Welcome to PodCAPS - where mental health matters! This is a podcast run by the UT Arlington CAPS student outreach team, your very own CAPS Ambassadors. We&#39;ll be discussing various mental health topics and talking about services available to students on campus. Follow us on our social media (@uta_caps) and let us know what mental health matters you&#39;d like to hear us speak on.

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The holiday season can bring connection, joy, and celebration—but it can also come with stress, grief, family conflict, and emotional overwhelm. In this episode of PodCAPS, UTA CAPS Ambassadors Nico Nino, Travis Wainscott, and Leslie Pacheco explore how the holidays can impact mental health and share practical strategies for coping, setting boundaries, and prioritizing self-care.Whether the holidays feel exciting, complicated, or exhausting, this conversation offers validation, insight, and support for navigating the season with intention.

PodCAPS Spring 2026 Eps 1: Holidays and Mental Health

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Please join our UTA CAPS Ambassadors Nico Nino, Jaydelin Resendiz, Anakaren Maldonaldo and Emily Herrera for the first episode of PodCAPS of Spring 2025. The CAPS Ambassadors discuss “Pressure Regarding Majors”

PodCAPS Spring 2025 Ep.1: Pressure Regarding Majors

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Please join our UTA CAPS Ambassadors Nico Nino, Anakaren Maldonaldo and Emily Herrera. In the first episode of PodCAPS of Fall 2024, they have conversation about Hispanic mental health.

Fall 2024 Ep1 UTA PodCAPS: Hispanic Mental Health

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Please enjoy the CAPS Ambassadors (Nico Nino, Yris Burciaga, Daniela Ventura and Leslie Duarte) discussion about managing relationships in college.

UTA PodCAPS Spring 2024: Relationships in College

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Join UTA CAPS Ambassadors discussion about adulting and adjusting to the college environment.

PodCAPS: Adulting

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Please enjoy the CAPS Ambassadors 2nd PodCaps release of Fall 2023. Join their discussion about common issues they faced transitioning into college. Please join UTA CAPS for Fresh Check on Wednesday10/4/23 11am-2pm at UTA central library mall! Check in on your mental health, free food and giveaways.

UTA PodCAPS: Impact of Transition in College

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Welcome back MAVS! Please enjoy the CAPS Ambassadors 1st PodCaps release of Fall 2023. This was recorded at the end of Fall 2022 and is a discussion about 1st generation college students.

UTA PodCAPS: First Generation Students

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Whether you feel your parents are too much of a friend for you or too much of a parent, or if you feel it is hard to maintain a healthy boundary with them, then this episode is for you. In the first episode of the new season, 5 CAPS ambassadors (Julissa, Haleigh, Brittany, Daniel and Reza) discuss their personal feelings, challenges and perspectives about their relationships with their parents very openly.

Relationship with Parents

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Reza, Ayleanna and Andrew, three UTA CAPS ambassadors, honestly share what helps them to stay motivated and where they have struggled to do so. Music: Chill Days by Lakey Inspired

How to Stay Motivated?

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Four ambassadors from CAPS at UTA with a special guest, Dr. Cindy Manzano, debunk the myths regarding counseling and talk about what it is like to go to counseling. After the departure of Andrea, Andrew Arias is the new member of the PodCAPS team joining the old faithful members in Reza, Ayleanna and Daniel. Music: Chill Days by Lakey Inspired

Counseling and Therapy

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In this episode, CAPS ambassadors, Andrea Savkovic, Ayleanna Westbrooks, Reza Ghoddoosian and Daniel Luna openly talk about their social media life and the effects it has had on them over the years. It seems like our feelings about social media are more similar than one might expect...

Social Media

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New academic year means new PodCAPS season! Season 2 of PodCAPS from CAPS at UTA is back to pick up where it left off. After a few months of social distancing, remote studies and life under the dark cloud of COVID-19, CAPS ambassadors, Reza Ghoddoosian, Andrea Savkovic and Ayleanna Westbrooks open up about how their lives have been affected in these tough times, although it seems like not everything has been gloomy .... Share your feedback, questions and stories with usemail: utapodcaps@gmail.comIG and Twitter: @uta_caps

Quarantine Special II

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A month under quarantine, CAPS Intern Aria Green, along with Ambassadors Christina Gorman, Reza Ghoddoosian, and Sanjog &#34;Fluke&#34; Lamichhane discuss the ways motivation and structure are impacted by being stuck at home.

A month under quarantine, the CAPS Ambassadors discuss the ways motivation and structure are impacted by being stuck at home.

Motivation: Stuck at Home

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So, a global pandemic hit and derailed what episodes we had planned - but we&#39;re still here. From their own homes, Intern Aria Green is joined by CAPS Amabssadors Christina Gorman, Jed Aquillo, Reza Ghoddoosian, Sarah Kim, and Daniel Luna. The group comes together to tell you how they&#39;ve been doing under stay-at-home orders, and discuss the mental health implications of COVID-19.

So, a global pandemic hit and derailed what episodes we had planned - but we're still here. From their own homes, members of the CAPS Amabssadors team tell you how they've been doing under stay-at-home orders, and discuss the mental health implications of COVID-19.

So, a global pandemic hit and derailed what episodes we had planned - but we&#39;re still here. From their own homes, members of the CAPS Amabssadors team tell you how they&#39;ve been doing under stay-at-home orders, and discuss the mental health implications of COVID-19.

Quarantine Special

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Two of our CAPS Ambassadors, Nursing Junior Christina Gorman and Psychology Alumni Jed Aquillo, respond to your requests: how to deal with academic anxiety in college.

Two of our CAPS Ambassadors, Nursing Junior Christina Gorman and Psychology Alumni Jed Aquillo, respond to your requests: how to deal with academic anxiety in college.

Anxiety & Academics

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Welcome to PodCAPS - where mental health matters! This is a podcast run by the UT Arlington CAPS student outreach team, your very own CAPS Ambassadors. Today Intern Aria Green and Ambassador Jada Cheatham discuss just what this podcast plans to accomplish..

Welcome to PodCAPS - where mental health matters! This is a podcast run by the UT Arlington CAPS student outreach team, your very own CAPS Ambassadors. Today we discuss just what this podcast plans to accomplish.

Welcome

Welcome to PodCAPS - where mental health matters! This is a podcast run by the UT Arlington CAPS student outreach team, your very own CAPS Ambassadors.

Welcome to PodCAPS - where mental health matters! This is a podcast run by the UT Arlington CAPS student outreach team, your very own CAPS Ambassadors. We'll be discussing various mental health topics and talking about services available to students on campus.