Counseling can be an effective tool in helping students cope with emotional, relational, and developmental concerns. Counseling provides you with a safe environment to talk about your concerns with a licensed professional trained to provide treatment. The therapeutic relationship is unique because it is highly personal.

The benefits of counseling can include helping you develop coping skills, make behavioral changes, reduce symptoms of mental health disorders, improve the quality of your life, learn to manage anger and other emotions, and learn to live in the present, along with other advantages. At the same time, counseling can also be a difficult process. In the course of your treatment, you may experience difficult emotions or encounter unpleasant memories. Ultimately, counseling is not an exact science and your therapist cannot guarantee any specific therapeutic outcome. Your therapist will, however, use his or her professional judgment to provide you with the best treatment possible.