Central Wyoming College Counseling and Career Services provides 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, University 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 12 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 Counseling Services and the Vice President for Student Services. Contact the Counseling Services Office at 855-2175, or via e-mail, or stop by MH123F, or fill out this form and turn it in to the Counselor - any of these will start the process and action WILL be taken!
General Referral
There are a variety of services available on campus that you or someone you know may be needing, including helping with any student issue, academic advising, tutoring, disability services, off-campus employment, financial aid, retention and transfer assistance, and minority services. Take a look at this
referral guide for the contact information for these services!
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 offers distance counseling services, through availability of a web-camera and/or through telephone, if appropriate. 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 Student Success Center in the Administration Wing of the Riverton campus. Lance's office is located in the Student Success Center, Room 123F.
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:
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if it is deemed necessary to protect you or another person from imminent physical or psychological danger;
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in cases of child abuse;
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in those situations when the courts subpoena Counseling Services records;
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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.
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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 (MH123F) in the Student Success Center, or by calling 855-2175 or 800-735-8418, ext. 2175, or by emailing Counseling.
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The CWC Counseling Center, to the extent to which its services allow, does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, national origin, ancestory, sex, age, religion, or disability in admission or access to, or treatment or employment in its educational program services or activities. The college makes reasonable accomodations to serve students with special needs and offers services to students who have the ability to benefit. Inquiries concerning Title VI, Title IX. or Section 504 may be referred to Wendy Davis, the Human Resources Officer at Central Wyoming College, 2660 Peck Ave., Riverton, WY 82501, (307)855-2112 or 1-800-735-8418 (in-state), or the Office of Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education, Federal Building, 1244 Speer Blvd, Suite 310, Denver, CO 80204-3582, (303)844-5695, Fax (303)844-4303, TDD (303)844-3417, e-mail OCR_Denver@ed.gov.
The spirit of free inquiry, which characterizes the educational environment, must be allowed to flourish within the context of mutual respect and civil discourse. Discriminatory, threatening, or harassing behavior against any group or individual based on, but not limited to, gender, color, disability, sexual orientation, religious preference, national origin, ancestry, or age will not be tolerated.
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