Wellness + Counseling

Our licensed mental health clinicians will help a student determine if their needs can or cannot be met through Wellness + Counseling (W+C). The different factors influencing the decision can be complex. Most often, external referrals are based upon the students’ need for longer term, specialized or more intensive treatment. If a referral appears to be the best way for the student to receive the treatment needed, the W+C staff will do their best to connect the student to a suitable provider.

Factors may include:

• Students whose schedules do not fit with W+C’s hours of operation
• Students who demonstrate a serious lack of motivation or engagement in treatment, as evidenced by poor attendance to appointments or lack of follow through on recommendations
• Students who are already receiving counseling services from another provider
• Students in need of ongoing or intensive support to treat chronic, serious mental health conditions
• Students with issues that may require a student to be seen more than 1x/week
• Students experiencing significant levels of distress, who need immediate inpatient or attentive outpatient care and/or are suffering a severe disruption in their ability to function
• Students for whom a short term treatment model would be detrimental or inappropriate to diagnosis or clinical issues
• Students with a history of numerous suicide attempts, severe self injury or multiple psychiatric hospitalizations
• Students with significant or chronic disordered eating symptoms which require intensive outpatient or residential treatment
• Students with significant or chronic substance abuse which requires intensive outpatient treatment, residential treatment, detox or hospitalization
• Students with active psychotic symptoms at risk for progressive deterioration of functioning and in need of intensive treatment for stabilization
• Students whose needs fall outside the clinical expertise of W+C staff

We are unable to provide formal diagnosis for ADHD or Autism due to the extensive assessment and testing that is required. We encourage you to work with your primary care provider, insurance, or psychiatric provider for assessment and diagnosis.

We are happy to help you with support, coping skills and resources. You should also utilize our Disability Accommodations. 

Our clinical therapists do not prescribe or manage medications. However, for mild to moderate depression and anxiety cases, we may make recommendations based on the needs of the student and arrange a treatment plan in partnership with our established medical referrals.

All clinical service records are kept confidential, and are separate from academic and judicial records at the college.

If you or someone you know has experienced sexual assault, you are welcome to discuss your situation with our counselors in a confidential manner. The clinical counselors and nurse practitioners are not Title IX mandated reporters, however, you may discuss reporting options with them.

Students can meet with a counselor for a brief solution focused session (20 min or less) or just to see what counseling is about. No appointment needed, just walk into our 2nd floor office on Tuesday and Thursday from 11 a.m. – 12:30 p.m. during the school year. Telehealth appointments can be accommodated as well during these hours. While this service may be used during a wait for a formal appointment, this should not be utilized by students already seeing a clinician on a regular basis.

All students are eligible for free online counseling and crisis support with Uwill (app.uwill.com).

• 24 hours a day, 7 days a week via phone or chat
• Multilingual support available: English, Spanish, French, Mandarin & Cantonese (Simplified Chinese chat)

Your information is private and confidential so no one – including your family, friends, or professors – will ever know you used the program unless you choose to tell them.

Access support anytime, anywhere by visiting Uwill.

24/7 National Suicide Prevention Lifeline – call or text 988
24 hour Text Support: Text HELLO to 741-741
Wayne County 24 hour crisis line: 313-224-7000
Trevor Project: 1-866-488-7386
Trans Lifeline: 1-877-565-8860