Facilities and Services

Health & Counseling Center services are available to all currently enrolled UNC Asheville students. We work collaboratively with you and other Health & Counseling Center staff from an integrated, holistic perspective in an effort to enhance our student’s personal, social, and academic endeavors. The Health & Counseling Center offers medical, counseling, and psychiatric appointments and can be accessed by calling or stopping by. Although we strive to accommodate student schedules, we do operate on an appointment basis. Emergency services are available for students in distress.

Our medical providers are available to assist you with various illnesses and injuries. Office visits and medical examinations are free of charge. Small fees are required for laboratory services, medications and minor surgical procedures.

Our mental health professionals are available for short-term, goal-oriented individual counseling appointments and often design various group counseling experiences depending on demand for services. We see students for a wide variety of issues including but not limited to anxiety, depression, insomnia, anger, bipolar disorder, relationship issues, and self-awareness.  Individual counseling appointments are usually 50 minutes in length. Our center works from a solution-focused, brief counseling model due to high demand for services. Sometimes issues come up that cannot be satisfactorily addressed within this model and are outside the scope of our services.  Together, you and your counselor may explore finding an off-campus resource for more appropriate intensive or longer-term ongoing care.

Contact Information

To see a medical provider, call 828.251.6520
To see a mental health provider, call 828.251.6517

Office Hours

Monday – Friday
8 a.m. - 5 p.m.

Counseling Services is closed from noon - 1 p.m.

After-Hours Care

Students who need medical attention after-hours should call the Mountain Area Family Health Center where there is a physician on call 24 hours a day for consultation. Their facility is located across the main entrance to UNC Asheville at 118 Weaverville Boulevard and can be reached by phone at 828.257.4740. Physicians there may see students on a fee-for-service basis. Please identify yourself as a UNC Asheville student.

Students who are experiencing a psychological emergency can call Campus Police at 828.251.6710 and request to speak with the counselor on-call.

We are open regardless of inclement weather.

Please note that we are closed over university holidays.