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Student Wellness
The Office of Student Wellness was created in July 2009 to help UC Davis Health students achieve and maintain optimal physical and emotional health. An essential aspect of becoming health professionals is learning to take care of personal health and work-life balance, thus allowing individuals to be the best healers they can be to others. The wellness skills learned during the formative years of graduate school will help students continue to grow personally and professionally over long careers as practicing clinicians. The main mission of the Student Wellness office is to develop and help implement measures to improve students’ wellness. In order to accomplish this goal, the Student Wellness team works together with students, faculty and staff, to foster collaborations that lead to a culture of excellence and well-being.
Specific activities of the office include:
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Monthly email to all School of Nursing students providing resources and education for well-being and success
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Planning educational events, such as wellness workshops
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Identifying and enriching mental-health care resources available to students
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Serving as a triage point for any mental-health-related difficulties that may arise during graduate school years
Please contact us with any suggestions or concerns. We look forward to hearing from you!
Academic support
Chelsea Ross, director of learning and academic support, provides personalized academic support to help School of Nursing students navigate challenging points in the curriculum and build effective, sustainable study habits. Students may connect during transitions such as orientation, the beginning of each quarter, or anytime during high-intensity academic moments. She can also connect you to other resources such as Student Wellness, The Student Disability Center, Online Learning Assistants who are alumni of our programs, and the Learning Performance Team when you need additional faculty support.
Examples of academic support include:
- Evidence-based study strategies
- Active learning techniques
- Building and adjusting study schedules
- Time management
- Test-taking skills
- Preparation for taking your board exam
Book a one-on-one appointment using the scheduling link or visiting Canvas.
Additional resources
The Center for Advocacy, Resources & Education (CARE) provides 24/7 support for UC Davis students, faculty, staff and affiliates who have been impacted by sexual assault, sexual harassment, sexual exploitation, intimate partner violence, stalking, and gender identity and sexual orientation based harassment.
Student Disability Center receives requests for accommodations, approve services and coordinate support for students with disabilities.
Child care
For more information on child care, please visit:
- Child Care Resources
- Resources and Referral County Listing
- To see if you are eligible for subsidy through Sacramento County administered by Child Action, Inc., please visit the Financial Assistance Programs.
- For information about local child care resources and parent and child activities, visit the UC Davis Health Parent Resources Support Group Facebook page.
Our team
Margaret “Maggie” Rea, Ph.D.
Director of Student Wellness
Maggie Rea is a clinical psychologist and who has worked in various hospital and academic settings providing clinical services and conducting research on mental health treatment. She is passionate about the topic of student well-being. She believes strongly that students must not lose sight of their physical and emotional well-being as they work hard to be successful. She seeks to guide students to become health professionals who monitor their own wellness and find the optimum self-care strategies for themselves. Her goal is to ensure students have the support they need while assisting them in the development of lifelong skills to achieve and maintain physical and mental health throughout their careers.
As the director of Student Wellness, Rea oversees the wellness opportunities for School of Nursing students, which includes facilitating access to health care and mental health services as well as providing ongoing wellness programming.
To make an appointment, please email mrea@health.ucdavis.edu or call 916-703-WELL.
Pilar Gonzalez-Doupe, Ph.D.
Licensed Counseling Psychologist
Student Health and Counseling Services (SHCS)
Education
M.Sc. – Marriage & Family Therapy - Purdue University, Indiana
M.Sc. – Ashridge Executive Coaching – Ashridge Business School, Berkhamsted UK
Ph.D. – Counseling Psychology – University of Wisconsin-Madison
Pilar Gonzalez-Doupe offers a quiet, confidential place for students to explore new thoughts, actions and feelings in a safe, therapeutic relationship. Her focus is to help students find the words to define their experiences and to renew their confidence in their own sense of knowing. She encourages students to set the pace of their therapy and identify what is most challenging and most meaningful to them in their lives. She also provides support to help clarify the issues, through use of questions, metaphor and active exercises. She is particularly interested in issues of professional identity, vulnerability and learning. She enjoys working with individuals, as well as with groups and couples and provides therapy in both English and Spanish.
To make an appointment, please email soncounseling@ucdavis.edu .
