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Baylor Athletics Mental Health Services (AMHS) is dedicated to the growth and development of student-athletes through providing the highest quality mental health care.
AMHS provides crisis intervention, counseling, consultation, outreach, and referral services to student-athletes who are seeking ways to better cope with and overcome life’s challenges.MAKE AN APPOINTMENT
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Email: AMHS@baylor.edu
Call: 254-710-3636
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To schedule an appointment with Athletics Mental Health Services you can:
- Schedule Online!
- Call a staff member or our general AMHS phone line at 254-710-3636 and leave a confidential voicemail which includes your name, sport, phone number and type of service requested.
- Email AMHS@baylor.edu and include your name, sport and type of service requested.
Services that are not provided by Athletics Mental Health are:
- Letters to request an emotional support animal
- Letters to support the need for academic accommodations, requested by student-athletes who have not been treated by an athletic department mental health provider. Letters for accommodations should come from the provider who diagnosed and/or treated mental health condition for which athlete is requesting accommodations.
DR. DON ARTERBURN
Director of Mental Health Services
Don_Arterburn@baylor.edu
254-749-8385 | Highers Office #298
TRINITY MARTINEZ
Assistant Director of Mental Health Services, LCSW
Trinity_Martinez1@baylor.edu
254-447-6434 | Highers Office #2201
The Baylor University Counseling Center also has a 24-hour crisis line available to help all students stay safe and is staffed by BUCC counselors.
Call the Baylor University Counseling Center Crisis Line: 254-710-2467
- This is a 24/7 crisis line available to all students to be immediately connected with a counselor.
- Baylor Police Department: 254-710-2222
- Heart of Texas Behavioral Health Network Crisis Center: 254-867-6550
- Heart of Texas Behavioral Health Network 24-Hour Emergency/Crisis Number: 866-752-3451
- Providence Hospital: 254-751-4000
- Baylor Scott & White Medical Center - Hillcrest: 254-202-2000
- 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline: Call 988 or Text 988
- Crisis Text Line: Text HOME to 741741
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) HelpLine: Call 1-800-950-NAMI (6264)
Baylor University Counseling Center
The mission of the Department for Counseling Services is to facilitate the educational experience and total development of students by enhancing mental health and well-being.
Location: McLane Student Life Center, 2nd Floor
Hours: Monday - Friday 8 a.m. – 5 p.m.
Phone: 254-710-2467
Email: Counseling_Center@baylor.edu
Baylor University Health Center
BUHS provides medical care and patient education to students at Baylor University. BUHS is comprised of a multidisciplinary staff of physicians, nurse practitioners, a psychiatrist, nurses, a physical therapist, pharmacist, pharmacy technicians, administrative and technical personnel which are available to provide a comprehensive array of services.
Location: McLane Student Life Center, 2nd Floor
Hours: Monday - Friday: 8 a.m. - 6 p.m. | Saturday: 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. | Sunday: closed
Phone: 254-710-1010 (Call any time to speak with a nurse)
Beauchamp Addiction Recovery Center
The Beauchamp Addiction Recovery Center is designed to support students in recovery from substance and behavioral addictions through all-encompassing levels of support. The BARC believes in supporting students academically and in all areas of wellness: socially, emotionally, spiritually and physically. Through well rounded programs and support and by encouraging academic excellence, The BARC’s aim is to increase positive recovery outcomes for every one of the students they serve.
Location: East Village Residential Community
Phone: 254-710-7092
Email: BARC@baylor.edu
Title IX Office
Baylor University Title IX Office is committed to providing a safe and nondiscriminatory environment for our students, staff and faculty.
Location: Clifton Robinson Tower, Suite 285
Phone: 254-710-8454
- What Is counseling, and how can it help me?
- Counseling is a place for you to discuss your personal concerns in a confidential and non-judgmental setting. Professional counselors are trained to help you identify and change ways of thinking or behaving that are potentially contributing to your distress or impairing your functioning. Your counselor will help you develop problem solving, decision making and coping skills to help you adapt to or resolve life’s challenges.
- Counseling is a place for you to discuss your personal concerns in a confidential and non-judgmental setting. Professional counselors are trained to help you identify and change ways of thinking or behaving that are potentially contributing to your distress or impairing your functioning. Your counselor will help you develop problem solving, decision making and coping skills to help you adapt to or resolve life’s challenges.
- Is counseling confidential?
- Without a signed release of information by you the student-athlete, information shared in counseling is confidential. Maintaining the privacy and confidentiality of student-athletes is a priority for the AMHS team and is our ethical and legal obligation. An exception to confidentiality does exist if there is imminent risk to you the student-athlete, abuse of a vulnerable population is disclosed, or a court order subpoena is enforced.
Baylor Athletic Department and the National Collegiate Athletic Association takes the mental health of student-athletes very seriously. To be the best in sport, academics, and in life, student-athletes need to be physically and mentally well. The first step to improving your mental wellness is to understand it. The NCAA’s Sport Science Institute has provided important resources to help you as a student-athlete better understand your mental health. Their resources are tailored specifically to student-athlete mental health.
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