Overview

The Counseling and Consultation Center at St. Edward's University supports students as they pursue their goals by providing confidential personal counseling and consultation services. The primary purpose of the center is to provide short-term help to facilitate students' success in and adjustment to college. The center's staff utilizes a brief counseling model that focuses on each student's strengths to formulate solutions to the challenges of college life.

Counseling provides an opportunity for individuals to learn to make better decisions, improve personal skills, develop increased confidence, overcome blocks to personal effectiveness, and acquire a keener awareness and appreciation of their needs and those of others. In the personal interaction with a counselor, a client is helped to explore and express feelings, examine beliefs and ways of thinking about the world, reflect on patterns of behavior, and work toward making healthy changes.

The Counseling & Consultation staff pays special attention to the ways cultural factors influence students' experiences. The staff embraces an open environment in which students can feel comfortable addressing such issues as gender, race/ethnicity, spirituality, sexual orientation, disability, and socioeconomic status.

The center is part of the division of Student Affairs. Services are available free of charge as part of the activities and programming offered to all enrolled students.