The Center is administratively responsible to the Vice President for Student Affairs and Services and is the principal agency on campus offering psychological services to the University's 45,000 undergraduate and graduate students. The Center and its services are accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services. The multicultural, multidisciplinary professional staff are actively engaged in therapy, graduate training, and scholarly endeavors. Staff diversity encompasses the realms of race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, physical ability, and clinical specialty. Five racial groups are represented among the professional staff.
Many staff utilize multicultural, cognitive and feminist, approaches.
The Counseling Center is located in two branch offices on campus which offer counseling to the general student population. The second office, which is located in the Olin Health Center, also houses a Substance Abuse program and functions as liaison to medical and psychiatric staff. It enrolls 45,000 students on the East Lansing campus, about one-fourth of whom are graduate students. The University offers baccalaureate, masters, and doctoral degrees in a variety of fields, including four medical colleges. East Lansing, four miles from downtown Lansing, is a residential community with a population of approximately 51,000.