Counseling and Psychological Services

Are CAPS services really confidential?

Emergency Contacts

GMU Crisis Service:
703-993-2380, option 1
or
GMU Police: 703-993-2810
or
911
@caps_gmu
  • 🌟Want to tackle anxiety and embrace your calm? Come check out our exciting new workshop! We'll dive into some powerful coping skills to help you feel your best! ✨🌞

*Prior to joining the workshop, please ensure that you are currently using our services or initiate the check-in process to register. If you need further information, reach out to the CAPS office.

Contact CAPS for ADA accommodations if needed.
  • Our hottest event is back-- PUPPY YOGA!! CAPS is collaborating with Doggy Noses and Yoga Poses to bring you the most adorable puppies ever🐶🧘‍♀️

Come join us for our Puppy Yoga Event, where these furry friends will help you relax like never before. Spots are limited, so make sure to grab yours quickly! You won’t want to miss this paws-itively delightful experience! 🐾✨

🔗Register on Mason360: cglink.me/2d7/r2275728
Link in our bio

Contact CAPS for ADA accommodations if needed.
  • 🌟 College stress is real. If it gets heavy, reach out—support is here. Your well-being comes first, so make sure to take some time for yourself and enjoy the journey. 💙
  • Celebrate Native heritage this November by honoring Indigenous voices, stories, and resilience. 🌎✨ Swipe to explore mental health resources for the Native American and Indigenous communities.
  • 🎃Boo! Failing can feel like a jumpscare, but even the best ghost hunters get startled sometimes! 👻 

Just like a haunted house, life is full of unexpected twists and turns, but there's no need to fear! 🏚🕯 Embrace those eerie moments of failure and learn from them. 

Keep your lanterns lit and spirits high because every ghostly stumble is a change to grow and glow! 🔮✨
🌟Want to tackle anxiety and embrace your calm? Come check out our exciting new workshop! We'll dive into some powerful coping skills to help you feel your best! ✨🌞

*Prior to joining the workshop, please ensure that you are currently using our services or initiate the check-in process to register. If you need further information, reach out to the CAPS office.

Contact CAPS for ADA accommodations if needed.
🌟Want to tackle anxiety and embrace your calm? Come check out our exciting new workshop! We'll dive into some powerful coping skills to help you feel your best! ✨🌞 *Prior to joining the workshop, please ensure that you are currently using our services or initiate the check-in process to register. If you need further information, reach out to the CAPS office. Contact CAPS for ADA accommodations if needed.
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Our hottest event is back-- PUPPY YOGA!! CAPS is collaborating with Doggy Noses and Yoga Poses to bring you the most adorable puppies ever🐶🧘‍♀️

Come join us for our Puppy Yoga Event, where these furry friends will help you relax like never before. Spots are limited, so make sure to grab yours quickly! You won’t want to miss this paws-itively delightful experience! 🐾✨

