HEALTH: Counseling available
A student recently asked about what kind of psychological counseling services are available for students. The place to turn for answers is CPS - Counseling and Psychological Services, a division of Health Services:
http://www.health.columbia.edu/cps/index.html.
“CPS offers free psychological counseling to all undergraduate and graduate students who have paid the Health Service fee. Emergency consultations and crisis intervention are provided to students in acute distress, and psychopharmacological consultations are available as needed. To facilitate a free and open discussion of sensitive matters, CPS adheres to strict standards of confidentiality.”
How to Make an Appointment: Students who are interested in meeting with a counselor should call our appointment line at (212) 854-2878. In an effort to enhance services, we now provide telephone appointments with CPS counselors, usually within one business day of your initial call to CPS. After this initial phone appointment, you will be scheduled for a regular in person appointment according to the urgency of your needs. Of course, in the event of an acute psychiatric emergency, students may come directly to CPS without an appointment for assistance any time we are open.
For urgent medical consultation after hours, you may contact the Clinician-on-call at 212-854-9797. In the event of psychiatric emergency, you may also contact your nearest emergency room. The psychiatric emergency room nearest the Morningside Heights campus is the St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center Psychiatric Emergency Room at 113th Street and Amsterdam Avenue, (212) 523-3347.
