Michigan Medicine Office of Counseling and Workplace Resilience

The Office of Counseling and Workplace Resilience provides short-term counseling, leader consultation, impactful event support, system-wide resilience interventions, and mental health resources to all Michigan Medicine faculty, staff, house officers, clinical fellows, and medical students. 

Call 734-763-5409 or email [email protected]

Our office is committed to helping our Michigan Medicine community and their families by providing coordinated, compassionate, and confidential psychological care services. As members of our community, we recognize the unique demands and challenges of working in an academic medical center, while also honoring the joy, purpose, and meaning-making that can arise from this work.

We are available to support your psychological health using evidence-based and trauma-informed interventions with a wide range of concerns, including stress, anxiety, depression, family issues, moral distress, grief, loss, and relationship concerns.

  • Individual short-term counseling (in-person and virtual options available) 

  • Referral services to community providers and resources

  • 1:1 brief support conversations

  • Leader consultations

  • Emotional support debriefing

    • Impactful clinical event

    • Workplace violence incident

    • Grief/loss/traumatic event within colleague/care teams

  • Educational outreach and presentations

  • COMPASS Peer Support Network (Michigan Medicine Sharepoint site)

  • Tailored resilience interventions for teams, units, and departments

  • After-hours mental health crisis support and organizational crisis response available weekdays from 5pm - 8am and throughout weekends and holidays

  • Online confidential mental and emotional health screenings (provided by Aiberry)

  • Medical Student Mental Health Program: designed especially for U-M medical students

Crisis Services

All of the following crisis services are available 24 hours a day/7 days a week. If you or someone you know is in crisis or experiencing an emergency and needs help now:

Local

  • Dial 911 or go to your nearest hospital emergency room

  • Call U-M Psychiatric Emergency Services: (734) 936-5900 or (734) 996-4747

National

  • 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline - you will be connected to a confidential counselor

    • Call or text 988 

  • Text HELLO or HOLA to 741741 to connect with a confidential counselor at the Crisis Text Line

  • Veterans’ Crisis Line at 988, press 1. You may also send a text to 838255.

  • National Domestic Violence Hotline: 1-800-779-SAFE (7233)