Personal wellness

Mental health resources

  • Do You Need Help with Your Mental Health?
  • Back to Campus - Student Guide
  • Campus Wellness
    519-888-4096
  • UW MATES (Mentor Assistance Through Education and Support)
    MATES is a peer support program for students who are experiencing social difficulties, and transitional challenges adapting to university life or different cultures.
  • Waterloo Indigenous Student Centre (WISC)
    Provides support for Indigenous students of all backgrounds and with all levels of cultural knowledge through a holistic lens: cultural, academic, wellbeing, and social engagement.
  • Move Your Mind
    Move Your Mind is a peer-to-peer program that helps students break down barriers to getting active, by matching students with a student volunteer do help them find an activity they enjoy doing to get moving. Students of all abilities are welcome and can sign up by going to the Move Your Mind website.
  • Empower Me: Mental Health Resources

I or someone I know is in distress 

Links Who to contact

Do You Need Help with Your Mental Health?

Urgent Help contacts

WatSAFE
WatSAFE provides quick access to campus safety and emergency resources, including campus maps, emergency contact information, a flashlight, alarm and more. 

Get the WatSAFE app

Crisis Support Services

Undergraduate Operations Manager
Carol Knipe
cknipe@uwaterloo.ca

Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies
Johanna Wandel
jwandel@uwaterloo.ca

Your academic advisor

I am unable to meet my course submission deadlines due to illness or documented absence

Links Who to contact

Academic Wellness

Exams and grades 

Campus Wellness
519-888-4096

Your instructor(s): LEARN

Your academic advisor

Undergraduate Operations Manager
Carol Knipe
cknipe@uwaterloo.ca

How do I self-declare a short term (2 day) absence? 

I am grieving a death

Links Who to contact

Counselling Services

Urgent Help contacts

Exams and grades

Crisis Support Services

Your instructor(s) - LEARN

Undergraduate Operations Manager
Carol Knipe
cknipe@uwaterloo.ca

Associate Dean, Undergraduate Studies
Johanna Wandel
jwandel@uwaterloo.ca

Your academic advisor

Counselling Services
519-888-4096