Find strength in numbers through a Community Wellness support or health-coaching group, learn about group-counseling options through MIT Health’s Student Mental Health and Counseling Service, or talk to your mental health dorm liaison.
Group health-coaching workshops and classes
Group health-coaching workshops and classes are available on an ongoing basis. With a health-coaching class, you can benefit from support and accountability as you work on health-behavior changes with a group of people who have similar goals. You can even sign up with a friend. View schedule and registration information.
- Web: Health and Wellness Coaching
- Contact:
- wellness@med.mit.edu
- 617-253-1316
Group counseling for MIT students
MIT Health’s Student Mental Health & Counseling Services offers a variety of support, discussion, and skill-based groups for MIT Students. To learn more about any group, contact the group leader(s).
- Web: Group Counseling
- Contact: Student Mental Health & Counseling Services, 617-253-2916
MIT Spouses & Partners Connect
Did you come to MIT with your husband, wife, or significant other? This group organizes activities that help you make friends, learn a new language, and get information about living, working, and parenting in Boston.
- Web: MIT Spouses & Partners Connect
- Contact:
- Jennifer Recklet Tassi, program manager
- (617) 253-1614
MIT Parent Support Group
Join other parents in the MIT community to meet and discuss the enormous changes being a parent brings. Find support and community on such issues as feeding/breastfeeding/pumping, sleep, postpartum challenges, physical changes, exhaustion and new identity/roles. This group mainly focuses on the birth parent’s transitions and support, but spouses/partners are welcome to attend. The group is facilitated by a parenting educator and breastfeeding counselor.
- Web: Classes & Programs
- Contact:
- wellness@med.mit.edu
- 617-253-1316