Support for Mental Health

Occasionally academic, personal, and social pressures can feel so overwhelming that it becomes hard to function as usual—we understand. Mount Mercy University Counseling Services is here to enhance your academic life and university experience.

Request Services

To request services, please fill out the form.

About Counseling Services

Hours of Operation

8 a.m. to 4 p.m. with limited nights and weekends. All by appointment only.

Occasionally academic, personal, and social pressures can feel so overwhelming that it becomes hard to function as usual—we understand. While we are actively searching for a replacement for the Director of Counseling Services, Mount Mercy's Counseling Services staff assists you in talking through whatever is on your mind to help find solutions to problems or concerns.

Counselors are trained to help with many needs:

  • Stress management
  • Interpersonal conflict (i.e. family or roommate-related issues)
  • Depression/Anxiety
  • Building healthy relationships
  • Assertiveness and self-worth
  • Homesickness
  • Dating or marital relationship issues
  • Sexuality
  • Indecision about future/career
  • General mental well-being
  • Much more

 

Request a Counseling Session     SAU/MMU Student Wellness Hub

If you know someone who's struggling, let us know
Fill out a CARE Form

In case of emergency

If you are on campus and experiencing a mental health crisis during business hours, come to Student Services on the second floor of the University Center. Someone will be available to assist you.

If you are on campus and experiencing a mental health crisis after business hours, contact the RA on call or Public Safety. They will be able to assist you.

If you are off campus, call the National Suicide Hotline at 988. You can also visit the Mental Health Access Center, which is open 24 hours a day, seven days a week. No appointment is necessary. It is located at 501 13th St NW, Cedar Rapids, IA.

Heidi Miller Headshot
Director of Counseling Services
hamiller@mtmercy.edu | (319) 363-1323 x1264

Heidi Miller Swallow, LMFT

Heidi is an Iowa native who has called five other states home and has had the opportunity to travel throughout many countries around the world. She is a graduate of Mount Mercy University’s M.A. in Marriage and Family Therapy program and has most recently been working in private practice, providing therapy to individuals, couples, and families.

Heidi's theory of change is that we have the tools within us to create the change we desire. However, we need at least three things in order to access them: 1) Accountability 2) Courage to stop negotiating with comfort and do what must be done, and 3) a Catalyst for empowerment to sharpen critical thinking, elevate communication, and embrace new perspectives.

Outside of her professional life, Heidi is a recreational endurance athlete with a passion for pushing her own physical limits. She is also an avid reader, loves to travel, and firmly believes that sometimes the best way to wash away stress is to turn up the music and dance in the kitchen.