Welcome to the Student Counseling Center website. The staff of the SCC are dedicated to student well-being and providing services collaboratively with compassion, respect, and sensitivity to students' unique challenges and cultural backgrounds.

Please Note: Our services are available (free of charge) only to currently enrolled SPU undergraduates.

The SCC operates within a short-term model.  In most cases students are provided up to 6 sessions per academic year NOTE: As we approach the end of the academic year and simply do not have the staffing resources or enough time remaining to see students for up to 6 sessions, students will be seen for fewer sessions and the counseling with then need to be focused on practical problem solving and referral to counseling providers in the community.  A limited number of students will be served longer-term based on need and the inability to access services in the community.  There are no session limits for students served in any of the SCC Groups.

What We Provide
The Student Counseling Center offers a variety of services to SPU undergraduate students:

• Counseling Assessment: This is where services begin.  Sit down with a caring counselor and better understand your issues and the programs at the SCC and in the community that can best meet your needs.
• Referrals to mental-health and social-service providers in the community
• One-on-One Mental-Health Counseling Services
• Relationship Counseling: couple, pre-marital, marital, family, roommate, friends.
• Nutritional Counseling
• Eating Disorder Treatment Program: involving a coordinated counseling, nutritional, medical, and group support program
• Group Counseling: including a students in transition group (for freshmen and transfer students), a women's group, men's group, grief and loss group, food and body group, and an adjustment to life after graduation group
• Crisis Intervention
• In collaboration with SPU Health Services, provide evaluations for psychiatric medication
• Consultation for SPU parents, faculty, and staff regarding student mental health
• Education / Prevention / Special Events: including Respect Your Body Week

Location and Office Hours

Our office is located in Watson Hall on the first floor. Follow the steps up into Watson Hall (off of Bertona Street), past Health Services, and into our office.

To access services, simply walk in during the hours we are open and complete an intake form.  You will leave with an appointment for a counseling assessment.

Our hours for Spring 2008 are as follows:

Monday through Friday, 9:00am to 5:00pm (intakes accepted until 4:30pm)

Wednesdays open late to 8:00pm (intakes accepted until 5:30pm)

If you are in crisis, please immediately call 911 or 2911 if you are on campus.  You may also call the Seattle 24-hour Crisis Line at 1-866-4-CRISIS or go to any hospital emergency room.  Please see our Resources page for other options.

Student Counseling Center

Seattle Pacific University

353 West Bertona (physical)

3307 3rd Ave. West, Ste. 118

Seattle, WA 98119-1922

SCC@spu.edu

206.281.2657

206.378.5030 (fax)