Treasa Fox

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Some young people can’t wait to get in to college; it will be quite challenging for others. Photograph: iStock
Are you beginning or returning to college? Here’s how to look after your mental health

Counselling psychologist Treasa Fox is head of student counselling at Athlone Institute of Technology and spokeswoman for Psychological Counsellors in(...)

UCD student Hannah Ledesma in her ‘home-college’, the bedroom she shares with her sister at home in Mountmellick, Co Laois. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill
Self-doubt, isolation: The reality of remote learning for first-year college students

When Hannah Ledesma from Mountmellick, Co Laois, applied to go to University College Dublin she never expected first year would be like this: studying(...)

Record numbers of third-level students are receiving counselling for mental health problems such as anxiety. File photograph: Getty Images/iStockphoto
Mental health: Record numbers of third-level students seek help

Record numbers of third-level students are receiving counselling for mental health problems such as anxiety. Almost 12,000 students sought counsellin(...)

Student rape: most research suggests that rape and sexual assault involving students – especially first-years – are a feature across third-level campuses. Illustration: Getty Images
Students and sexual assault: ‘We had sex. Well, he had sex’

It was her first year in college and Leanne was approaching the end of her exams in 2016. “It was supposed to be a time of excitement, change and acco(...)

Counsellors say they believe social media is playing a key role by amplifying stressful events such as relationship break-ups. Photograph: Getty Images
Record numbers of students seeking counselling for anxiety

Record numbers of third-level students are seeking counselling for anxiety and related mental health problems, new figures show. Counsellors say numb(...)