Community Therapy
Purpose
BCC Community Therapists provide free, confidential, individual mental health services at locations around campus. The Community Therapy program aims to increase accessibility to mental health services, reduce stigma, and support the Brandeis community.Services
- Brief individual supportive appointments
- Community Therapists can offer strategies to strengthen life and coping skills, insight, and support
- Community Therapists can also help determine whether formal counseling would be useful and, if appropriate, assist in getting connected to appropriate services.
- All Brandeis students can receive a total of three community therapy sessions per semester.
- Community-focused groups
- Workshops
To schedule an appointment with one of our community therapists, please contact the front desk or click on the direct contact links provided below. We strongly encourage scheduling 24 hours in advances to ensure logistical coordination.
Academic Services
Amneris’ professional interests include: relational therapy, dealing with family stressors, managing healthy relationships, habit formation, implications of intersectionality, depression, anxiety, and college adjustment. She is focused on helping people navigate life challenges by addressing the daily stressors impacting their day-to-day lives.
Outside of work, Amneris enjoys reading, binge watching murder documentaries, yoga, listening to podcasts and cooking.
Athletics
Julia offers support to student athletes balancing expectations of athletic and academic life along with other external and/or internal stressors including, but not limited to: worry or over thinking, change in mood, supporting peers in distress, team dynamics, injury recovery, social and family relationships, communication strategies and boundary development as some examples.
Individual and team group sessions are available.
To schedule a session, visit Julia's calendar or email Julia. In person or on zoom available.
Department of Community Living (DCL)
Please email to book sessions. Zoom appts available on Wednesdays (use QR code to book). In-person available by appointment.
Gender and Sexuality Center
Juanica is passionate about intersectionality, LGBTQIA+ mental health, dynamics of oppression and marginalization and identity development. She practices from a strength-based and solution-focused lens with some narrative therapy sprinkled in.
Outside of work, she can be found watching the latest comic book movie, running half-marathons, binge watching the newest Netflix( or Hulu or Prime) show and exploring every coffee shop in a 10-mile radius.
Heller
Roxann identifies as a Black Nuyorican. Her professional interests include relational therapy, trauma-focused family dynamics, and she is an empathic clinician. Roxann’s interests are counting how many times someone sings the "Roxann" song (The Police/UTFO). She loves working to improve her health and mental wellness. She is an avid Caribbean cruiser.
Intercultural Center
Amneris’ professional interests include: relational therapy, dealing with family stressors, managing healthy relationships, habit formation, implications of intersectionality, depression, anxiety, and college adjustment. She is focused on helping people navigate life challenges by addressing the daily stressors impacting their day-to-day lives.
Outside of work, Amneris enjoys reading, binge watching murder documentaries, yoga, listening to podcasts and cooking.
International Business School
Wenhui is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor (LMHC) who obtained her master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from Northeastern University. She has worked with individuals through lifespan in various settings, including outpatient, urgent care, emergency services and college settings. Wenhui’s professional interest is working with AAPIs and International Students. Her treatment modality involves offering space to grow awareness around triggers, impacts and further identify one’s needs and resources to stay regulated. She believes in empowering students to practice acceptance and build self-agencies.
Outside of work, Wenhui enjoys creative crafting and practices being present to notice things that promote positive energy in the moment and maintains a sense of humor.