counseling services
Professional mental guidance
Counseling services are professional support offerings that provide guidance, therapy, or advice to individuals dealing with personal, emotional, academic, or career challenges.
The term appears most often in institutional contexts—schools, universities, and workplaces typically have counseling services departments: The university's counseling services offer free sessions to students.
The phrase encompasses everything from mental health therapy to career guidance to crisis intervention.
- family mediationResolving relatives' disputes neutrally
- crisis hotlinesEmergency telephone support services
- sliding scale feesCharges adjusted by ability
- therapyCurative mental treatment
- talk therapyPsychological treatment via conversation
support groups · aptitude testing · stress reduction · intake assessment · mindfulness training · cognitive-behavioral therapy · couples therapy · emotional regulation · vocational training · emergency intervention · safe space · mentorship programs · life coach · peer support groups · career planning · confidentiality · open door policy · one-on-one sessions
- accommodationsextra time, double time, time and a half, breaks, rest breaks
- prisoner aidprisoner rights, prison reform, penal reform, prison visits, family visits
- special educationspecial education, special ed, special needs, IEP, IEPs
- supportive carecomfort care, emotional support, support networks, coping strategies, coping skills
- victim servicesvictim support, victim advocate, victim assistance, crisis intervention, safe house
- community servicesparks, family services, libraries, family support, schools
counseling servicesmedical treatment
Care for illness
psychiatric medication · pharmacotherapy · drug therapy · surgical intervention · hospitalization
counseling servicesneglect
Failure to provide care
abandonment · indifference · turning away · isolation · social exclusion
counseling servicesself-help
Unassisted personal development
going it alone · self-reliance · peer support · family support · community support