Welcome!
The Center for Counseling and Student Development (CCSD) is here to support your student through empowerment, advocacy, encouraging growth and change, building resilience, and fostering connection and engagement. CCSD programs and services are intended to help with reducing psychological symptoms, coping with life events and developmental tasks, improving interpersonal skills and relationships and increasing self-knowledge and resilience. We are committed to equity and respect for individual and cultural differences. Services are covered by the Student Wellbeing Fee that all full-time matriculated students pay.
CCSD is committed to creating an environment where students holding diverse identities feel welcomed, heard and understood. Diversity for us includes but is not limited to race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, nationality, socioeconomic status, language, religion, age, disability status, physical appearance, immigration status and political ideology. We believe that diversity in all forms must be celebrated, while also recognizing that individuals who hold one or more intersecting marginalized identities are liable to be impacted by oppressive social forces and systemic disadvantages. CCSD strives to be a system that is aware, sensitive and responsive to individuals being affected by current political circumstances as well as historical forces of influence such as racism, ethnocentrism, homophobia, ableism, classism, anti-Semitism, Islamaphobia and sexism among others.
Students can call 302-831-2141 during business hours (M-F 8-5) to speak with a member of the CCSD front desk staff, who will ask some questions to help guide them through next steps based on their clinical needs. Mental health and victim support is also available to all UD students 24 hours a day, 365 days a year on the UD Helpline, 302-831-1001. Students can also access mental health support via text message by sending the message 'UDTEXT', or 'STEVE' for a professional who specializes in supporting students of color, to the phone number 741741.
