Counseling Services are available free to all Florida Atlantic University students. Our office will arrange for you to meet with a counselor. In most cases, you will be given an appointment within a week. In an emergency, you can be seen immediately. The counseling center offers several types of counseling services such as Individual, Couples, Family and Group Counseling, Psychiatric Services, Alcohol and Other Drug Counseling, Counseling for Life Skills and Life Direction, Psychological and Interest Testing, Workshops and Seminars, and a Graduate Staff Training Program.

Florida Atlantic University's Counseling Center exists within the Division of Student Affairs to assist students in formulating and achieving their educational goals through psychological, psychiatric, psycho educational, and clinical social work services.

The Counseling Center provides individual and group counseling to currently enrolled FAU students. Its professionally trained staff seeks to assist students with social, emotional, and academic concerns in a sensitive, caring, and confidential manner. The staff seeks to provide a warm and caring office atmosphere in which students are treated with sensitivity and dignity.

It assists students in the identification and development of positive traits that will help them in their personal, social, and work responsibilities. The help may relate directly to academic performance. It may have to do with procrastination, writer's block, and fear of giving oral reports in class. It may involve test anxiety and "freezing" during examinations.

Help also may be requested by students dealing with problems in the social sphere. The Center can be of considerable value to students who feel isolated and socially disconnected. And it can be of value when students' relationships become troubled and stressful.

The Counseling Center provides services to students whose personal difficulties and problems interfere with their academic adjustment and ability to fully benefit from the University experience. The Psycho Educational Assessment Service assists students in identifying and formulating sound academic and occupational goals. The Center's approach is unique at the University and it employs the full range of psychological tools to help students develop their potentials.

Psychologists, Clinical Social Workers, Mental Health Counselors, Marriage and Family Therapists, and a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner provide professional therapeutic services and assistance to students whose personal difficulties and learning problems interfere with their ability to benefit from academic and extracurricular experiences.

Counseling at the center is held in strict confidence in keeping with accepted professional practice.

Counseling Center Policies & Procedures Manual