Workshops are designed to build specific skills to address many of the most common concerns our students experience. We offer both open-access / a-la-carte workshops, as well as more in-depth multi-session workshops. In these sessions, facilitators teach about various mental health concepts, introduce coping strategies, create space for practice and discussion, and encourage students to learn from each other. Please check individual workshop descriptions for details about format and how to participate.
To attend our open access workshops, students do not need to have prior contact with CAPS and can join sessions even if they have not attended previous sessions in the series. Please see individual workshop descriptions below for information on locations.
Please note, in-person workshops have limited capacity and will be first come first serve. Workshop sessions will close after approximately 10 minutes past the start time.
Are you looking to develop fulfilling relationships with others in your life? Are you struggling to communicate effectively or stay true to yourself while in a relationship, or coping with the end of a relationship? Are you navigating conflicts with romantic partners, friends, family, and/or coworkers? This workshop series includes three rotating weekly topics, including relationship values, healthy communication, and boundaries, designed to teach you skills to build and maintain healthy, meaningful, and effective relationships.
Tuesdays | 3-4 PM at STUN 263*
LaKaylyn Washington, MA, Renita Sengupta, PsyD, and Sophia Jordan-Marshall
- Week 1: Healthy Relationships & Relationship Values (9/2, 9/23, 10/14, 11/4)
- Week 2: Communication & Listening Skills (9/9, 9/30 *at CAPS*, 10/21, 11/11)
- Week 3: Boundaries & Managing Conflict (9/16, 10/7, 10/28, 11/18)
STUN 263 (exception: 9/30- Price Center / CAPS Building)
*Please ensure you go to the correct location each week*
Do you experience overwhelming thoughts or emotions? Do you struggle to identify effective ways to cope with stress? This workshop series includes four weekly rotating topics on distress management. A variety of skills and strategies will be covered, including mindfulness and relaxation skills, effectively managing emotions, combatting unhelpful thoughts, and tips for "feeling better fast."
Mondays | 1:30- 2:30 PM at STUN 266
Jalisa Lewis, LCSW, Emily Brown, PhD, Zuri Ward, & Caitlynn Irwin
- Week 1: Mindfulness and Relaxation (9/8, 10/6, 11/10)
- Week 2: Managing Your Emotions (9/15, 10/20, 11/17)
- Week 3: Managing Difficult Thoughts (9/22, 10/27, 11/24)
- Week 4: Managing Intense Stress (9/29, 11/3, 12/1)
Unable to attend the live workshop sessions? Click here to access our asynchronous, self-paced, interactive version of Feel Better Fast online!
Finding Focus: An ADHD Workshop Series
Thursdays | 11 AM - 12 PM | STUN 267 & CHHS 153*
Round 1: 2/13/25*, 2/20/25, 2/27/25
Round 2: 3/13/25, 3/20/25*, 3/27/25*
Round 3: 4/10/25, 4/17/25*, 4/24/25
* Denotes dates at CHHS 153
Emily Brown, PhD & Chloe Gilmore, MA
This workshop is designed for students experiencing focusing and attention difficulties, with or without a formal ADHD diagnosis. It includes three rotating weekly topics focusing on reviewing effective strategies related to academics, relationships, and personal care. Workshops sessions will include information on focus and attention difficulties as well as space for processing and questions. Students will receive handouts and slides for each session.
Check back soon for dates and times!
Procrastination in competing planned tasks is a source of academic and personal stress for many people! This workshop will address common causes of procrastination, including perfectionism and external pressures. We will explore the thoughts, behaviors, and emotions that often prevent us from being as productive and on-task as we would like. We will discuss practical tools to improve time management and accountability, along with cognitive and emotion management skills
Our clinical/ fixed series workshops provide students with a deeper dive into mental health information and strategies. To participate in these workshops, students need to have attended an Initial Consultation with a clinician at CAPS in order to ensure the workshop is a good fit for their current needs. Please contact CAPS at 704-687-0311 or email (caps@charlotte.edu) for more information.
Wednesdays| 2:30-3:30 PM at CAPS (Price Center)
Round 1: 9/17, 10/1, 10/8
Round 2: 10/15, 10/22, 10/29
Round 3: 11/5, 11/12, 11/19
Kofi Adjepong, MA, & Miltonjha Grier, LCSW
This three-session workshop is rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy. The workshop aims to help you understand anxiety symptoms and build skills to manage these symptoms, creating your own individualized coping plan in the process. The modules include: (1) understanding anxiety, (2) introducing a method for slowing down and disentangling the experience of anxiety, and (3) developing alternative responses to anxiety.
Each round of the workshop runs once a week for 3 consecutive weeks. Each week’s material builds on the last, so students are asked to attend all sessions in the workshop.
Unable to attend the live workshop sessions? Click here to access videos of the workshop content at your convenience.
Thursdays | 2:30 - 4 PM at CAPS (Price Center)
9/11, 9/25, 10/2, 10/16, 10/30, 11/6, 11/13, 11/20
William Allen, PsyM, & Sophie Hirsch, MA
Getting Unstuck is a one-session workshop aimed at helping students identify and cope with experiences of depression. This workshop, which is rooted in cognitive behavioral therapy, strives to help individuals understand their unique experiences of depression, explore how thoughts/feelings impact depression, and identify ways to change thoughts and behaviors to better manage depression.