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The Counseling Center is the campus agency designated to provide psychological services to TWU students. These services are designed to help students achieve their educational goals, learn the process of problem solving and decision making, develop the capacity for satisfying relationships, and learn to make full use of their potential for continued growth beyond their educational experience. In addition to providing counseling and psychological services, the Counseling Center serves as a training site for graduate students in psychology and related fields.
Counseling Services and Costs
ELIGIBILITY
Services are available to TWU students registered in the term for which they are seeking services. There is a limit of twelve individual counseling sessions per academic year. When appropriate, spouses, significant others, roommates, and family members may be seen in counseling with the student.
COSTS
There are no costs to students for counseling services. A minimal fee is charged for certain tests typically used in conjunction with career exploration.
INDIVIDUAL COUNSELING
Students may receive help for any social, emotional, educational, or vocational issues. Examples of concerns for which students have sought help in the past include: relationships, career decisions, confusion about intimacy, sexual values, grief and loss, identity concerns, depression, eating issues, and anxiety.
Special Information for those who are, who may be, or who know someone who is a victim of sexual assault: The TWU Counseling Center can provide immediate services through our crisis counseling services and through our regular counseling services. In addition, more information about community services, rights, and legal issues can be found at these three sites:
* Texas Attorney General’s Office of Sexual Assault Prevention and Crisis Services:, (512) 936-1270
* Texas Association Against Sexual Assault, (512) 474-7190.
* TWU Sexual Harrasment/Assault Information
You may wish to receive services directly from a local sexual assault care center.
Each of the phone numbers listed below is a 24-hour crisis/service line.
In Denton County: Friends of the Family (800) 572-4031
In Dallas County: Rape Crisis Center (214) 590-0430
In Tarrant County: Women’s Center (817) 927-2737
In Harris County: Women’s Center (800) 256-0661
In Cooke County: Friends of the Family (940) 665-2873
GROUP COUNSELING
Groups offer a supportive and stimulating environment for personal development, relationship building, and skill improvement. Typical groups cover such themes as assertiveness training, eating disorders, adult children of dysfunctional families, survivors of sexual abuse, and relationships. Please contact the Counseling Center for the status and availability of current or upcoming groups. A description of typical group offerings is available by clicking here.
CAREER COUNSELING
The goal in career exploration is to assist students in developing an awareness of their intellectual, emotional, spiritual, and physical needs, and in integrating this information into their career decisions. Career & Employment Services in HDB 200 on the Denton campus also offers a variety of interest tests and job announcements at (940) 898-2950.
CRISIS COUNSELING
Immediate assistance is available on a walk-in-basis for students experiencing crisis situations. When the Counseling Center is closed, a counselor is available by calling the TWU Department of Public Safety (940) 898-2911 in Denton, (214) 689-6666 in Dallas, and (713) 794-2222 in Houston and asking to speak with the counselor-on-call.
COUPLES COUNSELING
Couples may seek marital, premarital, divorce, sexual adjustment, or alternative life-style counseling. Counseling is available to the student and her or his partner.
Other Services
WORKSHOPS AND TRAINING SEMINARS
Staff members will consult with and develop specific programs or presentations for: faculty, residence hall groups, campus organizations, and the campus community. Click here for more informationa on Outreach and Consultation Services.
ON-LINE WORKSHOPS
Our counseling center has developed a series of workshops that students may "attend" on-line. These workshops are designed to be educational rather than therapeutic. They can help you learn new skills in the general areas of study skills and self management. On-line workshops.
SELF-HELP MATERIALS
Located in the reception areas at all three campuses at the Counseling Center, a wide variety of pamphlets, brochures, and handouts are available for students' use anytime the Counseling Center is open. Many of these handouts are also available on the Counseling Center web pages Self Help. Other handouts from Counseling Centers around the country are available through the Virtual Pamphlet Collection of Self Help Materials.
SCREENING FOR MENTAL HEALTH
Through Screening for Mental Health, a non-profit organization that has developed national screening days for anxiety, depression, alcohol and eating disorders, we are able to offer TWU students the ability to anonymously screen themselves on-line for one or all of these issues. While these screening instruments are not meant to replace discussions with a counselor, they can be useful in helping you to determine whether or the degree to which these issues may be troubling you. Once you take a screening instrument, we encourage you to consider using our free and confidential services, if you wish. Screening for Mental Health Instruments
FACULTY AND STAFF SERVICES
The Counseling Center staff knows how important faculty and staff are to the well-being of TWU students. The Counseling Center can provide you with tips for dealing with distressed students, outreach services, consultation services, on-line workshops, self-screening instruments and self-help materials. Link to our faculty and staff services page to get more details.
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