The Counseling Center
The Counseling Center is staffed by competent, experienced mental health professionals who, as part of the larger University community, are dedicated to the personal, social, and academic development of all JMU students. To accomplish this goal, the Center provides counseling services within a developmental, proactive, and outreach-oriented framework.
The primary focus of the Counseling Center mission is to provide the highest quality individual and group counseling to students struggling with problems common to a college population. Additionally, we serve as an assessment and referral source for students with more serious and chronic psychological difficulties. We also engage in active outreach efforts focusing on the prevention of problems and maximizing the potential of all students to benefit from the academic environment and experience.
Sexual Trauma Empowerment Program
The STEP program offers free and confidential short and long-term individual, group, and emergency sexual trauma counseling services while also assisting in medical, judicial, and legal referrals as well as offer consultation around Title IX, for faculty, staff, family members, and friends of survivors of sexual trauma.
Counseling Connections
Helps incoming first-year students connect with mental health resources before arriving on campus. A Counseling Connections clinician will start with a 30-minute phone consultation to ask questions about the situation and offer treatment recommendations.
