Counseling Services
Welcome to Fall Semester 2025! We would like you to know how to access Counseling Services during this time and how to find more information on self-care, coping strategies, and support resources. Here is a summary description of our services:
Counseling Services provides a broad range of counseling and mental health support services that facilitate our students' personal, social and academic development. Our licensed mental health professionals provide short term individual counseling, group counseling, crisis intervention, consultation, and psychiatric services to currently enrolled students for no additional charge. Counseling services are provided in a confidential and identity affirming environment to help students address a variety of mental health, situational, and developmental concerns.
Counseling Services staff stands against hatred, discrimination, oppression and violence.
Our offices are located in the Baugher Student Center, Suite 216. Appointments can be made in person or by calling 717-361-1405. Office hours are 8:30 am - 5:00 pm Monday - Friday. Urgent and crisis services are also available. For emergencies after 5 p.m. or over the weekend, call Campus Safety at 717-361-1111 for immediate assistance.
We encourage you all to take pro-active steps to maintain your mental, as well as physical, health. Please know that we are here to support you and to help you to successfully navigate the variety of challenges that college students face. Please feel free to reach out to us with your questions, concerns, and ideas.
Fall Semester Events
Join us as we celebrate Mental Health Awareness Day at Elizabethtown College with programming throughout campus that promotes positive discussions about mental health, help-seeking behavior, self-care, and suicide prevention.
Presented through collaboration among Elizabethtown College Student Life offices, including Counseling Services, Residence Life, the Center for Student Success, Campus Recreation and Well-Being, and the Office of Student Opportunity, Access, and Engagement.
QPR's mission is to reduce suicidal behaviors and save lives by providing innovative, practical, and proven suicide prevention training. In addition to receiving information, attendees will participate in discussions and practice helping skills. Information about on-campus mental health resources for students will also be discussed, including various services provided by Etown’s Counseling Services, including scheduled appointments and crisis intervention.
Residence Life staff and RAs will lead conversations among students focused on how to engage in and promote positive, supportive discussions with peers around mental health, help-seeking behaviors, self-care, and suicide prevention.
Learn more about the on- and off-campus support resources available to students, along with information about student organizations on campus.
Participants will have the opportunity to share their experiences and find common ground through a therapeutic experience of talking about their feelings. By encouraging men to “Cry Like A Man,” the discussion aims to build participants' confidence in embracing feelings and raise competence about mental health, struggles, and successes, as well as better understand how mental health varies across groups.
As part of Suicide Prevention Week and the Bowers Center for Sports, Fitness & Well-Being’s quest to encourage self-care, SWAG invites you to spend a few minutes with your favorite furry friends from K-Pets! Stop by the Bowers Center Upper Lounge on Wednesday, Sept. 10 from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. to participate in some pet therapy!
In recognition of September’s National Suicide Awareness Month, the Office of Campus Recreation and Well-Being (RecWell) is hosting daily events to promote mental health. View events.