OFFICIAL CU RESOURCES
- Student Mental Health @ AMC
Rachel Davis - Medical Director
AMC Student Mental Health Service provides comprehensive and confidential mental health services for all medical students enrolled in the schools located at the Anschutz Medical Campus. Initial appointments are scheduled relatively quickly, often within the same week. Available services, among others, include individual psychotherapy, group therapy/support groups, and medication management. Call (303) 724-4716.
- Campus Health Center - Behavioral Health and Counseling Services @ AMC
The Campus Health Center's (CHC) working motto "No Wrong Door" invites anyone who works or studies on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to receive the right type of care at the right time. We accept walk-ins, keep our doors open late, and our board-certified practitioners can handle prescriptions. Services available include behavioral and counseling services, including acute stress management, coping with test anxiety, relaxation techniques, and others.
- Behavioral Health emergency walk-in hour: 3:00-4:00 pm offered on a first come, first serve basis.
- 24/7 on-call behavioral health support shared with Student Mental Health providers.
- CARE Team
The CU AMC CARE team was created to help you navigate a wide variety of life’s challenges. We help students create a plan to confront difficulties while providing support and the resources needed to keep you safe and successful. If you are facing challenges or know someone who is, we encourage you to submit at CARE report to connect with our friendly and compassionate team. Let us CU through your difficult time and get you back on track.
- CU Anschutz Phoenix Center
The Phoenix Center at Anschutz (PCA) serves the entire campus community, including students, faculty, and staff. We provide free, confidential support services, education, awareness efforts, and resource referrals for issues of interpersonal violence (IPV). IPV is an umbrella term that encompasses relationship violence, sexual violence, and stalking. This is a free and confidential resource.
- Lean on Me (anonymous texting service)
"Lean on Me" is an anonymous text-based support platform. Students can text a question or concern to 720-605-0800. They will then receive an anonymous text back from an ACP faculty member to help sort through the issue, offer advice, or point them in the right direction.
- Better Help TeleHealth Counseling
Making professional counseling accessible, affordable, convenient - so anyone who struggles with life’s challenges can get help, anytime, anywhere. Affordable, online therapy sessions & groupinars available to all students. Free for students on the CU Anschutz Student Health Insurance Plan.
- Weekly Peer Support Groups - Student Health Promotions Committee
Trained student and peer facilitators host a group meant for any student on campus to discuss universal issues common to all professional students and young adults. Maybe you are struggling with questions around feeling isolated on a big campus. Maybe you are feeling like you don't belong here and you are struggling with ways to find support from those around you. Maybe you are struggling with the stress of balancing academic/professional roles with personal life issues.
When: Wednesdays from 12-1pm
Where: Bldg 500 Rm E2305; 2nd floor East wing (left as you get out of main elevators)
Who: Any Student at the Anschutz Medical Campus who would like to get support from a trained student/peer facilitator with personal, academic or professional challenges in a conversational environment.
Contact: j[email protected]
- Mindful Living Elective
Consider taking the Mindful Living elective this Fall led by medical students.
OUTSIDE RESOURCES
Free Guided Meditations
- Tara Brach, PhD Meditation Psychologist
Tara Brach provides numerous guided meditations on various themes such as heart meditations and open awareness meditations.
- UC San Diego Health
The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness has prepared a number of practices that are available here in MP3 format.
- The Free Mindfulness Project
The focus of this site is mindfulness as practiced in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and other closely related approaches.
- The Ohio State University
Apps
- Headspace
What Can Mindfulness Do for You? Train Your Way to Happier Days with Headspace. Use Anywhere, Anytime. Hundreds of Sessions. Start Meditating Today. Track Your Progress. Dozens of Unique Themes. Suits Your Mood/Lifestyle. Learn the Basics for Free. Build Healthy Habits.
AMA OFFER: get 2 years of free Headspace premium subscription.
STUDENT RATE: only $9.99/year currently!
- Liberate Meditation
Liberate is a meditation app by and for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color on their journey of finding inner peace. It is here to empower and support you. It has the largest centralized and free database of guided meditations and dharma talks from Teachers of Color.
- Insight Timer
10,979 free guided meditations, music tracks, talks and courses.
External Tools
- Psychology Today
Resource to find therapists anywhere in the world.
- Three Good Things (video)
A mindful tool to focus on the granted positives than the negatives.
- Signs and Warning of Depression
- An Experiment in Gratitude | Science of Happiness by Soul Pancake (video)
- MakeItOk.org
“Make It OK” is a campaign to reduce the stigma of mental illnesses. The organizations listed here have pledged their commitment to change the hearts and minds about the misperceptions of mental illnesses by encouraging open conversations and education on the topic.
Informative Journal Articles
"Prevalence of Depression, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation Among Medical Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis." Rotenstein, et al.
Books
- Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding Of Happiness And Well-being
- Positivity: Top-notch Research Reveals The Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life
- Power vs. Force by David R. Hawkins, M.D. PhD
- When things fall apart and The Places that Scare You by Pema Chodrin
- Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
- The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
- In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate, MD
- Student Mental Health @ AMC
Rachel Davis - Medical Director
AMC Student Mental Health Service provides comprehensive and confidential mental health services for all medical students enrolled in the schools located at the Anschutz Medical Campus. Initial appointments are scheduled relatively quickly, often within the same week. Available services, among others, include individual psychotherapy, group therapy/support groups, and medication management. Call (303) 724-4716.
