Online Support Groups Near Columbia, South Carolina
Whether you are in Lexington, Irmo, West Columbia, Blythewood or somewhere else in the Midlands, ShareWell has live online support groups for people who never quite moved to the city because they go home every weekend. Columbia is ringed by small towns an hour away, and a lot of its residents live two lives, one at work and one back where they came from.
Every group meets online by live video, so you can join from home.
These online groups start during the day and evening in Eastern time, so they fit a day near Columbia.
Upcoming Groups
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Going home every weekend
People come to Columbia from Sumter, Orangeburg, Camden, Newberry and a hundred smaller places for the university, the state jobs, the hospitals and the base. They rent an apartment and keep their real address in their head. Friday afternoon means the drive home to help a mother with errands, sit with a grandfather, attend the church they grew up in and show up for the cousin's birthday, and Sunday night means the drive back. That leaves no weekends to build a life in the city, so the weeknights are spent alone, and the hometown slowly becomes a place where you are a visitor too. Add a parent whose health is slipping and the weekend trips become obligation instead of comfort. Living in the middle like this can go on for years.
How peer support helps near Columbia
A peer group gives you one thing that belongs to neither place. It meets online at the same time each week, so it comes with you whether you are in the apartment in Columbia or the back bedroom at home, and the people in it know what it is like to be needed in two places at once.
What members near Columbia talk about
- Feeling like a visitor in your hometown and your city both
- Weekends spent on family duty instead of your own life
- Worry about a parent whose health is changing
- Loneliness on weeknights with nobody to call
Who these groups may help
- Young professionals and students from small-town South Carolina
- The child who drives home every week because nobody else will
- Adults caring for a parent an hour away
- Anyone who has not felt at home anywhere in a while
Support group topics for people near Columbia
Every topic has its own page with live groups, so you can start with the one closest to what you are carrying.
Areas around Columbia
Every group meets online, so you can join from home anywhere around Columbia.
- Lexington
- Irmo
- West Columbia
- Cayce
- Forest Acres
- Blythewood
- Chapin
- Sumter
- Richland County
- The Midlands
Crisis and help lines near Columbia
ShareWell groups are peer support and are not crisis or emergency services. If you or someone near you is in danger, call 911, or call or text 988 to reach the Suicide & Crisis Lifeline at any hour.
- SC Mobile Crisis833-364-2274
All of South Carolina, 24 hours a day, every day
Official site
Support groups in other cities
Frequently asked questions
Do I need to live in Columbia to join?
Can I join from my parents' house on the weekend?
I am a student at USC. Is this for me?
Which group should I start with?
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