The Counseling Center offers various resources designed to assist students to achieve academic success, acquire skills for employment, improve personal well-being and develop effective skills for interacting in a diverse environment. Counseling services are available to registered YVCC student at no cost. Services available through the Counseling Center include:

• short-term personal counseling
• education plan
• transfer information
• decision making regarding career and life goals
• strategies for dealing with fear of tests and new situations
• academic counseling
• college survival skills
• student advocacy

For Appointments call (509) 574-4956 or come to the Counseling and Advising Center located in Deccio. On the Grandview Campus, call (509) 882-7000.

Walk-in to see someone on a first-come-first serve basis Monday through Friday. Please contact the counseling center for summer hours. There are reduced services during breaks.

Community Resource Guide-Yakima
Community Resource Guide-Lower Valley

Counseling Faculty

Counseling faculty - Yakima Campus
Kathryn Bauer, M. S. (509) 574-4965 E-Mail:  Kathryn Bauer
Robert Chavez, M. A. (509) 574-4968 E-Mail:  Robert Chavez
Elizabeth DeVilleneuve, M.S.W (509) 574-4978 E-Mail:  Elizabeth DeVilleneuve
Bonnie Labbee, M. Ed. (509) 574-4964 E-Mail:  Bonnie Labbee
Sue Perrault, M.S.W (509) 574-4966 E-Mail:  Sue Perrault

Counseling faculty - Grandview Campus
Heidi Matlack, M. A. (509) 882-7042 E-Mail:  Heidi Matlack

Confidentiality
Counseling discussions are confidential. If you want your counselor to provide information to others, you can make a written request. There are three situations that are not confidential:

• child or elder abuse
• threat of harm to self or someone else
• subpoena by a court of law

Any release of information would first be discussed with you.