- Campus Health Center - Behavioral Health and Counseling Services @ AMC
The Campus Health Center's (CHC) working motto "No Wrong Door" invites anyone who works or studies on the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus to receive the right type of care at the right time. We accept walk-ins, keep our doors open late, and our board-certified practitioners can handle prescriptions. Services available include behavioral and counseling services, including acute stress management, coping with test anxiety, relaxation techniques, and others.
- Behavioral Health emergency walk-in hour: 3:00-4:00 pm offered on a first come, first serve basis.
- 24/7 on-call behavioral health support shared with Student Mental Health providers.
- CARE Team
The CU AMC CARE team was created to help you navigate a wide variety of life’s challenges. We help students create a plan to confront difficulties while providing support and the resources needed to keep you safe and successful. If you are facing challenges or know someone who is, we encourage you to submit at CARE report to connect with our friendly and compassionate team. Let us CU through your difficult time and get you back on track.
- CU Anschutz Phoenix Center
The Phoenix Center at Anschutz (PCA) serves the entire campus community, including students, faculty, and staff. We provide free, confidential support services, education, awareness efforts, and resource referrals for issues of interpersonal violence (IPV). IPV is an umbrella term that encompasses relationship violence, sexual violence, and stalking. This is a free and confidential resource.
- Lean on Me (anonymous texting service)
"Lean on Me" is an anonymous text-based support platform. Students can text a question or concern to 720-605-0800. They will then receive an anonymous text back from an ACP faculty member to help sort through the issue, offer advice, or point them in the right direction.
- Completely anonymous for both parties – this is built in to the system and there is no way around it
- Staffed by Advisory College Faculty – trained faculty members with experience advising students
- Better Help TeleHealth Counseling
Making professional counseling accessible, affordable, convenient - so anyone who struggles with life’s challenges can get help, anytime, anywhere. Affordable, online therapy sessions & groupinars available to all students. Free for students on the CU Anschutz Student Health Insurance Plan.
- Weekly Peer Support Groups - Student Health Promotions Committee
Trained student and peer facilitators host a group meant for any student on campus to discuss universal issues common to all professional students and young adults. Maybe you are struggling with questions around feeling isolated on a big campus. Maybe you are feeling like you don't belong here and you are struggling with ways to find support from those around you. Maybe you are struggling with the stress of balancing academic/professional roles with personal life issues.
When: Wednesdays from 12-1pm
Where: Bldg 500 Rm E2305; 2nd floor East wing (left as you get out of main elevators)
Who: Any Student at the Anschutz Medical Campus who would like to get support from a trained student/peer facilitator with personal, academic or professional challenges in a conversational environment.
Contact: j[email protected]
- Mindful Living Elective
Consider taking the Mindful Living elective this Fall led by medical students.
OUTSIDE RESOURCES
Free Guided Meditations
- Tara Brach, PhD Meditation Psychologist
Tara Brach provides numerous guided meditations on various themes such as heart meditations and open awareness meditations.
- UC San Diego Health
The UC San Diego Center for Mindfulness has prepared a number of practices that are available here in MP3 format.
- The Free Mindfulness Project
The focus of this site is mindfulness as practiced in mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR), mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) and other closely related approaches.
- The Ohio State University
- OSU Mindfulness Practices
- OSU Heart Centered Practices
- OSU Relaxation Response
- OSU Guided Imagery Practices
Apps
- Headspace
What Can Mindfulness Do for You? Train Your Way to Happier Days with Headspace. Use Anywhere, Anytime. Hundreds of Sessions. Start Meditating Today. Track Your Progress. Dozens of Unique Themes. Suits Your Mood/Lifestyle. Learn the Basics for Free. Build Healthy Habits.
AMA OFFER: get 2 years of free Headspace premium subscription.
STUDENT RATE: only $9.99/year currently!
- Liberate Meditation
Liberate is a meditation app by and for Black, Indigenous, and People of Color on their journey of finding inner peace. It is here to empower and support you. It has the largest centralized and free database of guided meditations and dharma talks from Teachers of Color.
- Insight Timer
10,979 free guided meditations, music tracks, talks and courses.
External Tools
- Psychology Today
Resource to find therapists anywhere in the world.
- Three Good Things (video)
A mindful tool to focus on the granted positives than the negatives.
- Signs and Warning of Depression
- An Experiment in Gratitude | Science of Happiness by Soul Pancake (video)
- MakeItOk.org
“Make It OK” is a campaign to reduce the stigma of mental illnesses. The organizations listed here have pledged their commitment to change the hearts and minds about the misperceptions of mental illnesses by encouraging open conversations and education on the topic.
Informative Journal Articles
"Prevalence of Depression, Depressive Symptoms, and Suicidal Ideation Among Medical Students: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis." Rotenstein, et al.
Books
- Flourish: A Visionary New Understanding Of Happiness And Well-being
- Positivity: Top-notch Research Reveals The Upward Spiral That Will Change Your Life
- Power vs. Force by David R. Hawkins, M.D. PhD
- When things fall apart and The Places that Scare You by Pema Chodrin
- Radical Acceptance by Tara Brach
- The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
- In The Realm of Hungry Ghosts by Gabor Mate, MD