Wellness coaching sessions centre on current and desired well-being, mindset, perspective, and goals and aims to help you move towards what you want. It is a conversation and journey in discovering and cultivating self-efficacy, boundaries, and holistic personal care. Coaching is not counselling, therapy or academic advising, or medical care, but does support:

• Confidence and personal growth
• Self-discovery
• Balance and stress management
• Varsity athlete wellness
• Decision making
• Interpersonal relationship struggles
• Support and explore aspects of sexual well-being

Like most other Campus Health and Wellness Services (CHWC), wellness coaching is free for DC students. To book a 1:1 wellness coaching appointment, students are first encouraged to book a Mental Health Needs Assessment to ensure wellness coaching is the most suitable pathway for support.

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For Durham College students requiring mental health support from a Registered Nurse.

Connect with a mental health nurse in person or virtually for 50 minutes.

• Provide ongoing, supportive 1:1 appointments with students regarding their mental health and wellness goals
• Implement appropriate clinical assessments to further determine needs and care planning
• Connect students to appropriate internal and/or external services and/or resources and re-evaluate appropriate services through ongoing monitoring and coordination of care
• Crisis intervention and support within CHWC
• Providing students psychoeducation, medication monitoring, resource navigation and referrals, substance use, supportive talk

Student can book a follow up appointment after completing a Mental Health Needs Assessment online or in-person.

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For Durham College students who require a non-judgmental confidential space to discuss current concern, inquiries and challenges regarding their well being and/or mental health.

Connect in person or virtually for a 50-minute session. To book with a psychotherapist, you must first meet with a physician or CHWC staff member.

• 1:1 Support
• Brief, Trauma-Informed Model
• 1–4 Sessions focused on stabilizing, validating, providing psychoeducation, and developing coping skills, distress tolerance, and emotion regulation

With one trained professional located in each residence building, the Residence Outreach program focuses on overall health and well-being to give students the opportunity to make community connections, seek supportive conversations, and prioritize their overall wellness. Aside from daily 1-on-1 appointments available to students, the Residence Outreach program holds weekly events in the lobbies of South and Simcoe Village to bring creativity and excitement to educational and promotional mental health and wellness topics. A calendar of upcoming events can be viewed both in the residence lobbies digital media platform and the residence social media page.

Contact: residenceoutreach@dc-ot.ca to book a 1-on-1 appointment.

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