Counseling Services

Over the next few months, My SSP will be rebranding as telus health. Free, on-demand mental health support is available to all Smith students - undergraduate, graduate, and even students studying abroad. The service provides chat and phone support 24/7 and can support students to connect with a regular therapist. Services are available via the My SSP phone app, their website, or by calling the Schacht Center after hours. Over the next few months, the name of the application, website, and phone number may change, so please check our page for updates. 

The Counseling Service is a free and confidential service available to all students. Our commitment is to provide mental health care that is:

• relationally based
• culturally responsive
• identity affirming
• equitable and inclusive
• individualized 

The Counseling Service strives to promote inclusive and socially-just clinical services that honor the specific strengths and needs of the full range of diverse identities represented within the Smith College campus community. The Counseling Service recognizes that systematic and institutionalized factors such as racism/white supremacy, classism/poverty, ableism, sex negativity, fatphobia, heteronormativity, and cisnormativity continue to exist both on- and off-campus and these forces have a negative impact on the emotional health of our campus community. Our services work to attend to and recognize the harm caused by these factors.

Care is masked and in-person at the Schacht Center, but teleheath appointments with our therapists are available at the student’s request.

• assessment
• crisis intervention
• individual therapy
• a variety of ever-changing groups (affinity and special interest)
• psychiatric assessments
• psychiatric medication treatment 
• off-campus referrals
• advocacy
• trans-affirming documentation
• identity-affirming care
• educational workshops & outreach
• some case management
• consultation with campus community partners