Specialized Supports

The Mental Health and Wellness Navigator assists students at Durham College to provide mental health promotion, supportive advising, assessments and referrals as needed. As well, provides employees with consultations regarding student mental health, situational classroom visits to support following distressing events for students, and outreach to enhance awareness of campus resources for students and staff.

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For Durham College students with a focus on wellness and mental health to optimize wellbeing on campus. Connect 1:1 with a coach in person or virtually for 50 minutes. 

Wellness Coaching sessions center on current and desired well-being, mindset, perspective, and goals with the objective of moving you forward and taking action. It’s a conversation and journey in discovering and cultivating self-efficacy, boundaries, and holistic personal care. Coaching is not therapy, 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.

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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

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

For students at Durham College or Ontario Tech University who are struggling with their relationship with food or body image.

Connect in person or virtually for 50 minutes- but you must live in Ontario to be eligible.

• 1:1 therapeutic support for distress/concerns regarding disordered eating, eating disorders, body image and related concerns
• Establish a multi-disciplinary circle of care process within the CHWC for individuals who are medically vulnerable because of eating disorder symptoms
• Develop and facilitate programs on topics such as meal support, mindful eating, intuitive eating, and body image
• Baseline and routine medical monitoring may also be required based on history and/or presentation
• Therapist at CHWC twice per week + virtual

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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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Ontario Shores (for Durham College students)

Durham College students struggling with depression and anxiety symptoms can access publicly-funded, evidence-based cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) to manage their conditions.

CBT is structured, time-limited, problem-focused, and goal-oriented, teaching practical skills and strategies.

Ontario Structured Psychotherapy (OSP) Program can help address the following conditions:

• depression and low mood
• generalized anxiety and worry
• health anxiety
• obsessive-compulsive concerns
• other anxiety and stress-related problems
• posttraumatic stress
• social anxiety and performance fears
• specific fears
• unexpected panic attacks and agoraphobic fears

Connect in person or virtually.

• If you are struggling with depression and low mood, generalized anxiety and worry, health anxiety, obsessive-compulsive concerns, other anxiety and stress-related problems, post- traumatic stress, social anxiety and performance fears, specific fears, unexpected panic attacks and agoraphobic fears
• Clinician at CHWC Oshawa once a week on Tuesdays + virtual

Steps for booking:

1. Under Service Requested Select: Ontario Structured Psychotherapy Program (18+ years)
2. Under Request details Was the OSP program recommended to you by one of the following partners: *Select: DURHAM COLLEGE*
3. Fill out subsequent information and select Finish when completed to submit
4. Please note: Ontario Shores will call to schedule an appointment using a blocked number
5. If you have questions about wait time, please call or email central intake at Ontario Shores:

Toll free: 1.877.767.9642
E: CentralizedReferral@ontarioshores.ca

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