Support Groups

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

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