

Student Health Services Counseling provides counseling, consultation, outreach and education to MSU Billings students, faculty, and staff. We do this in order to promote and enhance student’s academic success, mental health, and personal development as well as promote a culture of positive mental health at MSU Billings.
These are some of the signs or issues that prompt people to seek counseling:
What happens in counseling depends on the unique needs and strengths of each person seeking assistance. For this reason, each counseling experience is unique, just as every individual is unique.
Typically, the first few sessions are spent clarifying the problem and examining what solutions have already been tried. This process assists the counselor in determining which counseling strategies will be most helpful to you. Once you clarify your issues, you and the counselor will delineate counseling goals.
There are many approaches to dealing with these issues. Often, the process will include learning new problem-solving or coping skills, increasing self-understanding, exploring life patterns, and gaining a better sense of how you are influenced by your surroundings.
If you need immediate help call 1 800 273 TALK (8255) Suicide Prevention Hotline
Take a confidential self- evaluator screening tool
If a student is unable to keep a Student Health Services Counseling appointment, the student must call (406) 657-2153 at least 24 hours in advance to cancel (or as soon as possible for appointments made for later the same day) so that other students have access to this limited student support resource.
Failure to cancel two appointments in the same semester at least 24 hours in advance will result in the following:
A. $25.00 fee will be assessed to their student account.
B. Being put at the bottom of the waiting list
OR
If no waiting list exists, when the student schedules their next counseling appointment it will be at least two (2) weeks from the missed appointment.
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Disability Support Services.
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Veterans Suicide Prevention Lifeline 1 800 273 TALK, press 1
Sexual Violence/Assault
To speak to a 24-hour confidential MSUB Peer Advocate, call 406-794-3829
YWCA 24-hour Crisis Line 406-259-8100 (hyperlink to webpage)
National Sexual Assault Hotline 1-800-656-HOPE (4673)
PTSD
US Department of Veterans Affairs
The NAMI Family to Family Education program is a 12 week course for family caregivers
of individuals with severe brain disorders (mental illnesses). The course is taught
by trained family member volunteers. This class and all materials are provided for
free.
Phone: (406) 256-2001
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Alcoholics Anonymous® is a fellowship of men and women who share their experience,
strength and hope with each other that they may solve their common problem and help
others to recover from alcoholism.
Phone: (888) 607-2000 (Hotline)
Click Here For Support Group Schedule
The Al-Anon Family Groups are a fellowship of relatives and friends of alcoholics
who share their experience, strength, and hope in order to solve their common problems.
We believe alcoholism is a family illness and that changed attitudes can aid recovery.
Phone: (406) 694-5332 — please leave a message
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NA is a nonprofit fellowship or society of men and women for whom drugs had become
a problem. We are recovering addicts who meet regularly to help each other stay clean.
This is a program of complete abstinence from all drugs. There is only one requirement
for membership: the desire to stop using.
Phone: (800) 990-6262
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YWCA Billings is dedicated to saving and changing lives. We improve the lives of
women and children through programs that create significant, positive impact for our
community and support YWCA USA’s mission to eliminate racism, empower women and promote
peace, justice, freedom and dignity for all.
Phone: (406) 252-6303
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Billings Vet Center normal working hours are 8:00am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday. In an effort to
better serve the veteran and family members, upon request Vet Centers will provide
services after normal work hours and/or on weekends.
Phone: (406) 657-6071 or (406) 657-6071
The Yellowstone AIDS Project (YAP) is a not-for-profit organization committed to
increasing HIV/AIDS awareness and providing prevention and client services in Montana.
Phone: (406) 245-2029
If you need immediate help call 1 800 273 TALK (8255) Suicide Prevention Hotline
Partnership for a Drug-Free America
Alcohol Other Drugs and College a Parent’s Guide
National Suicide Prevention Lifeline
National Alliance on Mental Illness
PFLAG (Parents and Friends of Lesbians and Gays)
Interested in starting a chapter on campus? Active Minds is a national organization that empowers students to speak openly about mental health in order to educate others and encourage help seeking. Learn more.
Want to get involved with a variety of health topics? HEROES (Health Educators Reaching Others and Encouraging Success) is a current student organization dedicated to educating their peers about health topics that are concerning to college students, including alcohol, tobacco, healthy relationships, mental health and more. Learn more