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The staff of the Thomas E. Cook Counseling Center is guided in its professional activities by the ethics of our professions and by the Virginia Tech Principles of Community.  The Cook Counseling Center is committed to delivering professional services that respect and value our humanity, including differences and similarities of age, gender, gender identity, race, ethnicity, culture, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, disability, language, and socioeconomic status.  Prejudice and discrimination are inimical to the practice of counseling where the value of each human being is prized.   Our professional guidelines call upon us to recognize prejudice and discrimination in all of its forms, to become aware of their effects on us as individuals and in our communities, and through awareness, learning, support and teaching, to overcome the limitations and restriction they place on each of us. 

In the promotion of a just and caring university (Division of Student Affairs Diversity Commitment and Goals), the staff of the Cook Counseling Center will seek to promote social justice in all of its activities, including counseling, supervision, education, training, outreach, and hiring practices.