Services Offered
The Student Counseling Services team can help address problems such as adjustment and acculturative stress, depression, anxiety, identity issues, and relationship issues that interfere with living and working productively. We can also help with issues specific to the demands and expectations that go along with graduate student life, such as dissertation and thesis writing difficulties.
Our counselors seek to understand each person’s unique circumstances and needs, taking into account individual and cultural differences.
Make an appointment to speak to a counselor and determine which services will best suit your needs.
Explore our Services
- Individual and Couples Counseling
- Group Counseling and Academic Support Groups
- Individual Academic Consultations
- Workshops and Supportive Spaces
- Referrals

Individual Counseling
Typically 10-12 sessions of short-term counseling. Sessions are 45-50 minutes long.
Individual counseling (sometimes called “psychotherapy” or “therapy”) is a process through which you work with a counselor in a non-judgmental, supportive, and confidential environment to explore your feelings, beliefs, and behaviors, to work through challenging or influential memories, to create and work towards personal goals, to learn to engage with others in a more fulfilling way, etc.
Graduate student life is rife with changes, new challenges and stressors. Our counselors integrate various interventions derived from psychodynamic, cognitive behavioral, family systems, and multicultural orientations of therapy.
Couples Counseling
*We have temporarily suspended couples counseling while operating remotely, but please contact us if you would like assistance locating a couples counseling referral in your area*
Typically 10-12 sessions of short-term couples counseling. Sessions are 50-60 minutes long.
Your partner does not have to be a student at The Graduate Center in order for you to request couples counseling here. Many couples experience difficulties in communication about a range of issues. The stresses and responsibilities of graduate school can sometimes trigger or exacerbate tensions in a relationship. Our counselors integrate various interventions derived from interpersonal, emotion focused, cognitive behavioral, family systems, Gottman method, gestalt, and multicultural couples therapy.
Individual Academic Consultations
Typically 3-4 sessions, focused on academic issues.
We offer academic consultation, which provides graduate students the opportunity to explore and determine what may be getting in the way of their academic work. Examples of issues commonly brought to academic consultation include procrastination; time management; balancing academic and life responsibilities; writer’s block; dissertation and thesis issues; and difficulties with advisers and/or cohort and committee members.
Virtual Self-Help Resources
Wellness Video Series
We encourage students to explore our Wellness Video Series for virtual workshops on a variety of mental health topics. "Self Care for Graduate Students" is a great place to start, as Eva Jo Meyers, M.A shares self-care themes, insights, and coping strategies. Watch here or click below to see the other videos in this series.
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