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The Georgia State Counseling Center conducts more than 12,000 appointments each year.
Eighty percent of students seen by the Counseling Center say it has helped them improve or maintain their academic performance.
Counseling Center Services
The Counseling Center is available 24/7 if you’re in crisis. During business hours, call 404-413-1640 and let our support team know that you’d like to speak with someone urgently.
Students are eligible to consult with a counselor in the Counseling Center during business hours. Your consultation appointment is designed to help our counselors understand your unique situation and need.
Our client advocate is available to meet with students to connect them with community resources, including help with food insecurity, housing, health resources and more.
Student Victim Assistance can assist students to determine their options and provide information related to their experience. Staff also are here to help students who have experienced any type of recent or past victimization regain a sense of control over their traumatic experience, so that they may resume their academic and personal pursuits.
The Counseling Center provides short-term, time-limited individual counseling sessions for students. Students attending ongoing individual counseling within the Counseling Center or Georgia State Psychology Clinic are also eligible to meet with a psychiatrist through our center.
Groups include a graduate student support group, a transgender support group, a coping skills group, a Black women’s support group, an LGBTQ support group and a group for students who have attempted suicide in the past.
Students who receive psychiatric services at the GSU Counseling Center (GSUCC) must be receiving counseling at either the GSUCC, the Georgia State Psychology Clinic, or UWill to initiate psychiatric services. Students are eligible for up to 5 psychiatric appointments.
The Counseling Center offers wellness programs for students, staff and faculty. These can be in the form of classroom presentations, wellness workshops or events.
Students receive FREE immediate access to a therapist. Choose a therapist based on your preferences: gender, language, ethnicity or focus area at a time that fits your schedule: day, night or weekend.
The primary mission of the Counseling Center is to support Georgia State University students in achieving their personal and educational goals by enhancing their mental and emotional health, interpersonal relationships and academic performance through accessible, professional, culturally competent and empirically supported services. The Counseling Center is committed to promoting inclusion, with services designed to provide respectful treatment to students of every background.
The staff also provides assistance to faculty, administrators and staff in assisting students in distress, enhancing the learning process and providing guest lecturers for classes.
The Counseling Center is staffed by a multidisciplinary team of psychologists, psychiatrists, licensed clinical social workers, licensed professional counselors, licensed marriage and family therapists, health educators and a nutritionist in the Mind-Body clinic. The Counseling Center staff is diverse in many ways, including age, gender, race, sexual identity, religious background and national origin.
The GSUCC hosts a biennial Summit on Culture in collaboration with other campus stakeholders. The conference provides two days of continuing education opportunities for ongoing professional development for psychologists, social workers, counselors, and healthcare professionals. Previous keynote speakers include Nikki Giovanni, Deepak Chopra, and Alice Walker. (Next anticipated Summit 2025)
In addition to the American Psychological Association (A.P.A.) accredited doctoral internship program, the Counseling Center offers an Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centersmember postdoctoral fellowship and a psychiatry fellowship through the Emory University School of Medicine. The Counseling Center is accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services (I.A.C.S).
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All enrolled students have access to both Georgia State Counseling Center services and the services offered by the University System of Georgia.
