Graduate Student Health and Wellbeing Resources

Wellbeing Coordinator

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Are you feeling stressed? Overwhelmed? Are you struggling to take care of yourself or find the right campus or community resources? Did you know that as a graduate student, you have access to free wellbeing services?

Your Wellbeing Support Coordinator, Olivia Kern, is here to support you. Olivia is a Master of Social Work student that provides one on one support to graduate students in the areas of:   

  • Stress & Anxiety 
  • Sleep, Movement, & Nutrition
  • Time management 
  • Connection to the right resources (food security, Mental Health services, academic help, etc.)

Make an appointment with Olivia on Calendly.

Or email directly at: Olivia.Kern@mso.umt.edu 

 

Mental Health and Wellbeing Resources

Community Engagement

  • Disability Services: Aids in the develop physical, emotional, and mental accommodations for students.

  • Global Engagement Office: Resources for international students (i.e. orientation, newsletter, activities, etc.).

  • Inclusive Excellence for Student Success (IESS): Student-centered office designed to support our diverse community and engage in diversity, equity, inclusion, and anti-racism efforts at UM.

  • UM Allies: provides visible and easily identifiable spaces for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, and non-binary students, faculty, and staff. Open to all regardless of orientation.

  • DiverseU: UM Annual Symposium to foster diversity and inclusivity.

  • UM Student Groups: Including Black Student Union, LatinX Student Union, Chinese Student Association, etc.

 

  • Curry Health Center UM Graduate Student Support Group: Get together with other students to discuss familiar challenges of grad school, learn ways to cope, and support each other. Time & Date TBA. Free to attend.
    • Call Curry Health Center Counseling Services to schedule an intake: (406) 243-4712

  • UM SACNAS Interest Group: Society for Advancement of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans in Science. SACNAS is an inclusive organization dedicated to fostering the success of Chicanos/Hispanics and Native Americans, from college students to professionals, in attaining advanced degrees, careers, and positions of leadership in STEM. Open to all.
  • UM Student Groups

Explore this calendar to look at upcoming university events.

  • Western Montana LGBTQ+ Community Center: The Center: Open affirming environment for peoples of all sexual orientations and gender identity expressions.

  • Empower Montana: Creates a more just and inclusive society by developing youth and adult leaders who work to end mistreatment, correct systemic inequalities, and strengthen communities across Montana.
  • Missoula Events: Explore all that Missoula has to offer!

Mental Health Resources

Services listed below with an * are potentially available for free/low cost/sliding

  • Curry Health Center Counseling Services:(406) 243-4712

  • First individual therapy/counseling session no charge – thereafter $25/session*
    • Covered by Student Health Insurance Plan
    • If you want to submit the $25 fee to your private insurance (other than the student plan), you must submit your own claims
  • Free Group therapy sessions *
    • Understanding Self & Others
    • Graduate Student Support Group
    • Overcoming Anxiety
  • Curry 360◦: Medical appointment that incorporates both a medical provider and a behavior health specialist and/or health coach

  • Curry Counseling Urgent Care: (406) 243-4712
    • Same day meeting withcounselor if in immediate need *
    • $25/session after that - same insurance information applies
  • Curry Medical Urgent Care: (406) 243-2122
    • Open for telemedicine and in-person urgent care appointments
    • Call before going to Curry
  • Student Advocacy Resource Center (SARC): (406) 243-4429
    • Counseling is available to survivors of sexual assault, relationship violence, stalking, and discrimination
    • 6-8 sessions free *
  • Clinical Psychology Center (CPC): (406) 243-2367
  • Individual counseling sessions with PhD students
    • Availability dependent on schedule and case fit
    • No insurance accepted, but reduced, sliding scale fee (lowest starting at $7/session) *
    • Walk-ins not accepted
  • Curry Wellness

  • Health Coaching:
    • Free program for students around handling stress, maintaining healthy habits, etc. *
    • 6 weeks, 1-on-1 sessions that can be extended
    • Peer and Wellness staff led (certification process)
  • Stress-busting kits

There are many services offered through hospitals and private practitioners off-campus. The fee and availability of many of these services may be dependent on your insurance provider and plan. Additionally, most of these service providers have a low income/sliding fee scale program. If it is not clear from their website call and ask. Most places are also not allowed to deny services based on an inability to pay.

