Counseling and Behavioral Health Services

To schedule a confidential appointment (Fall and Spring Semesters) students may walk in, call (914) 251-6390 M-F, from 9 am–5 pm, or email their phone contact to: COU.counseling.center@purchase.edu.
Campus Advocacy Services are available to help any student with sexual assault or interpersonal violence.

Medical emergencies or life-threatening situations

• Contact the New York State University Police (NYSUP) at 914-251-6911 for emergency response medical or psychological situations and need help keeping yourself or someone else safe:
  • On campus call University Police at 914-251-6911 or go to the White Plains Hospital Emergency Department.

• •  Off-campus please call or text the national mental health crisis line at 988, call 911, or go to your nearest emergency department. 

Psychological or emotional crisis support for situations that are not life threatening drop-in during regular business hours; after hours and on weekends please call University Police at (914) 251-6911 or call the Nurse Advice Line at 1-888-969-3911 and ask for the on-call counselor.

• Walk-in psychiatric Evaluation 24/7 at St. Vincent’s Hospital, Harrison, NY
• Crisis Prevention & Response Team of St. Vincent’s Hospital, call 914-925-5959 for mobile services in Westchester County to discuss your needs.
• Suicide Prevention Lifeline:
  Call or text 988 to talk to a trained crisis responder
• SAAVE Toll Free Bilingual Rape Crisis Hotline: 1-833-220-2444
• New York State Hotline for Sexual Assault and Domestic Violence:
  1-800-942-6906
• Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741
• Student of Color crisis support: Text STEVE to 741741
• LGBTQ support call The Trevor Project: 866-488-7386
• The Trans Lifeline: 877-565-8860
• SUNY Mental Health website

Services are free, voluntary, and confidential. We provide remote registration and screening appointments.

Your first appointment is a brief Screening, 20 to 30 minutes, during which your counselor will you help you pick from our menu of services. Individual counseling, group counseling, referral appointment to find off campus resources, referral to another office on campus.

*Please note : if classes and activities are canceled due to inclement weather CBHS staff may be working remotely. If you have questions please call the office at 914-251-6390.

Please review our Scope of Practice for details. We offer the following services:

• Emergency response
• Short-term individual counseling
• Group counseling
• Consultations
• Referrals for long-term care
• Campus Advocacy Services
• Outreach
• After-hours support
• Educational programming

Clinical services are provided to matriculated students through the Student Health Fee.

• The Harbor Center’s health promotion activities help students build resiliency as a community while increasing individual and collective student well-being. Collaborative, holistic health promotion programming can be constructed with you by contacting Sara Herskowitz at sara.herskowitz@purchase.edu.
• The Harbor Center is located on the first floor of Fort Awesome (rooms 135 & 136) The Harbor Center is a programming hub for Counseling and Behavioral Health Services. CBHS main office is located in the Lower Level of Humanities.
• The Harbor Center in Fort Awesome Rm. 135&136 offers Purchase students a relaxing, substance-free, programming and peer social space. Contact CBHS Main Office 914-251-6390, or COU.Counseling.Center@Purchase.edu, to request to reserve the Harbor Center for your club or organization special events.

We recruit and train Health Promotion Interns each year to provide peer educational programs. Health Promotion Internships create opportunities for trained peer educators to engage with the campus community and offer a range of activities to help all students manage stress, increase well-being and enjoy life. 

CBHS works with the Office of Community Standards to help students sanctioned as a result of violations of the Code of Conduct to complete education and harm reduction interventions. If sanctioned please call the CBHS office at 914-251-6390.