Emotional Well-being

Your emotional well-being can be improved by

• Brighten your outlook
• Reduce stress
• Get quality sleep
• Strengthen social connections
• Be mindful

For specific strategies on improving these areas of emotional well-being, visit Emotional Wellness Toolkit published by the National Institute of Health (NIH).

Columbia Health Coping Tools introduces you to various coping tools for self-help, crisis help, and other specific concerns.

Additional tips and resources are available on Stress Management and Relational Well-Being page. Go Ask Alice! has great tips as well.

Maintaining positive emotional health makes you more resilient and allows you to handle stress in a more constructive way. Below are some helpful articles to build good emotional well-being:

How to Build Good Emotional Well-Being

This article provides ideas about the impact of good emotional health on our life, the importance of emotional health and how to improve emotional health.

The 7 Habits of Highly Emotionally Healthy People

This article gives you seven tips on how to be emotionally healthy. 

The Importance of Naming Your Emotions

This article talks about how important it is to express our feelings and share them with others.

How to find a therapist

This article is a question-and-answer format from Go Ask Alice!. It provides resources regarding where to find mental health professionals and what to ask to your potential therapist.

Wellness Conversation

To speak with someone at SEAS, please email: [email protected]

Counseling and Psychological Services

Counseling and Psychological Services (CPS) offers individual counseling, support spaces and other services delivered virtually. Watch this video to learn more about how Counseling & Psychological Services supports the psychological and emotional well-being.

For students residing outside the United States interested in counseling services, click here and use "Columbia University" as your student code when logging in.  

Columbia Health Coping Tools

Columbia Health introduces you to various coping tools for self-help, crisis help and specific concerns and life skills. For resources specific to managing concerns around COVID-19, visit Coping with COVID-19 resource page. 

Alice! Health Promotion

Alice! Health Promotion creates and sustains a healthy University community in which students can achieve their personal and academic goals. Visit the site to learn more about health education programs and services. 

Sexual Violence Response

Sexual Violence Response (SVR) provides trauma-informed, confidential support through crisis counseling/intervention, advocacy, prevention, and outreach for students. SVR offers confidential helpline, 24/7/365 to survivors and co-survivors of sexual assault or sexual violence.

Office of Religious Life

Office of Religious Life supports faith communities at Columbia. You can find resources such as religious life advisers, student organizations, meetings and services, and prayer and meditation spaces for students.

Nightline Peer Listening 

Nightline is an anonymous peer listening service. The listeners are empathetic undergraduate students of Columbia University who have been professionally trained. For the updated service time, please check the Nightline website.