  • Psychology Today
    • Nation-wide search engine for licensed/certified mental health providers, including counselors, social workers, psychologists, and psychiatrists
    • Searchable by location, distance, specialty, insurance, gender, and more
  • Winds of Change
    • A partnership for mind and body wellness, combines four thriving businesses into one full-service organization to better serve the community
    • Mental health recovery, clinical and psychiatric, lifestyle and functional medicine, and supported living programs
  • Partnership Health Center
    • Short-term behavioral care for established patients *
    • Sliding-scale fee clinic
    • Non-crisis facility 
  • Providence Behavioral Health Services
    • Psychiatric inpatient and outpatient services, including psychological testing, psychopharmacologic treatment, and psychotherapy
    • Urgent Mental Health Clinic: (406) 327-3034
  • Dakota Place Crisis Facility
    • Residential inpatient treatment for young adults, adults, and seniors with serious mental illness
    • Crisis care and addiction rehabilitation
      • Phone: (406) 532-8949
  • All Nations Health Center
    • Provides medical health care with a specialty in family health; community health; culturally relevant individual, group, or family specific behavioral health
    • While All Nations specifically serves the indigenous community in Missoula, they welcome all patients
    • Indigenous peoples can be seen for free, and they have a sliding fee scale for qualifying individuals *
    • They also accept Medicaid, Medicare, and third-party reimbursement
  • YWCA Missoula
    • Shelter, crisis counseling, and support for survivors of domestic and sexual violence
      • 24-Hour Crisis Line: (406) 542-1944
    • Walk-in peer counseling
    • Weekly open support groups
    • In-house short-term therapy
      • Up to 12 sessions offered at no cost *
    • Referrals to community resources
    • Legal, personal, housing, and medical advocacy
  • First STEP Resource Center
    • Free medical clinic that provides health care and gathers forensic evidence for survivors of sexual assault and strangulation
      • Phone: (406) 329-5776

Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DEI) Training

  • Diversity in Recruitment
    • Training and consultation in the areas of diversity, inclusivity and unconscious bias in the recruitment process is available for departments and/or search committees conducting recruitments

  • Office of the Provost
    • Information, videos, and training sessions available on implicit bias awareness

  • SARC
    • Training topics available upon request:
      • Bystander Intervention: How to Intervene to Stop Sexual Assault
      • Resiliency and Engagement: Self-care
      • First Responder: How to Respond to Survivors of Sexual Assault, Interpersonal Violence or Discrimination
      • Addressing Microaggressions
      • Inclusive Communities

  • Empower MT
    • Provides periodic training opportunities for community members, including one-day introductory workshops that give participants basic skills, concepts, and exercises to develop awareness and goals on interrupting bias and systems of oppression
    • Provides organized trainings for businesses and organizations

  • Equity in Graduate Education
    • Emotional Intelligence workshop series is available that focuses on the development of social-emotional competencies that are essential for success in graduate education and future career performance

Graduate Student Leave of Absence

If students are required to step out of their programs because of an emergency, they may petition for a leave of absence from their program by filling out a Graduate School Request for Leave of Absence Form.

The student's program chair or dean signs the form, and the student submits it to the Graduate School. The Graduate Dean will sign the form indicating approval or disapproval of the leave for the period time requested.  The length of a leave of absence cannot exceed one year, but the student can petition for additional time after one year.

Leaves of absence will not be approved for the purpose of working on jobs, research, thesis, dissertations or to establish residency. 

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