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What To Expect
Counseling is talking through your concerns with a professional counselor. You describe any conflicts you are experiencing and explore questions, thoughts, and feelings that are important to you. The counselor listens and asks questions to help you more fully understand your concerns and to assist you in possibly responding differently to them.
Our goal is to help students to grow in self-understanding, to become self-reliant, to establish and enhance relationships and to be responsible participants in the College community and the broader society.
- Individual counseling is available to currently enrolled, full-time Holy Cross students.
- Counseling begins with an initial assessment of your concerns.
- Meetings usually last fifty minutes.
- After the initial session(s) your counselor will recommend an appropriate service:
- further individual counseling with a staff member
- participation in one of the groups or workshops offered at the Center
- referral to an off-campus practitioner.
- If you cannot attend a session, please cancel 24 hours ahead of time. This allows us to make that time available to another student.
Students may discontinue counseling at any time, for any reason, as well as initiate counseling with a different staff member within the office.
When school is in session, the office is open Monday to Friday, 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. and 1:00 p.m. to 5:00 p.m.
In an emergency in the evening or on weekends, assistance may be obtained through Holy Cross Public Safety (793-2222) or the UMass Medical Center Emergency Mental Health Unit (856-3562).