Counselling

Counselling is a talking therapy. Most of the academic partners within UHI have access to face-to-face or telephone counselling.

This is only one tool available to staff wishing to help students with mental health issues. Counselling can be a useful and powerful way of helping students to maintain or regain their mental health. However, it is not a panacea for all ills and just because someone has a mental health issue does not automatically mean that they require counselling.

As with many support services, various support mechanisms are available for the student but we cannot force a student to use them. It has to be their choice. This is also true of counselling. The time has to be right for any individual to feel ready to undertake counselling and benefit from it.

Increasingly we are seeing college and university counselling provision being heavily used, as services available on the NHS are under strain and frequently have long waiting lists. We are not here to replace the NHS and the services it provides, we can however provide a place for people to go to discuss their issues and help them to reduce the impact so that they can stay on their course and learn effectively.

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Online students

The recent development of online counselling across UHI is an important development, allowing access to remote and online students wherever they are studying. Referral is self-referral via the green button on the UHI website.

However, some students may prefer face-to-face counselling or the use of telephone counselling. A lot depends on personal preference, location and availability.

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