Our confidential short-term psychological care, referral services, and crisis intervention services are offered at no cost to Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, house officers, and their dependents age 18 or older. To this end, we offer the following: 

• Individual Short-Term Counseling

• Referral Services to Community Providers 

• Crisis Intervention and Stress Debriefing

• Educational Outreach and Programs 

• Health Professionals Recovery Program Return to Work Transition

• Compass Peer Support Network

• Department/Leader Resilience Consultation and Intervention Work

• Mental Health Training for Leaders

• Stress and Burnout Support for Healthcare Professionals

• Wellness Promotion

Our community of healers commonly seek care to address a variety of concerns in both their personal and professional life including, but not limited to: 

• Sadness and anxiety

• Feelings of disconnection/loneliness

• Anger and irritability

• Life transitions

• Substance use

• Stress and burnout

• Moral distress

• Personal /Professional Relationship concerns

• Work concerns

• Professional identity

• Trauma, loss, and grief

• Clinically impactful events (violence, losses, clinical mistakes, etc.)

We welcome receiving your phone call or email to learn more about our short-term mental health services or to schedule your first appointment. Your first appointment will be a level of care assessment during which we will clarify whether you are best served by a counselor in our office or in the community to ensure you receive the highest quality of care for your specific concerns. 

• Contact us at: 734.763.5409 or counseling@med.umich.edu

• Appointments begin at 8 am and extend through the early evening

• Currently all appointments are held on Zoom

Your confidential clinical counseling record is housed exclusively within the Office of Counseling and Workplace Resilience and is not part of your personnel or medical record.

• Mental and Emotional Health Presentations

  • Request a Presentation for your Unit/Department by emailing us at counseling@med.umich.edu 

• Leadership Debriefing Tool  (open in Microsoft Edge)

• Leadership Wellbeing Round Tool (open in Microsoft Edge)

• Leader Consultation

  • Request a consultation with  the OCWR director by emailing us at counseling@med.umich.edu or calling us at 734.763.5409

• Compass Peer Support Training