Counseling Services at UMFK: Home

We hope you will find the information within this guide helpful. 

Contacting Jessica:

You may contact Jessica Daigle in a variety of ways shown to the right under "Get Personal Help" to the right.

One-On-One Appointments:

Mental Health Counseling Services at UMFK is committed to serving our students to help deal with and manage any mental health concerns and symptoms. The mental health counselor’s focus is to provide a supportive, confidential setting for students to address their issues. These appointments can serve a range of needs from personal, non-clinical counseling to more elevated concerns requiring clinical mental health therapy.

Jessica’s office is located within the Student Success Center, which endorses the ideas of helping students eliminate academic and emotional barriers, to support students to persist to graduation.

The hours my office is open for student sessions is from 8:30am to 4:30pm Monday through Friday. Additional hours are utilized for documentation as well as phone and email communication. All appointments can be made via my personal availability link.

Please also note that there are other licensed providers, which UMFK students can access for Mental Health Counseling Support. Any student can contact the Student Health Clinic through appointments with NMMC by calling (207) 834-6784 and asking for a Behavioral Health Appointment. Students should be clear that they are a UMFK student and arrangements for a ride via shuttle can be provided through the Office of Student Affairs.

Additionally, UMFK has connected with an online mental health & wellness platform entitled Uwill. Uwill helps provide immediate choices for students needing access to mental health services without any barriers. To access this service, you can register for services via the Uwill App.

For more information about Uwill, please visit Jessica Daigle or the Student Affairs office for informational sheets about this service.  

• SAMHSA National Hotline: By dialing 1-800-662-4357 you are connecting with SAMHSA’s free National Helpline.  It is confidential, 24/7, 365-day-a-year treatment referral and information service for individuals and families facing mental and/or substance use disorders
• 211 Maine: Connect with Maine specialists at 211 Maine via phone, text, or email. It’s free and confidential.  They are available 24 hours a day/7 days a week to provide information and connect you or someone you know to local programs and services that can help.
• Maine Crisis Line:  1-888-568-1112, for all immediate mental health crisis needs.
• Online Maine Crisis Intervention: heretohelpmaine.com
• Free Text Hotline: Text CONNECT to 741741 for free counseling intervention

The UMFK Mental Health Counselor is Jessica Daigle, LCPC, who was trained to provide community mental health which covers the broad strokes of mental health concerns. Her core competencies include aiding clients in recognizing the need and use of healthy life skills,

Including but not limited to:

• interpersonal relationships,
• communication skills development,
• boundary development,
• stress management,
• anxiety and depression symptom reduction, and
• development of a coping skills “toolbox” to utilize when a student experiences distress.

This is all done using Cognitive Behavioral Therapy concepts and techniques, which include recognizing and changing negative thought patterns and behaviors that lead to an increased feelings of distress. Additionally, I utilize some concepts from Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (embracing the full range of human emotions and mindfulness) as well as Client-Centered Therapy (empathetic understanding and unconditional positive regard).

Jessica Daigle

Personal Counseling Services:

Phone: 207-834-7532

Email:  jessica.l.daigle@maine.edu

Hours

Book an Appointment: 

All appointments can be made via my personal availability link.

Chat: 

Tuesdays - 3-4:30 pm

Thursday - 9-11:00 am

Friday 3-4:30 pm