Who are We?

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

• is a comprehensive, land-grant institution originally chartered in 1867
• is located on a 1470-acre campus in east-central Illinois
• enrolls 42,728 undergraduate, graduate, and professional students
• boasts students from all 50 states and over 100 foreign countries
• student body consists of approximately 53% men, 47% women; 6.1% African Americans; 5.9% Latinos/as, 10.68% Asian Americans; 0.29% Native Americans; and 12.36% international students
• has competitive admissions with the average student ranking in the top 10 percent of her/his high school class
• includes many nationally and internationally recognized graduate, professional, and research programs, consistently ranked among the top ten in national surveys
• is among the top five in the number of earned doctorates awarded annually in the United States
• has the largest public university library in the world, housing more than 22 million items in the main library building and in more than forty departmental libraries and units campus wide
• has 211 Nobel prize winners and 20 Pulitzer Prize winners on the faculty

Urbana and Champaign

• have a combined population of 100,000
• are 2-3 hours by car from Chicago, Indianapolis, and St. Louis
• are easily accessible by air, rail, and interstate highways
• offer a variety of activities and attractions

The Counseling Center

• was founded in 1937
• has a tradition of quality pre-doctoral intern training which has existed for over six decades
• is part of the Office of the Vice-Chancellor for Student Affairs along with such offices as: McKinley Health Center (including the Mental Health Department), Career Services Center, Housing, Financial Aid, International Student and Scholars Services,  Minority Student Affairs, Illini Union, Campus Recreation, and the Assembly Hall
• maintains a cooperative relationship with many campus agencies and student groups such as: Office of Inclusion and Intercultural Relations, Bruce D. Nesbitt African American Cultural Center, Asian American Cultural Center, La Casa Cultural Latina, LGBT Resource Center and Women’s Resource Center.
• provides each intern an individual office with complete audio taping, digital recording, and playback equipment as well as a 1.6 GHz Pentium 4 computer with a laser printer

Contact Information

• Counseling Center

110 Student Services Building
610 E. John St.
Champaign, IL 61820
TTY 217/244-7576
fax 217/244-9645

Predoctoral Professional Psychology Internship

• Rene Monteagudo, PhD.
  Training Coordinator
  217/333-3704
  Rmonteag@illinois.edu

• Leona Middleton
  Internship Secretary
  217/244-3356
  middltn@illinois.edu

Beginning Practicum

• Nima Patel, PhD.
  Coordinator of Practicum Training
  217/333-3704
  nimap@illinois.edu

Counseling Center Mission Statement

“The Counseling Center is committed to providing a broad range of high quality, innovative, and ethical services that address the psychological, educational, social, and developmental needs of University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign students. We also actively contribute to the campus’s broader academic mission by training and developing students and professionals, helping build a multicultural learning community, and providing leadership in forming collaborative partnerships among Student Affairs, Academic Affairs, the Graduate College and Administrative Affairs units.”

Counseling Center professional staff consists of:

• 19 full time clinical counselors (11 of whom are licensed psychologists in the state of Illinois)
• a range of therapeutic orientations including interpersonal, developmental, psychodynamic, cognitive/behavioral, multicultural/feminist, client-centered, and family systems
• a research data analyst, coordinators and staff in the Inner Voices Program, the Counseling Center Paraprofessional Program, and the Reading and Study Skills Program, a network analyst, graduate assistants, practicum students, approximately 30 undergraduate paraprofessionals, and support staff in reception and business offices in addition to clinical counselors
• members who participate in research, national and regional professional organizations, meetings, and conferences

Our Services are supported by student fees from undergraduate, graduate, and professional students and include:

• Initial evaluation and assessment
• Referral to additional on and off campus services
• Individual and couples counseling
• Group counseling
• Consultation
• Educational workshops
• Reading and Study Skills Program
• Paraprofessional Program
• Inner Voices Theatre Group
• Alcohol and Other Drug Assessment
• Eating Disorder Assessments
• Assessments for cognitive and psychiatric disabilities

Our Clients

Because we conceptualize interns as professionals in training, we encourage them to see a wide range of clientele similar to that of our permanent clinical counselors. Presenting concerns at the Center range from developmental adjustment to more severe psychopathology. Counselors come into contact with diversity in terms of client characteristics as well as client presenting concerns. Continuing client caseloads are determined in consultation with supervisors to include both breadth as a generalist and specific populations (e.g., people struggling with depression; African-American men; clients with Axis II diagnoses, etc.).