Counseling Center Mission

The Evergreen State College Counseling Center recognizes that the challenges that can accompany being in college can lead to personal problems, interpersonal difficulties, and emotional and psychological stress and distress. Counseling can support students in their experiences at Evergreen by promoting healthy and positive behaviors, views, relationships, and personal growth in a safe, confidential, professional, and supportive environment. At The Evergreen State College Counseling Center, we aim to provide the opportunity to foster this development to a culturally, socially, economically, religiously, and racially diverse student body.

Vision Statement

The Evergreen State College Counseling Center will provide counseling services that we will hold to the highest professional and ethical standards as we work with and for the students of our college. The Counseling Center staff will be familiar with the issues facing a diverse college student body, and will contribute to student development, health, retention, and success by fostering and encouraging healthy decision-making and promoting coping skills. We will serve as a resource to the entire Evergreen community by responding the faculty, staff, and student requests for information about community resources and referrals, and by consulting about issues affecting the success of our students. The Counseling Center will be a leader in the college's efforts to respond to critical incidents that affect the lives of our students and staff and the college's operations. By assisting and educating our community, promoting the use of our services for those affected by a disturbing event, and being available for debriefing and consultation, we will seek to lessen the impact of a critical incident.

Goals

• Providing quality, professionally-delivered, counseling services to our students
• Facilitating and supporting the personal and psychological growth and development of our students through individual, couples, and group counseling, as well as through prevention programming, education, and outreach
• Promoting adjustment to college and, consequently, student retention
• Being available to students and the Evergreen campus community in the time of a crisis
• Enhancing students' appreciation of diversity and individual differences
• Promoting an environment of personal safety and respect
• Collaborating with faculty to promote student well-being through outreach, prevention, and educational efforts