University Counselling Service
Series associated with University Counselling Service
How to Find Your People
Introducing CBT for low mood and depression
Preparing for your Undergraduate Time Abroad
| # | Episode Title | Description | People | Date | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12 | Episode 3 - Doing the social rounds and reflecting on loneliness | Doing the social rounds and reflecting on loneliness | Elizabeth Edginton | 13 Oct 2025 | |
| 11 | Episode 2 - Finding your people | Looking for friends and breaking the ice | Elizabeth Edginton | 13 Oct 2025 | |
| 10 | Episode 1 - Friends | What do we mean by ‘friends’ and what might impact the size and composition of our friendship group? | Elizabeth Edginton | 13 Oct 2025 | |
| 9 | Part III – Getting Organised for Your Time Abroad (And Coming Home Afterwards) | In this third podcast, you’ll be asked to do a bit of contingency planning in preparation for your time abroad and coming home afterwards. | Elizabeth Edginton | 11 Apr 2024 | |
| 8 | Part II – Preparing for Culture Shock | This second podcast encourages you to think about the different stages of culture shock and some of the potential difficulties you might experience. | Elizabeth Edginton | 11 Apr 2024 | |
| 7 | Part 1 – Reflecting on Previous Experiences of Transition and Change | The aim of this first podcast is to help you to begin to reflect on some of your thoughts and feelings about your time abroad as an Oxford undergraduate. | Elizabeth Edginton | 11 Apr 2024 | |
| 6 | 6: Self-Criticism | This sixth podcast in the CBT for Low Mood series focuses on self-criticism. It looks at why we can be so critical of ourselves and when this can become a problem, and introduces three tips and tools to help you deal with unhelpful self-criticism. | Jonathan Totman | 21 Apr 2022 | |
| 5 | 5: Ten Tips for Coping in a Crisis | This fifth podcast in the CBT for Low Mood series focuses on those times when you’re feeling most desperate, hopeless or overwhelmed, offering some practical suggestions for how to cope and look after yourself during a mental health crisis. | Jonathan Totman | 07 Feb 2022 | |
| 4 | 4: A Tool for Dealing with Worry and Rumination | This fourth podcast focuses on two patterns of thinking that often come with low mood and depression: worry and rumination. | Jonathan Totman | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 3 | 3: Rules for living (and how to break them) | This third podcast focuses on the implicit “rules” affecting how you think and behave, helping you to spot when they’re serving you well and when they might be overly rigid or exacting. | Jonathan Totman | 18 Jan 2021 | |
| 2 | 2: Six troublesome thoughts and how to respond | This second CBT podcast focuses on the "C" of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), looking at ways in which low mood and depression can affect your thinking and introducing the key cognitive techniques of thought monitoring and thought challenging. | Jonathan Totman, Oxford University Counselling Service | 15 Oct 2020 | |
| 1 | 1: Doing more of what matters to you | This first episode on CBT looks at some of the ways in which low mood and depression can manifest in students, and introduces a central cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) strategy known as "behavioural activation". | Jonathan Totman, Oxford University Counselling Service | 15 Oct 2020 |