to be certified.

To register, RSVP on myNDSU. After registering, participants will receive an email detailing how to create an account and access the online course about a week prior to the event.

BETSY CARTER
Assistant Director & Coordinator of Clinical Services / NDSU Counseling Center

ANGIE REINKE
Student Case Manager / Dean of Students Office