Purpose
Driven by the counseling center's mission and inspired by Brandeis’ value of community transformation, BCC Community Therapists provide free, confidential mental health services. Community Therapists can offer strategies to strengthen life and coping skills, insight and support, as well as information and connection to additional resources.
Services
- Brief one-on-one supportive appointments
- Whether it's stress, worry, sadness, relationship or family dilemmas, or academic performance, sharing concerns with another person can make an impactful difference. No topic is off limits!
- 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.
BCC Community Therapists typically provide free, confidential mental health services.
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 Horvitz is a licensed clinical social worker that uses a solution focused, strength based perspective. Julia's professional interests and experiences include anxiety, depression, substance use, low self-esteem and body image-related issues, relationship issues, bereavement as well as infertility and grief counseling. Her clinical work is focused on helping others navigate through life transitions. Julia pulls from different modalities to best meet the individual needs of the students she is working with.
Department of Community Living (DCL)
J’s therapeutic approach is rooted in applying mindfulness and somatic practices to mental health care. Professional interests include supporting individuals navigating relationship structures outside of cis/het-normativity, exploring gender and sexual identity, unpacking shame and stigma, identifying how sociocultural norms impact our mental health, understanding addictive behaviors while developing harm reduction practices through a trauma-informed lens and advocating for LGBQ/TNB-inclusive, sex-positive education.
J identifies as queer, neuro-spicy, is originally from Poland and grew up in the Boston area. They spend their free time practicing yoga and dance as meditation, connecting with friends and family, being in or near the water, and relaxing with Netflix marathons.
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.