Student Counseling Services

What is Counseling Services?

The mission of Counseling Services is to provide solution-focused, student-centered counseling services to enhance personal growth and development. Counseling Services is a support service available to currently enrolled students at Spartanburg Community College who may be facing personal challenges.

Why Counseling Services?

The rigors of college can be stressful and when combined with other life challenges of home, work and personal obligations may serve as a cause for a person to seek help addressing these matters. Counseling Services can assist in these situations by:

• Providing confidential and accessible services to students at the convenience of their school schedule.
• Assisting students manage their specific needs and challenges.
• Providing access to or connecting students with college and community resources that may further assist students.

Services provided include but are not limited to:

• Limited Crisis intervention and counseling timely response to student crisis situations.
  - Interventions by electronic means contact through electronic means provided by Spartanburg Community College for non-life threatening concerns and for initial contact.
  - Limited face-to-face interventions more in-depth interventions to assist with emotional distress, life transition, or deeper personal challenges.
• Referrals for basic needs, supportive care, health care and related needs assistance with connections to local social service organizations that help with basic needs.
  
• Referrals for more intensive counseling needs connection with local providers who would best meet ongoing needs.
• Limited education of personal and life skills online or group self-help webinars/workshops on personal challenges most students face.
• Linking to self-help applications customized to your needs connection to electronic media including apps and websites to assist with specific needs.
  
  

How do I access services?

To schedule an appointment to begin services you may stop by the Counseling Services Office located in Room 179 on the first floor of the Terhune Student Services Building on the SCC Central Campus, call (864) 592-4943, or e-mail inlown@sccsc.edu for assistance.

You may also contact the Office of Vice President of Student Affairs at (864) 592-4494 to schedule an appointment. Should you need accommodations, let us know when you schedule your appointment.

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