Our Mental Health Peer Services

Drop-In Peer Counseling

Our peers are trained to help students better manage some of the daily stressors from school & relationships. Stop by to talk and learn new tools to manage your current challenges.

Massage & Egg Chairs

Feeling stressed by life? Just want to practice good self care? Stop in to try out one of our 4 massage chairs or our egg chair to hit the reset button on your day and make everything feel a little bit better.

Workshops

Learn how to better understand and manage your stressors, cope with academic anxiety, and become a master at relaxation by attending one of our workshops held throughout the quarter.

School Anxiety Program

The School Anxiety Program (SAP) includes three 1-hour long one-on-one sessions with a peer who will help you to learn important time management, coping, and relaxation skills to reduce your anxiety.

Building Your Toolbox for Coping

Check out our articles, videos, and audio recordings to help you develop skills to better manage some common challenges that students face.

*Stress Reduction

*Sleep Hygiene

*Building Resilience

*Relaxation & Mindfulness

*Getting Involved

*Tackling Financial Challenges

Building & Maintaining Close Relationships

Relationships with roommates, friends, and romantic partners can make your college experience more fulfilling. But even the best relationships can face difficulties. Learn more about the qualities of healthy relationships and how to build strong relationship supports, as well as learn how to negotiate conflict and when to exit relationships that are negatively impacting your well-being.

Mental Health 101:

When You Might Need More Support

Sometimes people have challenges that are more persistent and are more difficult to manage.  Learn more about the signs and signals that suggest you might need some more guidance and support.

Understanding unique challenges for student groups

Each student has unique life experiences that are informed by their stage in life and by the identities that they hold.  Sometimes these experiences can challenge your well-being and self-confidence. 

In this section we address the common struggles that students from different stages in school and different identities tell us they grapple with. We help you to recognize how your past experiences can inform how you tackle new challenges. And, we help you to gather the strengths of your communities to better manage any bumps in the road.
​ ​Mental ​Health Peer Program
The MHP Program is located in Building 434, Room 100 (Located between the Main CAPS Building and South Hall. Directly across the bike back from Storke Tower)
Counseling & Psychological Services (CAPS) is committed to providing timely, effective, and culturally-appropriate mental health services to our diverse UCSB student body, as well as consultations to faculty, staff, and families. 

All registered UCSB students are eligible for services at CAPS. When help is needed for personal concerns, CAPS is a resource for learning new skills in building self confidence, relating to others, reducing stress, solving problems, and identifying options.

(805) 893-4411
​Clinician on call available 24/7

Chumash Land Acknowledgement 

The MHP team would like to acknowledge the Chumash people, who are the traditional custodians of this land on which our offices are located. We pay our respects to the Chumash elders, past, present, and future who call this place, Anisq’oyo, the land that Isla Vista sits upon, their home. We are proud to continue their tradition of coming together and growing as a community. We thank the Chumash community for their stewardship and support, and we look forward to strengthening our ties as we continue our relationship of mutual respect and understanding.

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