Find strength in numbers through a Community Wellness support or health-coaching group, learn about group-counseling options through MIT Medical’s Mental Health and Counseling Service, or talk to your mental health dorm liaison.
Group health-coaching classes
Eight-week group health-coaching 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
MIT Medical’s Student Mental Health and Counseling Services offers a variety of therapy, support, and discussion groups for MIT Students.
- Web: Group Counseling
- Contact: 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
New Parent Support Group
Join other new parents to meet and discuss the enormous changes being a new parent brings. Find support and community on such issues as feeding/breastfeeding/pumping, sleep, post-partum challenges, physical changes, exhaustion and new identity/roles. Community Wellness offers two types of support groups: an in-person, peer-led group and a virtual group with a Parenting Educator.
- Web: Classes & Programs: Postpartum
- Contact:
- wellness@med.mit.edu
- 617-253-1316
Nourish
This student wellness group on eating and body image meets Friday afternoons at MIT Medical.
- Web: medical.mit.edu/speakersworkshops
- Contact: Zan Barry
