Texas A&M University, Corpus Christi Personal Counseling Center

Counseling/Psychotherapy:

Individual, couples, and family counseling are available. Counselors can work with you to aide you in increasing self-awareness, improving self-confidence and acceptance, enhancing your ability to cope during changes and challenges, improving your decision making and communication abilities, and teaching you strategies to replace hurtful or self-defeating thoughts, feelings, and actions with healthy, adaptive, alternatives. Such counseling is a highly individualized process focusing on specific areas of concern you and the counselor identify together.

Psychological Testing:

Psychological testing is available, when appropriate. Formal, assessment may be recommended by the counselor to assist in the development of a personalized plan of action.

Social & Emotional Coaching:

Even when you know what the problem is and what you should do - logically and rationally, sometimes it's just not so easy to "JUST DO IT!" Professional counselors can work with you as coaches to help you identify and minimize barriers to making choices and lifestyle changes to improve the quality of your life, your relationships, & your personal performance.

Personal Skills Center:

    We're back and better than ever! The Personal Skills Center is a division of the University Counseling Center. The role of the Personal Skills Center is to provide information, individual assistance, and skills training to students interested in developing personal, academic, and career excellence. Some of the topics covered in Personal Skills Training include:

     Goal Setting
     Time Management
     Assertiveness Training
     Raising your emotional intelligence
     Improving memory, study, and test - taking skills
     Coping with test anxiety, stress, anger, & low frustration tolerance

Group Counseling & Short-Term Classes:

Many students have found the opportunity to work on personal issues in a safe and supportive group setting to be very beneficial. Contact the Counseling Center to schedule a group screening appointment if you would like to participate in any of the following groups being offered during the Spring 2007 semester :

Fire & Ice: How to Regulate Intense Emotions
Group members will learn skills to feel calmer in general, to have better relationships, to cope better when distressed and to have a greater understanding of their emotions.
Group Facilitator: Theresa Sharpe, Ph.D.

Stress Management
A weekly drop-in group. Tune out the “stress channel” and join us for an hour of rest, relaxation and rejuvenation. Come once or as many times as you like.
Group Facilitator: Theresa Sharpe, Ph.D.

The Sober Living Group
A support group for students concerned about their own alcohol or other drug use and students already in recovery. Group members will learn about relapse prevention, coping with cravings and sober living.
Group Facilitator: Claudia Ayala, MS LCDC

Eating Concerns and Body Image Support Group
Group members will learn strategies for coping with out-of-control and/or restrictive eating patterns and will explore ways to improve body image.
Group Facilitator: Theresa Sharpe, Ph.D.

Understanding Yourself & Others
This group is for students who would like to better understand themselves and improve their communication and relationship skills.
Group Facilitator: Matt Baysden Ph.D

Different Strokes
An informal group for single parents, and adult learners/nontraditional students to connect with each other, share experiences, and learn about campus and community resources.
Group Facilitator: Theresa Sharpe, Ph.D.

International Multicultural Group
This is a non-traditional open group that meets weekly. The group focuses on issues that may be relevant to students living and studying abroad. The group provides an opportunity for students to meet and make new friends. Lastly this group allows non-native English speakers a place to practice their conversational English in a safe non-judgmental environment. Meets Tuesdays 4:30 – 6:00pm in the University Center.
Group Facilitator: Matt Baysden, Ph.D.

Anger Management & Conflict Resolution Skills Training:
On-going classes are available.

Alcohol Education for Minors (MIP): Spring 2005 classes havebeen cancelled, call the Counseling Center for information about local classes. We hope to be able to offer these classes again in Fall 2005.

Other groups may be arranged based on interests expressed by student. For more information, call 825-2703.

Consultation and Outreach Services:

A major goal of the UCC is to promote positive emotional health, wellness,and personal growth through proactive psycho-educational programs. Professionals working in the University Counseling Center will provide talks, seminars, and skills training programs for student organizations, classes, or administrative units on campus. In addition, students, faculty, and other staff may consult with center staff regarding concerns about specific students or general campus life problems that affect the quality of student life and academic services.