About Counseling
Counseling is a collaborative process that
involves the development of a unique, confidential helping
relationship. Counselors act as facilitators to help clients better
understand themselves and the world around them. Open and honest
discussions of feelings, behaviors, relationships, life
experiences, and circumstances with a trained counselor in a safe,
confidential environment enables individuals to grow towards
greater freedom in making healthy choices and taking appropriate
actions for more satisfying relationships, self-concept, academic
progress, and life goals.
The counseling that is offered at
Counseling Center is provided by skilled mental health
professionals. When a student meets with a Counseling Services
staff person, he/she is meeting with someone who has had experience
helping students deal with a wide range of personal and academic
difficulties. Counseling Services staff work with the student to
help him/her identify strengths, locate support resources, and to
begin a process of change and growth.
The philosophy of the RWC Counseling
Center is built on the assumption that counseling must address the
whole person as a physical, rational, emotional, sexual, social and
spiritual being. We are indirect, in that, like Christ, we honor
client self-determination. We are direct in our approach in that we
build upon the truths contained in the Word of God and lived out in
the life of Jesus Christ. We believe that counselors' living their
Christian faith in their practice makes a difference.