Counselling and Wellbeing
The Counselling and Wellbeing Service is comprised of counsellors, wellbeing advisors and a mental health advisor who provide a range of services to students who are experiencing mental or emotional distress.
This is a free and confidential service offered by the university to support you in your studies and empower you to achieve your potential by addressing some of your personal concerns.
We will try to respond to you promptly and we encourage you to contact us in a timely manner. Accessing our service at an early stage may prevent more serious issues and crises from developing.
We will either help you directly or refer you to the appropriate service, either within the university or to an external agency.
What services do we offer?
Mental health advice
We all have mental health in the same way that we all have physical health. Our state of mental health affects everything we do, every day. Our mental health can vary and often needs to be cared for or supported. If you have existing or emerging mental health difficulties and would like to discuss support available then you should visit the mental health advisor here in Student Life. Students who would like academic support may be in a position to have an academic support plan put in place in accordance with the disability discrimination act. The mental health advisor can consider difficulties arising from a mental health illness and make recommendations relating to reasonable adjustments.
Wellbeing advice
Life is full of ups and downs and at times things may become difficult or not go according to plan, you may be missing home, struggling to manage your coursework or feel physically or emotionally unwell. The Wellbeing team is here to help you to find ways of coping with the everyday stresses and strains of life. Wellbeing Advisors are available throughout the week, for telephone, e-mail and one to one support. We will spend time listening to you and are happy to help in any way we can with practical and personal support, advice and signposting.
Counselling
People come to see a counsellor for a variety of reasons such as relationship issues, bereavement, anxiety and stress, anger issues, self-image and self-esteem, gender and sexuality, feelings of loneliness and isolation and generalised feelings of unhappiness or depression. A counsellor can support you to understand your difficulties and the way you perceive them and help you to see things more clearly, possibly from a different perspective. Counselling is a way of promoting choice or change or of reducing confusion and it can enable you to make decisions and find more effective ways of coping. Counselling provides you with a supportive, non judgmental and confidential environment in which to explore any difficulties you are having.
Contacting Us
You can contact us by email or phone or in person at one of our drop in sessions. For details of how to do this, click here.