Personal Counseling

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Personal Counseling Services

Welcome!

Personal Counseling at Berkshire Community College (BCC) is available to help serve your needs virtually and in person!

We are here to help you reflect on your thoughts, feelings and lived experience in a safe, inclusive and non-judgmental space. Facilitated by Licensed Mental Health Counselors or Pre-Licensed Counseling Interns, our counseling is a strength-based, collaborative process that honors your values and individuality. Our counseling is generally short term and focused; if you need longer-term or specialized treatment, we will work with you to connect to resources.

In addition to BCC Personal Counseling, you have MyBCC Wellness available 24/7/365! There will be no wait time to access these services and no insurance is needed.

To begin counseling at BCC, please fill out these forms

Additional Resources

Community Resources for Mental Health Issues and Wellness

Resources in Berkshire County

View resources in Berkshire County

The Mental Health and Resilience Resource Guide
This comprehensive guide, a companion to BCC's December 2020 Mental Health Conference, Hope and Resilience in the Berkshires, contains a wealth of resources on mental health, organized by conference topic.

Helpful Websites

Mass Help
Mass Help connects people to the help they need. Serving all of Massachusetts, Mass 2-1-1 connects people with community, health and disaster services through a free 24/7 stigma-free phone service and searchable database.

Critical Mental Health Resources for College Students
This resource provides college students with quality information on maintaining good mental health and helps with identifying mental health issues.

Online Resource for College Mental Health
Your confidential resource for college mental health and substance use information. Learn more about how to protect your own emotional health and what to do if you or a friend is struggling.

American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
The leading national not-for-profit organization exclusively dedicated to understanding and preventing suicide through research, education and advocacy, and to reaching out to people with mental disorders and those impacted by suicide.

The Jed Foundation
The Jed Foundation works to reduce emotional distress and prevent suicide among college students. They provide resources and work to reduce the stigma students have when asking for help.

National Institute of Mental Health
Learn about mental health issues you or a friend might be struggling with. Mental health diagnoses are listed to help you identify specific symptoms you are experiencing. Information from anxiety to suicide is available.

Addiction and Recovery
BCC Students for Recovery
Students for Recovery is an informal group for BCC students in any stage of their recovery journey, offering weekly meetings and one-on-one and group support.

Alcohol Screening
Learn about alcohol and health, how to recognize a problem and determine what low-risk drinking is.
In the Rooms
In The Rooms is a free online recovery tool that offers 130 weekly online meetings for those recovering from addiction and related issues. Embracing multiple pathways to recovery, it includes all 12 Step, Non-12 Step, Wellness and Mental Health modalities.

Substance Use and Mental Health
Become informed about substances, treatment programs, and campaigns addressing the needs of every age group.

Sexual Violence and Assault Prevention

Jane Doe Inc.
The Massachusetts Coalition against Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence, Jane Doe Inc. brings together organizations and people committed to ending all violence against women.

Prevent Connect
Prevention Connection is a national on-line project dedicated to the primary prevention of violence against women.

LGBTQ
The Trevor Project
Providing confidential support and resources for LGBTQ youth in crisis, 24/7.

Note: Information found on these websites should not be considered official BCC information. While we hope that you will find these websites helpful, you should know the information, views and opinions contained within them are strictly those of the authors.