Find yourself!
Student Experience > Counseling
You can’t find your place in the world if you don’t know who you are. Identity formation is the most important developmental task of adolescence and, for many Oliverian students, it’s also been the most confusing, elusive, and painful. That’s why we work hard to support each Oli student’s unique quest for a natural, authentic, and confident sense of self. And since “finding yourself” is part discovery and part invention, Oliverian is a safe place to ask questions and try things on for size without fear.
Counseling Incognito
Our masters level clinicians use the most current psychotherapeutic modalities to help students heal and grow. But it’s not uncommon for this serious personal growth work to take place over burgers at a local diner, during a walk in the woods, or while creaking up the mountain on a ski lift! The natural, relational aspects of “counseling incognito” are extremely effective for students who are “over therapized” or otherwise therapy resistant.
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Student Support
Our Support Team is deeply invested in our community and provides individualized support to students in creative, adaptive, and flexible ways in order to maximize the emotional, social, and physical well-being of students as well as responsive student support for academics and executive functioning.
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FREQUENCY
One hour per week; additional sessions as needed/requested and significant informal access to their counselor.
LICENSURE
Our masters level counselors are approved to provide psychotherapy in New Hampshire.
INDIVIDUALIZED
Our students are diverse in terms of their counseling profile, needs, experience, and willingness to engage. That’s why we employ a highly individualized, highly relational approach.
CLINICAL SPECIALTIES
Our therapists have training and experience in depression and anxiety, trauma, autism-spectrum disorder, sexual and gender identity, emotional dysregulation, family systems therapy, substance abuse and SMART Recovery, tech addiction, motivational interviewing, low motivation, low self-esteem, process addiction, budding personality disorders, working with students who have ADD/ADHD, NVLD, and more.
ADDITIONAL SERVICES
Only 40 minutes from Dartmouth College and Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, our students have access to some of the best medical and mental health services in the country.
CASELOAD
High counselor to student ratio means manageable caseloads and ample counseling attention.
TEAM APPROACH
Our counseling department includes master level clinicians, an RN, and a consulting nurse practitioner; we work closely with each other, with other departments, and with other involved professionals — such as home therapists or physicians — as appropriate.