Counseling & Psychological Services
Student Success & Enrollment Management
Rooted – Our Mission
Support that grows with you.
The Office of Counseling and Psychological Services is a resource within the Division of Student Affairs at 黑料吃瓜网, CUNY. Our mission is to assist students coping with personal, academic, and career challenges that interfere with their ability to achieve academic success and actualize their human potential.
We offer free short-term counseling to students struggling with issues of trauma, grief, depression, anxiety, and/or adjustment to college. Our office is staffed with Mental Health Counselors who provide culturally-competent, strength-based services that identify the resiliency of students as well as any challenges that impede their emotional growth and self-actualization.
Bloom – Program Description
A collaborative, confidential process.
Mental Health Counselors provide individual and group counseling in the psycho-social areas, such as self-esteem, domestic violence, bereavement/grief, strengthening family relationships, anxiety and depression.
Counseling is designed to help students to understand and clarify their views of their life space and to learn to reach their self-determined goals through meaningful, well-informed choices and through resolution of emotional or interpersonal challenges.
Burke & Stefflre, 1995
Bloom – Services Provided
Four ways we show up for you.
From a single conversation to a semester of steady sessions, our services meet students where they are 鈥� and connect them onward when longer-term care is needed.
We also liaise with community mental health services that provide students with more intensive, longer-term counseling when needed.
Any student struggling with interpersonal and/or educational challenges should know that 鈥淐ounseling Is Always in Season鈥�, and we are here to assist!
Short-term, confidential support 鈥� up to six sessions, one on one.
Shared spaces to work through common challenges alongside peers.
Immediate, focused support when a student is in acute distress.
Education on anger management, self-esteem, grief, and relationships.
Shelter – Why Counseling?
Seven reasons students walk through our door.
Adjustment changes
Like transitioning into college life.
Unhealthy patterns
Like procrastination, and the habits underneath it.
Time management
Balancing school, work, and home life.
Processing grief
Space to move through loss at your own pace.
Healing from trauma
Working through the past at a pace that feels safe.
Relationships
Interpersonal and intimate relationships, both new and old.
Unexpected change
A life-threatening illness, a move, or a shifting world.
Shelter – Resources
Help, in and out of office hours.
During business hours
Monday 鈥� Friday, 9am 鈥� 5pm
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Office of Counseling & Psychological Services
Call 718-270-5123 or 718-270-6914, or email cap@mec.cuny.edu -
Public Safety (on campus)
Call 718-270-6068 -
META TeleHealth
Free virtual sessions 鈥� view flyer
When the office is closed
Medical or psychological emergency? These are available 24/7.
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Crisis Text Line
Text CUNY to 741741 鈥� -
988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline
Call 988 鈥� -
NYC Well
Text WELL to 65173, chat, or call 1-888-NYC-WELL 鈥�
Key Staff
Makeba Pinder-Hewston, Ph.D., LCSW
Director
(718) 270-5123
mpinder@mec.cuny.edu
Location
Office of Counseling & Psychological Services
1650 Bedford Avenue Rm B-1005
(Bedford building, near the auditorium)
Brooklyn, NY, 11225
Monday through Friday | 9am to 5pm by appointment (Walk-ins are welcome)