Counseling and Student Success
Counseling and Student Success (CSS)
Counseling and Student Success (CSS) offers free appointments with professional mental health counselors to currently enrolled students. Returning students are also welcome to schedule appointments for educational and career counseling. Counselors assist students in developing plans for success, offer referrals to campus and community resources, and provide outreach, consultation, and training to faculty and staff.
Contact & Appointments
For further information about CSS or to schedule an appointment with a counselor, please contact us:
About Our Counselors & Sessions
- Our Counselors: CSS counselors are experienced professionals who provide short term holistic counseling to support student success. They are Washington State Licensed Mental Health Counselors or Licensed Mental Health Counselor Associates. Several also teach Human Development courses on a broad range of topics including Career and Life Planning, Stress Management, and Human Relations in the Workplace.
- Counseling Sessions: Sessions are generally 50 minutes long. They are strictly confidential unless students give explicit consent for information to be shared or in emergency circumstances as outlined in RCW 18.19.180, Washington State’s legislation governing confidential communications.
Counseling Services & Themes
Students frequently address topics such as these in counseling sessions:
- Educational Counseling: Setting educational goals, improving college success skills, choosing a program of study, and overcoming barriers that have led to low grades or an academic counseling hold.
- Career Counseling: Exploring career interests and options, engaging in career research, assessment, and/or decision-making, and connecting career interests and goals to relevant coursework. Note: There is a small fee for some career assessments, while others are available free of charge.
- Personal & Mental Health Counseling: Addressing interpersonal relationships, depression, anxiety, family issues, identity, isolation, loss and grief, culture shock, trauma, financial/food/housing insecurity, substance use, suicidal ideation, health concerns, and many other themes impacting daily life or school success.
- Urgent Concerns: Short-term interventions for students experiencing acute distress or immediate barriers to well-being and academic success.
- Academic Advising: Advising for undecided students and students planning to major in Human Services, assistance with educational planning, general transfer advising, and informal transcript evaluation.
Additional Services
- Campus & Community Referral: Counselors assist students with referrals to relevant campus and community resources.
- Consultation & Outreach: Counselors offer consultation to faculty and staff. They participate on campus committees and sponsor or contribute to campus programming about current educational, cultural, and wellness issues.