902 457 6567 | counselling@msvu.ca | EMF 141
About Counselling Services
Our therapeutic approach is solution focused and places emphasis on helping the student/client address school and life related stressors that are serving to complicate academic achievement and success. Our aim is to assist the client/student toward an efficient resolution of stress-related concerns, and to promote self-understanding and self-regulation skills so that emotional and physical homeostasis can be regained and sustained.
As part of MSVU Health & Wellness Services, our Counselling Services team provides counselling support to any registered Mount student.
Services offered and client confidentiality is maintained according to the professional guidelines established by the Canadian Counselling and Psychotherapy Association (CCPA).
Counselling therapists at MSVU use a collaborative case conferencing model to intake students and to develop supportive plans and recommendations for care to ensure academic success. Counselling therapists use the CCPA Code of Ethics and Standards of Practice to guide their work and to ensure high standards are maintained as they attend to their professional and ethical responsibilities.
Therapeutic Orientation – Counsellor Scope of Practice
The therapeutic counselling orientation taken at MSVU is person-centred, meaning it is non-pathologizing and non-judgmental. Counsellors at MSVU position the student/client as expert on their diverse lived experience, their orientation, personal expression, culture, worldview, and value system.
Counsellors draw from a variety of psychotherapeutic modalities (cognitive, affective, expressive, spiritual, developmental, behavioural, etc.) to help the student/client move through and beyond the challenges experienced.
Our scope of practice does not include the treatment of mental illness or traumatic events.
Counsellors offer strategies and processes to help students/clients find an improvement of cognitive processes (thinking), and behavioural, interpersonal, and emotional functioning. From this positioning, we offer counselling services to foster self-understanding, emotional regulation, emotional growth, resilience, overall wellbeing, and connection to community.
Establishing trust, autonomy, and safety are central values for MSVU counsellors as they nurture personal understanding and consciousness within a strengths-based therapeutic paradigm.
We commit to offering services that foster:
Self-determination – Resilience – Safety – Creativity – Personal Expression
Access Our Services
New Students: Students new to Counselling Services can book an intake appointment online by creating a profile on Jane App.
Returning Students: Students who have previously engaged in counselling within the last 12 months can email their counsellor directly to rebook or reengage in counselling services.
For questions or help with making an appointment, our Reception Desk is open from 8:30am to 4:30pm, Monday to Friday at EMF 108.
Daytime appointments are available. Evening appointments are available on Tuesday evenings from September to April.
For in-person counselling appointments: Please proceed to EMF 108 to check-in prior to your scheduled appointment OR wait in the lounge/study area by EMF 141 for your counsellor.
Counselling Services is not an emergency clinic.
All emergencies (e.g., serious threats of violence, actively suicidal individuals) should be directed to a hospital emergency department or call 911.
Campus security should be contacted for any emergencies that take place on campus. They can be reached at 902 457 6111, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
