Student Services Handbook 2012/2013 - St Mary's University College

St Mary’s University College London
Counselling Service
Location: Student Services Centre
Room E147
Tel: 020 8240 4187
Email: counselling@smuc.ac.uk
The University College employs
professional qualified counsellors.
The service is for undergraduate and
postgraduate students and is free,
confidential and runs throughout the
year.
What is counselling? Counselling
sessions provide a regular time and
space in which to share, explore and
understand the nature of the problem,
along with associated feelings, thoughts
and behaviour. Counselling is not the
same as giving advice. The counsellor is
there to help you identify and
understand more clearly what is
bothering you. The counsellor can help
you to gain a different perspective on
yourself and/or your problems and aid
you in making choices and changes that
feel right for you. Counsellors see
students individually for 50 minutes
once a week.
What kinds of problems can I bring to
counselling? Anything that is worrying
you and disrupting your normal work,
study or personal life can be talked over
in counselling. For example, problems
with relationships, friendships, family
issues, bereavement, anxiety, stress,
depression, sexual problems,
sleeplessness, substance misuse or
eating problems. Your concern may not
fall into any of these categories, but if it
is causing you distress or difficulty, you
are welcome to come and talk to a
counsellor.
How to refer? You can email us at
counselling@smuc.ac.uk, call us in
confidence on 020 8240 4187, or fill in a
referral form outside Room E147 in the
Student Services Centre.
Dyslexia and Disability
Service
Location: Ground Floor,
Near Main Reception
Room: E12 (Administrator E9)
Tel: 020 8240 4353/4343
Text: 075135 29978
The Dyslexia and Disability Co-ordinator
aims to provide confidential advice and
support to those students who request
it. This includes not only dyslexic and
disabled students but those who have
medical conditions which affect their
studying as well as other specific
learning difficulties such as dyspraxia
and dyscalculia. The University College
positively encourages students to
disclose their additional requirements at
the earliest opportunity so that individual
adjustments can be discussed and the
appropriate arrangements agreed.
Services on offer include:
• Accommodation adjustments
(in Halls)
• Applications for funding – Disabled
Students’ Allowances (DSA)
• Diagnostic assessment for dyslexia
• Examination arrangements
• Individual specialist tutorials for
dyslexic students
• Liaison with academic staff (only with
student’s consent)
• Specialist support – note takers, sign
language interpreters
• General advice on disability matters.
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