Counseling Services

Available Services

• Individual Counseling

  A counselor will meet with you one-on-one for 30 or 50 minutes to explore personal issues of concern or importance. Students come to the Counseling Center for a wide variety of reasons. These might include relationship problems, academic anxieties, exploring gender or sexuality, feeling unusually sad, irritability, sleep problems, eating problems, difficulty paying attention, feeling lonely, suicidal thoughts, worrying too much, and adjusting to college life.

  We recognize that offering tele-health appointments can be beneficial to many and reduces barriers to accessing care. As such, once you’ve completed your in-person intake appointment and have been assigned a counselor, you and your counselor can discuss whether switching to tele-health counseling is well-suited for your care. Reasons may include accessibility concerns, if you are ill and need to stay home, or if you cannot commute to your appointment. We hope to work collaboratively to find the best form of care for you.

• Group Counseling

  Typically, two counselors will work together to facilitate a discussion with a small group of students who have expressed a common issue. Groups might be centered around family stress, disordered eating and body image, concerns related to gender, or anxiety and depression. Group members share experiences, learn different perspectives and provide each other with support. Groups typically meet once a week for 6 to 8 weeks and sessions may run between 1 to 2 hours.

• Consultation

  We offer formal and informal collaborations with faculty, staff, students, parents, and family members who seek advice and information on issues of concern to them. A consultation affords these individuals the opportunity to develop strategies on how best to help or guide students who may be experiencing distress or mental health challenges. Consultation with a counseling center staff member may involve an in-person meeting or a phone conversation.

• Outreach and Education

  We offer a wide variety of services such as facilitating workshops, conducting screening days, crisis event responses/debriefing, liaison relationships with departments and organizations on campus, attending or being present at campus events to reduce stigma and support other departments, interviews, tabling, social media, psychoeducational materials (printed and web-based), and community campaigns.

  Presentations and workshops are offered to Champlain students in a variety of settings. We accept requests submitted by students, faculty, and staff.

  Please fill out our Outreach Request Form to request a program, interview, or assistance with a school project. We must have a minimum of three weeks advance notice to consider your request. We will be in touch within one week after receiving the request form. If you have any questions, please contact us.

• Medication Management

  The Counseling Center partners with the Student Health Center for psychiatric medication management. However, psychiatry services on campus and in the surrounding community are extremely limited and we do not have the capacity to manage all students’ medications. We suggest you schedule follow-up appointments with your home healthcare provider well in advance to correspond with school breaks and other visits home. If your home healthcare provider would like to be in touch with the Student Health Center directly to provide additional support, we are happy to do so, provided we have a signed release on file.