Office of Counseling and Personal Development

As a part of the Life Directions Program, the Office of Counseling and Personal Development provides assistance to students in the areas of psychological counseling, educational programming and consultative services. The primary focus of the department is to facilitate healthy emotional development.

Counseling offers a safe and accepting environment to effectively develop awareness and strategies to handle crisis situations, persisting problems and to grow in self knowledge and understanding. A professional staff of licensed and qualified psychologists and counselors provide individual and group services which include short-term counseling, long-term counseling (no session limits), referral to consulting psychiatrist where appropriate, and assessment of more severe psychological concerns. Our consulting psychiatrist, Dr. David Weiss, comes to campus once per week to evaluate and provide ongoing treatment to the Office of Counseling and Personal Development's clients. Services are free to Regis College, doctoral physical therapy students, doctoral pharmacy students as well as traditional and accelerated nursing students.

At the Office of Counseling and Personal Development, the term "diversity" affirms our faith-inspired commitment to build an inclusive community that values the dignity and contributions of all our members. In this community, all human differences thrive in a learning environment characterized by the Jesuit traditions of mutual respect and the pursuit of justice. Age, gender, race/ethnicity, class, disability, sexual orientation, religion and other human differences contribute to the richness and vitality of our living community.

For students within the College for Professional Studies, we have provided a good resource for community-based SLIDING SCALE/COST EFFECTIVE REFERRALS

For those students involved with Regis University's Distance Learning/On-Line programming, we offer the following list of MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES

To protect the student's rights of privacy, all information disclosed in counseling is considered confidential and can ONLY be released to another person with the written consent of the student. In circumstances where imminent danger is present (i.e. client is a danger to self or others or is gravely impaired), confidentiality is waived.

The Office of Counseling and Personal Development provides educational groups and presentations designed to promote skill development in the areas of communication skills, dating and relationship issues, adjustment to college life, assertiveness training, and other relevant topics upon request.

For additional support within the community, 24-HOUR RESOURCES/CRISIS INFORMATION provides information on counseling resources, emergency telephone numbers and crisis intervention resources.

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