College Students
Psychiatry & therapy for Texas college students
Campus counseling centers do real work with impossible caseloads, and nearly all of them run a short-term model: a handful of sessions, then a referral list. We are where that referral should land. Real psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and therapy that continues through winter break, summer jobs, and graduation, because our license covers the whole state, not just your campus.
Students are usually covered under a parent\u2019s plan until 26, and we are in-network with the majors. Most insured students pay $0 to $30 a visit and are seen within 1 to 2 business days.
Find your campus
UT Austin
Austin, TX · about 53,000 students
Texas A&M
College Station, TX · more than 74,000 students
Texas Tech
Lubbock, TX · about 40,000 students
Texas State
San Marcos, TX · about 38,000 students
UNT
Denton, TX · about 47,000 students across UNT, plus TWU next door
UH
Houston, TX · about 46,000 students
Baylor
Waco, TX · about 20,000 students
SFA
Nacogdoches, TX · about 11,000 students
UTRGV
Edinburg, TX · about 32,000 students across the Edinburg and Brownsville campuses
UT Arlington
Arlington, TX · about 41,000 students · in person near campus
For parents arranging care from 300 miles away
Most first calls about a college student come from a parent. Here is how it works: you can book the appointment and handle the insurance, and if your student is 18 or older, they own the treatment relationship from there. With their written consent you can join the first video visit from your own city, hear the plan, and ask your questions. Without it, we protect their privacy the same way we would protect yours.
Two things help before the first visit: a photo of the insurance card, and whatever medication history exists, even if it is just the name of a pharmacy. If you are not sure what your student is dealing with, the free screeners we use clinically are a reasonable place for them to start: the PHQ-9 depression screen and the GAD-7 anxiety screen. For a broader picture of student mental health, the JED Foundation and NIMH are the sources we point families to.
Questions students and parents actually ask
What happens when my campus counseling sessions run out?
Most Texas campus counseling centers work on a short-term model with session limits per semester. When you hit the cap, you get a referral list and start over with a stranger. We are built to be that next step: bring your records or just your pharmacy history, and your care continues with one provider who stays your provider, by video anywhere in Texas or New Mexico.
Does my parents’ insurance cover therapy and psychiatry at college?
Usually yes. If you are under 26 and on a parent’s plan, that coverage works at college even when the plan is from another city. We are in-network with BlueCross, UnitedHealthcare, Cigna, and Aetna, and most insured students pay a $0 to $30 copay per visit. Send us a photo of the card and we verify everything before you book.
Can I keep seeing my psychiatrist over summer break?
Yes, and this is the main reason students choose us over campus-only care. Our providers are licensed across Texas and New Mexico, so the same provider sees you in your college town during the semester and from your parents’ house in June. Prescriptions transfer to your hometown pharmacy with one message.
Can a college student get ADHD medication through telehealth in Texas?
Partly. Texas requires an in-person evaluation before a stimulant can be prescribed to a new patient; after that first visit, follow-ups and refills can happen by video. Non-stimulant ADHD medications can be started fully by telehealth. Our clinic near UT Arlington handles the in-person step, and we explain the whole path in our controlled substance policy before you book.
More on stimulant and medication rules in our ADHD & controlled substance policy, and on our approach at every life stage in who we help, and the clinical research behind student mental health in our college student psychiatry guide.
Semester moves fast. So do we.
Most new patients are seen within 1 to 2 business days, by video anywhere in Texas and New Mexico or in person near UT Arlington.
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