May is Mental Health Awareness Month

May is Mental Health Awareness Month 🧠💚

This month, we’re spotlighting events, resources, and creative ways to care for your mental health—because wellness is more than just managing stress. From art-based healing and community dialogues to therapy access and movement workshops, there are many ways to connect, reflect, and recharge. Join us in building a culture of care at UChicago, where mental health matters every day.

Check out these Mental Health-related events in Chicago:

• Join the Emerging Minds Project on May 7th for Mental Health and Community, a peer-led conversation on how  identity, community, and mental health are deeply connected.

• Attend the Center on Halsted's Feel Good Fest on May 20th, a free, creative mental health event with collaging, zine making, voguing, and more—plus on-site sign-ups for group therapy with Center on Halsted!
• Healing Arts Chicago offers ongoing, free creative classes—like yoga, painting, music, and storytelling—to support mental health year-round at Chicago’s Mental Health Centers.

Highlighted Event: Maroon Mental Health Matters

Maroon Mental Health Matters

🗓️ Saturday, June 14 | 9:00 AM–12:30 PM

📍 Student Wellness Center (840 E 59th St)

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Want to feel more confident helping someone in mental health distress? Maroon Mental Health Matters is a free, in-person training tailored for the UChicago community. Through role-playing, discussion, and hands-on practice, you’ll learn how to recognize signs of distress, respond with care, and connect others to the right resources—while helping build a stronger culture of support on campus.

🍩 Snacks and breakfast provided for students!
Can't make it? Join the waitlist to hear about future sessions.

Study Break

Get Your Personalized Mental Health Tip

Feeling overwhelmed, blah, or just curious about how to take better care of your mind? This quick quiz matches your current mood with a simple, doable mental health tip—whether it’s moving your body, connecting with someone, or taking a quiet moment for yourself. Your brain deserves it. 💆‍♀️💬🌿

👉 Take the quiz!

Video of the Week

How to Talk to the Worst Parts of Yourself

Note: This talk discusses suicidal ideation.

In this powerful and unexpectedly funny TED Talk, empathy trainer Karen Faith explores what it means to truly welcome every part of yourself—including the parts that feel hardest to love. Through her own story of confronting suicidal ideation and embracing vulnerability, she offers insight, hope, and a reminder that healing often begins with empathy—especially for ourselves.

Wellness Resources

Therapy Groups

Group therapy at UChicago Student Wellness offers a supportive, nonjudgmental space where students can share openly, gain perspective, and grow alongside others facing similar challenges.

Guided by counselors, group sessions help you feel heard, validated, and less alone—while offering tools and insights that can clarify your own path forward.

Let's Talk

Want to talk something through—no pressure, no appointment, and no commitment? Let’s Talk offers free, informal consultations with therapists from UChicago Student Wellness.

It’s a great way to get support, ask questions, or check in—whether or not you’re interested in ongoing therapy. Appointments are in-person, first-come, first-served.

TimelyCare

Eligible students can now receive free, virtual mental health support—including on-demand and scheduled appointments—with licensed providers through TimelyCare.

This resource complements existing in-person and virtual services offered by Student Wellness, including therapy, psychiatric care, support spaces, and more. With TimelyCare, students have even more flexibility and access to care, anytime and anywhere.

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