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Mental Health and Counselling
Mental health services at the Student Wellness Centre include assessment, diagnosis, and treatment, using short-term, goal-directed counselling, crisis intervention, and crisis management.
Common concerns addressed in short-term therapy include anxiety and depression; homesickness; stress management; roommate tensions; parental and family conflict; surviving a break-up; grief; and confidence and self-esteem.
Remote counselling appointments in the Student Wellness Centre are currently available. Call us for more information or to book an appointment.
Steps to Well-Being
The Student Wellness Centre uses the Stepped Care Model to help you monitor your mental health and well-being. Consult our steps to well-being resource to learn about how you can take care of you.
The members of our professional counselling team are registered social workers and psychotherapists who work within a short-term, goal-directed model for all registered Laurier students. Our team includes a diverse group of practitioners who use a variety of therapeutic modalities to support personal and wellness needs. All members of the counselling team are committed to collaborative, client-centred care within a safe therapeutic environment. Our team and the Student Wellness Centre recognizes and supports the richness of human diversity and reflect the values of cultural, ethnic, gender, and sexual orientation differences through anti-racist, anti-oppressive and trauma-informed practice.
Our team also includes counsellors with specific roles. If you are part of the identified groups and would like to see any of these counsellors, please request this to reception when you book your appointment. In Waterloo, there is a specific counsellor who works closely with Residence Life to support first-year residence students. In both Brantford and Waterloo, there are specific counsellors to support racialized students and Indigenous students.
Our team also includes counsellors with specific roles. If you are part of the identified groups and would like to see any of these counsellors, please request this to reception when you book your appointment. In Waterloo, there is a specific counsellor who works closely with Residence Life to support first-year residence students. In both Brantford and Waterloo, there are specific counsellors to support racialized students and Indigenous students.
Some services are outside our scope of practice, extend beyond our scope of care, or require very specialized providers. Examples may include:
- Students who are already receiving ongoing therapy with another mental health provider.
- Students who cannot be stabilized with short-term crisis intervention; or who consistently need service more than once per week and/or frequent require consultation after-hours
- Students who require intensive outpatient or inpatient treatment (for example, impairing eating disorders, supervised medication administration, a history of multiple hospitalizations, chronic suicidality and/or self-injury behaviours, a history of repeated suicide attempts)
- Students seeking on-going mandated treatment
- Students seeking formal psychological assessments (for example, for learning disabilities or ADHD)
- Students who require counselling to meet an academic requirement, or are interested in counselling solely to gain clinical experience
When off-campus therapy is recommended or preferred by a student, a counsellor will support the student through the process of getting connected. We will help to identify several referral options selected specifically for the student’s personal situation. Local counselling options include providers within walking distance to campus and some that provide low or sliding scale fee services.