Community Counseling Clinic

The PSU Community Counseling Clinic provides low-cost individual, relationship, and family counseling, including services for children and adolescents. Community members and PSU students are welcome to seek our services. Sessions are by appointment only, and appointments are provided on both day and evening schedules. Sessions occur on a weekly basis, at the same day and time. The Clinic does not offer medication management, psychological testing or assessment, or mental health crisis services.

Clinic hours

All sessions are by appointment only. All of our appointments are scheduled over the phone. Please call the clinic at 503-725-4620 to start the process. You can also email us at clinic@pdx.edu and we will call you back. Please allow up to 3 days for clinic staff to contact you.

Sessions are provided Monday–Friday on a weekly basis, same time and day every week.

Services

Process

When reaching out to the Clinic, staff will conduct a phone screening to assess your needs. The Clinic is now offering in-person and virtual services, you will then be scheduled for a phone intake assessment. A counselor will ask you questions about your past and present experiences and your reason for seeking counseling.

Based on the information you provide, we will do our best to match you with a counselor here within our Clinic or offer you referrals for providers elsewhere in your area. When working with a counselor at the Clinic, the first few sessions will be spent building a therapeutic relationship with your counselor who will work with you to develop a service plan.

Once the plan has been developed, you and the counselor will work together to implement the plan and monitor your progress to ensure that you are working towards meeting your goals.

Experienced supervision

Because we are a training clinic, counseling sessions are always supervised live or through audio/visual recordings. During in person sessions, each counseling room has one-way glass that allows a supervisor to observe the session in order to support and give feedback to the counselor. During both in person and virtual visits, we also record each session so counselors can review their performances and develop their skills. These recordings are treated as confidential information and only used for supervision purposes. Once the recording has been reviewed it is erased. Please let Clinic staff know if you have any questions regarding this requirement. 

Location

Our clinic is located in the Vanport Building on the Portland State University campus, on the second floor at 1810 SW 5th Ave, Portland, OR 97201.

The Community Counseling Clinic does not accept walk-ins, but you can contact the clinic at 503-725-4620 or clinic@pdx.edu to coordinate services.

Parking information (PSU campus)

Parking is available on campus and via city parking through the use of the Parking Kitty app. Parking on campus is free after 7pm. The Community Counseling Clinic does not issue parking passes. We recommend the use of public transit whenever possible to avoid downtown parking.