Caring for Your Student's Mental Health

Our Student Counseling Center provides free, compassionate care
November 1, 2024

We all need a little extra support sometimes, including in our mental health and well-being. Your student’s mental health and well-being is UW-Stout's Student Counseling Center’s number one priority. We offer individual, group and couples counseling sessions to students at no additional cost, and all sessions are confidential.

We’re located on the fourth floor of Bowman Hall (the Clock Tower building) if your student ever needs help. There are three ways that your student can schedule an appointment with us:

Chasidy Faith
Counseling Center Director Chasidy Faith / UW-Stout

Our director is Chasidy Faith, PhD in counseling psychology, Licensed Psychologist.

Chasidy works with Ann Smith, MS, LPC, our associate director and training coordinator, as well as an amazing, compassionate team of licensed counselors and support staff. Counseling staff also hold various coordinator roles to help support students’ wellbeing, including a case manager, co-outreach coordinators, groups coordinator, inclusion and belonging coordinator, and an alcohol and other drug education coordinator. The center also has up to four masters-level counseling interns, many of whom are working on their M.S. degree through Stout’s clinical mental health counseling program.

We also offer You.uwstout.edu, a self-help and well-being web platform to help your student navigate life and campus on their terms with independent goal setting, skill building, assessments, and evidence-based content on a large variety of well-being topics. Through this web-based application, they can also connect with a 24/7 mental health crisis service available via phone call.

Crisis and emergency support

As always, if your student is experiencing an emergency, they should call 911. Mental health crisis help is available 24/7, with resources listed on the back of your student's Blue Devil ID.

Mental health resources listed on students' Blue Cards

Emergency and Crisis Resources

  • Northwest Connections, mental health crisis line: 1-888-552-6642
  • National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: call or text 988
  • Crisis Text Line: text hello to 741741
  • UW Mental Health Support 24/7: call 1-888-531-2142

We also offer weekly mental health tips through Campus Life Today, the student daily newsletter.


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