Counseling Center

The Georgia Tech Counseling Center is a unit of the Division of Student Affairs. The mission of the Counseling Center is the dedication of its services to enhance the academic experience and personal success of all students by providing a variety of counseling and psychological services to students and the campus community. The Counseling Center accomplishes its mission by offering services to students that facilitate personal development, assist in the alleviation, remediation, and prevention of distress, and educate students in ways that develop self-awareness, self-reliance, and self-confidence. The services at the Counseling Center are accredited by the International Association of Counseling Services.

The Counseling Center has a staff of licensed psychologists and counselors who provide individual, couples, and group counseling for eligible students to address a wide variety of personal, academic, and career concerns. In addition, the Counseling Center provides outreach and consultation programming and services to the Georgia Tech community.

1. Counseling Services
   The Counseling Center provides short-term counseling (individual counseling, group counseling, couples counseling) and assessment to currently enrolled students. The counseling services that are provided to students facilitate their personal growth and development by assisting students in developing personal insight and awareness of themselves as young adults, assisting them in the education of the salient issues in their lives, and offering them ways to recognize, address, and resolve the difficulties and challenges that serve as obstacles to their academic and personal success.
2. Outreach and Consultation
   The Counseling Center provides a wide variety of programs and educational workshops annually to students and the campus community. Educational outreach programs are offered from a core set of workshops each year in addition to offering individualized programs based on requests from Institute departments, faculty, students, and staff groups. In addition, the Counseling Center’s resource library provides a collection of self-help materials for student use.
3. Training Program
   The Counseling Center also has a number of trainees (pre-doctoral interns, graduate practicum students) who also provide supervised counseling services through the Counseling Center. The predoctoral internship program is a member of the Association of Psychology Postdoctoral and Internship Centers.

More information is available at www.counseling.gatech.edu.