Mental Health and Wellbeing at Haas

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Connect with Specialized Support for Haas Students

Dr. Don Capone, UC Berkeley licensed staff psychologist with Counseling and Psychological Services, is available to help here at Haas.

Virtual and in-person counseling sessions are available by appointment only and available for all registered Haas graduate students (i.e., FTMBA, EWMBA, Executive MBA, MFE, and PhD students). These 45-minute sessions are completely confidential, and initial and subsequent sessions are free regardless of whether or not you have the Student Health Insurance Plan (SHIP). 

Types of Services Available:

Dr. Don Capone can assist you if you are a Haas student in need of:

  • a single-session consultation
  • regular counseling sessions
  • campus and community referrals including medication, DSP academic accommodations, group support, SHIP Teladoc referrals
  • Referrals for longer-term, weekly, private, and or specialized psychotherapy

Counseling for Haas Students

Services For Haas Graduate Students

Relational Wellness and Leadership Counseling at Haas is available to help MBA, MFE and Ph.D. students manage the stress, anxiety and other wellness challenges. 

Relational Wellness and Leadership Counseling can help address:

  • Social adjustment to Haas including deepening relationships

  • Perfectionism, performance anxiety, procrastination and panic

  • Recruitment motivation and confidence-building

  • Navigating intimate partner, peer friendship, or roommate relationships and conflicts

  • Family conflicts and pressures
  • Complicated cohort, group/team member and co-worker dynamics

  • Thriving at business school with a chronic mental health condition

Identifying, evaluating, and transforming challenging and sometimes demoralizing dynamics can help students more confidently navigate the rigorous demands of their studies, extracurriculars, internships, networking opportunities, and careers while at Haas.

Frameworks used in Relational Wellness & Leadership Counseling:

  • Emotionally supportive 

  • Insight-oriented

  • Empowering and liberating

  • Problem-solving

  • Collaborative

  • Strengths-based

  • Culturally responsive

  • Goal-focused 

  • Behavior change driven

Goals of Relational Wellness & Leadership Counseling include developing effective communication and other relationship-enhancing skills such as:

  • Overcoming imposter feelings and self-limiting beliefs

  • Increased empathy, self-awareness and authenticity

  • Managing emotions in high-stress situations and systems

  • Recognizing unconscious bias and the resulting dignity violations of self and others with openness and humility

  • Values-congruent decision-making  

  • Developing a growth mindset with productive positivity and vulnerability

  • Boundary and limit setting to offset approval-seeking tendencies

To work with a different counselor or for same-day counseling you can also schedule an appointment online through eTang or over the phone for general mental health and wellness counseling services at Student Mental Health - Counseling and Psychological Services.

How to Connect:

  • Phone: (510) 642-4853 or 
  • Email: dcapone@berkeley.edu
    • Please do NOT send personal health information. Just briefly indicate your interest in a 45-minute consultation. Email is not a secure mode of communication. 
    • Please send your *maximum* availability for at least two weeks from the date that you contact him as demand for appointments is typically high. 
  • You can schedule an appointment by phone or email above to discuss your important needs. Once you meet, future correspondences should be through secure messages on the eTang portal. 

Don's Hours & Availability

In-Person

  • All Day Wednesday/ Most of the Day Thursday.
  • No Friday or weekend appointments are available at this time.

Zoom/Phone Appointments

  • Mondays  - Thursdays
  • No Friday or weekend appointments are available at this time.
  • Due to licensing laws, you must be located in the state of California to be eligible to receive ongoing telecounseling services. One-time consultations are possible if you are located out-of-state and are interested in an assessment and then local referrals in the state where you currently reside.

About All Appointments:

  • By appointment only.
  • Free and completely confidential.
  • The initial consultation and subsequent sessions are free regardless of whether or not you have SHIP insurance. Sessions are typically 45 minutes. 
  • Ideal for planning out 2 weeks in advance.

Services For Haas Undergraduate Students

CAPS is available to all registered students at UC Berkeley including all Haas students and is best suited for students interested in getting short-term support and learning skills to actively address stress, anxiety, depression, grief and unwanted thoughts or behaviors.  

Additional Mental Health Resources

Learn through Reading

Read through books and podcasts recommended by our clinicians. 

group counseling

Engage with Peers

Connect with peers through Group Counseling or other support options. 

Counselor and student

Talk to a Mental Health Provider

Connect with one of our student mental health providers based on your needs. 

Practice Mental Health Skills

Develop your own mental health skills through recommended apps. 

Crisis Resources

  • Students with urgent needs should call (510) 642-9494 to speak with a University Health Services counselor from Monday - Friday, 8:00 AM - 5:00 PM.

  • After-hours support line at (855) 817-5667.

An extension of Counseling and Psychological Services

You may also choose instead to contact UHS Counseling and Psychological Services if you prefer to work with a counselor with one or more shared identities, please feel free to make a request when you contact UHS to schedule an appointment by phone at (510) 642-9494.

Wishing you wellness through intentional self-care and self-preservation as an essential part of your success strategy at Haas!
Don Capone, PsyD