Some Reasons Students Choose to Come to the Counseling Center
- Difficulty adjusting to college
- Problems in relationships of all kinds (familial, romantic, with roommates or friends)
- Stress caused by life events, by academic or financial difficulties
- Recent trauma such as death of a significant person, rape or sexual assault, witness to a traumatic event, etc.
- Feeling frequently depressed or anxious - feelings of panic or dread
- Low self esteem
- Feelings of isolation, shyness and loneliness
- Difficulty controlling temper and tendency towards violence
- Questions about sexuality, about sexual orientation
- Problems with alcohol and/or other drug abuse
- Problems with eating disorders and with obsession with food
- Past or present pregnancy
- Past or present experience of verbal, physical and/or sexual abuse
- Attention deficit disorder
- Need to monitor progress while on medication
- Concern over another student
- Any other source of emotional pain or concern
