Our Mission

We support student success by providing comprehensive clinical services, advocacy, recovery support, outreach, and professional training. We provide a compassionate and welcoming atmosphere that creates spaces for healing and growth. We demonstrate our commitment to social justice and cultural sensitivity through validation, empowerment, and building wide-ranging relationships.

Our Vision

We believe students thrive in a culture of wellness that is affirming, inclusive, responsive, and supportive.

UCS values individual and cultural differences with a commitment to human rights and equality. We embrace innovative clinical services, training of emerging mental health professionals, and research-based clinical practice. We envision sharing our collective mental health expertise, building collaborative opportunities, and providing education and leadership at the university, local, national, and international levels.

UCS endeavors to create a diverse and multidisciplinary staff that values different perspectives and professional views. We aspire to develop a collegial, collaborative, communal environment that supports, values and encourages staff's personal and professional development.

Diversity Statement

University Counseling Services is committed to promoting inclusion and the affirmation of diversity in its broadest sense. We strive to provide respectful treatment to people of every background who work, train, and use University Counseling Services. Our staff places a high value on the dignity and worth of individuals and embrace the richness brought by the intersections of individual gender expression and identity, nationality, ethnicity, race, sexual/affectional orientation, age, physical and mental abilities, spirituality, socioeconomic status, physical attributes, as well as other personal and social characteristics that comprise individual identity. We are committed to the social value of equity and believe that everyone deserves equal economic, political, and social rights and opportunities.