Resources and Support
Counseling Services
UTHSC Counseling Services provide assistance for mental health needs 24 hours a day.
For Counseling Services call:
- Academic Success: 901.448.5056 during working hours
- If you are a student, faculty member, staff, or parent who would like to speak with a CARE Team for guidance with a student concern or crisis, please call the CARE phone at 901.448.CARE. This line is monitored 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
- UHS: 901.448.5630 during working hours
- UHS Emergency After Hours Line: 901.541.5654
Student Counseling Services Knoxville, Nashville, and Chattanooga
Counseling Services in Chattanooga for Residents and Fellows
Lucy White, MEd, LPC-MHSP
Counselor
960 East 3rd Street, Suite 100
Chattanooga, TN 37403
P: 423.778.9420
https://uthsc.edu/comc/well-being/
- If you have UTHSC Student Health Insurance provided through United Healthcare, please find mental health providers off campus through Thriving Campus. For more information about the insurance plan including a summary of benefits and premium costs, please visit www.uhcsr.com/uthsc.
- If you do not have Student Health Insurance, please find online resources below that will search according to insurance, location, etc.
Additional counseling and wellness resources
Suicide Prevention
Suicide Prevention Lifelines are open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
Suicide Prevention Lifelines: 988 or 1.800.273.8255 (TALK)
For Hearing and Speech Impaired with TTY Equipment: 1.800.799.4TTY (4889)
Someone I know may be at risk of suicide-JED
JED Foundation
Emergencies
If you are concerned about immediate self-harm or harm to someone else, emergency services should be accessed.
For Emergencies call:
- UTHSC Campus Police: 901.448.4444
- Off Campus Emergencies: 911
- Academic Success: 901.448.5056 during working hours
- If you are a student, faculty member, staff, or parent who would like to speak with a CARE Team for guidance with a student concern or crisis, please call the CARE phone at 901.448.CARE. This line is monitored 24 hours per day, 7 days per week.
- UHS: 901.448.5630 during working hours
- UHS Emergency After Hours Line: 901.541.5654
- Suicide Prevention Lifelines are open 24/7: 988 or 1.800.273.8255 (TALK)
- For Hearing and Speech Impaired with TTY Equipment: 1.800.799.4TTY
- Crisis Text Line: Text 741741 to message with a trained crisis counselor
To make a report about sexual assault, please contact The Title IX coordinator Michael Alston at 901.448.2112.
Additional Emergency Resources