Wellbeing, Academic, and Peer Coaching
If you are scheduled for a Zoom coaching appointment, please access the聽 (vanderbiltccportal.pointnclick.com) 5 minutes prior to your appointment to check in. Once you check in, your Zoom link will appear when your provider has started the visit. Please note that the Zoom link will only be valid for up to 10 minutes after your scheduled appointment time.聽
Eligible* undergraduate, graduate, and professional students are offered a variety of individual coaching services, including:
Academic Coaching
Wellbeing Coaching
Financial Wellbeing Coaching
Alcohol and Other Drugs Coaching聽
Drop-in Coaching
Peer Coaching
- Our Peer Coaches are available to meet with undergraduate students to discuss wellbeing topics.聽Peer coaches do not cover academic skills or financial wellbeing topics.
Academic Skills聽
Through academic coaching, students can polish study skills and learn to manage their time in order to apply those skills effectively.聽While academic coaching is helpful to students who are experiencing academic difficulties, it is also beneficial to anyone who wishes to enhance their academic effectiveness. In addition to the academic coaching topics highlighted above, we also support students around
- Evidence-based learning strategies and implementation
- Time management and organizational/study skills
- Test preparation
- Writing papers and reports
- Dissertation block coaching
- Structure and accountability for long-term independent聽projects
- Stress and anxiety due to academic issues
Please bring relevant schoolwork, schedules, books,聽 and/or planners and calendars to meetings.
Wellbeing Coaching
Through wellbeing coaching, students will identify areas of growth, set goals, and develop plans to achieve these goals. Students will receive accountability from their CSW coach and, together, the coach and student will identify any barriers present in achieving goals and make adjustments in order to help the student improve their personal wellbeing. Wellbeing coaching could include any of the following topic areas:
- Wellbeing time聽management (i.e., creating a healthy聽morning routine,聽improving sleep聽schedule, finding time聽for self-care)
- Personal organization
- Stress management and coping skills
- Managing negative聽emotions/cultivating聽positive emotions
- Improving self-efficacy
- Life Transitions (i.e., personal, familial,聽and/or social changes)
- Relationship聽building/social support
- Finding sense of聽belonging
- Personal Health (nutrition, sleep hygiene)
Alcohol and Other Drugs Coaching
AOD coaching is for students looking to make changes in their alcohol/marijuana/or other drug use. This may include:
- Implementing harm reduction strategies
- Supporting focused sobriety time
- Working towards or maintaining recovery
- Connecting with others on campus who are also living a substance-free lifestyle
Drop-in Coaching
Drop-in coaching is available for undergraduate, graduate, and professional students. It offers an opportunity for focused problem solving and is a great way to see if coaching is a good fit.
*Students are eligible for CSW services if they have paid the Student Health Fee.
In order to connect with a CSW coach or Peer Guide, please email healthydores@vanderbilt.edu or call 615-322-0480.