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Fall 2024: End of Semester Services (Increased Drop-in Hours) Will Begin the Week of Nov. 11th

Overview: CMHC offers goal-directed counseling, which begins with completing an initial triage/intake session with a therapist on our Triage & Crisis team. This Triage & Crisis team, combined with our specialized programs, results in an average wait time to get connected with a therapist being about one week, depending on the student’s availability/schedule (The national average ranges 2-6 weeks).

End of Semester Services are utilized for students who contact us just before the end of the semester to initiate standard counseling. End of Semester Services include drop-in appointments, which focus on supportive therapy. This avoids students having to complete a triage/intake session, leave campus during Winter Break, and then have to redo the triage/intake in the Spring because it’s been over a month between sessions.

Students who contact us during the week of Nov 11th to initiate standard counseling would typically be scheduled during the week of the Nov 18th. However, the week after that is Thanksgiving Break, and the week after that is Study Days, which is when CMHC usually begins End of Semester Services. Thus, we are starting End of Semester services during the week of Nov. 11th.

The front office will direct students to present to the center Monday – Friday from 9AM – 4PM. After the initial drop-in session, students can schedule follow-up sessions with the same staff therapists until the semester ends. However, these sessions will focus on providing immediate short-term support. CMHC will resume our standard goal-directed counseling once students return to campus in the Spring.

End of Semester Services ONLY apply to students who contact us during the week of Nov. 11th to initiate standard counseling. Students who are already working with a therapist or have a pending scheduled appointment will continue services as planned. As always, our crisis services will stay the same, and students can call our 24/7 phone counseling helpline at 817-257-7233 (even during semester breaks). For questions or comments, please email the center’s director, Dr. Eric Wood, at e.c.wood@tcu.edu.

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The Counseling & Mental Health Center provides psychological treatment and recovery services for TCU students with mental health or psychological concerns. The goal of the Center is to provide support and assistance to TCU students, in order to facilitate a successful university experience. Center staff consists of licensed providers who are experts in the field of college mental health, and work closely with providers in the Fort Worth community.

Important Information Regarding Services

You must be a currently enrolled, degree seeking, TCU student to receives services at the Counseling & Mental Health Center, including couples and family counseling. For couples and family counseling, all members must be currently enrolled, degree seeking, TCU students. We do not provide consultations or referral services for anyone who is not an enrolled TCU student. We also do not conduct formal evaluations of any kind, including for academic or court related reasons, nor do we give any recommendations about academic accommodations. Students who are full-time employees of the University, and receiving TCU health care benefits, will be directed to the Employee Assistant Program.

You will be asked to provide a copy of you Student ID prior to your first appointment.
All appointments are confidential to the extent of the law, and counseling records are separate from your educational records.
We do not provide psychological assessments for the purpose of academic accommodations, emotional support animals, or housing accommodations.
We do not provide court-mandated assessments or treatment requirements.

First Appointments

Crisis Care

Psychiatric evaluations and consultations are generally reserved for students using our counseling services. Students seeking medication refills but are not interested in counseling will be likely be referred to providers in the community.

Our psychiatric providers do not provide services for students who are only seeking ADHD medication. However, the TCU pharmacy is certified to fill prescriptions for ADHD medication prescribed by out-of-state providers. Please contact the pharmacy in the Health Center for more information. You can also contact our front office at 817-257-7863 for a list of psychiatric providers in the Fort Worth Community.

Our psychiatric providers do not have the ability to provide emergency prescriptions. As such, it’s very important that students attend scheduled appointments to avoid a delay in refilling prescriptions. We also ask that students call at least 24 hours in advance if you need to reschedule your appointment. Cancellations made the same day will be counted as a “no-show,” and students who “no-show” two appointments in a semester might be referred to a community provider. Those who show a pattern of rescheduling appointments may also be referred to a community provider.

The TCU Counseling and Mental Health Center has a 24/7 counseling helpline that offers telephone counseling to all TCU students anytime, day or night, and even during semester breaks. Students can call the helpline at any time (even when Center is open) to speak with a trained counselor who is familiar with the resources at TCU . If you feel the need to talk with a counselor, please call 817-257-7233.

Important Information about our 24/7 phone counseling helpline:

Unless required by law, and/or the event of safety concerns, only the Counseling & Mental Health Center will know that you called the helpline.
In order to maintain a sense of privacy, most students will not receive a return call after contacting the helpline. There are some occasions in which a staff therapist at at the Center will follow-up with the caller (i.e. safety concerns).
The phone counselor can notify campus personnel in the event of an emergency but calling Campus Police at 817-257-7777 will generate a faster response.
The phone counselor is not a staff therapist at the Counseling & Mental Health Center and the helpline should not to be used for center business, such as rescheduling appointments. Please call our main office at 817-257-7863 for such matters.
Panic attacks and relationship concerns are the top reasons why students call the helpline. However, students can call for whatever reason to speak with a phone counselor.

Need to Talk TCU 24hr Counseling hotline Call 817-257-7233

Clinical self-management is a vital part of treatment at the Counseling & Mental Health Center. We define this type of self-management as action steps that clients take to work toward meeting their health-related treatment goals. Such action steps are completed outside of sessions and are different from the clinical interventions provided by therapists. During the early stages of therapy, counselors help develop a personalized self-management plan with students, and use this plan to track progress, identify barriers to progress, and as a guide for maintenance after counseling is completed.

Not sure if you should see a counselor or if a friend should? Take a brief screening to help determine if you are someone you care about should connect with a mental health professional. The screening is completely anonymous and confidential and immediately following the questionnaire you will see results, recommendations and resources.

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