Counseling Services

The goal of the Counseling and Consultation Center (CCC) is to help students manage the challenges of college life. Counseling is available to help students deal with their personal and academic concerns to facilitate their success in school and in life.

Disaster Distress Helpline: 1.800.985.5990 or text TalkWithUs to 66746 (TTY 1.800.846.8517)

Virus Anxiety Crisis Text Line: Text “HOME” to 741741

National Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1.800.273.8255 https://suicidepreventionlifeline.org/

Veterans Crisis Line 1.800.273.8255 (press 1 when connected)

National Domestic Violence Hotline 1.800.799.7233 (TTY 1.800.787.3224)

If serious harm is about to happen to any person, including one’s self, please call 911 immediately. If there is a student in crisis (intense difficulty, trouble, or danger) please contact Austin-Travis County Integral Care’s 24/7 Crisis Hotline at 512.472.HELP (4357) or Austin Police Department and request the Crisis Intervention Team or a Mental Health Officer.

The counselor will provide respectful, competent, and compassionate services to all students attending Huston-Tillotson University. Students sometimes need to talk to someone, and voice their feelings, thoughts and behaviors that are troubling them. Counseling helps students become aware of their feelings and underlying issues as well as identify problems, find solutions, and build an effective plan of action. Counseling is CONFIDENTIAL and PRIVATE.

Everyone can benefit from counseling! We encourage you to seek counseling if you experience any of the following concerns which are common among college students:

• Stress, anxiety and depression
• Academic concerns, such as procrastination and attention problems
• Interpersonal relationship problems
• Adjustment issues such as homesickness and loneliness
• Thoughts of hurting self or others
• Problem behaviors, such as drug or alcohol abuse
• Experience with trauma, such as sexual abuse and PTSD
• Grief and sense of loss
• Confusion, worry, negativity

• Individual Counseling
• Group Counseling
• Couples Counseling
• Referrals to mental health care providers in the community
• Mental Health resources for students, faculty, and staff

You may send an e-mail to thawkins@htu.edu. You must be a currently-enrolled student to receive counseling services.

Monday – Friday
9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

Sandra Joy Anderson Health and Wellness Center
1705 East 11th Street

When you come in to talk with the counselor for the first time, you will be asked to complete an information sheet that provides your counselor with background information about you (email thawkins@htu.edu to receive an Intake Form). Then you’ll sit down and start a conversation to explore how counseling can help you reach your therapeutic goals. Sessions usually last 45-50 minutes.

Due to the heavy demand for counseling and consultation services, we ask that clients call to cancel or reschedule appointments at least 24 hours in advance so that the appointment time may be utilized by another student waiting for an appointment. When a client misses multiple appointments, she/he may be asked to confer with the Center director before additional appointments will be scheduled. If a client repeatedly misses scheduled appointments and reasonable accommodations have been offered, the client may be referred to appropriate professional service providers in the Austin community.