The counseling center at my university limits each student to about 12 individual sessions per academic year. With over 20,000 students, they really have to do that, or they'd be swamped. They're excellent with short-term issues - transitioning to academic life, stress, grief, relationship problems, things like that. They're staffed with psychiatrists and licensed psychologists for most individual therapy, with grad student interns for group therapy and some individual work.
If a student needs longer-term therapy, the center refers them to someone on a list of recommended therapists in the community who are on their insurance or will work on a sliding scale for students. The list is pretty tough to get on - the school vets the therapists on it pretty thoroughly before referring students.
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