Here for you and your wellness.
Whether you’re a new student or a returning student, we’d like to take this opportunity to welcome you to the Health & Counselling Centre. We have mental health clinicians, nurses and physicians to help you with your health care needs. Below you will find information to help you make use of our services.
Note: If you are a Canadian citizen, please have your provincial health card available. International students, please have your health insurance information available.
How to access our services
General information about booking appointments
- All students must register with Pomelo before they can book their appointments online. Please register for Pomelo here.
- Once you have registered for Pomelo, you can book appointments here.
- When you book online, you will see all available appointments for the next 7 days. We also reserve several appointments every day for same-day access. Each weekday morning at 7:30 am new appointments open up, including the same-day access appointments for that day. If you try to book online and it looks like nothing is available, check back at 7:30 am the next day and the newly opened appointments will be showing.
- When you receive an email reminder for a booked appointment, please check carefully for the time zone indicated in your reminder. The correct time for your appointment is Nova Scotia time (Atlantic Standard Time); not the time zone of your home province, as may be indicated in your reminder.
- If you need to cancel your appointment, you have several options: 1) cancel in Pomelo, 2) call 902-867-2263, 3) stop by the Health and Counselling Centre, or 4) email @email.
- If you wish to cancel a scheduled appointment, we require 24 hours notification prior to your scheduled appointment time, or a late fee of $50.00 will be charged to your student account. This allows us to offer that space to another student who needs it; please help us in not wasting any of our valuable health care resources.
- If you have trouble registering or booking an online appointment, please call the Health and Counselling Centre at 902-867-2263 during office hours for assistance.
Confidentiality
Please note that the services you receive at the Health and Counselling Centre are confidential. We do not release information to your parents, your professors or anyone else without your permission or unless legally required to do so.
For more information please see our Confidentiality Statement and information on the Personal Health Information Act.
If you are experiencing an emergency, the following resources are available 24/7:
- Proceed to St. Martha’s Regional Hospital Emergency Department (25 Bay Street) or your nearest hospital emergency department.
- Call 911
- NS Mental Health Crisis Line: 1-888-429-8167
- Suicide Crisis Helpline: 988
- Good2TalkNS (mental health counselling): 1-833-292-3698
- Crisis Text Line: Text GOOD2TALKNS to 686868
Contact
305 Bloomfield Centre
5555 Union Place
Antigonish NS B2G 2W5
Canada
Hours of Operation
- Mondays and Thursdays 8:30 am- 8:00 pm
- Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Fridays 8:30 am- 4:30 pm
- Closed from 12:00- 1:00 pm daily for lunch