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Feeling depressed, anxious, or stressed? Are you in a crisis or concerned about a personal issue?  The diverse staff of licensed mental health professionals at the Mental Health Clinic (MHC) at Hall Health is available to assist you.  Our mission is to assist our patients restore, maintain, or improve the quality of their living and learning.  

Our Services

We offer a variety of services to students, faculty, staff, and alumni of UW.  We provide high quality mental health services in accordance with the principles of professional practice and ethical conduct and with concern for the costs of care. Services include:

individual and couples counseling and therapy, crisis counseling and intervention, medication evaluation and management, group therapy and support groups,

online mental health assessments, campus outreach services, mindfulness meditation, and after-hours care.

We implement a collaborative model of care and work in cooperation with and coordination of mental health care with medical care.  We also make sure to provide education and communication to our clients regarding their diagnoses, treatment, preventions and use of the health care system and make referrals when appropriate to other campus or community resources. 

Our Staff

Depending on your individual needs, we have a Psychiatrist, Psychologist, Advanced Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, Social Worker, Mental Health Counselor, and/or Crisis Intervention Specialist available to help you.  Representing a diverse variety of backgrounds, ethnicities, and cultures, the members of our clinical staff have professional degrees, multiple years of experience, and demonstrated expertise in their particular disciplines. Many are bi- or multilingual and speak Spanish, Dutch, Filipino, Japanese, and Malayalam.

In addition, each member of our clinical team has a faculty appointment through the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at the University of Washington. Meet our staff...

Who is eligible to receive our services?

Anyone in the UW community is eligible to receive mental health and counseling services from our clinic. The convenient campus location, the competitive fees, the evening hours, and the high caliber of our staff make our clinic a desirable option. At the same time, our clinic is not the best resource for all problems and situations. We provide services in keeping with our goals, and within the business hours, structure and staffing of our clinic.

We do not provide services for those needing:

• substance-abuse treatment,
• day treatment,
• the availability of 24-hour back-up, or
• for those whose treatment has been mandated by the legal system or an employer.

Other situations that do not fit our scope of practice are:

• Individuals with eating disorders whose weight is below 75% of their ideal body mass index, or meet the criteria for an inpatient program;
• Individuals with serious patterns of self-harming or violent behavior;
• Individuals with symptoms that are too severe to treat in an out-patient setting (for example, acute mania or other psychotic episodes);
• Individuals who are non-compliant with treatment recommendations or payment plans (for example, someone refusing medications and yet wishes to be seen by a medical provider or someone sets up a payment plan and then defaults on the payment)

In these instances we will make appropriate referrals.

Insurance

We accept and bill most major insurance plans (including student insurance and private insurance companies).  For more information, see Information & Billing.

Patient Confidentiality

We recognize our responsibility for safeguarding the privacy of your health information. We are fully compliant with HIPAA and UW Medicine privacy practices.  For information regarding use and disclosure of protected health information, see this Notice.