Our Services
SCC Services
The Student Counseling Center provides QU community with a variety of counseling and psychological services. The aim of the Center is to promote well-being and self-development of QU students, and to help them adjust to the demands of university life. These services include individual and group counseling that help students overcome challenges that affect their success. Students actively participate in various support groups that include, but not limited to: Self Reflection Group, Marriage Group, and Adjustment Group
The Self-Reflection Group Support
It enriches wellbeing and self-growth and helps students maximize their inner potential, and attain clear vision about the future through providing practical tools and reflection sessions on: ,effective communication skills, stress management, self-esteem, and dealing with anxiety and anger. The center also offers married students an exclusive support group to embrace specific marital encounters and skills needed to manage academic and marital challenges, enhance their skills to communicate with their spouses effectively, manage stress, teach parenting skills, and helpthem focus on quality time with their children
Adjustment Support Group
The center offers an Adjustment Support Group to help identify and understand the unique challengesofinternational students when adjusting and transitioning to a new country, culture, and language
Peer Helper Program
The program was launched in 2016 to train QU students to become “Wellbeing peers”; to provide nonprofessional psychological assistance to their fellow QU students; Helping students to cope functionally with everyday stressor that result from academic, social and/or personal lives; to provide QU students with comprehensive knowledge and practical skills useful in addressing stress and wellbeing. The aim is the establishment of the Stress Intervention Cell (SIC) in Qatar University, consisting of trained peer Helpers and student counsellors who supervise PHs, creating a healthy environment for students whereby their wellbeing needs are addressed
Furthermore, our center has a visiting psychiatrist from Hamad Psychiatric Clinic, who visits the campus once a week for students who need to be assessed for medication. Confidentiality is vital in the Student Counseling Center; students’ information taken during counseling sessions is not part of the student academic record, and no student’s information will be exchanged with other parties unless the student signs a release of information form
- You can reserve an appointment with one of the counselors from appointment system
