How Counseling Helps
Counseling is a confidential discussion between you and your professionally-trained counselor about personal, social, or emotional issues.
Counseling helps you identify behaviors or ways of thinking that have not worked well and change them in ways that will improve your relationships, functioning, and moods.
Counseling helps develop decision making skills needed to meet the challenges of living and learning.
On-line screening is available 24 hours per day. Take free, anonymous questionnaires to see if you may have a problem with depression, anxiety, alcohol, an eating disorder, bipolar disorder, or post-traumatic stress. Go to the on-line screening.
We are unable to provide counseling or psychological advice by e-mail, but we encourage you to call the Counseling Center at (319) 273-2676 if you wish to arrange to speak with a Counselor.
How to Make an Initial Assessment Appointment
To schedule an Initial Assessment appointment, please call the Counseling Center at (319) 273-2676. You will need to arrive at least 30 minutes prior to your appointment time to complete a "Request For Services" form.
During your Initial Assessment session, you and your counselor will explore your concerns and discuss what additional services may be helpful to you.
After your Initial Assessment appointment, if your plan includes continued services at the UNI Counseling Center,
you will be assigned a counselor for regularly scheduled appointments.
Confidentiality
Information shared by you in counseling sessions is confidential and is protected to the full extent of the law. Information will not be disclosed to anyone outside the Center without your written permission except when, in the judgment of your counselor, such disclosure is necessary to protect you or someone else from imminent danger or when otherwise required by law.
Diversity Statement
The Counseling Center is committed to being knowledgeable and sensitive regarding issues of gender, race, ethnicity,
national origin, age, sexual orientation, religion, and ability.
About the Counseling Center
The UNI Counseling Center provides mental health and counseling to UNI students who have paid the Mandatory Health Fee. The UNI Counseling Center has been accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services (IACS).
The Counseling Center is a service department under University Health Services, which, in turn is a department under UNI's Division of Student Affairs. For more information about Counseling Services, please view the Counseling Center's 'About' page.