Mental Health

Feeling stressed? Overwhelmed? Anxious? Are you looking for help just to get through the week?

If you are an SCC student and would like to to make an appointment, call the Clinic at 509-533-8611, come in and talk with anyone on our health care team, or click here. If you are a SFCC student, you can call 509-533-3525 and ask for a personal appointment.

The Student Health Clinic has a Psychiatric Nurse Practitioner, who comes in once a week by appointment. She provides both mental health counseling, as well as medication management as needed.

About Mental Health Therapy

Various therapeutic approaches can be used for mental health therapy. The course of treatment includes: individual, group, marriage, couple and family counseling. Therapists will outline goals with you and follow them to facilitate a positive outcome within ten sessions. Goal progress is reviewed and updated as needed, to successfully accomplish positive change. If you feel you need additional sessions, appropriate referrals will be made to clinicians in the community.

All sessions are held in strict confidence, and no information can be released about you without your written permission. Washington State Law provides the following exceptions to confidentiality:

1. When a client poses a clear and present danger to self, or to others, or is unable to provide minimal life-sustaining self-care;

2. When a client reveals contemplation of a major crime against another person, or harmful act;

3. When the counselor receives a court order to share information with a judge; or

4. If the counselor has a reasonable suspicion that a person, under the age of 18 or a dependent adult (aged or developmentally delayed), is, or has been, physically or sexually abused, or neglected. This report must occur within 48 hours of the counselor receiving such information.

To Report a Potential Crime

• Crime Check: 509-456-2233
  • You will need: Names, phone numbers, addresses, the date the threat was made

CPS Reporting

• 866-ENDHARM (866-363-4276) or Spokane DSHS: 1-800-557-9671 / 509-363-3550
  • You will need: Names, ages, phone numbers, addresses, description of the situation

Suicide Prevention

• 24/7 Regional Crisis Line: 877-266-1818
  • 24 hour crisis line. Emergency services are available to all individuals.
• National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: 1-800-273-TALK (8255)

Drug and Alcohol Assessment:

• Adept Assessment and Treatment: 509-327-3120
  • Costs $50 and takes 1.5 - 2 hours for assessment
• Daybreak: 509-927-1991
  • Costs $170 and takes 2 hours for assessment. This program is only for minors 18 years old and younger
• DSHS: 1-877-501-2233
  • Funding through ADATSA, can pay if you are homeless, jobless, and have used in last 90 days. Submit an application at www.washingtonconnection.org

Drug and Alcohol Support

• Community Detox Service of Spokane: 509-838-2771
  • Services are available 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, for both adults and adolescents. Provides sobering, detoxification and referral to treatment for persons suffering from alcoholism and other forms of chemical dependency.
• Washington Recovery Helpline: 866-789-1511
  • 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Inland Empire Meth Alliance: 208-659-2839
  • Focuses on the education and support for family and friends of meth addicts.
• Spokane Addiction Recovery Center: 509-624-3251
  • Provides Inpatient, outpatient, there is a service charge, fees vary.
• List of Spokane AA groups: www.aaspokane.org
• Gateway Counseling: 509-532-8855
  • There is a service charge, they do accept insurance, but not state insurance.
• Drug Abuse Hotline: 1-800-943-0566
• Online support for meth and marijuana addiction and recovery: www.dailystrength.org

DV and Anger Management Treatment

• STOP: 509-326-5172
  • Anger management assessments for $95, takes 2-3 hours, DV treatment services
• St Joseph Family Center: 509-483-6495
  • Provides free anger management resolution classes

Community Counseling Services:

• Spokane Mental Health-Frontier Behavioral Health: 509-838-4651
  • Accepts Crisis walk-ins at 107 S Division, no insurance or payment required. Only accepts Medicaid for non-crisis standard therapy services.
• Lutheran Community Services: 509-747-8224
  • Free counseling for victims of DV or sexual abuse
• St. Joseph's: 509-483-6495
  • Has a sliding fee scale ($15 - $85) for short-term counseling
• Catholic Charities Counseling: 509-242-2308
  • Sliding Fee Scale ($5-$125) also accepts Medicaid
• Veteran's Affairs Medical Center: 509-434-7288
  • Provides outpatient, psychiatric and counseling services to veterans.

Homeless Assistance

• Catholic Charities: 509-358-4250
  • Provides hot meals, year-round sleeping program, clothing room, laundry facilities, mail delivery, and showers.

Emergency Childcare

• Vanessa Behan Crisis Nursery: 509-535-3155
  • 24 hour nursery, free for up to 72 hours. Best to call at 7:00 AM for intake. Allows sick children but not extremely high temperatures or extreme medical conditions.

Sexual Assault and Family Trauma

• Crime Victims Hotline: 866-751-7119
  • 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
• Support Groups: 509-343-5093
• Sexual Assault Crisis Line: 509-624-7273
  • 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.

• Math Anxiety

• Stress Management

• Test Taking

• Time Management