Welcome

The mission of counseling at Barton Community College is to assist students to explore choices, to recognize consequences, and to assume personal responsibility. Counseling helps students define future goals, make informed decisions, and become better equipped to cope with everyday life situations. The goal of counseling includes assisting students in adjusting to college life and achieving personal success. The counselor helps guide students through academic counseling, and/or shot-term personal counseling to address problems and concerns which could ultimately affect the achievement of their academic goals.

• Counselors work to build trust with students. Many students have had a negative experience in school and must overcome the fear that they bring with them.
• Counselors provide motivational encouragement.
• Counselors confront the belief, "I can't".
• Counselors teach accountability.
• Counselors educate students about college life, requirements, expectations, and college "ins and outs."
• Counselors work at wellness, focusing on strengths, and what each person has to contribute.
• Counselors help students see their potential and work to overcome barriers to their success.
• Counselors assist in discerning the difference between short-term vs. long-term decisions (instant gratification vs. lifelong satisfaction).
• Counselors teach social skills formally through counseling or informally through interacting. Every time counselors speak or acknowledge a student in any setting, they are teaching social skills, relationship building, trust building, and boundary setting. In other words, counselors teach students responsibility for the behaviors and choices which will have a long term effect in their lives.
• Counselors attempt to help people see the barriers that they build because of faulty beliefs and/or coping skills which have worked in the past but are no longer useful.
• Counselors help students see things differently through role modeling, reframing situations, and painting pictures in the student's mind.
• Counselors assist students in learning to face and responsibly deal with issues that are unique to them at Barton Community College.

Cost, Location and Hours of Operation

Barton Campus

Location: L-139 - North End of Learning Resource Center
Regular Hours: 7:30 a.m.- 4:30 p.m.- Monday through Friday
Cost: Free to Barton students, staff & faculty.

If you need to be seen at another time because of work or school obligations, the counselor will make every effort to work with your time schedule. 

To make an appointment you may call or email:

Counselor Phone: 620.792.9295
Counselor email: dellingerc@bartonccc.edu

or stop by the office. If the door is open, you are welcome to stop and visit. If the door is closed, please respect the fact that the counselor may be with a client. Do not knock or peer in. You may always set up an appointment with one of the secretaries in the north end of the Learning Resource Center at 620-792-9240 or 620-792-9282. They have access to the computer calendar to book appointments for the free times listed. (They do not have access to the names on the calendar, just whether or not a time slot is taken.)

If you need to change an appointment time, or cancel, please call one of the numbers listed above, or you may use the college’s 800 # 1-800-748-7594, ext. 295. If I do not pick up, please leave a message on my voice mail.

 If you have a counseling emergency after hours, you may contact the Center for Counseling 24 hour hotline, at 620-792-2544.

Fort Riley Campus

Fort Riley students are referred to the Military Hospital or Military Chaplain’s office for counseling services. Students may also contact the Barton counselor (620-792-9295 or 620-792-2701 Ext. 295) for phone consultation.