Individual Counseling

Call 703-993-2380 to schedule an appointment for individual counseling or call at 8:30am to schedule one of 4 same day intakes available on a first-come, first-served basis.

Individual counseling assists students in resolving issues that cause emotional distress and interfere with personal goals and academic success. Issues students often address include:

• Educational and academic goals
• Personal, family, relationship concerns
• Difficulty with alcohol, other substances or food
• Sexual, physical, and emotional abuse
• Management of emotions such as anxiety, depression, grief, and anger
• Study skills and strategies
• Traumatic experiences
• Racial and diversity issues
• Sexual identity issues

Students who sought counseling have found it useful and positive:

• "Counseling helped me function more effectively as a student by allowing me to air my problems in a non-judgmental environment. Most of the time I feel better about myself, therefore allowing me to concentrate on my studies."
• "It helped me to introspect and gain more control over my feelings and over how I relate to life events and my relationships with others.[Counseling] helped me to have better self-esteem, self-confidence, less anxiety about academic life, and to sort through many problems..."