Services Offered:
How can counseling services
help someone like me?
Counseling Services can help you with
a wide variety of personal difficulties, such as self-esteem,
depression, sexual identity, relationship conflicts, eating disorders,
and family concerns.
Personal counseling within a supportive, professional environment
can help you understand yourself better and gain healthy coping
strategies.
Counseling can help you:
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Identify and resolve personal,
social, emotional, or academic
problems
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Develop decision-making skills
needed to meet the challenges of living and learning
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Develop academic skills needed to
meet the challenges of the classroom
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Talk
about things you couldn’t discuss with a friend, roommate or family
member.
Types of
Services:
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Individual Counseling: Meet with a counselor for regularly scheduled individualized
sessions.
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Group Counseling: Meet with 6 to 8 other students with similar problems to
discuss those areas that interfere with functioning at an optimal
level.
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Wellness Workshops: Specific groups and seminars that focus on various life
skills (e.g., stress management, time management, assertiveness,
anger management, and relaxation training).
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Consultation:
Provided to students, staff, and faculty who may be concerned about
a particular student but aren’t sure how to approach him/her.
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Referral to a Community Agency:
Because we offer primarily short-term counseling, we provide
referral information to appropriate community resources to help
students whose needs are beyond the scope of our services.
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Testing Accommodations:
Students who have documented disabilities and receive
services through the Office of Disabilities may receive testing
accommodations through our office.
Confidentiality:
In Counseling Services, confidentiality is a high priority
and is respected to the limits provided law and judicial decisions.
The most obvious exception to confidentiality is in the case of imminent
harm to self or others. Other exceptions include child or elder
neglect/abuse. No record of a student's use of personal counseling
is kept in placement files or on official transcripts. No
information about a student (who is 18 years or older) can be shared
with another (even a parent) without that student's written
authorization. |