Mental Health Resources Hub

Are you looking for specialized academic support for your ADHD, autism or learning disabilities/differences? Do you want to learn about neuro-affirming strategies to help you personalize your learning? Are you looking to connect with neurodiverse peers? Our Neurodiversity-Focused Programs provide academic support for students with documented or self-identified ADHD, autism, learning differences/disabilities and/or executive functioning challenges.  Students can choose from neurodiversity-focused individual or group coaching, tutoring, or a one-credit course. Learn neuro-affirming strategies, create accountability for your goals, and connect with a neuro-affirming community.

Explore the Center for Teaching and Learning

The Dean of Students (DOS) office serves as the compass for undergrauate and graduate students' lived experiences, guiding them toward finding their own sense of purpose and belonging. This office provides individualized student support, responds to impactful incidents, and cultivates the conditions for learning, development, and success in a residential community. 

Explore the Dean of Students Office

• Emergency or Urgent Support - Access emergency health and safety support, urgent Student Affairs support, urgent support related to a mental health concern, and urgent support due to sexual harassment or sexual violence.  If you need urgent support from a student affairs staff member, you can reach the following on-call staff members 24 hours a day:
  • Undergraduate student concerns - Contact the Resident Director On-Call at 650.504.8022
  • Graduate student concerns - Contact the Graduate Life Office Dean On-Call at 650.723.7288 (provide pager ID #25085)
• Non-Urgent Support - Access guidance regarding non-urgent support and share a concern with the Dean of Students office and our partner offices.
• Guidance for Students, Faculty/Staff and for Parents and Families - access additional guidance for Students, Faculty/Staff and for Parents and Families seeking support.
• Basic Needs - The Dean of Students Office aims to ensure that every college student has the support they need to excel both academically and personally. The Student Support Social Worker can serve as a guide for college students, offering a comprehensive look at essential resources for basic needs support during your college journey.
  • Basic Needs Resources
  • Dean of Students (DOS) Student Emergency Relief Fund

Do you wish you could feel a little less stressed about money? Would you like to gain the knowledge, skills, and habits to be financially well during your time at Stanford and beyond? Stanford’s financial wellness education program, Mind Over Money, exists to empower students to flourish through accessible, relevant, and research-informed financial education, meaningful engagement with positive influences on financial well-being, and a campus culture of healthy financial behaviors and conversations. 

Learn About Financial Wellness

• 1:1 Financial Wellness Coaching: As you set your personal financial goals and get curious to learn more, select a volunteer from our roster of coaches, check out their bio to see if they would be a good fit, and request an appointment.
• 1-Unit Personal Finance Course: Build your financial capability in the areas of managing money, planning ahead, making choices, and getting help to achieve your financial goals in our one-unit course, Wellness 183: Financial Wellness for a Health

Need additional support in navigating a problem or situation? Curious as to what it is like to talk with a CAPS counselor or counselor in general? Looking for a quick, informal check-in? Short, informal consultation with a CAPS counselor who can listen to specific problems in your life, help you consider new ways for relating to or working with a problem or situation, provide resource information and mental health education, and give you a sense of what it is like to meet with a member of the CAPS staff.

Explore Let's Talk in Community

Looking to explore spiritual wellness? In search of a community that nurtures your spiritual beliefs? Need help overcoming grief and loss?The Office for Religious & Spiritual Life guides, nurtures, and enhances spiritual and religious life within the Stanford community. We offer classes, programs and pastoral counseling. 

Connect With the Office for Religious and Spiritual Life

• Undergraduate Grief and Loss Support Gatherings - Whether your loss was recent or long ago, we welcome you to join other students in processing the grief they are experiencing. This gathering meets 3 times/quarter and is co-facilitated by staff from ORSL, CAPS, GLO and Well-Being at Stanford.
• Talk With a Chaplain - Spiritual care is a type of care and counseling involving nonjudgmental and compassionate listening that allows people to share their joys, concerns, and hopes in the context of their full humanity and, for many, their spirituality or philosophy.
• Additional Stanford Resources -  Grieving at Stanford

Is your mental health affecting your performance? In need of academic or housing accommodations? Looking for a safe space with peers, staff, and resources to support your individual needs? The OAE is the campus entity designated to work with Stanford students with disabilities. The OAEprovides a wide array of support services, accommodations, and programs to remove barriers to full participation in the life of the University.

Explore the Office of Accessible Education

• Additional Resources: How to Address Mental Health Concerns with Your Professor

Looking to explore your relationship with alcohol and/or substances in a safe space? Want to learn tools to help you modify substance use? Looking for substance free communities? Aims to mitigate high-risk alcohol and other drug use and related harms by enriching the social experience by utilizing health promotion principles through collaborative, cutting-edge, empirically-proven educational strategies and programs. 

Access the Office of Substance Use Programs, Education, & Resources

• 1:1 sessions: Individual meetings with students to support them wherever they are along the spectrum of substance use.
• 5-SURE Safe Rides: Free safe rides late at night 7 nights a week, 9 p.m. - 2 a.m. from anywhere on campus.
• 5-SURE on Foot: Find them around the Row tabling on a weekend night ready to accompany you home so you are not alone. Grab a free Pop-Tart, water, and other safety supplies at the table.

