How can we help?

Counselling offers a safe, confidential and supportive space, to help you explore your problems, share and gain insight into your feelings, thoughts and behaviour. 

The Counselling and Mental Health Support Service offers free and confidential in-person and online support for students at King’s.

Meet the team

What is Counselling?

Counselling offers a safe and supportive space to help you explore your problems, share and gain insight into your feelings, thoughts and behaviour.  This is a free and confidential service. The counsellor is there to help you identify and understand more clearly what may be impacting on your daily life.

A counsellor can help you to gain a different perspective on yourself and/or your problems and aid you in making choices and changes that feel right for you. 

Our counselling service offers cognitive behavioural (CBT) and integrative or psychodynamic group and individual therapy, depending on what best suits your needs.

When you register with the Counselling & Mental Health Support service at King’s, whenever possible, as well as your presenting issues we will consider preferences such as gender, sexuality, language and race when allocating you to one of the team. Our triage team will review your referral and schedule an appointment with the service best suited to help you address your priorities. You may be offered an appointment with a Counsellor or a Wellbeing Advisor based on your needs.

We hope you agree that we all have the right to be treated with both dignity and respect. The Counselling & Mental Health Support Service does not accept abusive, racist, derogatory, threatening, inappropriate behaviour or language.

What is Mental Health Advice?

• Mental health includes how we feel, think, behave and act and therefore is an integral part of your overall general health and well-being.
• As a student at King's College London, you can talk to the university’s Mental Health Advisors (MHA’s) for practical support, information, advice and guidance about concerns or difficulties they may have.
• Meetings with a MHA are a friendly and informal space in which to discuss your concerns and get help to access the necessary support to ensure you fulfil your potential whilst studying at King's College London.   
• You may not be clear as to what help or support you may need, or what is most appropriate for your needs. Speaking with a Mental Health Advisor with help this process.

Introduction to the Counselling and Mental Health Support Service

How to register with CMHS

Registering with the Counselling & Mental Health Support Service gives steps for registration, eligibility, how appointments works, and other details you need to know ahead for registering for our service. Please make sure to read the late arrival and cancellation information on this page.

After you have read the above instructions, please follow this link to register:

Counselling Self-Referral