You might hit up the athletics center to exercise your body, the academic assistance office to sharpen your study skills or a weeknight social event to build strong bonds with friends and classmates. But where on a college campus do you go to care for your mind?

The answer is the counseling center, a place dedicated to helping students support their mental and emotional health. In this episode, we're covering the types of services a counseling center might offer, the process of receiving counseling on campus, tips for developing self-help tools and more.

Our guests are two professionals from Bucknell’s own Counseling & Student Development Center: Staff Psychologist Kelly Shaw and Staff Counselor Lee Bard.

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Please note: Information presented in this episode was accurate at the time of recording, but may have since changed. Participants may have changed roles or no longer hold positions at Bucknell University.

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