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Counseling Center

Our Services

The Counseling Center serves the Lehman College community by providing a range of services to meet student’s need:

Individual Personal Counseling

Counselors use a brief counseling approach with the following characteristics and goals:

  • It is time-limited to a maximum of six visits during an academic year. If longer term therapy is recommended the students is referred to their community mental health provider.
  • It is solution-focused and referrals to off and on campus resources are provided as needed.
  • It is focused on specific issues that affect academic functioning, and lead to difficulties.
  • It is active with both the student and counselor are participating in the process.

The services are provided at no charge to students, and are in the form of individual counseling, referral resources, workshops, campus presentations, and self-help resources.

Crisis Intervention and Emergency Services

The Counseling Center provides walk-in, crisis intervention and emergency services for students who feel they need to be seen immediately. See Crisis Intervention.

Groups and Workshops

Groups

Pyscho-Educational Groups may be 60 to 90 minute sessions, and may bee weekly for up to six weeks. They are free, confidential and open to all Lehman College students. The group are not “therapy groups”, but, rather educational workshops that focus on teaching techniques where we explore:

  • Developing new social skills and behaviors
  • Replacing faulty, unhelpful thinking patterns with more balanced, healthy ones
  • Detecting how our thoughts and behaviors influence our feelings
  • And learn ways to cope, especially during major life events, even difficult ones.
Workshops

Personal growth workshops are one hour sessions focused on a topic of student-related interest. They include a talk and discussion about understanding mental health, stress management, self-improvement and wellness.

LGBT Services and Outreach

Provides the Lehman College community with services to meet the needs of our Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender population. This year the LGBT program created a Safe Zone Ally Program at Lehman College. “Safe Zone” programs enlist supportive members of the faculty and student body to act as visible allies to LGBT students, first by attending a training workshop on LGBT issues and violence prevention, and then by identifying themselves as official allies by posting Safe Zone placards in their offices or on their desks, and/or by wearing Safe Zone pins and stickers. Please contact Bridget Hughes at 718-960-8761 for more information on our LGBT services, and outreach or e-mail her at bridget.hughes@lehman.cuny.edu

Anxiety, Depression, Awareness, Prevention and Treatment (ADAPT)

Providing awareness about he impact of anxiety and depression on academic and personal functioning. The Counseling Center provides preventative services such as online mental health screenings, outreach, and psycho-educational workshops, as well as time-limited personal counseling and referral for longer term treatment of anxiety and depression. Please take our online mental health screening for anxiety and depression. If you are asked for a keyword it is LEHMANCOLLEGE.

Program for Innovative Stress Management (PRISM)

The most common student problem is related to stress, both personal stress and academic stress. For this reason the Counseling Center offers psycho-educational workshops, and personal counseling focusing on assisting students to learn to cope with the impact of stress in their lives. Workshops that fall under stress management are related to reducing the impact of academic stress and increasing coping capacities. Future programming will include groups on stress reduction and mindfulness for increased well-being. Please attend an informational session if you are interested in stress reduction and mindfulness workshops by calling Valerie Baker at 718-960-8761 or e-mail her at valerie.baker@lehman.cuny.edu.

Program for Academic and Student Success (PASS)

The Program for Academic and Student Success provides the following program Lehman College students with an online assessment on their learning and study strategies. This Inventory allows us to tailor 1-3 sessions of study skills counseling for interested students who would like to learn more about how to improve their study skills. Thes areas reviewed in study skills counseling are also provided in a series of academic success workshops.

  • Study Skills
  • Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (LASSI)
  • Strengths Quest
  • Academic Success Workshops

To learn more about the PASS program please call Jasmine Jusino at 718-960-8761 or e-mail her at jasmine.jusino@lehman.cuny.edu.

Outreach

The Counseling Center provides in classroom presentations on such areas as depression and anxiety awareness, sexual assault awareness, domestic violence awareness, and in the study skills areas, college adjustment, learning strategies, procrastination and time management, and goal setting. Psycho-educational and Personal Growth workshops are provided at the Counseling Center, and in the classroom, in such areas as mental health awareness, study skills strategies, and workshops that increase self-esteem, self-awareness and improve interpersonal relationships. All of our programs are multi-culturally sensitive, and designed to meet the needs, and are responsive to ethnic and sexual diversity. To request a classroom presentation please go to “classroom presentations”

Consultation

The Counseling Center provides consultation regarding individual students to faculty and other appropriate campus personnel while respecting the bounds of confidentiality. Consultation is also provided to parents, and other family members as needed.

Research

The Counseling Center conducts ongoing evaluations to determine the needs of our students, the effectiveness of our program and to improve the quality of care. (link to survey) We are involved with Penn State’s Center for the Study of Collegiate Mental Health (CSCMH) which represents, a collaborative, multi-disciplinary effort combining the expertise of mental health treatment providers, psychological researchers, industry, and information sciences and technology. Please review the results of the 2008 study. If you would like further information about this study please call Dr. Baez at 78-960-8761 or e-mail her at annecy.baez@lehman.cuny.edu. Link to pdf file.

Ethics

All Counseling Center staff abides to professional ethical standards of our profession.