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Counseling Center

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Central Wyoming College Counseling Services provide a variety of counseling services to current and past CWC students to facilitate meeting their educational goals. Services include career counseling and assessment, academic skills development and personal counseling. These services may be offered individually, in groups, in seminars or workshops, and some can be offered long distance via web-camera or telephone. All counseling services are offered free of charge to CWC students. The Counseling Office works from a short term treatment model. If it appears that you need or want long-term therapy, a referral will be made to the appropriate resource.

Meet the Counselor

Lance Goede, Wyoming Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC), #500
National Certified Counselor (NCC), #39439
M.S. Counselor Education, Univeristy of Wyoming, 1995
B.S. Psychology, University of Wyoming, 1989
B.S. Sociology, University of Wyoming, 1988

Lance has been a licensed and certified counselor for over 11 years, with experience in such wide areas as substance abuse, depression, anxiety, career exploration, and men's issues like anger and violence expression. Counseling Services has the ability to work with most CWC students as their issues warrant, including referral to female counselors, but may also include referral to off-campus options.

Student in Crisis - Making a Referral

Do you know a student that may be depressed? Do you know a student that may be angry? Are you concerned about a student and want to do something about it? There is a process on the campus to make an official referral for action that WILL take place to attempt to help the student, coordinated by the Counseling Services Office and the Vice President for Student Services. Contact the Counseling Services Office at 855-2175, or via e-mail, or stop by AW166, or fill out this form and turn it in to the Counselor - any of these will start the process and action WILL be taken!

Ask Lance

If you have a question you would like to ask Lance, or if you need additional information about a mental health topic, please send your request to: CWC counselor. Lance is available from August 15-June 15 each academic year and will respond to your request as quickly as possible.

Distance Counseling

If you are a CWC student in an outreach area or taking a course on-line from another state, and are in need of counseling or other support, Lance has started to offer distance counseling services, through availability of a web-camera and/or through telephone.  Contact Lance by e-mail or by phone, 1-800-735-8418, ext 2175 or (307)855-2175, to make arrangements for setting up this service.

Location

Counseling Services is located in the Dobler Center in the Administration Wing of the Riverton campus. Lance's office is located in the Administration Wing, Room 166.

Confidentiality

The Counseling staff adheres to the American Counseling Association Code of Ethics. Professional counselors maintain accepted professional standards of confidentiality. No personal counseling information is to be released to those outside of the Counseling Office without your explicit written authorization. Exceptions to confidentiality may be made under the following circumstances:

1. if it is deemed necessary to protect you or another person from imminent physical or psychological danger;

2. in cases of child abuse;

3. in those situations when the courts subpoena Counseling Services records;

4. if a counselor receives information that a client has a communicable and fatal disease, he/she is justified in disclosing information to an identifiable third party who by his/her relationship with the client is at a high risk of contacting the disease.

5. In addition, the counselor is required to report incidents of sexual harassment to the college Office of Human Resources but may do so without disclosing the student’s identity.

Make an Appointment

Appointments can be made by contacting Lance Goede at his office (AW 166) in the Dobler Center, or by calling 855-2175 or 800-735-8418, ext. 2175, or by emailing Counseling.