Mental Health Groups 2025
The Centre for Family Medicine offers a variety of mental health groups. Please click on the groups below for more information. Questions? Please click here for frequently asked questions.
Boundaries for Improving Relationships
(open for registration - waitlist)
Boundaries for Improving Relationships
This group is for individuals who are looking to set boundaries and show up authentically in their relationships. It will help you to build relations that are mutually respectful and caring.
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support
(open for registration)
Pregnancy and Infant Loss Support
A supportive, compassionate, one-time group offered monthly, providing judgement-free space to process grief after pregnancy or infant loss, and to connect with others who understand.
Emotional First Aid
Emotional First Aid
This group is for individuals who experience their emotions with high intensity. If emotions interfere with daily life or feel out of control, learning these coping skills will help to manage those emotions.
Creative Pathways to Connection
Creative Pathyways to Connection
This is an experiential group for anyone interested in expressive art therapy, using expressive movement, art making and writing to support well-being.
Depression Map 2.0
Depression Map 2.0
This group will explore a variety of interventions to help people experiencing depression. Skills and exercises provided may be helpful for recovery and prevention of further depressive episodes.
More groups coming soon!
If you would like to share feedback about a group or have specific ideas for future group topics please fill out the survey by clikcing below.
Building Motivation for Making Change
(open for registration)
Building Motivation for Making Change
This group is for individuals who are looking for encouragement to change. Understanding values and strenghts, being committed to change, pros and cons of change and roadblocks to change.
Understanding and Managing Emotions
Understanding and Managing Emotions
This DBT informed skills group focuses on how emotions work in the brain and body; the function of emotions; how to change unwanted emotions and how to build positive emotions.
The Art of Presence - Mindfulness Group
The Art of Presence
This group explores a variety of formal and informal meditation practices helping you to connect with the present moment through simple, intentional artmaking.
Anxiety 101
Anxiety 101
The goal of this group is to provide you with new knowledge and skills in order to help decrease feelings of isolation as well as symptoms of anxiety.
Creating through Grief - workshop
Creating through Grief
This workshop is support session to explore many kinds of loss. We will share creative conversations and supportive time together as we navigate and honour life’s many losses.
Community Groups
Please click below to be directed to a list of free or low cost community groups offered in Kitchener-Waterloo.
FAQ'S
What are the benefits of a mental health group?
Participating in a mental health group has many benefits that we don’t get in individual therapy. In a mental health group, we get to meet and hear from other individuals who are going through struggles similar to us. This helps to reduce isolation and creates a sense of belonging and hope. Beyond that, we get to learn new information and skills that are applicable to our own mental health journey.
What can I expect?
All of the groups offered are psychoeducational, meaning the main goal of the group is to learn more about the topic at hand. Therapeutic processing in the group is a secondary goal, and so participation in class discussions or personal sharing is optional (but always welcome!). The first session will involve a short orientation, including introductions, a course outline, and group goals and expectations.
Will my participation in the mental health group be confidential?
In our mental health groups, “what you see here, hear here, and say here, stays here”. It is expected that when you participate in a mental health group, you will have a private space that in turn respects the privacy of our other group members.
If you have any additional questions about groups please call 519-578-2100 ext. 209