Mental Health Support Team

Entry to this course is via Practitioner referral only

This group is for 4 weeks.

This is a reflective group for students who want to better understand themselves and their responses to stress, relationships, or difficult past experiences and how these may be affecting their emotions and sense of safety.

Trauma can impact how we feel in our bodies, manage emotions, and connect with others often in ways that feel confusing or overwhelming. This group draws on attachment theory, neuroscience, and the nervous system to help make sense of these experiences in a compassionate and non-judgemental way. Also, the group involves participating in experiential activities, reflection and self-analysis with the aim of developing a greater awareness of self in relation to your trauma.

Over five sessions, you will learn:

How trauma can affect the body, emotions, and the nervous system

How the nervous system responds to safety and threat

Ways to recognise your responses and patterns

Practical strategies to help regulate emotions and feel safer in yourself and relationships

Tools to build self-compassion and strengthen connection

This group is educational and reflective, not a trauma-processing group. Sharing is optional, and you can take part at your own pace.

Who this group may help:

If sometimes you feel overwhelmed or shut down

You want to better understand how past experiences affect relationships and emotional regulation

If you are struggling with self-criticism, shame, or emotional intensity

After completion of this group, you will have the option of attending our peer-led Support MOG ( Moving on Group) that meets during term-term, here at the service.