The Harvard College Peer Counseling program offers confidential, non-judgmental, non-directive support for undergraduates during the academic year.  

Contact, ECHO, Indigo, Response and Room 13 offer drop-in and phone line counseling, and HUGPT offers a peer group therapy model. Counselors from across groups can support with any issue or topic, and receive additional training and supervision centered on their group's area of focus.  

Interested in becoming a peer counselor?  Each group manages its own recruitment process during the fall and spring semesters. To learn more, email the group(s) that are of interest to you using the contact information specified below. 

Contact Peer Counseling

Contact provides support with any issue, including LGBTQIA+ identities, all genders, sexes, sexualities, and relationships. Contact is open 7 days per week during the academic year.  

• Phone Counseling (617-998-6898) is available 8pm to 8am  
• Drop-In Counseling (Thayer Basement B-04) is available 8pm to 11pm

Email: harvardcontact@gmail.com. See Contact’s website.

Harvard Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) 

ECHO Peer Counseling provides support with any issue, including concerns associated with exercise, body image, food and eating. ECHO is open during the academic year.  

• Phone Counseling (617-495-8200) is available 8pm to 8am every night 
• Drop-In Counseling (Eliot Basement T-24) is available 8pm to 11pm Sunday through Thursday  

Email: harvardecho@gmail.com. See ECHO's website: Harvard Eating Concerns Hotline and Outreach (ECHO) 

Indigo Peer Counseling provides support with any issue, including concerns around identity and intersectionality, and how race, ethnicity, socioeconomic status, first-gen identity, citizenship status, ability, gender, sexuality, and other identities, singularly and collectively, may inform individual experiences.  

Indigo Peer Counseling

Indigo is open every night during the academic year.  

• Phone Counseling (617-256-1183) is available 8pm to 8am 
• Drop-In Counseling (Thayer Basement B-01) is available 8pm to 11pm  

Email: indigopeercounseling@gmail.com 

RESPONSE Peer Counseling

RESPONSE provides support with any issue, including concerns associated with relationships, friendships and dating, to concerns about sexual assault and harassment.  

• RESPONSE is open from Sunday through Thursday during the academic year.  
• Phone Counseling (617-999- 8353) is available 8pm to 8am 
• Drop-In Counseling (Lowell EL-15) is available 8pm to 11pm  

Email: harvardresponse@gmail.com. See RESPONSE’s linktr.ee

Room 13 Peer Counseling

Room 13 provides support for any and all issues, including concerns related to gender, identity, SES, alcohol and drugs, grief, relationships, eating, health, school, and other topics of concern or interest to students. 

• Room 13 is open every night during the academic year.  
• Phone Counseling (617-999- 8353) is available 7pm to 7am 
• Drop-In Counseling (Thayer Basement B-09) is available 7pm to 7am  

Email: harvardroom13@gmail.com. See Room 13’s website.

HUGPT Peer Group Counseling

HUGPT Peer Group Counseling follows the interpersonal psychotherapy (IPT) modality and offers a safe space where students support each other in building healthy and fulfilling relationships that can meaningfully improve mental wellbeing.  

HUGPT services are available during the academic year. 

Email: harvardhugpt@gmail.com. See the website:  Harvard Undergraduate Group Peer Therapy (HUGPT)