Counseling and Psychiatric Services (CAPS) CAPS is a unit of the University Health Center committed to providing a wide range of services designed to promote the academic, personal, social and psychological growth of students at the University of Georgia. We offer short-term individual, couples, and group counseling for students experiencing a range of psychological difficulties. Limited psychiatric services are also available to UGA students.

Additional Counseling & Psychological Resources at UGA

McPhaul Family Therapy Clinic
The McPhaul Family Therapy Clinic is a training and research center administered through the Department of Child and Family Development. We provide services to individuals, couples, families and groups.

Services Offered:
The McPhaul Family Therapy Clinic at The University of Georgia seeks to help individuals, couples, families, and groups with problems such as:

• Poor family communication
• Marital, couple and interpersonal conflict
• Concerns with sexual relationships or sexual dysfunction
• Family violence
• Alcohol or drug abuse
• Work/home stress
• Separation or divorce
• Pre-marital assessment and counseling
• Family and personal problems related to illness
• Loss or gain of a family member
• Eating disorders
• Interpersonal relationships
• Depression
• Anxiety
• Issues of identity development
• Intergenerational conflict
• Questions of spirituality
• Child development concerns

Hours and Days of Operations:
By appointment
Monday – Thursday: 8 am to 9pm
Friday: 8am - 4pm

Contact Information:
University of Georgia Campus, McPhaul Center,
corner of Carlton and Stanford Streets
(706) 542-4486
ftclinic@uga.edu

Emergency Situations:
No after-hours service available. Contact Advantage Behavioral Health.

Clinic's Staff and Cost of Services:

• Therapists at the McPhaul Family Therapy Clinic are doctoral students in The University of Georgia’s Child and Family Development Department who specialize in Marriage and Family Therapy.  They are knowledgeable about human growth and development across the lifespan, child behavior patterns, couple interaction, parent-child relationships and family dynamics.
• All therapists operate from a family systems orientation and are skilled in a variety of therapeutic approaches and techniques. We follow a contextual perspective that is sensitive to, and values cultural, ethnic, religious, and sexual orientation diversity.
• Our services are available to all people in the community.
• Client fees are based on family income and range from $15- $65 per session.
• We provide services year round and offer both day and evening appointments.
• We do have Spanish-speaking clinicians on staff.

The Psychology Clinic
The Psychology Clinic is an independent community mental health facility operated by the Clinical Training Program of the Department of Psychology at the University of Georgia serving Northeast Georgia and the UGA communities. 

Services Offered:

Individual therapy is offered in, among others, the areas of:

• Depression
• Anxiety
• Marital and family issues
• Sexual problems
• Childhood difficulties
• Eating disorders
• Stress management
• Sexual abuse
• Rape
• Neuropsychological and general psychological assessment is also available.

Hours and Days of Operations:
Call to make appointment.
Monday –Thursday: 8 AM - 8 PM
Friday: 8 AM – 5 PM

Contact Information:
(706) 542-1173

Emergency Situations:

Emergency consultations/intakes are available during the clinic's normal operating hours. No emergency services are available when the clinic is closed.

The Clinic’s Staff and Cost of Services:

• Therapists are doctoral students in clinical psychology supervised by licensed clinical psychologists.
• Fees are based on gross family income.

School Psychology Clinic
The School Psychology Clinic offers comprehensive psychological assessment services to children between the ages of 2 – 18 years.  The School Psychology Clinic does not offer psychotherapy services.

Services Offered:           

• Diagnostic evaluations
• Autism spectrum disorders
• learning disorders
• attention-deficit disorders

Hours and Days of Operations:

• For Fall 2005: evaluations are scheduled on
  Tuesdays from 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM.

Contact Information:

• 302 Aderhold Hall, University of Georgia, Athens,GA  30602.
• (706) 542-4265.

Emergency Situations:

• N/A due to the nature of services the clinic provides.

The Clinic’s Staff and Cost of Services:

• Evaluations are conducted by advanced doctoral students enrolled in the University of Georgia's School Psychology program.
• Evaluations are supervised by program faculty. 
• Costs of evaluations are determined using a sliding scale fee structure; the clinic does not accept insurance or bill insurance companies for services rendered.
• Assessment services are provided to children and adolescents between the ages of 2 - 18 years