If you or someone you know are experiencing a mental health emergency, please contact 911, or go to the nearest emergency room or mental health crisis center.
We are committed to engaging students in relational, meaningful, therapeutic care that positively impacts your mental health and your access to the broader community. Clinicians at the Center for Student Wellbeing are dedicated to providing rapid intervention mental health services tailored to the needs of Columbia College Chicago students.
The Center for Student Wellbeing is a space-driven, integrated mental health model that services students through a variety of rapid intervention services. We are here to support any student interested in seeking mental health resources and connecting them with providers both on and off-campus. Our goal is to create a supportive environment where students can thrive academically, socially, and emotionally.
Our services are designed to offer immediate support and long-term wellbeing strategies:
- Short-term counseling
- Acute care/stabilization
- Consultation line
- A dedicated phone number for students, parents, faculty, and staff seeking advice on supporting or directing a current student needing social-emotional support and mental health resources.
- Drop-in Decompression Space
- A therapeutic wellness space consistently staffed by the mental heal team offering decompression, quiet, therapy resources, and self-help framework care.
- Therapeutic case management
- Referral support
- 24/7 mental health care via TimelyCare, Columbia's virtual medical and mental health platform
REQUEST Appointment
To schedule an appointment, ask a question, or connect with us, please call (312) 369-7861 or email us at wellbeing@colum.edu.
Non-Emergency Consultation Line: (312) 369-8700
Office Hours (Fall & Spring Terms)
Monday – Friday
9:00 am - 5:00 pm
Office Hours (Summer)
Monday – Thursday (in-person)
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
Friday (remote)
9:00 am - 4:30 pm
*Hours subject to change due to holidays, campus closures, and other special events.
Center for Student Wellbeing
623 S. Wabash Ave, Suites 303 & 304
(check-in at room 304)
Chicago, IL 60605
- Are you a student in crisis?
What is a mental health emergency?
- Experiencing thoughts of killing yourself or someone else and worry that you might act upon them.
- Experiencing thoughts of harming someone else and worry that you might act upon them.
- Seeing, hearing, feeling things that no one else sees, hears, or feels and feeling unsafe or threatened by these experiences or your desire to respond to them.
If you are having a mental health emergency, please contact 911 or go immediately to the nearest emergency room or closest mental health crisis center. If you do call 911, request a C.I.T. (Crisis Intervention Trained) officer.
List of Emergency Rooms closet to Campus:
- Northwestern Memorial Hospital - 251 E Huron St, Chicago, IL 60611
- Rush University Medical Center - 1653 W Congress Pkwy, Chicago, IL 60612
- University of Illinois Hospital - 1740 W. Taylor, Chicago, IL 60612
- Insight Hospital & Medical Center Chicago - 2525 S. Michigan Ave, Chicago, IL 60616
If you are not in immediate danger but need other crisis resources, you may utilize the tabs on our Additional Resources page.