I remember feeling pretty disappointed when I first went to a therapist that they didn't really care or understand all that much. I agree with Stopdog that it's a good idea to take your time in revealing suicidal thoughts if you can. It's not that your depression doesn't matter it's just that some therapists can't be trusted to be very helpful or to know how to be helpful to you. It's pretty upsetting when you've built up a lot of stress about crossing the boundary of going to talk to one of them and they turn out not to be that good. But it's not you; some of them just aren't that good, and some of them take a while to learn how to understand how to help you. Since you felt such a strongly negative reaction on your first visit to this one, I don't know if it's a good idea to go back or not. The fact that it's free is a pretty strong incentive. Maybe you need a therapist who is more sensitive though. I do think it's a good idea to try to pursue finding a therapist. But whether to pursue this one mostly depends on your financial situation and on whether they'd let you try a different one for free or not. Six weeks probably isn't enough, but if you're like most students and you don't have any money for this, it's probably a lot better than the other options. It might even be worth sort of semi-faking your way through it to see if they help you get a more long term therapist for low cost. I don't know, I guess you need to let them know your situation is serious without letting yourself feel any more vulnerable than you have to, as long as you continue to sense that this therapist doesn't understand you. Maybe look at it as telling them your issues are serious without letting yourself be disappointed by expecting a lot of empathy since they may not be very good at helping you. Just try them out without having a lot of confidence in them, in case they surprise you, or if they don't surprise you, maybe at least refer you to someone else eventually.