Experiencing a conflict or issue that is interfering with your academic or work life? Need assistance in navigating an interpersonal or professional conflict? Need tools to manage a difficult situation or engage in a challenging conversation? Have questions about Stanford policies or processes that you prefer to ask to a confidential resource? Confidential resource available to all faculty, staff, postdocs, and students to discuss a concern, conflict or issue that is interfering with their academic or work life. Services include individual meetings to discuss concerns, information on Stanford policies, referrals to other resources and conflict resolution services.

Learn About the Office of the Ombuds

Curious to know what your options are for gender based-care? Looking for support as you transition? Want to connect with other trans folx? Promotes mental health and wellness across the spectrum of gender identities and sexual orientations through education, training and clinical services. 

Access the Weiland Health Initiative

Distressed by a sexual or relationship experience and don't know who to talk to? Experiencing an emotionally controlling or harmful relationship? Want to know more about how to make a report or what reporting means? Offers support to Stanford students impacted by sexual assault and relationship violence, including interpersonal violence, stalking, and sexual or gender-based harassment and discrimination.

• For Urgent Support: Call Stanford’s Confidential Support Team (CST) 24/7 Hotline at 650.725.9955.

Access the Confidential Support Team

Experiencing feelings of anxiety and/or depression? Finding it difficult to get out of bed each day? Struggling to continue your daily routine following a loss? Offers individual visits, skills workshops, process groups, psychiatry services, community referral resources, 24/7 support, and crisis intervention. 

• CAPS: Seeking Mental Health Support at Stanford
• CAPS Frequently Asked Questions 

Connect With Counseling and Psychological Services

Need support and tools to navigate a difficult conversation between a family member or coworker? Looking for short-term counseling to help navigate work-related or personal issues? Offers a variety of services to Stanford faculty, staff, and post-docs, including confidential counseling, workshops, discussion groups, and facilitated conversations. particularly helpful for post-docs. (Services for undergraduate, co-term, and graduate students are available through CAPS and other resources below). 

Access The Stanford Faculty Staff Help Center

Need to be seen sooner or out of state? TimelyCare is offered as a supplement to the extensive existing in-person and virtual services offered by Counseling and Psychological Services (CAPS), Vaden Medical Services, and other Vaden and on-campus resources. This no cost service offers enrolled students residing in the United States virtual medical and mental health care 24/7, 365 days/year and up to 12 scheduled mental health therapy sessions per academic year. 

Explore TimelyCare FAQs to Learn More

• The Shrink Space: Search for local therapists who are specialized in helping students.
• Psychology Today: Search for local therapists based on your needs and insurance.
• CAPS referrals and resources page: FAQs on therapy and resources for students

• Self-Care — Building Your Own Basecamp Well-Being at Stanford
• Self-Care Ideas That Stick, Even When You are Busy Headspace
• The Flourish - Welcome to The Flourish! We’re so glad you’re here. We believe mental health and well-being blossom through connection and belonging, inviting everyone to join us on this journey. With a warm, inclusive spirit, we offer steady guidance and accessible resources, free from judgment, so you can easily find the support that suits you best. Explore inspiring articles by students, dive into peer-led storytelling, and participate in outreach events that remind us we’re all in this together.
• Therapy Is Like Gardening: A Resource Guide to Demystify Mental Health - Have you felt confused about what self-care and therapy are? Words like mental health, therapy, and self-care are often used without explanation. This guide, created by campus mental health professionals, aims to clarify these concepts.

• Mindful Minutes with CAPS A series of very brief mindful practices you can do anytime.
• Better Sleep - Sleep Hygiene Tips A short video sharing tips to practice better sleep hygiene. (Stanford CAPS - 5 min.)
• Navigating Boundaries in Family and Other Relationships A short video that shares tips for identifying and holding personal boundaries to support important relationships with others. (Stanford CAPS - 10 min.)

• Headspace (Meditation App)
• Calm (Meditation App)
• The Happiness Lab (Podcast)

• Graduate Life Deans, Community Associates (CAs) - Professional staff and fellow Stanford graduate students who provide information, advice, assistance, and, if needed, referrals for academic and personal issues.  They can assist students in finding services and information on the Stanford campus. Graduate Life Deans can provide crisis intervention by contacting the urgent line. 

Learn More at the Graduate Life Office

• Resident Directors (RDs), Resident Fellows (RFs), and Resident Assistants (RAs) - Trained professionals and student staff who can advise you about personal issues and assist with emergencies. They are available whenever you have a problem and can provide valuable insight from their own Stanford experiences.

Learn More at Residential Education's Student Support

Support center for all aspects of personal and professional development and life at Stanford for postdoc trainees.

Learn More at the Office of Postdoctoral Affairs

• Stanford Resources
  • The Bridge Peer Counseling Center: Peer counseling by trained students who can offer a listening ear and/or advice regarding common issues and concerns facing students (e.g. relationship, academic, financial).
  • PEERs Program: The PEERs are a group of undergraduate and co-term students that Prevent harm, Educate about holistic health and well-being, Empower our community,  and Refer students to campus resources.
  • Cardinal Recovery: Stanford's collegiate recovery program that provides peer-led support for substance use, behavioral addictions, and mental health. The Cardinal Recovery student staff lead weekly all-recovery meetings and trainings on recovery allyship, as well as organizing substance-free social events.
• Other Resources
  • The JED Foundation: How and When to Start a Conversation with a Struggling Friend