Personal, professional, and academic work-life integration may feel challenging at times. Free student counseling services are offered with the Student Counseling Services staff. This confidential service is available through appointment.

If you need to schedule an appointment, email scs@tun.touro.edu or call 702-777-9971.

If this is your first time or your thousandth time, Monday Meditation is a good place to grow your practice. Each week we offer a guided meditation. The group discusses meditation, the benefits, and reviews relevant apps and methods to enhance practice. All Touro staff, faculty, students, and their significant supports are welcome to join. No experience with meditation is needed. Bring an open mind and a desire to enrich your life.

Monday Meditation is every Monday at Noon. 

Koru Mindfulness is an evidence-based meditation practice that aims to “give participants tools for quickly reducing distress… [and] emphasizes cultivating positive emotions like self-compassion and gratitude.” Koru Mindfulness was developed with consideration for the challenges that emerging adults often face. Its title, Koru, is derived from a New Zealand Maori word that signifies balanced growth.

If you would like to participate, email tun.koru@touro.edu.

Student Counseling Services provides opportunities for students, faculty, and staff to receive training and earn certificates in the following areas:

• Mental Health Wellness and Knowledge
• Violence Intervention and Prevention:  Creating Safe Communities Program for Medical/Health Professionals
• Drugs: From Prescription to Addiction to Recovery
• Inclusive Care

The certificate programs are co-sponsored by campus and community organizations such as the Rainbow Health Coalition, the Rape Crisis Center, Neurology and Psychiatry Student Interest Group, Student Osteopathic Medical Association, and Alcohol and Other Drug Committee. 

TUN receives grant-funding from SAMHSA’s Garret Lee Smith Campus Suicide Prevention Grant, which focuses on enhancing mental health services for college students struggling with serious mental illness/emotional distress and substance abuse. TUN is committed to addressing the prevalence and severity of mental illness among medical students by growing the institution’s infrastructure and network of mental-health and substance-abuse treatment resources and services, and increasing the capacity of resiliency, emotional well-being, and mental health of all TUN students, including those traditionally underserved and underperforming student groups.

The grant allows us to host programming for the Touro Nevada community. 

Touro University Nevada’s Student Counseling Services has partnered with Aura, a personalized mindfulness and meditation app company, to bring each member of the campus community a free subscription.

The award-winning app offers thousands of mindfulness meditations, life coaching, sleep stories, and psychoeducation from coaches around the world. Aura gives you the personalized support to help with stress, anxiety, sleep, personal growth, and more.

Here’s how you redeem your free subscription from Aura:

1. Visit the Aura website (https://app.aurahealth.io/redeem/touro).

2. You must use your Touro University Nevada email address.

3. Follow the directions to download the app and log in.

Graduate school can be challenging for partners, friends, and families alike. Your supporters deserve to feel supported. TUN happily invites all behind the scenes contributors to connect with one another through the Plus One Program. The Plus One initiative gives your loved ones a safe space of their own to relate, release, and recharge, whether it is your intimate partner, your best friend, or your roommate.  We offer virtual events and chats for all Plus Ones in the TUN community to thrive together.

eCHECKUP TO GO programs are self-assessment tools to be used by individuals and are completely anonymous. These programs are personalized to TUN, evidence-based, online behavior interventions that offer feedback to the participant.

• Alcohol eCHECKUP TO GO 
  https://echeckup.sdsu.edu/usa/alc/coll/touro
• Cannabis eCHECKUP TO GO 
  https://echeckup.sdsu.edu/usa/mj/coll/touro
• Sexual violence Prevention eCHECKUP TO GO 
  https://interwork.sdsu.edu/echeckup/svp/campus/touro
• Nicotine eCHECKUP TO GO 
  https://interwork.sdsu.edu/echeckup/tobacco/campus/touro

Primal Therapy was developed by Dr. Arthur Janov, a psychotherapist who theorized that screaming could help release repressed childhood trauma. However, there are a number of other emotions and experiences that we often keep pinned away inside of our bodies. If you have ever stubbed your toe and held back the scream, then you probably know what this feels like. Screaming has a way of releasing us from this tension and lifting the veil from deeply rooted frustrations of all sizes.

Some benefits of scream therapy include:

• Create an escape for trapped feelings
• Connect us to the body and nervous
• Increase strength
• Release dopamine and endorphins; reduce cortisol
• Have a little fun

Additionally, here are some places you may want to scream at without raising too much concern among family and neighbors:

• In the car
• While music is blaring
• Into a pillow
• In the wilderness

Learn more about Primal Scream Therapy here:

• Bunch, E. (2020, August). Stop screaming inside your heart, and use scream therapy to let it out. Wellandgood.com.
  https://www.wellandgood.com/scream-therapy/
• Janov, A. (1981). The Primal Scream. Penguin Publishing Group.
  http://www.primaltherapy.com/what-is-primal-therapy.php
• Tartakovsky, M. (2021, November). The scientific reasons you should be screaming for self-care. Humnutrition.com. 
  https://www.humnutrition.com/blog/scream-therapy-benefits/

"Be like the river encountering a rock— flow with grace around any obstacle."  -Scott Shaw

 It is not hard to imagine specific outcomes for our goals, projects, relationships, and lives. We're human! We like to dream of big moments and make predictions about how things will go. We use words like "should," "could," and "would," to fuel these dreams and predictions, which sometimes leave us in a state of disappointment, anxiety, or frustration if our reality pans out differently than what we envisioned. Expectations can do that to us.

Ask yourself if you are being realistic or rigid. Understanding just how directly your thoughts can affect how you feel will help you shift from unhealthy, negative emotions to a more flexible mindset. Knowing that life doesn’t always deliver what you expect or that people don’t always behave the way you want can help you manage healthy, negative emotions.

We all set expectations for ourselves and for others. The goal is to place them within realistic and achievable limits and to be flexible when things don't go as planned.

Here's a list of songs that may help you to embrace change:

• “Change is Gonna Come” by Sam Cooke
• “Optimistic” by Sounds of Blackness
• “Change” by Faith Evans
• “Tightrope” by Janelle Monae
• “Fighter” by Christina Aguilera
• “Love the One You're With” by Isley Brothers
• “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” by The Rolling Stones 

Check out these resources:

• Roman, O. How to let go of your expectations and live a happier life. Thriveglobal.com 
• https://thriveglobal.com/stories/how-to-let-go-of-your-expectations-and-live-a-happier-life/
• Stone, R. (2022, February). Letting go of expectations is good for your mental health. Psychologytoday.com.
• https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/the-color-wellness/202202/letting-go-expectations-is-good-your-mental-health
• How do I deal with unfulfilled expectations? by Sadhguru (YouTube, 10:21) https://youtu.be/2qbKcuTKrD 
• How Dr. Shefali taught Oprah to let go of expectations (Youtube 3:18) https://youtu.be/WnvP6lYH1Wo