Health and Counselling Centre | St. Francis Xavier University

Please Note: If you are experiencing an emergency, the following resources are available 24/7:

Proceed to St. Martha’s Regional Hospital Emergency Department (25 Bay Street) or your nearest hospital emergency department.
Call 911
Nurse telecare: 811
If you or someone you’re supporting is experiencing a mental health emergency, please call the NS Mental Health Crisis Line: 1-888-429-8167
Good2TalkNS: 1-833-292-3698
Crisis Text Line: Text GOOD2TALKNS to 686868

How to access our services:

The first step for accessing any of our services is to book an appointment with the Intake Nurse or Mental Health Intake Nurse. To make this easier and more efficient, we have implemented an online booking and reminder system (Pomelo, formerly called Health Myself). All students must register with Pomelo before they can book their online appointments. If you need to cancel your appointment, you are able to do so in Pomelo, by calling 902-867-2263 or emailing @email We still have same-day access for some services, but these are appointment-based only; no drop-ins. Same-day Intake appointments open up at 8:30 am Monday- Friday. If you notice there are no appointments, please continue checking online or call 902-867-2263 as there are almost always cancellations!

If you are a current StFX student, please register for Health Myself by clicking the link below:

Health Myself Registration

If you have trouble registering, please call the Health and Counselling Centre at 902-867-2263 during office hours for assistance.

How to book an appointment

If you are already registered with Health Myself, click here to book an appointment (either medical or mental health) with the Intake Nurse, or for STI testing and flu shots.  You can also call us (902-867-2263) or stop by the Health and Counselling Centre (Bloomfield 305)
Click here to register for Health Myself and book your appointment.
When you book online, you will see all available appointments for the next 7 days.  We also reserve several appointments every day for same-day access.  Each weekday morning at 8:30 am new appointments open up, including the same-day access appointments for that day.  If you try to book online and it looks like nothing is available, just check back at 8:30 am the next day and the newly opened appointments will be showing.
When you receive an email reminder for a booked appointment, please check carefully for the time zone indicated in your reminder.  The correct time for your appointment is Nova Scotia time (Atlantic Standard Time); not the time zone of your home province, as may be indicated in your reminder.
Please note: If you wish to cancel a scheduled appointment, we require that you notify us 24 hours prior to your scheduled appointment time, or a late fee of $50.00 will be charged to your student account. You can cancel online through Health Myself, by emailing @email, or by calling 902-867-2263. This allows us to offer that space to another student who needs it; please help us in not wasting any of our valuable health care resources!

Confidentiality

Please note that the services you receive at the Health and Counselling Centre are confidential. We do not release information to your parents, your professors or anyone else without your permission or unless legally required to do so.

For more information please see our Confidentiality Statement and information on the Personal Health Information Act.