Health and Counselling Services

Our Counselling Services team is here to support you and is available for a variety of situations. Common concerns which might bring someone to counselling include stress or anxiety, depression, loneliness or isolation, adjusting to college life, and relationship issues. If you’re experiencing these or other issues, counselling could be right for you. The Counselling Centre offers confidential individual, couple, and family counselling.

The Briercrest Counselling Centre serves as a training context for graduate seminary counselling students. These supervised mental health counsellors, along with a number of other mental health counsellors, provide confidential counselling to clients under the supervision of the Counselling Centre Coordinator.

Setting up appointments

• By emailing ccentre@briercrest.ca
• Have a staff or faculty member set up an appointment on your behalf.
• Have a staff or faculty member come by and introduce you to one of our counsellors.

Our counselling staff

• Joy Choi, MC, RSW, CCC
  Intake Administration Coordinator
   
• Cecilia Wanner, MC
  Mental Health Counsellor
   
• Fancy Law, MAMFT (IN PROCESS)
  Supervised Mental Health Counsellor
   
• Kevin Eby, MAMFC
  Mental Health Counsellor

Location, hours and contact

The Briercrest Counselling Centre is located on the Briercrest campus in the Seminary Wing, where you can find signs directing you to our counselling offices. The office is open Monday through Friday from 9:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and there are options to schedule weekday evening counselling sessions.

• Email: ccentre@briercrest.ca
• Phone: (306) 801-5645

Fees

The Briercrest current student (Briercrest Christian Academy, College, or Seminary) subsidized fee is $40.00 per counselling hour. If you are an employee of Briercrest, your Employee Assistance Plan fee is $50.00 per counselling hour. If you are an Alumni of Briercrest, the subsidized fee is $50.00 per counselling hour to see a supervised mental health counsellor & $70.00 for a mental health counsellor.

From time to time, as capacity allows, the Briercrest Counselling Centre may offer counselling services for those who are not affiliated with Briercrest in a student/staff/alumni capacity at a fee of $140.00 per counselling hour to see a mental health counsellor and $70.00 to see a supervised mental health counsellor. Please contact ccentre@briercrest.ca for more information.

All the above options are available as individual, couple, and/or family sessions.

Fees can be paid at the time of appointment by credit card or following the appointment through the Briercrest Online Payment Options by either debit or credit card.

When using the online payment option, please direct the payment to the Counselling Centre and include the name of the person who received counselling in the details/comments box.

There may also be some provision for further fee subsidy. If you are unable to pay the full fee, please discuss this with your counsellor.

Referrals to counselling

If you’re referring a student to the Counselling Centre, please contact us ahead of time to provide information about the situation and help us determine how best to understand it and support the student.
 

Required counselling

At times, a student may be required by others (such as a parent, dorm staff, teacher, coach, etc.) to attend counselling to continue participating in a program or as part of a disciplinary process. Frequency and length of counselling will be determined through collaborative conversations with the counsellor and student regarding goals to be accomplished in counselling to help the student meet the external expectations for change; the mandating person needs to make the initial referral: providing information about the situation and clarifying the expectations of the student. In some circumstances, it may be best to attend the beginning of the initial meeting with the student and counsellor.

In mandated situations, there are no additional consequences from the Counselling Centre if the student does not attend or engage, other than the standard fee in the case of a missed appointment if 24-hour notice was not given. It is up to the mandating person to monitor the student's fulfillment of counselling requirements and enforce any subsequent consequences. With the student's consent, a counsellor will share (with the mandating person) the student's attendance and engagement with counselling at the frequency required by the mandating person.
 

External referral

Counselling Services has a strong network of relationships within the Moose Jaw mental health community. We coordinate referrals and consultations with outside agencies as necessary.