Want to feel more confident supporting friends through tough times?
Check out Skills to Enhance Peer Support (STEPS) for Fall 2025 Workshops to build your skills in communication, bystander intervention, responding to disclosures, supporting mental health, and understanding diversity and inclusion. Facilitated by the Office of Student Affairs, these workshops are ideal for students pursuing leadership roles, students pursuing helping professions like social work or nursing, and anyone who wants to foster a safer, more supportive campus community - and carry those skills with them beyond university.
"Look for the helpers. You will always find people who are helping". - Fred Rogers
Fall 2025 Offerings
Therapeutic groups and educational workshops on mental health-related topics are offered at different points throughout the academic year (September-April). Consider joining if you're interested in connecting to a community with shared experiences.
Surfing the Waves of Emotions:
Do your emotions sit with you for a long time? Is this having a negative impact on your life? Join us for a 8-week, Dialectal Behaviour Therapy (DBT) informed group, that focuses on learning skills for regulating intense emotions and getting through distressing situations.
Wednesday from 2:30 - 4:00 PM in Otonabee College OCA 128
- Starting October 1st, 2025 - November 26th, 2025
- Email counselling@trentu.ca to express interest!
Looking for the SAS Circle? Please reach out to Student Accessibility Services (SAS) for more information, or stay updated by following @Trent.SAS on Instagram for announcements about upcoming group meetings.
Peterborough Community Partners Groups and Workshops
Please visit the links below for current information:
Canadian Mental Health Association
Community Counselling Resource Centre
Peterborough Family Health Team