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12/17/2025

✨ Wellness Wednesday ✨

Hey Blazers—holiday break is your time to rest, reset, and recharge.

You don’t need to have it all figured out over break.
We’ll be here when you’re back. ❤️

12/08/2025

It’s finals week, Blazers! 📚

Managing stress during final exams can be challenging, but with the right strategies, you can reduce the feeling of overwhelm and stay focused.

Mindfulness can be incredibly effective in grounding you, reducing stress, and helping gain clarity.

12/05/2025

Today we celebrated our Fall 2025 Mental Health Fellows as well as our graduate clinical & undergraduate non-clinical interns for their hours of service this semester! 💚

Mental Health Fellows are students who have completed all three levels of the university-wide certification program, including an overview of digital tools and platforms, QPR Su***de Prevention, and Mental Health First Aid.

Our community is fortunate to have the group of mental health advocates with us serving as dedicated and passionate student leaders.

11/19/2025

Happy Wellness Wednesday 💚

How we think about ourselves is important for our mental and overall wellness.

We often feel like we have to be perfect. Especially when there is pressure to perform academically.

Remember, people aren't perfect and doing our best is enough.

11/18/2025

Burnout can often happen without us noticing before it gets intense.

Take a second and think about how you've been doing with these signs of burnout in mind.

Burnout isn't a sign of failure; it's just time to take a break and take care of yourself.

11/17/2025

Happy Mindful Monday Blazers! 🐉

Take a minute, just 60 seconds, to reset with some breathing before focusing on your day.

You matter!

11/12/2025

I hope everyone is having a good Wellness Wednesday!

Counseling can be a huge help with mental wellness. Some people may believe that counseling is only for crisis, but counseling can help with a wide range of things outside of being in crisis.

11/11/2025

Tuesday tip day!

If you have a hard time maintaining focus when studying or feel drained try the 25-minute focus, 5-minute break strategy.

This allows your brain to reset and helps with longer study sessions.

11/10/2025

Happy Mindful Monday Blazers! 🐉

It's common to struggle with test anxiety but there are some simple mindfulness practices that can help.

Acknowledging anxious thoughts and letting them pass while focusing on your breathing can help calm and focus you.

Grounding and breathing exercises can also help when overwhelmed or anxious.

11/05/2025

Happy Wellness Wednesday Blazers! 🐉

Mental wellness can be greatly affected by our small daily habits. There are simple things we can do that may help us feel better or pull us out of a low mood. 💚

11/04/2025

When we get overwhelmed, we may feel like we can't control anything or we may struggle trying to control everything. 🌪️

It is important to define what we can control and what we can't. This way we can let go of that stress from trying to control what we can't and we can make progress moving forward with what we can control. ✨

11/03/2025

This Mindful Monday I want us to think about how we act in our relationships with other people; friends, family, partners, etc. and take a minute to see if we ever feel like we're walking on eggshells.

When we "walk on eggshells" because we feel like we need to make the other person happy or avoid any negative reactions we are actually teaching ourselves negative and untrue ideas.

Doing so causes stress, anxiety, loss of self-esteem, and difficulty communicating.

Instead practice self-compassion, set and enforce boundaries, and use "I" statements to communicate feelings clearly.

Address

1714 9th Avenue South
Birmingham, AL
35205

Opening Hours

Monday	8am - 5pm
Tuesday	8am - 5pm
Wednesday	8am - 5pm
Thursday	8am - 5pm
Friday	8am - 5pm

Telephone

+12059345816

Website

http://www.uab.edu/students/counseling/

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Why Counseling?

Mental health counseling is a unique relationship in which a therapist walks beside you, listens to your story without judgement, and offers tailored support.

Sometimes counseling may be short. It may help you to learn concrete skills to improve relationships, reduce stress, increase productivity or to improve other symptoms that have a negative impact on your life. Counseling can also give support during a challenging transition or life event. Sometimes counseling is longer term, and we may work together to improve a specific disorder, trauma, or targeted area in your life.

Whatever reason you have to seek counseling, we are here for you, UAB students!

UAB Student Counseling Services offers students of all backgrounds, races, religious beliefs, sexual orientations, gender identities, abilities, ethnicities, and cultures a safe place to discuss and resolve issues that interfere with personal and academic goals.