Department head(s)
Elizabeth (Beth) Feeney, Ph.D.
- Director, Counseling Service
The Counseling Service is here to support you as you navigate challenges during your time at MHC, from stress, anxiety, and depression to cultivating healthy relationships and overcoming barriers to reaching your goals. Counseling Service clinicians value all aspects of students' identities and use culturally sensitive and holistic approaches as they help students achieve their full potential and engage purposefully in the world.
Our services are free and confidential for all currently enrolled students. Learn more about our different services and how to schedule.
Visit Division of Student Life Care & Support for resources, upcoming programs, and open hours during this time of grieving for our community.
The Counseling Service offers a variety of services within a hybrid model of both in person and virtual appointments.
The Counseling Service currently has two psychiatric providers who are available by appointment for consultation and/or medication management.
Counseling has resources for finding a therapist, crisis resources, and helpful tips for management.
The Counseling Service is part of the Division of Student Life and supports the MHC mission by helping students address illness and other mental health challenges that impede their progress toward achieving their full academic potential and most purposeful engagement in the world. The Counseling Service is located in the Pattie J. Groves Health Center Building.
Counseling provides an opportunity for you to talk in a safe, confidential space with a professional trained to help you gain perspective on your behavior and relationships, change unhealthy thought patterns, express your feelings, and enhance communication skills. Students seek counseling for all kinds of reasons, including processing emotional experiences, relationship issues, academic concerns, sleep difficulty, identity questions and development, depression, anxiety, stress, family problems, eating and body image concerns, trauma, and more. All services are free of charge to currently enrolled students.
Counseling Service clinicians work from a brief therapy model focused on your presenting concerns. In your First Visit, you and your clinician will talk about whether your problems can be addressed in short-term therapy. If it seems that longer-term therapy would better meet your needs, the Counseling Service can help you to identify and connect with referral options for off-campus providers in the surrounding community on your health insurance panel.
Don’t hesitate to reach out if you are struggling. Services are always available to currently enrolled students, no matter how much contact you’ve had with us in the past (including none!) We’re here to support you through difficult times.
The Counseling Service supports students as they navigate challenges during their time at Mount Holyoke, from stress, anxiety, and depression to cultivating healthy relationships and overcoming barriers to reaching their goals.
Monday – Friday 8:30 am-4:30 pm
Drop-in Talkin' Hours
Mondays 6-8 pm in Blanchard 209
Tuesdays 2-3:30 pm in Kendall Sports & Dance Complex (Peppy Dennett Conference Room)
Wednesdays 6-8 pm in Blanchard 209