Specialty Services

The Eating Issues Network (EIN) is a multidisciplinary treatment team comprising mental health, medical, and nutrition providers dedicated to supporting students in managing eating and body image issues. We collaborate and consult with one another to provide students with a holistic approach to care.

EIN members are here to assist you with:

• Meeting with you to talk about your goals and explore and process current and past issues with eating and body image.
• Learn coping skills to manage urges to engage in disordered eating or excessive exercise behaviors.
• Dismantle any internalized body type ideals and work toward adopting body acceptance.
• Providing an affirming and body-accepting space.
• Provide support in increasing social and familial support to decrease isolation.
• Providing resources to learn about eating and body image issues and recovery.
• Encouraging multidisciplinary care, including mental health, medical, and nutrition.
• Collaborating with students to complete the Eating Patterns Assessment (EPA), which is an eating and body image screening.
• Connecting to additional campus or community resources that may help in your recovery, including facilitating referrals to higher levels of care and community providers. 

Eating and Body Image Screening:

If you are interested in participating in an EPA (Eating Patterns Assessment) or if you are referred from another office, you will need to schedule a 30-minute Initial Consultation (IC) with a CAPS counselor through your patient portal. During the IC appointment, you will have the opportunity to discuss your concerns and goals and to request to schedule an EPA First Counseling Appointment with a staff member who has been trained to conduct EPAs. The EPA holistically examines eating patterns, body image concerns, and your goals and values.

The Survivor Care Team is a collaboration between the University of Michigan University Health and Counseling (UHC) and the Sexual Assault Prevention Center (SAPAC) to offer holistic mental health and advocacy services for student survivors seeking support.

For more information about the Survivor Care Team, please click here.

The CAPS Survivor Support Team

The Survivor Support Team (SST) is a group of mental health care providers specifically trained in providing trauma-informed care to survivors of sexual violence. We meet monthly with SAPAC staff to collaborate and consult with one another to provide students with a holistic approach to care.

UHC-CAPS is here to assist you with: 

• Emotional processing after experiences of sexual assault, relationship abuse, stalking, and other forms of sexual and gender-based violence (whether these experiences were recent or happened in the past).
• Grounding techniques and coping strategies to manage symptoms of anxiety, depression, and/or PTSD that might occur as a result of experiencing sexual or gender-based violence.
• Creating language that best describes your experience as you move toward healing.
• Supporting you in finding ways to share your experience with others in your life, if you want to.
• Communicating in relationships while re-establishing trust and safety.
• Exploring how intersecting identities, marginalization, power, and/or oppression have impacted your experiences of sexual violence.
• Supporting you in dealing with rape culture.
• Connecting to additional campus or community resources that may help in your healing journey.

University Health & Counseling (UHC) is pleased to offer mental health and medical services for transgender and nonbinary students seeking support. The UHC-CAPS Gender Affirming Care Team is a group of mental health care providers specifically trained in providing affirming care to trans and nonbinary students.

We are here to assist with:

• Initial exploration of gender identity, gender expression, and sexuality.
• Treatment for depression and anxiety that may occur as a result of gender questioning or exploration, coming out, managing gender binary environments, familial concerns, and other concerns.
• Support in dealing with transphobia.
• Coming out, being out, and managing identity and roles with family and/or friends.
• Letters of support for hormone therapy and surgery.  Please allow 4-6 weeks' advance notice if you are in need of a letter.
• Resources and referrals

How to schedule with a UHC-CAPS GAC Team member:

Schedule a 30-minute face-to-face Initial Consultation (IC). At the IC appointment, you may request to schedule ongoing appointments with a UHC-CAPS therapist who is a part of the TransCare Team.

Visit the Gender Affirming Care page for more information about our services.

The UHC CAPS Crisis Response Team (CRT) focuses on the mental health needs of students and offers guidance to staff and faculty in times of crisis or trauma. These interventions are done for groups of students and determined by several factors, including time since the incident occurred, size of the group, and impact on those who need support. The approach to campus responses is based on Critical Incident Stress Management theory, best-practice standards, and experience. For students in need of individual counseling support, our Counselor on Duty services are available when CAPS is open. Please feel free to reach out for consultation or questions.

A critical incident, for UHC CAPS purposes, is defined quite broadly. It is an event that may cause a temporary state of psychological unrest, with a reaction causing a state of emotional turmoil. A critical incident can be a sudden, powerful event outside of the range of ordinary human experience. It has the potential to overwhelm the usual effective coping skills of either an individual or a group. While there are many types of critical incidents on a college campus, the following are examples of the kinds of incidents to which the CRT is prepared to respond.

• Death (accident, suicide, etc) of a student, faculty, or staff member
• ​Traumatic injury, such as a student being injured in a car accident
• Hate crimes
• Acts of Violence
• National or local tragedies
• Campus emergencies such as residence hall fires

Need to consult?

Please contact the UHC CAPS via phone at 734-764-8312 or visit the central office on the 4th floor of the Michigan Union. Responding quickly and in an appropriate manner can make the difference between healing and long-term psychological distress. After-hours support is always available, and more information can be found HERE.

Response Team Intervention:

As a faculty or staff member, you are always welcome to call us and consult about a UHC CAPS Crisis Response to a critical incident. In some cases, we may conclude that a formal intervention by mental health professionals at CAPS is appropriate. The following are brief descriptions of the three most often used group interventions. We strongly recommend that attendance at any intervention be voluntary. A list of questions is included to help us, in coordination with you, make an informed decision as to which type of intervention would be most appropriate for your students.