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By Eula Mengullo, November 30, 2022—
Finding educational support and intellectual well-being for students can be challenging. In addition to the cost of facilities, the stigma surrounding intellectual fitness can discourage students from accessing the facilities they need.
Eunice Mingollo, a master’s student in psychology and alumna at the University of Calgary, discusses the partnership between Heart Body Mind Psychological and Assessment Services and MyLearningCoach. ca to provide flexible counseling and intellectual aptitude to students.
“It’s a flexible counseling service program between my internship site [Heart Body Mind] and MyLearningCoach, [which] is an organization that provides education and gives monetary grants to students,” Mingollo said.
As a certified Practice Therapist, Mingollo provides facilities to scholars in Alberta and the Yukon Territory in English and Tagalog. Another graduate trainee therapist also provides services to academics across the country.
Speaking about the inspiration for this initiative, Mingollo spoke about the many obstacles that can prevent academics from seeking help.
His own delight in intellectual fitness has made him recognize how the persistent stigma surrounding intellectual fitness counseling and help-seeking can discourage others from seeking help, even when they know they should.
“Unfortunately, intellectual fitness and seeking support, seeking help, are still very stigmatized in our society,” Mingollo said. Watch me go into a construction that provides those services. “
Other barriers come with affordability, given the monetary constraints already imposed on students.
“Other [barriers] come with monetary barriers, as postsecondary academics are already cash-strapped, so they can’t actually afford the facilities that are provided outside of college,” Mingollo said. “It’s unfortunate because some other people can’t access those facilities, but they want them right away. So what do you do in those cases?
“That’s why we created this program. To the barriers and just let other people know that we are willing and welcome everyone,” he continued.
Graduates-in-training therapists and their supervisors are also members of Skipping Stone’s trans affirmation network. This network creates a safe, welcoming, respectful and inclusive area for trans and gender varied people.
To learn more about MyLearningCoach and the education provided, students are encouraged to stop by their website. To learn more about the program and flexible intellectual aptitude counseling, students can stop by and book appointments through the Heart Body Mind website.
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