COUNSELING AND ADVISING CENTER
Open: M-F 9:00am-3:00pm, ***except during breaks and summer***
(Winter Break Hours: 10AM-2PM, M-F. CLOSED the week of Christmas and New Year's eve)
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 for registered YVCC students at no cost. Services available through the Counseling Center include:
- short-term personal counseling |
- college survival skills |
- educational plan |
- student advocacy |
- transfer information
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- decision making regarding career and life goals |
- academic counseling |
- strategies for dealing with fear of tests and new situations |
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
Washington State Informational Network
Counseling Faculty
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.