| Counseling |
| Counseling For Wellness Newsletter | Mission | Confidentiality |
| Issues | Availability
| Resources | Disease Control | Student Veterans | ULifeline
| Sexual Assault Hotline | Virtual Pamphlet
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| Health Services | Incoming Student Information |
When should you or someone you care about seek counseling?
Find out in this informational flyer (PDF File, 101KB).
Recognizing and Assisting Students with Mental Health Difficulties
A Guide for Faculty and Staff (PDF File, 92 KB)
Counseling For Wellness Newsletter
Counseling
| Counseling Office |
South Hall |
Providence Hall |
| Monday |
10:00a.m.-9:00p.m. |
12:00p.m.-4:00p.m. |
| Tuesday |
10:00a.m.-6:00p.m. |
5:00p.m.-9:00p.m. |
| Wednesday |
10:00a.m.-9:00p.m. |
12:00p.m.-4:00p.m. |
| Thursday |
10:00a.m.-6:00p.m. |
5:00p.m.-9:00p.m. |
| Friday |
10:00a.m.-6:00p.m. |
n/a |
| Saturday |
By Appointment |
By Appointment |
To make an appointment contact:
Susan Lipiec, M.Ed, Ed.S, PCC-S
Counseling Director
slipiec@ndc.edu
216-373-5211
Kate Ricchiuto, CT
Counselor Trainee – Intern
Walk-ins are welcome |
The Mission Of The Counseling Center
The Notre Dame College Counseling Center is committed in providing excellence in psychotherapeutic services to promote student safety, personal growth and academic success. The counseling Center provides an open and safe environment to encourage self-awareness, personal responsibility and healthy interpersonal relationships within a diverse and dynamic campus community. The counseling center is involved through collaborative efforts throughout the campus community in creating a vital and healthy campus learning environment.
During our lives we all experience change. Adjusting to college and transitioning into adulthood bring challenges in relationships, identity, self-management, and academic/vocational goals. Through counseling and other activities the Counseling Center strives to assist students in growing and developing through these challenges.
Confidentiality
Counselors are ethically committed to confidentiality and federal/state laws require it. This means that even your attendance in counseling is kept private and confidential. The law states that there are four exceptions to this general rule: a) you may request (by means of a signed release) that your counselor may reveal information to other individuals or agencies of your choice; b) in instances where there is imminent danger of serious harm to yourself or others, a counselor may reveal that information to prevent harm; c) in cases involving physical and/or sexual abuse of children or endangered adults, the counselor must report such abuse; and d) where requested by subpoena or mandated by court order or state/federal law.
Common Issues For Which Students Seek Help
- Identity Issues
- Family Problems
- Overload – juggling school, sports, work, and family
- Loneliness/homesickness
- Relationships
- Anxiety/stress
- Depression/sadness
- Emotional/physical/sexual abuse
- Eating problems
- Sexuality
- Bereavement
- Concern about the well being of another person
Local Resources
- First Call For Help 24 hours a day every day 216-436-2000
- Cleveland Rape Crisis Center hotline 216-619-6192
- Domestic Violence Center hotline 216-391-help
- Bellflower Center for Prevention of Child Abuse hotline 216-229-8800
- Mental Health Services Suicide Hotline 216-623-6888
- Lesbian/Gay Community Center of Cleveland 216-651-5428
- Witness-Victim Service Center 216-443-7355
- Al-Anon & Al-Ateen 216-621-1381
- Alcoholics Anonymous 216-241-7387
Non alcohol related substance abuse: See Counselor for referrals.
Counseling Center for Student Veterans
Common Area: Transitioning from combat to college can be challenging, but supportive friends can help make it easier.
Lecture Hall: An important part of talking openly with student veterans is asking respectful questions.
Humvee: Almost 70% of college students know someone who has served in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The sole purpose for the MentorCONNECT community is to connect those in need of recovery support with those who have first received help themselves and now want to offer it to others. Relationships Replace Eating Disorders is a program set out to help those seeking recovery support from eating disorders. To learn more please visit their site: www.key-to-life.com/mentorconnect/
The Partnership for Prescription Assistance brings together America’s pharmaceutical companies, doctors, other health care providers, patient advocacy organizations and community groups to help qualifying patients without prescription drug coverage get free or low-cost medicines through the public or private program that's right for them. Go to: www.pparx.org/prescription_assistance_programs
Nearly all mental health issues can be improved with proper treatment. When we decrease the stigma around mental health and encourage students to seek help if they need it, we are changing and saving lives. Through Half of Us, mtvU and The Jed Foundation want to initiate a public dialogue to raise awareness about the prevalence of mental health issues on campus and connect students to the appropriate resources to get help. Go to: www.halfofus.com
If you consume alcoholic beverages, it's important to know whether your drinking patterns are safe, risky or harmful. Answering these questions will generate personalized results based on your age, gender and drinking patterns. Go to: www.AlcoholScreening.org
Aneroxia Nervosa and
Associated Eating Disorders
Support groups in Ohio
www.anad.org
Select this link for list of support groups in Ohio (PDF File, 54KB).
ULifeline is an anonymous, confidential, online resource center, where college students can be comfortable searching for the information they need and want regarding mental health and suicide prevention. ULifeline is available where college students seek information the most - at their fingertips on the Internet. Go to: www.ulifeline.org/schools/notredamecollege
National Sexual Assault Online Hotline
Select the link to the National Sexual Assault Online Hotline
Virtual Pamphlet
The following website, http://ub-counseling.buffalo.edu/ccr.html (Virtual Pamphlet) offers useful self-help information on the following issues:
- Relationships
- Stress
- Anxiety
- Depression
- Loneliness
- Family Issues
- Alcohol Abuse
- Eating Issues
- Death/Grief
- Traumatic Events
Health Services
Resident students needing health services may
go to Family Urgent Care Center. Emergency Room
services are provided for all students by an area hospital.
Family Urgent Care Center
5195 Mayfield Rd
Cleveland, OH, 44124-2464
(440) 442-0400
Incoming Student Information
Each full-time residential student
is required to complete a medical history form and submit an immunization
record before attending classes. Residence hall students are required
to have medical insurance, and up-to-date immunizations. A Measles-Mumps-Rubella
(MMR) second injection is mandatory for resident students.
Medical
records are confidential and, except in an emergency, information
is released only with the student's permission. Please Ron Wiafe, Director of Residence Life, at 373-5274 or email at rwiafe@ndc.edu for more information about Notre Dame College's health services. |
