Counseling Services:

Individual -  Short-term 1:1 care with a counselor that understands the Carleton experience

Group –  Counselor-facilitated support with your peers who share similar experiences and concerns

Emergency on-call – access to phone consultation with a counselor after-hours (nights/weekends)

Services Offered:

• Short-term individual counseling is offered free to all Carleton students.
• Unlimited group counseling
• Psychiatry - medication consultation, initiation, and maintenance
• Dietitian - nutrition therapy for students struggling with their relationship with food
• Referrals to off-campus therapy (so students can seek specialists or find providers whom they can see for longer-term therapy.)
• Supportive counseling for any issue, large or small.  You don't need to be in crisis or have a diagnosed mental health issue to seek care.
• Emergency After-Hours phone consultation

Reasons Student Seek Care:

• depression 
• anxiety
• eating disorders
• alcohol and/or drug use
• assault or abuse
• sexual identity
• grief
• academic stress
• friendship or roommate conflicts
• family relationships

Confidentiality:

All counseling services are confidential. Information regarding a student's counseling cannot be released, except as dictated by law, without the written consent of the student. No record of the student's visit is placed on a transcript or academic record.

Staff:

• Three full-time counselors
• Three graduate-trainee practicum counselors (here for a one-year training program)
• Two part-time counselors
• Consulting psychiatrist for medication management (Monday afternoons 1 pm-5 pm)
• Consulting dietitian for nutritional therapy (every other Wednesday 10 am -4 pm)