About us
The Counseling Service is part of the Division of Student Life and supports the MHC mission by helping students address mental health challenges that impede their progress toward achieving their full academic potential and most purposeful engagement in the world. The Counseling Service is located in the Pattie J. Groves Health Center Building.
Counseling provides an opportunity for you to talk in a safe, confidential space with a professional trained to help you gain perspective on your behavior and relationships, change unhealthy thought patterns, express your feelings, and enhance communication skills. Students seek counseling for all kinds of reasons, including processing emotional experiences, relationship issues, academic concerns, sleep difficulty, identity questions and development, depression, anxiety, stress, family problems, eating and body image concerns, trauma, and more. All services are free of charge to currently enrolled students.
Counseling Service clinicians work from a brief therapy model focused on your presenting concerns. In your First Visit, you and your clinician will talk about whether your problems can be addressed in short-term therapy. If it seems that longer-term therapy would better meet your needs, the Counseling Service can help you to identify and connect with referral options for off-campus providers in the surrounding community on your health insurance panel.
Don’t hesitate to reach out if you are struggling. Services are always available to currently enrolled students, no matter how much contact you’ve had with us in the past (including none!) We’re here to support you through difficult times.
Mission Statement
As part of the Division of Student Life, the Counseling Service supports the overall mission of the college by providing clinical, consultation, and outreach services that promote the psychological health, growth and overall well-being of students. The Counseling Service employs the use of data informed, evidence based, culturally affirming and responsive practices to enable and empower students to achieve their full academic potential and pursue lives of purposeful leadership in a culturally diverse world.
