Behavioral Health and Counseling Services
The ever-challenging demands of growth, change, and the expanding horizons of learning are at times stressful, and often require an adjustment of attitudes and coping skills. We are here to help you succeed! Our staff of professional counselors are dedicated to helping you reach your goals.
The services offered by the Counseling Center include individual/couples/family counseling, referral to needed mental health resources, crisis assessment, learning assessment, and assessments for social-emotional fitness to practice in the health care professions and other fields. The counselors can help with a variety of concerns including adjustment to university life, stress management, treatment of mental health or emotional issues, grief and loss, eating disorders, substance abuse, and many more.
It is the Center's philosophy that each person should be encouraged and given the opportunity to take responsibility for his/her own decision-making process and lifestyle. The Counseling Center staff facilitate this process in an environment of outstanding and confidentiality through personal counseling. Our counselors are also available to provide a variety of psychoeducational workshops, faculty/staff training, and outreach. Consultation services are also available to faculty, staff, and administrators.
Counseling services are available to students enrolled at the University of the Incarnate Word and its affiliate high schools. There is no cost for the first 12 annual counseling services for students beginning September 1, 2018 through the end of August 31, 2019. After the first 12 sessions, students may continue services by using their health insurance and will be required to pay their insurance copay unless they qualify for an exception. The counseling center also provides access to a part time psychiatrist who bills insurance for evaluation and medication services. Psychiatric services are also available to any students enrolled at the University of the Incarnate Word with the exception of students enrolled at the Osteopathic School of Medicine.