Mission & Values

Mission Statement

The University Counseling Center is committed to the mental health and wellbeing of all members of the university community. We strive to facilitate growth and enhance understanding of self and others by providing culturally responsive clinical services to our students, prevention-based education and outreach to our community, and specialized training and supervision to emerging mental health professionals.

Our Commitment to Diversity

The Wake Forest University Counseling Center is committed to creating a safe, welcoming, and affirming environment for all. This includes students who access our services as well as all individuals who are part of our University community. We recognize that each individual is unique while at the same time living within larger diverse communities. We view diversity as encompassing intersecting identities, including ethnic/racial identity, nationality, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, religion/spirituality, socio-economic status, age, body shape/size, ability, and point of view. We celebrate the differences among individuals as valuable and essential to the strengthening of our community and the enrichment of the lives of our students. We strive to make the University Counseling Center a safe place where individuals can strengthen their self-acceptance, confidence, and comfort with their own individual identities.  We acknowledge that this is an ongoing process which is enhanced with ongoing dialogue. 

As mental health professionals, we strive to promote equity for those who are differently abled. We affirm the right of all individuals to identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and/or gender expansive, queer and/or questioning, intersex, asexual, and two-spirit. We work professionally and personally toward the end of all forms of institutional and societal sexism and racism. We are sensitive to current extremes of religious and ethnic persecution and the resulting trauma. We acknowledge the right of individuals to affirm a personal set of religious and cultural beliefs while simultaneously respecting others’ differing beliefs. As mental health professionals, we recognize the need to make all of these issues high priorities in our work to ensure basic human rights for all people.