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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.

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 2023

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.

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

Counselling Self-Referral

Equality, diversity and inclusion

Our Service is committed to providing equitable, diverse and inclusive counselling and mental health support. Our aim is to address and remove any barriers to access, particularly to individuals from marginalised groups who may find it harder to access our service. We are committed to providing support which facilitates engagement in its outreach provision and provide more bespoke support to marginalised individuals.

Find out more

For details of how our service works, how we can support you, and how to register, please refer to our articles below. King’s Counselling Online therapists offer short-term term (up to 6 sessions), solution-focused counselling support, advice and guidance, for low to moderate mental health needs. More information can be found below.

Service information

Please note that the Service is open Monday to Friday: 09:00 – 17:00

Information and resources for staff

Staff at King's who are supporting students can find a range of helpful information and resources on our SharePoint site, Thrive.

Guidance on how to manage common issues

Managing low mood

Understand low mood and learn more about how you can challenge unhelpful...

Health Advisor for Mandarin Speaking Students (HAMSS)

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You can talk to a Health Advisor for Mandarin-Speaking Students (HAMSS) for advice on how and where to access free and confidential health-related support available to you as a King’s student. For example, they can advise you on how to register with King’s College Health Centre and book a GP appointment, and where to access King’s mental health support resources. A HAMSS appointment is also a supportive space for you to ask any questions you may have about university life, and to build up your confidence in accessing the right support.

Health Advice for Mandarin Speaking StudentsHAMSS linksHAMSS booking form

External resources

Togetherall

Free and confidential 24/7 digital mental health support

Qwell

Free, safe and anonymous mental health and wellbeing support at your pace

Kooth

Support pack for settling into student life