The Faculty of Engineering wellness team is available to help engineering students through any number of issues that come up during students’ academic year, from academics, relationship or family conflict, coping with change, difficulty achieving academically, loneliness, emotional instability, test anxiety, to trauma — any number of stresses that students encounter during the school year.

Clinical therapists Giselle St. Louis and Jason McKinlay, along with Winnie the therapy dog, can offer a variety of counselling services.

Students can book a single session to talk about a one-off issue that they may be facing. Sessions are 50 minutes long and held Monday to Friday during business hours.

St. Louis and Winnie host a meet-and-greet open session every Wednesday called #WinnieWednesday. Winnie is a labradoodle and has earned her therapy credentials, completing a rigorous six-month training program at Mindfulness Therapy Dogs in Pinckney, Michigan.

To schedule a session with Winnie and St. Louis or McKinlay or to learn more about the faculty’s counselling services, visit the team’s website.

In addition, group therapy hosted by the student counselling centre offers open enrollment and a bi-weekly change of topics. Space is limited; register using this link.