Counseling Appointment Types

Specialized individual therapy is available to address specific solution-focused areas of concern, requiring no more than two sessions. 

  • Duration: 20-45 minutes 
  • Paperwork: Pre-appointment paperwork 

This is the most common level of need for students seeking counseling services. This appointment will allow for brief information-gathering in order to determine the best recommended care for the individual student. The counselor who conducts this appointment may not necessarily become the student's primary counselor. 

  • Duration: 20 minutes 
  • Paperwork: Pre-appointment paperwork 

Individual counseling is a confidential meeting with a counselor to discuss the student's concerns. The goal of individual counseling is to provide short-term support to help the student gain insights and skills to build personal and academic resilience. 

  • Duration: 45 minutes 
  • Paperwork: Pre-appointment paperwork 

When appropriate, Couples and Relationship Counseling focuses on the challenges of our interpersonal connections regardless of whether it concerns romantic partners, friends or roommates. Both individuals in the relationship-seeking counseling must be enrolled students of Stetson University.

  • Duration: 45 minutes 
  • Paperwork: Pre-appointment paperwork 

Crisis counseling may be needed when a student is experiencing distress related to the recent loss of a loved one or traumatic events, such as a serious threat to safety, as well as a recent assault or bias incident, or a disaster. 

  • Duration: 45 minutes 
  • Paperwork: Crisis Paperwork

Crisis Session

SCS Defines a crisis session as one of the following: 

  • "I intend to kill myself"
  • "I intend to harm myself for someone else"
  • "I am currently seeing things or hearing voices others are not"
  • "My immediate safety is at risk" 
  • "I have recently been sexually or physically assaulted"

Emergency consultation 

Stress is individualized and experienced differently for everyone, in the event of the following examples please contact our office directly at 386-822-8900 to request an emergency consultation. 

  • Someone close to me has recently received a serious diagnosis or died 
  • I have recently experienced a significant trauma trigger 
  • I have recently been discharged from a psychiatric hospital and need help finding follow-up care in the community 
  • I have been referred by a faculty or staff member to help me find follow-up care in the community 
  • I have recently experienced a biased incident 

 

An appointment may be scheduled to connect a student with on-campus resources or community resources to assist with specialized mental health needs. 

  • Duration: 20-45 minutes 
  • Paperwork: Pre-appointment paperwork

Toward the end of each semester, students have access to end-of-semester support in the form of 1-2 individual sessions to offer solution-focused tools and coping skills. 

  • Duration: 20-45 minutes 
  • Paperwork: Pre-appointment paperwork