Welcome to the Counseling Center at Miles Community College!

Your health and well-being play a vital role in successfully achieving your academic, social and personal goals now and in your future. Making healthy choices will help ensure your success.

Most crises are self-limiting. You will survive! In the midst of a crisis you may feel helpless and hopeless, so it is important to know whom you can talk to or whom you can contact for help. Friends, relatives, and clergy may all be supportive and immensely helpful when you are feeling overwhelmed. Miles Community College Counseling Services is always an option for you.

Our number one goal is to help you achieve and maintain optimum physical, emotional and social health so you can reach your academic and personal goals. Our goal is to help students be successful in all areas of their lives. Areas which students sometimes seek help include:

Your Counseling Rights
You have the right to…
• expect respectful treatment that will be helpful to you
• enter a safe environment
• ask questions about your therapy
• request and receive full information about the counselor’s professional capabilities
• refuse to answer any questions or disclose any information you choose not to reveal
• know the limits of confidentiality
• request the transfer of a copy of your file to any therapist or agency you choose
• seek a second opinion at any time about your therapy or counselor’s methods
• request that the counselor inform you of your progress
• report unethical and illegal behavior by a therapist

Confidentiality Statement
All counseling records are confidential and are NOT part of the student’s academic records or permanent file. Information will NOT be released without the student’s consent. The two exceptions to this rule are: 1. If the student is a danger to her/himself, 2. If the student is a danger to others.

We hope that you will visit our center and look forward to have the opportunity to serve you!

Sheila Seifert, MSW
Counselor
874-6163
seiferts@milescc.edu