EMERGENCY INFORMATION
If you are in crisis and you are on-campus, please contact your Resident Director or Gordon Police at x3333. If you are off-campus and you are experiencing an emergency, please go directly to your nearest Emergency Room or call 911. For a listing of support hotlines, click here.
*All services are currently conducted via Zoom for Telehealth--a secure, HIPAA-compliant platform. We are unable to provide counseling sessions for students who are not living on-campus or residing in the state of MA due to inter-state licensing restrictions with telehealth counseling. We are happy to provide a telehealth consultation session for students residing outside of MA to assist them in creating a plan for support.
Short-term individual psychotherapy
15 min Quarantine Check-ins
Couples psychotherapy
Mental health assessments
Medication management in collaboration with the health center
Referrals to on-campus resources and off-campus professionals
Consultation to faculty, staff, students and administration
Information on topics designed to enhance mental health and emotional well-being
We do not provide:
Long-term, intensive psychotherapy
Long-term treatment for eating disorders, chronic mental illness, trauma or addiction
As general practitioners, each of our counselors utilizes and is experienced in multiple therapeutic modalities. The most common types of therapy we use at the Counseling Center are Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT), Insight-Oriented Therapy, Psychodynamic Therapy and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). In almost all cases we share psychoeducation throughout counseling to educate our students during their own process of self-exploration, healing and growth.
We place special emphasis on considering the whole person and encourage students first and foremost to create and maintain healthy self-care practices in order to ensure they are taking responsibility for their own well-being. College is a time of transition for students as they acclimate to living life away from family and structures they have known their whole life. It is vital for students to begin creating healthy routines and practices in regard to sleep, eating, exercise, stress reduction, time management and self-assertiveness. We approach all of our work with students through a developmental perspective. During these college years there is a particularly unique and powerful convergence of changes that occur in a college student’s emotional, social, spiritual and vocational identity. This convergence can make therapy during these four years of development a particularly powerful, rich and productive process.
Students are welcome to utilize the Counseling Center at any time while they are a student at Gordon. Many students return at different times during their college career to seek counseling support.
Students seeking counseling services will be allowed the first session free of charge per academic year, after which there will be a one-time charge of $75 per semester for continuation of counseling services. This is an access of service fee that will be billed directly to your account confidentially. The Counseling Center cannot and will not accept any form of payment from students within the center. Please note that because this is a point of access fee and not fee for service, this charge cannot be billed to your health insurance.
Sessions are designed to address issues that are short-term in nature. If the student feels they would benefit from weekly or long-term counseling, or would like to see a professional off-campus, we work with the student to help facilitate a smooth transfer to a local professional. Please refer to the Off-Campus Professionals page for a listing of local professional resources.
All communication you share with the Counseling Center is confidential and protected by the law if you are over the age of 18. Information about your attendance at the Counseling Center and any information you reveal in sessions cannot be discussed with others (including all Gordon faculty, staff, students or parents) unless you have given written consent. Counselors cannot even confirm that a student is coming to the Counseling Center when asked, without written consent.
By law, there are exceptions to this rule. Exceptions include the following:
Below is a list which includes many, but not all of the reasons students come to counseling: