The Counseling Centers mission is to help students, faculty and staff to maximize their potential through the problem solving process. The belief is that exploration and understanding of feelings, thoughts and behaviors encourages personal growth, enhances coping skills, and uses emotional energies creatively and positively. A primary goal is to provide services that help each individual grow and develop emotionally, interpersonally and intellectually. Sessions provide an opportunity to learn and practice skills for healthy living in a proactive way. Counseling is a conversational process that can be instrumental in the development of skills that help students effectively confront and cope with uncertainties and conflicts.
Counseling can take a number of forms.
At the Counseling Center, individual, group, and couples counseling are offered. Individual counseling provides an opportunity to learn to make better decisions, improve one s relationships, and generally increase personal effectiveness. With the help of a counselor, a person can explore feelings and express them better, examine beliefs, and work toward making healthy changes. Group counseling offers an individual a chance to understand feelings and change problem behaviors with the support of peers with similar concerns. Recent groups have focused on such topics as managing stress, coping with grief, surviving trauma, and dealing with dysfunctional families.