The Center for Counseling and Wellness Programs
The Center for Counseling and Wellness Programs provides professional confidential counseling and available to all students enrolled in Saint Joseph College's undergraduate Women's College, the Graduate Schools, and/or Weekend Program for Adult Learners.
Students seek counseling for myriad reasons including, but not limited to, stress, relationship issues, adjustment problems, and increasingly more serious issues of depression, anxiety, and other mood and psychological disorders. The personal growth and the sound mental health and safety of our students are important to our entire campus community. Therefore, it is quite common for members of the Faculty and Staff to refer students for counseling. Students also refer other students, especially when they have been clients at the Counseling Center and can add their personal reassurances of the respectful and professional care our clients receive.
We provide individual counselin and group counseling depending on the need. The Center has a short-term model of counseling with the number of sessions dependent upon the needs of each student and the mutual goals for treatment agreed upon between the counselor and the student.
One of the psychological services we provide is having a consulting psychiatrist available regularly in the counseling center for those students who would benefit from a psychiatric or medication evaluation. Although the psychiatrist's services are free of charge to students, filling and paying for any prescriptions written is the responsibility of the students.
Another service is providing appropriate mental health tests and assessments. The counselors use these in the counseling center, as well as participating in National Mental Health Screening Days, but year-round 24/7 Online Mental Health Screening is also available to students and can be accessed from the Counseling Center's web pages in the Student Life section of mySJC.
We believe it is important to serve as a resource for the entire campus community and are actively involved in Outreach, from individualized programs in classrooms to larger programs with special guest presenters open to all. In the reception area of the counseling center there is a wall of free brochures on various issues common to college students, as well as a lending library of books available from the counselors. The Center is open during the academic year while classes are in session, Monday - Friday, 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m., and all services are free of charge. Except for emergencies, counseling sessions are scheduled appointments. Appointments can be made by calling the Health and Counseling Center's main telephone at 860.231.5530, or extension 5530 if calling from on campus. Appointments can also be made in person by coming to the center which is located in The Little Red House.
