Counseling Center

73 Tremont Street, 5th Floor
Boston, MA 02108
Tel: 617.573.8226
Fax: 617.227.3685
Office Hours: Monday - Friday, 9:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Mailing Address:  8 Ashburton Place  Boston, MA  02108

Statement of Purpose

The Counseling Center offers a broad range of preventive, remedial, and developmental services to the Suffolk University community. It strives to help students function more effectively in the University environment by assisting them in defining and accomplishing their personal and academic goals. In addition, the University Counseling Center works with staff, faculty, administration, and alumni to help improve the quality of the learning and living environment at the University.

In doing so, the Counseling Center provides two major kinds of interventions:

• Individual and group counseling, psychological and educational/vocational testing, and training in human relationships to improve the adaptive skills of individual clients
• Consultations and outreach initiatives on behalf of students, faculty and staff at the University

The Counseling Center is committed to creating and maintaining an open and accepting environment in which all clients feel welcome and valued. The Center’s primary obligation is to provide short-term counseling and consultations to members of the Suffolk University community.

Clients may bring any problem or concern to the attention of Counseling Center psychologists who will either make an immediate intervention or will make the necessary referrals to appropriate University personnel or to mental health professionals in the Greater Boston area.

(Some) Reasons for Using the Counseling Center

• Resolving personal problems
• Academic difficulties
• Family, peer and roommate concerns
• Feeling depressed
• Performance anxieties
• Managing stress and time-management challenges
• Addictive behaviors
• Eating disorders
• Referrals for learning disabilities and attention deficit disorders (ADD)
• Career planning and decision-making
• Identifying and using resources at the University

Confidentiality

Confidentiality of counseling relationships is maintained in a manner consistent with accepted professional standards and with local, state and federal statutes. No information regarding a client’s counseling relationship is divulged unless prior written consent is obtained from the client. In addition, no information concerning contact with members of the Counseling Center can be shared with other members of the University community without the prior approval of the client.

In cases where a Counseling Center staff member may advocate on behalf of a client with other University personnel, permission for release of information will be obtained before any intervention is undertaken and/or information regarding the counseling relationship is shared.