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.

If this is an immediate health-related emergency, call 911 or Campus Security at 281-2911.  If this is a mental-health crisis, call the Crisis Clinic 24-hour crisis line at (206) 461-3222.

Please review the rest of our website to learn about the many services provided by the Student Counseling Center.

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.
• Crisis Intervention
• Referrals to mental-health and social-service providers in the community
• One-on-One Mental-Health Counseling Services
• Nutritional Counseling
• Eating Disorder Treatment Program: involving a coordinated counseling, nutritional, medical, and group support program
• Relationship Counseling: couple, pre-marital, marital, family, roommate, friends.
• 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
• 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

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.

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)