CCW and Outreach

A Community Approach to Student Mental Health at Oxford College

The best resource on campus is actually you and your fellow students, working together to shift from more toxic norms to a way of approaching Life and College in a way where you support each other, learn from each other, lift each other up, and still achieve at the level that reflects who you are and what you have to offer.

Our office routinely partners with various student organizations, such as OxHeard (a campus club focusing on mental health), OxFirstGen (our community of First Gen college students at Oxford), and OxSAPA, devoted to educating the campus about sexual assault and relationship harm with emphasis on prevention and supporting survivors.  We also work with SGA and, several years ago, supported their efforts, leading to the SGA Health and Wellness Committee.  We would like to work with any student club that is intersted in making this a more supportive and therapuetic campus, on any of the issues that students commonly face that undermines their mental health or their wellbeing at Oxford.

If you'd like to get involved, contact us at the Center for Counseling and Wellbeing!

Our Outreach services also involve offering presentations and workshops to the Oxford College community.  Whether as a guest speaker in a course on a topic that overlaps mental wellbeing and that course (such as The Sociology of Mental Health), offering OxStudies lectures on topics such as Mental Health and the High Achieving Student), or speaking at orientation and Family Weekend events, our staff play a role in helping Oxford be more empathic and supportive of struggling students and translating much of what we do in therapy on a community-wide level. 

We may also offer workshops on common struggles, such as

• overcoming imposter feelings,
• navigating procrastination,
• dealing with anxiety,
• learning to manage emotions, and
• exploring how family background impacts your mental health and way of relating to the world.   

If you're interested in collaborating with the Center for Counseling and Wellbeing, email us at: oxfordcounseling@emory.edu.