Counseling and Wellness Services

713-525-2169
cws@stthom.edu

500X330_CWS Located on the 2^nd floor of Crooker Center, counseling from licensed mental health professionals is free and confidential for currently enrolled students. Our goal is to help students achieve academic goals and make good decisions.

The most common issues students want to talk about are:

Anxiety
Depression
Relationships
Academics

However, you don’t need to feel depressed or be distraught in order to visit. Maybe you just need help navigating your life balance or adjusting to college life. You’re not alone.

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Meet the Staff

Ariana Irizarry, MA, LPC, NCC CWS Counselor

Carlos Razuri Barandiaran, MS, NCC, LPC CWS Counselor

Mary Therese Hafernik, MS, LPC-Associate Supervised by Fredericka Vyvlecka, PhD, LPC-S (CWS Counselor)

Cecilia Garza CWS Coordinator

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Slide 4: Cecilia Garza, CWS Coordinator

To make an appointment, call, e-mail, or visit our office on the 2nd floor of Crooker Center.

Hours:
Monday – Friday: 9:00am – 5:00pm

For more information, contact:
phone: 713-525-2169
email: cws@stthom.edu

In the event of a life-threatening emergency, call 9-1-1 or go to a hospital emergency room.

If there is a psychological crisis after hours, you may call the University Police Department at 713-525-3888 to have an on-call counselor paged.

The mission of Counseling and Wellness Services is to provide confidential personal counseling, consultation, and related initiatives to enrolled University of St. Thomas undergraduate and graduate students to support and facilitate their academic success and personal growth. Counseling and Wellness Services is committed to the Catholic mission and upholding the core values of the Basilian Fathers: goodness, discipline, knowledge, done in community. We prioritize serving God and our students as we build relationships that will impact and empower the community.

As part of UST's Mendenhall Achievement Center, all services we offer are free and confidential, including:

Personal counseling and consultations
Educational and academic workshops
Campus mental health and well-being programs
Community resources and referrals
Crisis intervention

These services are available to currently enrolled UST students, who are residing in Texas, and are generally offered on a short-term basis.

Director of Counseling and Wellness Services

Ivan Navarro is a Licensed Professional Counselor and a proud UST alumnus. In his practice, Ivan incorporates Viktor Frankl’s logotherapy, as part of the school of existential therapy. He also offers counseling sessions utilizing approaches from rational psychology, as presented by Conrad W. Baars and Anna Terruwe. His practice, therefore, integrates Thomistic anthropology with more recent interventions that promote the pursuit for meaning. A will to meaning in life, according to Frankl, is more important than focusing on pleasures. A focus on pleasures, after all, can turn into a distraction from both the search for meaning and the virtues that lead to a psychologically healthy life. In all these manners and forms, Ivan successfully assists students to become emotionally stronger, helps them to overcome symptoms related to mental health disorders, and offers ways to prevent mental illness. Ivan has over seven years of experience working with individuals who struggle with depression, anxiety, suicidality, self-harm, trauma, family issues, relationship conflicts, life changes, and vocational challenges.

Ivan is currently completing a Doctorate of Education in Leadership. He obtained a Master of Arts in Mental Health Counseling from Rivier University in New England. He also has a Bachelor of Divinity in Sacred Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. From UST, Ivan earned a Bachelor of Arts in Communications with a Minor in Catholic Studies. He is also fluent in Spanish and Italian.

Ivan was born in Colombia and has lived most of his life in Houston. During his personal time, Ivan loves spending quality time with his wife and child. He has an interest in reading history books and Thomistic philosophy. In addition, he likes hiking and traveling throughout the countryside.

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