Current Community Offerings

begins Monday, August 24, 2026
Mondays, 2:00 - 3:00 pm
@ Uptown CAPS
open group | weekly, 60-minute sessions | lasts all semester

Overview: Mindful Mondays is a mindfulness skills-based group designed to introduce undergraduate students to mindful breathing, movement, and meditation practices as a way of reducing stress and anxiety, increase body and mind-awareness, and develop emotional regulation skills. No experience in mindfulness is required to participate. This group is ideal for students struggling with stress, anxiety, or those that are simply looking for ways to relax and cultivate a deeper connection with themselves. This will be an open group facilitated by Dr. Maria D. Vazquez and students can attend as many or as few sessions as they would like.

Who Should Join? This group is ideal for anyone, graduate or undergraduate, who: 

• Feels overwhelmed by academic and social pressures
• Struggles with managing emotions or stress
• Wants to improve their grounding, mindfulness, and emotional regulation skills

begins Friday, September 18, 2026
Fridays, 12:00 - 1:00 pm
@ Hutchinson Rm 1558 (Downtown Campus)
6-week program | weekly, 60-minute sessions

Overview: Join us as we create community for LGBTQIA+ graduate students at Tulane. Discussion and support may include topics such as dating, relationships with family, and the intersectionality of our identities. This community will include the use of art and creative expression to make meaning of our experiences. Snacks and materials will be provided!

Who Should Join? This community is ideal for college students who are in graduate school, identify as part of the LGBTQIA+ community, and are looking for a place of connection and community.

begins Tuesday, September 22, 2026
Tuesdays, 3:30 - 5:00 pm
@ Uptown CAPS
open group | 8-week program | weekly, 90-minute sessions

Overview: Board games are a social activity designed for people to have fun while interacting with each other. This community plans to utilize this to the fullest to help students tackle social anxiety by practicing social skills with other members using board games as a medium. The community will also help students build resilience to stressful situations that they may not have complete control over since you never know who is going to do well in a game. Students will then process the feeling of interactions with each other and how they can use what they experienced outside of the group. This group is meant to have a casual atmosphere and is an open group.

Who Should Join? This community is ideal for college students who are dealing with mild to moderate social anxiety, struggling with staying in the moment, and want to improve their confidence and communication skills.

begins September 24, 2026
Thursdays, 4:30 pm - 5:50 pm
@ Location TBD
9-week program | weekly, 80-minute sessions

Overview: Have you ever been in a fight with a friend? Want to learn how to communicate your needs in your situationship? Have you ever noticed patterns in your relationships and thought, where'd those come from?
If so, you might want to join one of our CAPS communities, "Roadmaps for Healthy Relationships"! This is an experience of embodied connection to help students cultivate a shared vision, resolve conflicts, and deepen emotional connections. Students will explore relationship themes with peers and develop boundary setting, communication, and conflict mitigation skills. This community may benefit students who want to better understand the origin of their relational patterns and how to engage in and sustain healthy relationships. 
By mapping out goals, values, and mutual expectations, you can reduce anxiety, relieve relational stress, build growth-fostering relationships and establish a collaborative foundation to navigate life’s challenges as a community.

Who Should Join? This community is ideal for college students who believe they may benefit from exploring their own relational patterns and learning about boundaries, communication, and healthy confrontation.

begins Thursday, October 8, 2026
Thursdays, 2:30 pm - 4:00 pm
@ Uptown CAPS
9-week program | weekly, 90-minute sessions

Overview: This weekly group will provide a space for survivors of sexual trauma to process the individual and relational impacts of trauma. Group participants will have opportunities in group to learn more about sexual trauma and the impacts on views of self and relationships with others, process experiences, learn helpful skills for navigating trauma reactivity in everyday life, and explore how to build and sustain positive, nourishing, and empowering relationships to self and others after trauma. Group will be facilitated by Dr. Maria D. Vazquez and will incorporate an intersectional, culturally-sensitive, and LGBTQ+ affirming framework. All are welcome.

Skills Covered: psychoeducation about the emotional and relational impacts of trauma; emotion regulation; boundary awareness and communication; assertive communication skills

Who Should Join?  This group is ideal for college students who are looking for a space to process the impacts of their trauma experience and learn helpful skills for how to navigate life with trauma.
Interested students will complete a 30-minute screening appointment with Dr. Vazquez to be approved for addition to the Community – referrals/screenings accepted through October 12. Community closes to new members on October 15.