Personal Counselling

Professional counselling is available to assist you with a wide range of personal concerns.  Our counsellors are familiar with issues that may affect your academic success and personal satisfaction.  Here is a partial list of topics frequently presented by students in personal counselling:

• communication/assertiveness skills
• roommate tensions
• parental/family conflict
• eating/body image difficulties
• sexual/physical/emotional abuse
• stress
• depression and/or suicidal thoughts
• self harm
• coping with grief/loss
• conflict resolution
• coping with a traumatic event
• anxiety/phobias/panic
• homesickness/loneliness
• self-confidence/self-esteem
• drinking/drug use
• surviving a break-up
• sexual functioning
• identity issues/sexual orientation

Any student interested in personal counselling must first attend an intake appointment.  These appointments are 30 minutes in length.  The primary purpose of the intake appointment is to identify the student’s current issues, and to provide an understanding of the situation so that the student can be matched with an appropriate counsellor.  Sometimes the intake session is sufficient to help the student think about new ways to address problems, or facilitate access to appropriate resources.