WHAT COUNSELING INVOLVES College is exciting and stimulating, but it can also be confusing and stressful. Classes, tests, work, family, and friends place new demands on your time and energy. At times you may feel overwhelmed or you may need help in trying to figure out how to handle a personal situation in your life. Professionally trained counselors can offer you an objective and confidential ear, to help you to explore personal concerns and new aspects of your life. There is no magic about the process of counseling. At the Counseling Center students may discuss and explore freely in confidence questions or feelings that are important to them. The questions may be "talked through" with a person who, by training and experience, is most likely to understand students and their environment. The effectiveness of counseling will always depend on how much effort one puts into it and what goals he or she sets up for it. Counseling (both group and individual) is a learning process in which students acquire a working knowledge of themselves and their environment, knowledge that will help them as they are tested by the demands of future life decisions and adjustments. Seen in this light, professional counseling can contribute to the general educational goals of the college experience at Loyola. Making an Appointment... | 
