Off-Campus and Virtual Counseling Resources for Students

Carebridge professional counseling services

The professional experts from Carebridge have a proven track record for providing confidential assistance in finding solutions to a wide range of personal and family concerns. Carebridge is a complimentary service offered in addition to the personal counseling through Student Affairs and is best utilized when away from campus or in an emergency when PCOM's campuses are closed.

Contact Carebridge

Carebridge Student Assistance Program
Phone: 800-437-0911
PCOM's access code is found on Student Mental Health and Wellness on myPCOM.

Available services include:

• Life or stress management coaching
• Individual and couples counseling
• Virtual support groups and webinars
• Substance use
• Depression and anxiety
• Grief and loss
• Financial counseling
• Legal consultations
• Relocation
• Housing options
• Childcare
• Eldercare
• Pet care
• Mindfulness programming

HealthiestYou by Teladoc

FirstRisk Advisors and HealthiestYou have partnered together to provide our students with access to doctors and licensed mental healthcare professionals. Through this program you will receive the following benefits:

• Access to mental health specialists: Talk to a psychiatrist, psychologist, counselor, clinical social worker or therapist through video or phone.
• Mobile support: Receive access to doctors, therapists and counselors by web or the HealthiestYou mobile app.
• Member-counselor matching: An initial intake questionnaire will match you with a counselor who is best-suited to counsel your specific situation. You can also choose your provider based on licensure, specialty, gender or language by reviewing the provider’s bio on their website.
• Flexible scheduling: HealthiestYou telemental health services are available seven days a week, from 7 a.m. to 9 p.m., based on your local time.
• Interpretation services: Language Line Solutions, which supports more than 200 languages, can connect you with an interpreter for your needs.
• International support: Traveling or living internationally? Get access to licensed mental healthcare professionals wherever you are located.

Visit myPCOM to view more details and learn how to access the service.

We recognize the increased need for appropriate mental health treatment for college students. If you have UnitedHealthcare Insurance benefits, you may have access to more than 80,000 clinicians and more than 3,500 care facilities nationwide.

PCOM offers a student health insurance plan for students through UnitedHealthcare. This plan renews annually and students are required to either waive the student health insurance plan or be automatically enrolled and the cost added to their tuition bill.

Visit UnitedHealthcare's Student Resources webpage and enter PCOM in the search field to review your PCOM campus location's plan.

• Choose Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine for the Philadelphia location.
• Choose Philadelphia College of Osteopathic Medicine Georgia for the Suwanee or Moultrie locations.

Questions about student health insurance can be directed to benefits@pcom.edu.

Click the links below for additional information on the following topics:

• Mental illness
• Anxiety
• Depression
• Addiction (Addiction Center)
• Wellness Society