Rhodes University Counselling Centre
Counselling Centre
The Counselling Centre is situated on the top floor of the Bantu Stephen Biko Building in Prince Alfred Street, next to the swimming pool.
Counselling services are free of charge, confidential and short term focused to encourage you to address a particular difficulty that you are experiencing at that point in time.
Our staff are qualified Counselling Psychologists and Intern Counselling Psychologists who work from a variety of theoretical approaches.
We work on an appointment system and have a psychologist available to assist if you are experiencing a crisis or are severely distressed. A crisis session would typically be a 20 minute session to offer immediate psychological assistance and appropriate intervention or referral as needed.
The Counselling Centre is open daily from 8 am to 5 pm. For any psychological emergency after hours – please contact the psychologist on call at 082 803 0177.
Contact – 046 603 7070
Wellness Leaders Programme
The Wellness Leader program is a student driven program that serves to promote holistic wellness throughout the student community for all students. It is a program “for students, by students”. The wellness leader program is based on the wellness model; which provides a conceptual framework for operationalising student development needs in a holistic way by focusing on the physical, academic, social, emotional and spiritual needs of students and thereby promoting overall wellness.
These students are going to be trained throughout the year on different topics related to all the 5 wellness domains (physical, emotional, mental, social and spiritual wellness). These students also act as a liaison between the student body and the four divisions of Wellness at Rhodes University which are: Counselling Centre, Health Care Centre, Career Centre and HIV office. The Wellness leaders will be involved in many campaigns throughout the year, campaigns linked to the four divisions, as well as campaigns that they themselves run. These students play a pivotal role within the residence system, as they are the students that advertise these various campaigns and promote wellness on an individual level. They provide support to all students with different problems and link these students to appropriate referral sources available on campus
Contact Us
The Student Counselling Centre is located on the top floor of the Steve Biko Building on Prince Alfred Street and is open Monday to Friday from 08h00 – 17h00.To contact the Student Counselling Centre for more information, call us at (046) 603 7070 during Office Hours or email counsellingcentre@ru.ac.za.
In order to make an appointment, you can contact us by telephone or make an appointment at the Counselling Centre and speak to the receptionist.
The Psychological Emergencies Line
The Psychological Emergency Number is operated by the staff of the Counselling Centre after normal office hours (from 5pm to 8.00am daily and on the weekends). This number is for the use of students who are experiencing psychological emergencies. If the problem is not an emergency, then rather come to the centre during office hours. This number is 082 803 0177