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University of California, Berkeley

Hope Scholars Program

Providing free mental health supports to students.

Berkeley Hope Scholars Program is committed to creating a safe and welcoming community where students have a sense of belonging. Together, humanest and Berkeley Hope Scholars Program enhance this community through mental health supports that are geared toward inclusion and mutual growth and healing.

Connect with others in the NEST

Struggling to stay on top of goals?
Striving to sustain behavioral change?
Team up!

This unique, anonymous online space helps you to set goals–academic, personal, or interpersonal–and have a group of peers to hold you accountable to follow through. Our online message boards are moderated by counselors, so you get expert guidance on your own schedule, coupled with peer support.

Services include:

  • Text-based expert-moderated peer forums

  • Counselor-led psychoeducation courses

  • Drop in video groups

Available to all UC Berkeley students.

Upcoming Events

Courses

One-two weeks of text-based exercises that can be done at your convenience. Get accountability and support, anonymously, from your counselor AND fellow group members.

  • Improve your listening skills - starts Mar 4

  • Supporting Others with Mental Health - starts Mar 11

  • Reduce Stress with CBT - starts Mar 18

Drop in groups

Held weekly, these drop in online groups are an opportunity to gain perspective and connect with others. Cameras optional.

  • Guided Journaling - pause and reflect on your day, Wednesdays at 8:30am PT

  • Creative de-Stress Online - art for self-therapy and relief, Thursdays at 3pm PT

  • Calming Yoga - calming and grounding exercises, Fridays at 3pm PT

  • Mindful Moments - Guided meditation for stress relief, Saturdays at 7:30am PT

Book an Individual Therapy Session

humanest offers diverse counseling services, available when you need them.

(Available for clients in California only. Couples therapy or psychiatry referral is not available.)

Sessions open 1 day to 3 weeks in future.

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Choose Your Therapist

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