Counseling Resources
Our counseling resources provide comprehensive support for various aspects of student well-being. From career guidance to mental health assistance, we're here to ensure that every student has access to the help they need.
On this page, you'll find resources for:
Career
- Career Counseling
- Career counseling is offered to UC Davis Students, Alumni, and Staff
Counseling & Medical Advising Services
- Student Health & Counseling Services: Community Advising Network (CAN) is comprised of a diverse team of counselors who are here to help students achieve their goals and address factors that may be affecting their academic success.
- To schedule your first appointment with a CAN counselor, reach out to them directly via email rather than scheduling through Health-e-Messaging. You can find their contact information in the profiles below.
- To schedule your first appointment with a CAN counselor, reach out to them directly via email rather than scheduling through Health-e-Messaging. You can find their contact information in the profiles below.
- Student Health & Counseling Services
- Schedule Online: Health-e-Messaging
- Schedule Online: Health-e-Messaging
- Student Health & Counseling Services: Acute/Crisis Care for illness or injury that is sudden in onset. This could describe a broad range of concerns including sore throats, ear infections, bladder infections, injuries, fractures, and asthma attacks.
- Phone: (530) 752-2349
- Drop-In: Student Health and Wellness Center
- Student Health & Counseling Services: Health Education & Promotion primarily focuses sexual well-being, mental health, supportive campus environments, and drug risk reduction.
- Contact: hep@shcs.ucdavis.edu
- Location: Cowell Building (North Wing); First Floor
- Student Health & Counseling Services: Health & Wellness provides resources to help develop life balance and stay on track in college and beyond.
- Student Health & Counseling Services: Online Student Health and Counseling Services offers expanded appointment services with additions of online video and telephone consultations.
- Schedule Online: Health-e-Messaging
- Medical Visits: (530) 752-2349
- Counseling: (530) 752-0871
Hazing Defined & Reporting Hazing
Immediate Crisis Support
- Aggies Act is a UC Davis protocol that removes barriers when seeking help in potentially life threatening situations involving alcohol and other substances.
- It is both a Good Samaritan and Medical Amnesty policy, encouraging a shared responsibility among UC Davis students to take action. The protocol applies to both the person experiencing a medical emergency and the friend/bystander calling for help.
- Crisis Text Line: Text "HOME" to 741741
- Student Health & Counseling Services: Crisis Care and Same-Day Crisis Appointments offers Crisis Consultation Services during business hours by calling or coming into the Acute Care Clinic at the Student Health and Wellness Center.
- Phone: (530) 752-0871
- Location: Student Health and Wellness Center
- Suicide Prevention Lifeline
- Call or Text 988
- Call or Text 988
- Suicide Prevention for YOLO County
- Trans Lifeline
Mental Health: Services & Organizations
- Aggie Mental Health
- Aggie Compass: Campus & Community Resources
- Health 34 provides free, non-emergency support and service navigation for mental health and basic medical care.
- Available 24/7
- Phone: (530) 754-3434
- Student Health & Counseling Services
Mental Health Organizations
- Empower YOLO
- MannMukti
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
- The Trevor Project
- UC Davis Mental Health Initiative (MHI)
Resources: Abuse & Violence
- Aggies for Recovery aims to provide students who are struggling with addiction or dependency of any kind with a support system of like-minded individuals and a safe space to discuss personal issues. The group members work toward abstinence, but welcome people in all stages of recovery. It is an official student group on the UC Davis campus.
- Contact: Stephanie Lake, M.Ed., LAADC. Intervention Services Coordinator
- Email: sjlake@ucdavis.edu
- Phone: (530) 752-6334
- Student Health & Counseling Services: Alcohol, Tobacco and Other Drug (ATOD) Intervention Services works to empower students to make healthy and responsible choices concerning use of alcohol, tobacco and other drugs.
- By Appointment only.
- Phone: (530) 752-6334
- Schedule Online: Health-e-Messaging
- Center for Advocacy, Resources & Education (CARE): Sexual Assault & Violence provides confidential support and assistance to students and employees at UC Davis, UC Davis Health, and UC Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR) who have been impacted by any form of sexual harassment or sexual violence, including sexual assault, sexual extortion, intimate partner violence, stalking, and sexual & gender-based harassment.
- Emergency Response: (530) 752-3299
- Phone Appointment: (530) 752-3299
- Email: ucdcare@ucdavis.edu
- Drop-In: Monday - Thursday; 9 AM - 12 PM & 1 - 4 PM
For information on office location, call or email.
- Substance Abuse