Welcome HNU Students and Faculty

Adam Beyda, Psy.D.
Director, Counseling and Psychological Services
Brennan 50
510-436-1530
beyda@hnu.edu

If you’d like to speak to someone regarding personal concerns, Counseling and Psychological Services offers confidential individual and group therapy. As a Holy Names student, you are eligible for up to ten counseling sessions each academic year free of charge.

Counseling staff additionally offer crisis intervention and assessment and referral to community resources, as well as outreach programs to the Holy Names community on topics such as coping with depression, healthy relationships, and managing stress.

To make an appointment to meet with a counselor, contact the Director of Counseling Services at 510-436-1530 or beyda@hnu.edu

All personal information is confidential. No information will be released unless you give us written authorization to do so. The only time this is not true is if someone is at risk of grave harm to themselves or others. In these cases the law requires counselors to break confidentiality

Services the Counseling Center Offers

   .  Individual Counseling
   .  Group Counseling
   .  Couples Counseling
   .  Consultation for Staff and Faculty
   .  Workshops to the Campus Community
   .  Referrals in the community

In the Event of an Emergency
When the Counseling Center is closed, you may choose to call 911, go to your nearest hospital emergency room, or use the local 24-hour crisis support hotline by calling (800) 309-2131. If you are a campus resident, you may also call Thomas Cunningham, Director of Campus Life and Civic Engagement, at (510) 436-1294; or Marrisa Brown, Coordinator of Residence Life, at (510) 436-1442. In any of these situations you are encouraged to also call the Counseling Center at (510) 436-1530 as soon as possible to alert the staff that you are need in of help.

Local Hotlines

ALAMEDA COUNTY CRISIS SUPPORT
     (24 hours a day 7 days a week)
     (800) 309-2131

PARENTAL STRESS SERVICES
     (24 hours a day 7 days a week)
     (510) 893-5444

BAY AREA WOMEN AGAINST RAPE (BAWAR)
     (24 hours a day 7 days a week)
     (510) 845-7273

BATTERED WOMAN'S ALTERNATIVE
     (24 hours a day 7 days a week)
     (888) 215-5555

EAST BAY ALCOHOLICS ANONYMOUS
     (510) 839-8900
www.alcoholics-anonymous.org
     or www.e-aa.org

MARIJUANA SMOKERS ANONYMOUS
www.marijuana-anonymous.org

Online Resources
For further information on many topics of mental health, please browse through the virtual pamphlets of other colleges and universities:
The Student Counseling Virtual Pamphlet Collection

Go to http://www.mentalhealthscreening.org for a free online Alcohol Screening

http://www.ulifeline.org is a site developed BY college students, ABOUT college student mental health, and FOR college students.

http://www.goaskalice.columbia.edu Go Ask Alice! is Columbia University's accurate and in-depth health question-and-answer Internet site with an archive of hundreds of responses to anonymously-posed inquiries from college students and others worldwide. Go Ask Alice! is produced by health educators specializing in college health issues.