The Counseling & Mental Health Center provides psychological treatment and recovery services for TCU students with mental health or psychological concerns. The center’s goal is to support and assist TCU students 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 receive 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.
- Please bring your student ID 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 academic accommodations, emotional support animals, or housing accommodations.
- We do not provide court-mandated assessments or treatment requirements.
Student Services
Psychiatric evaluations and consultations are offered by providers in the Health Center who often work closely with CMHC staff. To contact the Health Center, please call 817-257-7940.
To provide access to as many students as possible, 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.
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. The health center also asks 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 support to all TCU students anytime, day or night, and even during semester breaks. Students can call the helpline at any time (even when the Center is open) to speak with a trained professional familiar with TCU’s resources. The helpline can be reached at 817-257-SAFE (817-257-7233).
Important Information about our 24/7 phone counseling helpline:
Panic attacks and relationship concerns are the top reasons why students call the helpline. However, students can call for whatever reason.
Unless required by law, or in 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 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 students 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 be used for center business, such as rescheduling appointments. Please call our main office at 817-257-7863 for such matters.
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, some counselors might discuss 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.
The Counseling & Mental Health Center is known for fostering peer support communities. These are not therapy groups but rather opportunities for students to expand social support and increase connections with like-minded students. These support communities are led by TCU students who work closely with staff members. Most Peer Support Communities meet in the north wing of the counseling center, which consists of several lounge spaces for students to enjoy while the center is open. Visit the Peer Support page below for a full list of the current support communities including details on meeting times and how to get involved.
Our mission is to provide TCU student-athletes with goal-oriented counseling services to enhance their mental health and well-being, along with mental training services to sharpen mental performance in their sport. Sessions are confidential and typically last 45 minutes.