🔗Register on Mason360: cglink.me/2d7/r2275728
Link in our bio

Contact CAPS for ADA accommodations if needed.
Our hottest event is back-- PUPPY YOGA!! CAPS is collaborating with Doggy Noses and Yoga Poses to bring you the most adorable puppies ever🐶🧘‍♀️ Come join us for our Puppy Yoga Event, where these furry friends will help you relax like never before. Spots are limited, so make sure to grab yours quickly! You won’t want to miss this paws-itively delightful experience! 🐾✨ 🔗Register on Mason360: cglink.me/2d7/r2275728 Link in our bio Contact CAPS for ADA accommodations if needed.
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🌟 College stress is real. If it gets heavy, reach out—support is here. Your well-being comes first, so make sure to take some time for yourself and enjoy the journey. 💙
🌟 College stress is real. If it gets heavy, reach out—support is here. Your well-being comes first, so make sure to take some time for yourself and enjoy the journey. 💙
🌟 College stress is real. If it gets heavy, reach out—support is here. Your well-being comes first, so make sure to take some time for yourself and enjoy the journey. 💙
🌟 College stress is real. If it gets heavy, reach out—support is here. Your well-being comes first, so make sure to take some time for yourself and enjoy the journey. 💙
🌟 College stress is real. If it gets heavy, reach out—support is here. Your well-being comes first, so make sure to take some time for yourself and enjoy the journey. 💙
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Celebrate Native heritage this November by honoring Indigenous voices, stories, and resilience. 🌎✨ Swipe to explore mental health resources for the Native American and Indigenous communities.
Celebrate Native heritage this November by honoring Indigenous voices, stories, and resilience. 🌎✨ Swipe to explore mental health resources for the Native American and Indigenous communities.
Celebrate Native heritage this November by honoring Indigenous voices, stories, and resilience. 🌎✨ Swipe to explore mental health resources for the Native American and Indigenous communities.
Celebrate Native heritage this November by honoring Indigenous voices, stories, and resilience. 🌎✨ Swipe to explore mental health resources for the Native American and Indigenous communities.
Celebrate Native heritage this November by honoring Indigenous voices, stories, and resilience. 🌎✨ Swipe to explore mental health resources for the Native American and Indigenous communities.
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🎃Boo! Failing can feel like a jumpscare, but even the best ghost hunters get startled sometimes! 👻 

Just like a haunted house, life is full of unexpected twists and turns, but there's no need to fear! 🏚🕯 Embrace those eerie moments of failure and learn from them. 

Keep your lanterns lit and spirits high because every ghostly stumble is a change to grow and glow! 🔮✨
🎃Boo! Failing can feel like a jumpscare, but even the best ghost hunters get startled sometimes! 👻 

Just like a haunted house, life is full of unexpected twists and turns, but there's no need to fear! 🏚🕯 Embrace those eerie moments of failure and learn from them. 

Keep your lanterns lit and spirits high because every ghostly stumble is a change to grow and glow! 🔮✨
🎃Boo! Failing can feel like a jumpscare, but even the best ghost hunters get startled sometimes! 👻 

Just like a haunted house, life is full of unexpected twists and turns, but there's no need to fear! 🏚🕯 Embrace those eerie moments of failure and learn from them. 

Keep your lanterns lit and spirits high because every ghostly stumble is a change to grow and glow! 🔮✨
🎃Boo! Failing can feel like a jumpscare, but even the best ghost hunters get startled sometimes! 👻 Just like a haunted house, life is full of unexpected twists and turns, but there's no need to fear! 🏚🕯 Embrace those eerie moments of failure and learn from them. Keep your lanterns lit and spirits high because every ghostly stumble is a change to grow and glow! 🔮✨
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For Students:

Our overall goal is to make CAPS a place where you feel safe to talk about personal concerns. We are ethically committed to keeping your information completely private and confidential. We follow professional guidelines of the American Psychological Association, the American Psychiatric Association, and the American Counseling Association as well as the legal statutes established in the Commonwealth of Virginia.

It is important you understand that written records of your contact with CAPS are not part of your academic record, and we will not disclose information about you to any other office, department, or individual at the university unless you have signed CAPS’ written authorization to release information.

We do want to keep students receiving services at CAPS safe and provide for the safety and wellbeing of the Mason community. There are some specific times where we are required to share information by law to keep people safe. This will be reviewed with you at the start of your IC appointment at CAPS and you will have an opportunity to ask any questions to the assessing counselor about this. The specific instances include: 

*Exceptions to confidentiality occur in the following situations:

  1. We are worried about you having a substantial likelihood now or in the near future of causing serious harm to yourself or others
  2. There is reasonable suspicion of current abuse or neglect of a child or incapacitated adult
  3. A valid court order or subpoena to disclose relevant information in a legal proceeding or investigation
  4. The university threat assessment team receives information that results in the team opening an investigation for you, in which case, CAPS may be required to provide information in your CAPS record to the team as part of their investigation
  5. Instances where parental notification is required by law.

*Please note that if you are being prescribed medication by a CAPS psychiatrist, and you are utilizing insurance coverage under a parent’s plan, this information may be accessible by the policyholder.