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Counseling and mental health

What can counseling do for you?

Counseling provides students with a safe, confidential, and nonjudgmental space to voice their concerns and address these concerns with a counselor, who offers feedback, listens, reflects, and validates students’ emotions. Counselors offer support and strategies for coping with challenges.

Counseling has been shown to be helpful with a wide range of concerns, and can help you work through both long-standing problems and new difficulties.

The City College Counseling Center offers short-term counseling. Students who want to continue counseling beyond their allotted counseling sessions will be connected with an off-campus counselor for ongoing support. 

You can make an appointment on the Counseling Center website, or call them at (212) 650-8222 or email counseling@ccny.cuny.edu 

In addition to individual counseling, the Counseling Center also offers group counseling that can help students deal with self-confidence, self-esteem, relationships, and stresses related to college work and family issues.  Participating in groups is a great way to connect with other students in a safe and supportive environment.

[text adapted from CCNY Counseling Center website]

 

Support Groups

The Counseling Center offers these free support groups:

Mindfulness Meditation - Mondays at 12PM-1pm

Social Connections- Thursday 1230PM-130PM

The CCNY LGBTQ+ Peer Support Group is there for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender, Queer, Intersex, Asexual, Questioning, or Allied CCNY students. For fall 2025, they meet every Wednesday from 12-1 p.m. in NAC 101/B, the LGBTQ+ Student Center. For more information, please email lgbtq@ccny.cuny.edu  and for confidential support, please email genderresources@ccny.cuny.edu

The Psychological Center (8th floor of the NAC) has the following groups for a fee, based on your income:

Interpersonal Process Group

Women of Color

Grief and Mourning 

Dialectical Behavior Therapy Skills Group

Queer Process Group: Centering the Uncentered 

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy for ADHD Group