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Counseling Center

Our Services

Individual Personal Counseling

Counselors use a brief counseling approach with the following characteristics and goals:

  • Counseling is time-limited. If long-term therapy is recommended, students will be referred to their community mental health provider.
  • Counseling is solution-focused and referrals to off and on campus are provided as needed.
  • Sessions focus on specific issues that affect academic functioning.
  • Individual counseling is an active process, with both the student and counselor participating.

Crisis Intervention and Emergency Services

The Counseling Center provides walk-in, crisis intervention, and emergency services for students who feel they need to be seen immediately.

Groups and Workshops

Groups

Psycho-Educational group sessions may run from sixty to ninety minutes, and may be held on a weekly basis for up to six weeks. Group sessions are free, confidential, and open to all Lehman College students. The groups are not "therapy groups," but rather educational workshops that focus on the following four areas:

  • Development of new social skills and behaviors
  • Replacement of faulty, unhelpful thinking patterns with more balanced, healthy ones
  • Understanding how thoughts and behaviors influence our feelings
  • Developing methods to cope with major life events
Workshops

Personal growth workshops are one-hour sessions that focus on a topic of student-related interest. They include a talk and discussion about understanding mental health, stress management, self-improvement, and wellness.

L.G.B.T. Services and Outreach

L.G.B.T. Services and Outreach provides the Lehman College community with services to meet the needs of our Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender population. The College is now host to the L.G.B.T.'s "Safe Zone Ally" program, which enlists supportive members of the faculty and student body to act as visible allies to L.G.B.T. students. Participants first attend a training workshop on L.G.B.T. issues and violence prevention, and then by identify themselves as official allies by posting Safe Zone placards in their offices or on their desks, or by wearing Safe Zone pins and stickers.

For more information on these services, contact Bridget Hughes at 718-960-8761.

Anxiety, Depression, Awareness, Prevention and Treatment (A.D.A.P.T.)

The Counseling Center provides preventative services such as online mental health screenings, outreach, and psycho-educational workshops, as well as time-limited personal counseling and referral for long-term treatment of anxiety and depression. Take our online mental health screening for anxiety and depression. The keyword is LEHMANCOLLEGE.

Mindfulness and Stress Reduction Program

Stress, both personal and academic, is the most common complaint among students. To help students manage stress, the Counseling Center offers psycho-educational workshops and personal counseling. Workshops that fall under stress management are related to reducing the impact of academic stress and increasing coping capacities. Future programming will include groups on stress reduction and mindfulness for increased well-being.

To attend an informational session, or if you are interested in stress reduction and mindfulness workshops, call Valerie Baker at 718-960-8761.

The Learning and Study Strategies Inventory (L.A.S.S.I.)

L.A.S.S.I. is a ten-scale, eighty-item assessment designed to measure ten strategies necessary for academic success. L.A.S.S.I. is taken online at the Counseling Center, and it takes approximately 15-20 minutes. Students will have an opportunity to assess their study skills and improve them via individual one-to-one study skills counseling and on-campus resources and online study skills websites. We also facilitate academic success workshops targeting the areas assessed in the L.A.S.S.I.

For more information on test-taking strategies, note taking, and study aids, check with the Instructional Support Services or call 718-960-8175.

To learn more about L.A.S.S.I., call Jasmine Jusino at 718-960-8761.

Outreach

The Counseling Center provides in-classroom presentations in the following areas: depression and anxiety awareness; sexual assault awareness; domestic violence awareness; and in the study skills areas, including college adjustment, learning strategies, procrastination and time management, and goal setting.

In addition, the Counseling Center provides psycho-educational and personal growth workshops in mental health awareness, study skills strategies, as well as workshops that focus on increasing self-esteem, self-awareness, and improve interpersonal relationships. All of the Center's programs are multi-culturally sensitive and responsive to ethnic and sexual diversity. To request a classroom presentation, visit "classroom presentations."

Consultation

The Counseling Center provides consultation to faculty and other appropriate campus personnel about individual students, while respecting the bounds of confidentiality. Consultation is also provided to parents and other family members as needed.

Research

The Counseling Center conducts ongoing evaluations to determine the needs of our students, the effectiveness of our programs, and to improve the quality of care.

In addition, the Center is involved with Penn State's Center for the Study of Collegiate Mental Health, which represents a collaborative, multi-disciplinary effort combining the expertise of mental health treatment providers, psychological researchers, and information sciences and technology. Results from the 2008 study are available here. For more information about the study, call Dr. Annecy Baez at 718-960-8761.