Our Office
UMatter
Inside the Counseling Center
Student Services Center, Room 430
Chico, CA 95929-0702
530-898-3456
umatter@csuchico.edu
Regular Hours
8 a.m.–5 p.m.
Monday–Friday
Celeste Torres-Luis
"Hello everyone! My name is Celeste Torres-Luis (She/Her/Hers/Herself) and I am a third year Marriage and Family Therapist graduate student at Chico State. I am a peer coach through the WellCat Counseling Center and I will be holding a mindfulness group for the spring 2021 semester. In these sessions, we would be practicing different mindfulness techniques that I have utilized with myself and clients which I found to be beneficial such as breathing techniques, body scans, meditations, utilizing the five senses, grounding techniques and more. This is important to help you increase your self-awareness and the ability to relate to others and one's self with acceptance, compassion, and kindness. I will have a journal prompt each week and I would encourage you, if you can, to journal about your experience using mindfulness. I will also have us utilize many different resources to practice mindfulness like phone apps, worksheets, books, and more. Mindfulness has really helped my personal well-being and mental health and I think it can help you too. In my eyes, this peer coaching experience is about collaboratively working together which allows me to be a support for you and provide guidance to help you enhance your intellectual and personal development. If you are interested in becoming a part of this journey to cultivate mindfulness in your own life, then I welcome you to join me in practicing mindfulness! Thank you!"
