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Attending group therapy can be a valuable way to feel less alone in our struggles, and to explore ways of coping together with peers in a professionally facilitated supportive environment. To learn more about group therapy, what it involves and how it works, please download our brochure here (nó anseo).
Most students who attend group therapy initially feel nervous about participating in this kind of support. It might feel difficult to open up about personal difficulties with a wider group of peers. Yet by helping to overcome such anxieties and develop greater interpersonal confidence students tell us how powerful this way of working can be.
Pre-registration groups require a commitment to attend all sessions, while others operate on a Drop-In basis.
Scroll down for details on all our groups running this academic year.
All groups are free of charge.
Drop-In groups do not require any formal booking and you don’t have to have attended a SNAP before accessing these. Please email stucounc@tcd.ie with your student ID and the Drop In Group name if you want to be sent email reminders about the dates and locations these sessions are running in.
Drop In Groups
Date: Mondays, running weekly for 10 weeks from 7th October.
Time: 3.30pm - 4.30pm
Venue: Seminar Room (318), SCS, 7-9 Sth Leinster St
Facilitators: Debby Kluczenko
This support group is a therapeutic support space for students from different cultures and ethnic minorities, run within the Trinity Student Counselling Service. It offers an inclusive and supportive space for members of these communities to meet, share experiences and advocate for their needs. Students can come to seek support but it is also a space where students can come and give support to other students within the community who may be struggling with friendships, college life and any experiences of discrimination or isolation. This group will be facilitated by a counsellor in SCS and an external therapist from within this community, with a similar lived experience.
Date: Tuesdays, running weekly for 10 weeks. Dates to follow.
Time: 6.00 pm - 7.30 pm
Venue: S2S Student Room (319) at 7-9 Sth Leinster St
Facilitators: Dee O'Keeffe
This Addictive Behaviour Support & Recovery is a safe and confidential space for members to support each other in relation to substance and alcohol misuse and other harmful behaviours. Group participants will respect the confidentiality of others in order to maintain a safe place for members.
Date: Wednesdays, running weekly for 10 weeks from 16th September 2026.
Time: 1.00pm - 2.00pm
Venue: SCS, 7-9 Sth Leinster St
Facilitators: Alice Kelly
The group offers students a supportive place where they can discuss any challenges they are experiencing in relation to their emotional wellbeing. It will focus on providing a place where students can connect with others in similar situations, gain psychoeducational knowledge and skills which might be useful for the distress they are experiencing and help them to reflect and gain validation and acceptance around their own individual experiences.
Date: Thursday's running weekly from 17th September 2026
Time: 2.15 PM - 3.3PM
Venue: Seminar Room, SCS, 7-9 South Leinster Street
Facilitators: Laura Fitzpatrick
Blurb: Understanding your menstrual cycle every day can help you manage personal pain and ease mental suffering. This Group is aimed at empowering your understanding of your flow and uplifting all of those who menstruate to help ensure emotional and academic wellbeing
Date: Friday's running weekly from 25th September 2026
Time: 10.00 - 11.00am
Venue: Group Therapy Room, SCS, 7-9 Sth Leinster St
Facilitator: Joanna Kesicka
Are you struggling to find the time to just to sit down and feel grounded?
Too stressed to find a bit of breathing space?
Join our drop in guided mindfulness practice - no talking, just grounding, settling and resting. No registration or previous experience required.
Let's explore how to find calm and space in the face of increasing demands on our time and daily lives, with a curiousness and openness to work towards a better balance.
Sign Up Groups
Start Date: Tuesdays running weekly. Dates to follow. 
Time: 1pm - 3pm
Venue: Seminar Room (318), 7-9 South Leinster Street
Facilitators: Joanna Kesicka and Martin McAndrew
Surviving Your Postgraduate Experience (SYPE) is an 8-week support group exclusively for postgraduates who are experiencing one or a combination of the above common emotional and social challenges. It is co-facilitated by Student Counselling and the Postgraduate Advisory Service.
To register for group sign-up please email kesickaj@tcd.ie
Date: 6 biweekly sessions on Wednesdays starting 23rd September 2026
Time: 2.30pm - 4.00pm
Venue: Group room at South Leinster Street
Facilitators: Frances Walsh and Sinead Crowley
To register for group sign-up please email student-counselling@tcd.ie
Participants are asked to commit to attending all 6 sessions. The group is reflective by design and some ‘homework’ (e.g. journaling, testing strategies and self-care practices) between group meetings will be required
Date: Thursday's running weekly. Dates to follow.
Time: 6pm to 8pm
Venue: Trinity Sports
Facilitator: Graham King (Trinity Counselling Service) and Daniel Twomey (Trinity Sports)
Mind, Body, Boost is a custom designed fitness and mental health programme that includes mindfulness skills training, group inclusivity work, challenging physical activities and psychological support tools, while also addressing societal issues of social isolation and stress management. Trinity Sport and the Counselling Service will be recruiting participants shortly. To register your interest please email student-counselling@tcd.ie
Date: Fridays running weekly for 10 weeks. Dates to follow.
Time: 2.00pm- 3.30pm
Venue: 7 - 9 South Leinster Street, 3rd Floor, Seminar Room
Facilitators: Chuck Rashleigh
UP Group stands for Unified Protocol. It is a CBT based program with a focus on understanding, tolerating and accepting emotions. The group will be a mix of skills-based psychoeducation, homework, and process-based therapy. Each week contains general psychoeducation with modules tailored to specific elements of the emotional experience. Over the course of the group, we will be looking at:
Goal Setting
Understanding Emotions
Mindfulness
Cognitive Flexibility
Countering Emotional Behaviours
Facing Physical Symptoms of Emotions
Emotional Exposure
To register for group sign-up please email student-counselling@tcd.ie
Referral-only Groups
Date: Wednesdays
Time: Dates and times to follow
Venue: Group Room, SCS, 7-9 Sth Leinster Street
Facilitator: Mark Robinson and Lorraine Byrne
The Ongoing Therapy group at Trinity College SCS involves a group of up to ten students working with a group facilitator (therapist) in weekly therapy sessions. Group Therapy is a respected method of working through a wide range of distressing emotions such as depression, self esteem difficulties or discomfort in relationships. The characteristics of group therapy enable a type of interaction that is not possible in one to one counselling and offer a chance to learn through others, how to manage distress.
Learning Outcomes
- to explore emotional issues and receive support and reassurance from others
- to learn from others about how to manage distress and the chance to be creative about resolving these issues
- to achieve insight into repeated patterns of behaviour
- to increase confidence in group situations
- to improve ability to seek help when encountering problems
Referral is through your counsellor