The Counseling Center is designed to provide short-term, time-limited counseling, in order to offer services to as many students as possible. In keeping with the mission of the Division of Student Affairs, the Counseling Center strives to provide brief treatment designed to support student development and growth as active members of SUNY Brockport and beyond.
Three essential roles for advancing the educational mission of SUNY Brockport:
- Provide clinical services including comprehensive mental health assessments, individual and group therapy, and referrals to appropriate resources, to help students achieve their academic and personal goals.
- Develop and implement programs to educate the campus community about the psychological and developmental needs of students through community-level interventions, outreach programming, and consultation.
- Responding to the effects of crisis impacting individual students and the campus community.
Our most common clinical services include:
- Emergent care and consultation for any student in crisis
- Counseling (individual and group) for issues including:
- Depression and anxiety
- Adjustment to college life, homesickness o Interpersonal/relationship difficulties, loneliness
- Family conflict
- Grief and loss
- Identity development and issues related to diversity
- Academic Performance and motivation, better understanding of learning style
- Personal growth and development, identification of coping style
- Brief case management (providing referrals to other agencies and assisting with accessing resources in the community)
- Psychiatric evaluation and medication management for students actively engaged in counseling at the Counseling Center.
NOTE: services are available only to currently enrolled students. We do not serve incoming first year students prior to Orientation, seniors who have graduated, alumnae/i, clinical services to staff or faculty.
Services we do not provide:
- Long-term, weekly therapy;
- Specialty care (EMDR, psychoanalysis, body work, etc.);
- Intensive substance abuse treatment;
- Intensive outpatient mental health treatment;
- Testing for learning disabilities and/or attention deficit and hyperactivity disorder (ADHD);
- Assessment and documentation for service or emotional support animals;
- Forensic evaluations including documentation re: obtaining a pistol permit;
- Neuropsychological evaluations;
- Evaluations for attorneys or courts related to criminal charges or other domestic matters such as parents seeking custodial authority of a student;
Although we do not provide these services, we will work with students to help them access these resources off-campus.