Counseling Center

The Counseling Center provides comprehensive, preventive and clinical psychological counseling services and crisis intervention for our students. Our center is a student-focused, nurturing and safe space that helps students develop healthy relationships and positive coping skills. Students can access the center by walking in, calling, being referred by a faculty/staff member (or another student) and/or via outreach on social medial platforms (Facebook/Twitter/Instagram). Our counselors are also available, twenty-four hours/seven days a week, via our On-Call Crisis Phone Line (562-294-3575).

Oftentimes, our counselors see students who are experiencing traumatic life changes (i.e., a severe illness or death of a family member or close friends), relationship developments and/or family issues back home (i.e., separation or divorce of parents). Others are experiencing a sense of seclusion or exclusion or are on the end of complaints from other students. For students who may be experiencing a psychological crisis (i.e., suicide ideation), we employ the Campus Suicide Prevention Protocol, and work with a local psychiatrist (for psychological testing and assessment) and facility in the city of Montgomery, to meet the psychological needs of our students.

We also offer activities and events that help students develop positive coping skills. During the fall, spring and summer semesters, the center may host or sponsor an array of programs, including sessions on: 1) Crisis Management; 2) Healthy Relationships; 3) Grief Process Education; 4) Depression and Anxiety; 5) Alcohol Awareness Week; 6) LGBTQ Support; and, 7) HIV/AIDs Education and Prevention.

Likewise, our Counseling Center has developed a suicide-prevention program entitled, “R U Good? Day” and hosts a Food Pantry--which addresses our students’ food insecurities by providing donated and funded, non-perishable food items.