Kay Doré Counseling Clinic
The Kay Doré Counseling Clinic at McNeese State University combines community counseling with supervised training for graduate counselors. Established in 2001, it serves Lake Charles and surrounding Southwest Louisiana parishes through individual, couple, family and group counseling.
Organization profile
- Organization type
- Hospital / healthcare provider
- Headquarters / base
- Lake Charles, Louisiana, United States
- Geographic scope
- Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and Jefferson Davis parishes, Louisiana
Medical focus
Activities
Population served
A community clinic within McNeese
The clinic was created in 2001 with support from the William Doré Foundation. It operates under McNeese’s Department of Psychology and Counseling and College of Nursing and Health Professions. The university’s current clinic page places it in Hardtner Hall.
Its service area includes Allen, Beauregard, Calcasieu, Cameron and Jefferson Davis parishes. The clinic’s mission emphasizes affordable mental and behavioral-health support, including access for people without adequate insurance coverage and families facing financial barriers.
Counseling and supervised professional learning
Counseling sessions are provided by interns in McNeese’s graduate clinical mental-health counseling programme under licensed professional supervision. This connects a community service with practical professional education, while the supervising counselor remains part of the clinical framework.
The clinic describes individual, couple, family and group counseling. Common concerns on its programme page include depression, anxiety, family relationships, work-related difficulties, self-esteem and transitions in life. The mix of concerns reflects a community counseling setting rather than a single-disease service.
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Community access and the student service
The published intake process begins with a phone conversation about contact details and the reason for seeking counseling, followed by appointment arrangements and intake forms. Its guidance asks callers to indicate whether staff may leave a message, recognizing the importance of privacy during contact.
Kay Doré is distinct from McNeese’s student Counseling Center. The university directs currently enrolled students to that separate service, while Kay Doré’s stated remit is the wider Southwest Louisiana community.
Further health reading
Depression appears among the clinic’s stated counseling concerns. This article explains major depression as background to that community counseling work.
Sleep problems and emotional distress can interact. This overview of insomnia adds background to the clinic’s information on depression, anxiety and life transitions.