Our Services

Counseling Services

Counseling Sessions: Students may receive approximately 10 sessions of counseling free of charge during their academic career. If a student requires sessions beyond what the Counseling Center can provide for them, referrals to community resources are available.

Population Served: Students must be actively enrolled full-time or part-time as an undergraduate or graduate student for the term they are requesting counseling services for.

Services Provided: Individual and couples counseling, crisis management, psycho-education, outreach, referrals to community providers/resources, and consultative services in-person, video- conferencing, and via telephone.

Type of challenges seen within the Counseling Center:

Stress (academically, socially, emotionally)
Adjustments to college (homesickness, work/college balance)
Phase of life issues
Time management
Anxiety
Depression
Suicidal thoughts
Self-esteem
Sadness
Loneliness
Identity issues
Eating Disorders
Substance Use
Family concerns
Interpersonal issues (roommate issues, significant relationship challenges)
Grief

Group Counseling

Group counseling offers a cool opportunity to build a community with people experiencing similar challenges, and to explore your needs, share your experiences, offer support to others, and develop ways to manage different problems. Group will also focus on specific skills to help you cope.

Beyond Breathing (TBD)

Are you looking for more than deep breathing to manage your stress? Beyond Breathing is a Counseling Center group designed to help students develop skills for managing anxiety using principles of Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT).

Interested in learning more about CBT and group counseling? Click here for our CBT Group Counseling Fact sheet.

Click here to schedule a no-commitment screening appointment where you can find out more information and decide whether a group meets your needs.

Group Counseling FAQs

Groups will be held on a weekday, but exact days and times will be decided based on participants’ schedules and needs. The group will most likely be held in the Counseling Center but may be held elsewhere, depending on group needs.

Groups are weekly, one-hour sessions that will meet for approximately 6 weeks. Exact dates will be communicated after the group is assembled.

You can use the link above to request a screening, which is a 30-minute meeting with a counselor. During this meeting, the counselor will ask you questions about your background and needs to make sure you are a good fit for the group, and you can ask questions about the group to determine whether you would like to participate. After this screening, you will be notified via email whether or not you are accepted into the group.

Not necessarily. If we are at capacity, you may be put on a waiting list for the next group. Also, sometimes your needs and the topic of the group may not be the right fit. In that case, Counseling Center staff may recommend individual counseling, a different group, or other ways of addressing your concerns.

You are free to quit the group at any time, however, if you have any concerns about the group not meeting your needs or expectations, we encourage you to share this in group. In the event that you decide to withdraw from the group, we ask that you attend a final session to promote a positive ending to your group experience. Because people sometimes experience discomfort when interacting with new people, we ask that you agree to attend at least three sessions before making a decision to withdraw from the group.

Just like in individual counseling sessions, counselors will not disclose any information about you to anyone outside of the group, except in a few rare emergencies. We also ask that each group member commits to keeping group information confidential. Although we cannot guarantee that each group member will comply, we take breaches of confidentiality seriously and set ground rules for participation in the group.

Yes. We will discuss further during a screening interview whether the specific group you are interested in meets your needs.

No. There is a pre-group screening interview to make sure that your needs fit the topic of the group, which takes approximately 30 minutes.

Yes, if they are actively enrolled as a student; please be aware, however, that the particular group being offered at present may not be about relationships.

Vibe

Vibe is a monthly, informal gathering where students can participate in creative activities and mindfulness activities that can help develop a sense of connection, regulation and personal expression.

Who is this for? Any Chaminade University student can join! The gatherings will be facilitated by Counseling Center staff.

When: TBD

Where: Vi and Paul Loo Student Center, Clarence T.C. Ching Hall

How: Students do not need to preregister and can drop in at any of the gatherings listed above. Students will need to provide their first and last name and student ID number, but no other personal information will be requested unless an emergency arises.

Vibe FAQs

No, we will provide supplies! You will need to know your student ID number.

No, Vibe is not counseling and is not a substitute for mental health treatment.

No, confidentiality is not fully guaranteed due to the other students participating in this event, and our lack of control over whether or not information is shared between students outside of this space. The Counseling Center staff will not share your attendance, nor your personal information, with any third parties. We ask that you sign into the session by providing your name and your Chaminade ID to ensure that services are being provided to Chaminade students, although your attendance at these sessions will not be shared outside of our electronic database.

The Counseling Center staff will keep a “non-clinical attendance note” of your participation in our database, to provide a place for further note-keeping in the case that an emergency occurs during a session. You will not be documented as a client if you are not enrolled in our counseling program as an active client. You will not have a set folder in our database as a non-client.

Trainings & Workshops

The Counseling Center staff offers various trainings and psychoeducational workshops
throughout the school year, such as a mental health crisis response training, QPR suicide
prevention training, mindfulness workshops, and more.

Mental Health Crisis Response Training:
Our Mental Health Crisis Response Training was created internally in response to staff and
faculty requesting psycho education about various mental health crises that may arise within the
Chaminade University ohana. In this one hour training, we provide education on six mental
health challenges through information, role play scenarios, and six crisis response decision trees
to use during and after this training. The six areas of mental health covered are; suicidal ideation,
homicidal ideation, depression, panic attacks, intimate partner violence, and psychosis.

QPR Suicide Prevention Training:
Our Counseling Center staff are proud QPR Gatekeeper Instructors, and are grateful to be able to
bring this nationally recognize suicide prevention training to our community. QPR is a nationally
certified suicide prevention training that teaches you how to help someone in crisis. Once you
complete the one hour in person or zoom training session, you will be well equipped to take the
lead on suicide prevention. Being trained in QPR allows any person to recognize the warning
signs, suicidal ideation and respond effectively. This brief, yet thorough, training will show you
how to help someone in crisis. College students are at an increased risk for dying by suicide due
to the pressure they face. According to data from the Department of Health, over the past four
years, the no. 1 cause of death in Hawaii for people between the ages 15 and 44 was suicide.
Being trained in QPR can prevent suicide.

Please download QPR information here:
QPR flier
QPR brochure
QPR newsletter

Request Training

Internships

The Counseling Center is a practicum placement site for our MSCP graduate students. Please
email [email protected] to learn more about our MSCP practicum placement.
The Counseling Center has begun an undergraduate wellness internship program, which will be
transitioning into a NASPA certified Peer Mentorship Program. Please email
[email protected] to learn more about our undergraduate internship
opportunities.