The URI Counseling Center is here to help!

The URI Counseling Center cares about the mental, physical, and emotional well being of our students. We are continuing to meet with and support students remotely.

Enjoy our “Friends” parody video!

The URI Counseling Center has a fun and “Friendly” message for our students: We hope this brings you a smile and a reminder that we are here for you!

5 Tips to Sleep Well During the Pandemic

URI Psychologist, Dr. Warren Schwartz, discusses common sleep challenges during the pandemic and provides some tips about how to improve your sleep schedule and sleep more continuously and deeply.                   

Sponsored by the URI Counseling Center

Exercise for Positive Mental Health

URI Counseling Center psychologist, Michael Starkey, explains how exercise can positively influence mental health by keeping you present, focused, and engaged in novel experience—all through movement. He’ll show you five different burpee progressions. Once you’ve learned them, he challenges you to pick a burpee level and complete a timed AMRAP (as many reps as possible).                   

Sponsored by The URI Counseling Center

On-Demand Group Exercise Classes

Try a class led by one of our URI Campus Rec certified instructors at your own convenience! From a 5-minute exercise break to a 30-minute class, choose an option that works best for you!                   

Sponsored by Campus Recreation

Managing Panic Attacks

This video gives a brief overview of panic attacks and why they occur, along with relaxation skills that can be used to manage your experiences of panic.                   

Sponsored by: The URI Psychological Consultation Center

Holistic University Podcast

When it comes to your fitness and wellness journey, you aren’t in it alone. Follow our Well-being Coaches on the Holistic University Podcast for wellness information and real discussions to help you navigate your wellness and stay connected.             

Sponsored by Campus Recreation

Staying Connected During a Global Pandemic

This video provides 6 practical ways to stay connected with friends and family while staying safe and practicing social distancing.                   

Sponsored by: The URI Psychological Consultation Center

Getting Bored? Here‘s A List Of Free Things That Weren‘t Free Before Coronavirus

Some companies, musicians and others are lending their services and talents for free in an effort to help all of us make it through these uncertain times with a bit more ease. Here are a few of them.

HearMe

Not everyone needs therapy, but we all need someone to talk to. With HearMe, you can anonymously connect with an empathetic HearMe Listener 24 hours a day - for free.

Quarantine Chat app

Talk on the phone with someone else stuck at home.    

Quarantine Chat simulates the magic of having a surprise conversation with someone—something that is becoming increasingly rare during the times of a viral epidemic.

Watch: Chefs Offer Online Cooking Demos During Coronavirus Pandemic

Want to explore your culinary side while spending more time inside? Check out these online cooking tutorials with some of your favorite celebrity chefs.

Resources for anxiety and your mental health in a global climate of uncertainty.

Think of this as your mental health toolkit during this time: A wealth of research-backed helpful tools for you—articles, meditations, access to mental health experts, anxiety screenings, and more.

Self Compassion

Self-compassion is a wonderful inner resource we all have that can help us navigate difficult times and feelings. It entails being warm and understanding toward ourselves when we suffer, fail or feel inadequate. Want to know more? Learn and practice self-compassion with Dr. Kristin Neff.

Quarantine Karaoke

Love to sing or just want to smile? Check out Quarantine Karaoke People are encouraged to post videos of yourself singing your favorite songs to distract from the world pandemic and pull each other closer together. Positive vibes only -- and FUN is a requirement!

Worry and Anxiety

Our world is changing rapidly at the moment. Given some of the news coverage, it would be hard not to worry about what it all means for yourself, and for those you love. Psychology Tools put together this free guide to help you to manage your worry and anxiety in these uncertain times (it is found below the links to pdf translations).

Thriving Inside

Thrive Inside is a special initiative to help you stay calm and healthy in the physical constraints of your home, while remaining calm and healthy inside your mind.

Quarantined College Morning Routine

Having trouble setting up your morning routine to do your best in online classes during the quarantine?                         

Check out this video by Tomar Thomas, a senior nursing student who has some good tips about how to approach each day of at home in a positive and productive manner.

Coronavirus: Mental Health Coping Strategies

The coronavirus can significantly affect mental health for everyone, but especially for those with mental illness.                              

Acknowledging, recognizing and acting on mental distress in these uncertain times is key to lessening the impact.

Grieving the Loss of Life as We knew it

If you’re feeling the weight of grief right now, you’re not alone. Grief is a normal reaction to losing something we care about, and much has been lost in the fallout from the coronavirus—even if we haven’t lost someone we love to the illness.

Live cam from The San Diego Zoo

Get your adorable animal fix thru these live zoo webcams

Healthy Sleep Habits in the Time of COVID-19

During our usual hectic lives, sleep often gets pushed to the bottom of the priority list. While on lock-down, we now have some time to attend to this important third of our existence and make room for healthy sleep habits that will help us get through the quarantine—and beyond.

Trouble sleeping? CBT-I might help

Sleep difficulties are common and normal during stressful times. If symptoms persist or interfere with your ability to function, Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for Insomnia (CBT-I might), might help.  If you are interested in learning more, check out this video and call us for information about how you can receive this helpful treatment.

Enjoying the world of Art through virtual tours

Stuck at home? Closed museums offer art lovers virtual opportunities to explore works from among the world’s leading collections online. Take a look!

Eating Support during COVID-19

@covid19eatingsupport is offering round the clock support so you can eat your meals and snacks in the company of others!

Eating Disorder Support Groups

Check out this comprehensive list of virtual eating disorder support groups, with groups running seven days a week!

Yoga with Adriene (and her dog Benji!)

Adriene’s mission is to connect as many people as possible through high-quality FREE yoga videos. She welcomes all levels, all bodies, all genders, all souls!                              

Yoga with Adriene was recognized by Google as the most searched workout of 2015, was recognized by The Wall Street Journal, and was awarded a Streamy in Health and Wellness in 2016.

Y12SR (Yoga of 12 Step Recovery)

Y12SR “connects the dots” between the ancient wisdom of yoga, the practical tools of 12-step programs, and the latest research on trauma healing and neurobiology.                                               

As part of a holistic recovery program, it works in tandem with traditional treatment to address the physical, mental and spiritual disease of addiction.

How I Secretly Quit My Secret Habit of Secretly Drinking

Whether you are new to peer recovery support or returning, there are a lot of on-line peer support resources out there right now. Try out a few different ones here - meetings, blogs, podcasts. Most are available 24/7!