MESSAGE FROM THE COUNSELING CENTER DIRECTOR
SCOTT STRADER, PHD
Director, Counseling Center
The Tampa campus Counseling Center was honored to continue providing an array of mental health and wellness services to the USF community this year. As we continued to emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic and students returned to a busy and vibrant campus, we met our community’s mental health needs by flexibly providing individual and group counseling services, outreach, mental health prevention and consultation services timely, efficiently, and effectively. We remained responsive to immediate needs on-campus, served students with minimal wait times for initial appointments, and provided services both in-person and via secure telehealth videoconferencing. Meeting the needs of students is not without challenge: students present with increasingly acute concerns, and the rising shortage of mental health services in our communities has made recruitment and retention of qualified counselors especially difficult this year. Still, amidst these headwinds, the Counseling Center continues to develop innovative and effective solutions to the varying mental health concerns of our diverse community. Thank you for continuing to trust us with your mental health needs.
Go Bulls!
Counseling Center | ANNUAL REPORT 2022-2023 3
