Welcome to the Rio Hondo College Counseling Center!

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The Counseling Center is committed to aiding each student in establishing, clarifying, and pursuing personal educational/career goals. The primary responsibility of the counseling staff is to provide counseling support for Rio Hondo students, faculty, and the campus community.

Counselors can assist students with a variety of needs:

• • • Program planning
    • Choosing a major
    • Graduation requirements
    • Transfer requirements to four-year colleges and universities
    • Personal problems
    • Scholarships and financial aid programs
    • Tutoring
    • Communication with a professor

  Students should meet with a counselor by appointment well in advance of the registration period. Contact the Counseling Center with your Rio Hondo Student ID#.

  IMPORTANT NEW INFORMATION ABOUT PRIORITY REGISTRATION FOR NEW STUDENTS 

  In accordance with new State regulations, students who plan to enroll at Rio Hondo College are to be provided with Core Matriculation Services after applying:

  • • 1. Assessment
      2. Orientation(online)
      3. Counseling/Advising Services

  New students who do not complete core matriculation services are not eligible for Priority Registration and may have a hold placed on their registration. Students may be exempt from some or all of the components of matriculation if they meet certain criteria.

  Click here for Matriculation Exemption Form

  Click here for Assessment Exemption Form

  Counseling Services

  Counselors are available to assist students in a variety of capacities such as:

  Academic Counseling	Personal Counseling	Career Counseling
  Setting Educational Goals	Personal growth and exploration	Career planning courses
  Academic & Personal Success Strategies	Self awareness	Guidance in the career decision making process
  Exploring degree and certificate options	Time/Stress Management	Investigating career options
  Evaluating transcripts	Family/relationship Concerns	Developing and implementing career goals
  Transfer options	Motivation Issues	Job search tools
  Linking academic goals with career options	Maximizing Potential	Linking Career and academic goals
  Educational Planning	On and off campus referrals	Career Assessments and Interpretations
  Academic/Progress probation intervention		Values Clarification
  Petitioning for graduation

  Counseling Center Information

  Dean, Counseling: Lisa Chavez

  Senior Secretary: Veronica Rodriguez

  Phone: (562)908-3410

  Office Hours

  The Counseling Department apologizes for the inconvenience. We are closing November 27 2019 at 5:00 p.m.  

• Student Services Bldg. Rm 160 (SS-160)
  Monday – Thursday 8:00 A.M. – 7:00 P.M.
  Friday 8:00 A.M. – 2:00 P.M.

        Holidays Campus Closed                                        

                              November 28-29, 2019

                              December 24-27, 2019

                        January 1, 2020