Counseling Service
The Counseling Service provides:
- • confidential individual and group counseling related to personal issues
- • crisis intervention
- • referral to off campus providers for more intensive, longer term, or more specialized treatment
- • consultation with faculty, staff, parents or friends who are concerned about a student
- • education and training with residence hall staff and other campus groups
- • outreach and prevention activities related to student mental health
News & Updates
Client Survey Results
February 2, 2012 at 2:35 pmThroughout the year, the Counseling Service invites clients to give us feedback about their counseling experience via a brief, anonymous, online survey after their third counseling session. By the end of first semester, 69 of the 75 clients who had at least three counseling sessions had completed the survey. Read more...
Counseling Service Data Highlights: First Semester & J-Term 2011 - 2012
January 31, 2012 at 9:43 amThe Counseling Service had a busy first semester and, as is typical, a more moderately paced January term. We worked with a total of 214 counseling clients from September through January. Read more...
Stress Relief
November 11, 2011 at 11:22 amNow that Decorah's experienced the first snowfall, it's safe to say it's winter, and winter comes with some pretty stressful assignments and finals. Maybe your professors, like mine, decide to assign projects before Thanksgiving because, "That way you have time!"... Read more...
Seasonal Affective Disorder
November 4, 2011 at 2:26 pmAfter a stunning, red and orange autumn in lush Decorah, the leaves drop and so does the temperature. But not only that, the sunshine fueling your daily bike ride to Dunning Spring or the ultimate frisbee game on the library lawn is no more. Read more...
