The University Counseling Center is a place where students get help for personal, emotional, psychological, and family problems. Succeeding with academic work often depends on effectively dealing with emotional and social issues. Because understanding and dealing with a situation before it reaches a crisis stage usually leaves more options, students are encouraged to seek help sooner, rather than later. The Center is open twelve months of the year.
We provide counseling for a full range of problems. Some students come for help with self-esteem or relationship issues, others after a trauma such as an assault, and others when they are feeling anxious, depressed, overwhelmed, or angry.
Common problems include:
- Anxiety/stress
- Depression/sadness
- Relationship problems
- Loneliness
- Anger
- Inability to concentrate/study
- Lack of motivation
- Eating problems
- Worry about AIDS
- Emotional/physical/sexual abuse
- Alcohol/drug problems
- Sexuality issues
- Feeling rejected
- Family problems
- Death of someone you love
- Overload: Juggling family and school
- Shyness
- Identity issues
Students who are in crisis or need psychiatric services for an ongoing or acute condition can also be seen by a staff psychiatrist after an initial assessment appointment. The Center may recommend individual therapy, group therapy, support groups, couple therapy, or family therapy.
