Counselling

Welcome to the GUC Counselling Service

The Counselling Service is a professional and confidential service, which is available to all students free of charge. Counsellors can provide you with emotional support and, where possible, help you understand the problems you have and assist you in finding solutions that work. The main focus of our Counselling Service Providers is to help you better manage your personal situation in relation to your studies.

We offer help mainly in 2 ways:

1. Individual counselling sessions for personal problems
2. Academic support through help with appeals and other concessions in special situation

All counsellors are psychologists with postgraduate qualifications who have skills and experience in helping people with a wide range of personal, psychological and study-related difficulties.
Counsellors are trained to be open, non-judgemental and empathetic and as such, offer a supportive environment in which you can discuss your difficulties and problems.

Counselling Services for ECU Staff & Students

Telephone Consultations

May be arranged by calling the metropolitan reception number. A mutually convenient time will be arranged for a counsellor form a metropolitan ECU campus to call students back. Telephone consultations typically last between 30 minutes to 1 hour.

Face to Face Consultations

If you would rather see a counsellor for a face to face appointment, GUC students will need to call the metropolitan reception number. The receptionist will arrange a time for a counsellor from the metropolitan ECU campus to call students back for screening before providing a personal written referral to Centacare, Geraldton for an appointment.

Please remember to take your ECU student care when you attend the appointment for identification.

Contact Details

For all enquiries and appointments, please contact metropolitan reception. Office hours are Monday to Friday 8.30am – 4.30pm.
Telephone: (08) 9370 6706
Email: counselling@ecu.edu.au

Further information about Counselling Service and links to a number of self help referrals can be found at: www.ecu.edu.au/counselling

Counselling Services for Curtin Staff & Students

The following Curtin Counselling Service providers are available to provide face-to-face counselling:

Patrick Mullins
75A Forrest Street
GERALDTON WA 6530
Ph: 9964 9920
Mobile: 0439 919 233

Sue Lucking
75A Forrest Street
GERALDTON WA 6530
Ph: 0408 948 847


To make an appointment please contact one of the service providers directly.

This local service is free and confidential, and is intended to help you deal with difficult situations and personal matters that are affecting your ability to study or work. To access the service you will need to provide your student card, and inform the counselling service verbally of the course you are enrolled in.
If you do not have this information with you for your appointment, you can still access the service. However, this will involve the counselling service calling GUC to confirm that you are studying through GUC. So if you would rather GUC not know that you are accessing counselling, remember to take your student card.