Angela Dang
Angela Dang; adang@student.uiwtx.edu
Mental Health Services
Counseling Services
Medical education can be demanding and stressful, requiring changes in lifestyle, planning and coping. To manage these changes, it is important for our learners to know there is support available through our counseling services.
Counseling Services at Brooks City Base Campus
How To Set Up An Appointment
- Call (210) 832-5656 (You must mention that you are a UIWSOM Medical Campus student making an appointment for the medical campus.)
- Appointment times: Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. - 5 p.m.
- Counseling is completely confidential.
Office is located in Building 1, Rooms A116 and A117.
- Individual counseling and support
- Group counseling
- Stress management
- Alcohol and other drug concerns
- Test anxiety
- Coping with depression
- Managing relationships
- Couples Counseling
- Peer conflicts
- Relationship with food, eating and exercise
- Professional identity development
- Grief and loss
- Managing sleep difficulties
- Behavior management coaching and training
- Presentations and workshops
- Brief case consultation
- Crisis intervention
- Mediation
- Targeted assessments
Mental Health Resources
- Care Connect: A resource for learners with the UIW student insurance that can be accessed 24/7. Students can call at (888) 857-5462 to speak with a counselor at any time. They can also connect on the CHP student health mobile app.
- UIW University Counseling Services: Located at our Main Campus
- San Antonio Crisis Line: (210) 223-7233
- Center for Health Care Services: Crisis Care Center, (210) 225-5481
Bexar County Crisis line through Center for Health Care services can be called for mental health assistance and they have a walk in crisis center for adults. - Catholic Charities (Archdiocese of SA): (210) 222-1294
- National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI)
- Texas Suicide Prevention: (800) 273-8255
- Veterans Suicide Prevention Hotline: (800) 273-8255, Press 1
Hospitals with Mental Health Services
- CHRISTUS Health Behavioral Services
- Baptist Health System San Antonio
- Methodist Healthcare Department of Psychiatry
- University Health System San Antonio
- Brooke Army Medical Center Health Services
- Clarity Child Guidance Center
- Encompass Health Rehabilitation Hospital of San Antonio
- Laurel Ridge Treatment Center
- San Antonio State Hospital
UIWSOM REAL TALK Peer Support Group
REAL TALK is hosted as an open forum for people to speak freely without judgment. This is an independently-led, learner-run support group that will regularly meet to talk through stressors and listen to and support each other. The purpose is to assist, encourage, and support each other. This is a place to share stories, but also a place for respect and privacy. Everything shared in these sessions will be kept confidential, unless you share something that leads us to believe you may be trying to harm yourself or others.
REAL TALK meetings are hosted for one hour every other Saturday from 1 - 2 p.m.
Please note that this is not a therapy session nor a substitute for therapy. If you prefer counseling, reach out to our UIWSOM Counseling Services. If you have any questions regarding REAL TALK, please feel free to reach out to Dr. Esda Beverly, Counseling Advisor, at ebeverly@uiwtx.edu or the following learner facilitators:
UIWSOM MIND Student Organization
MIND is a student-developed and student-driven organization dedicated to advocating for mental, emotional, and physical health promotion of medical students first at TCOM, and now at UIWSOM. Awareness of, dedication to, and support of holistic health is the key motivation for the development of the group. Based on troubling results from a national survey addressing anxiety, depression, and suicide ideation among medical students, the Mentality Initiative to Nurture Doctors hopes to make mental and emotional health support a core standard for students during their time at UIWSOM, which will provide a healthy base for their future careers as physicians. MIND will be made up of a committee of volunteer students dedicated to mental/emotional health promotion of their peers and colleagues.
If you are insured through Consolidated Health, you have access to CareConnect. CareConnect from CHP Student Health provides student members immediate access to licensed behavioral health clinicians where and when they're needed most.
Helpful Videos
Imposter Syndrome in Medical School
TED Talk: Shedding Light on Student Depression
Meditation and Medicine
Meditation Techniques
Disclaimer: The information on this page is not an official recommendation. These are only resources.