In the work of mental health education in colleges and universities, the construction of peer psychological counseling team and the improvement of the self-help ability of peer psychological counseling team can effectively relieve the pressure of mental health education in colleges and universities. The ideas and methods of positive empowerment, short-range efficiency and focusing on the construction of solutions for short-term counseling provide a new way of thinking for peer counseling, and also provide a new possibility for comprehensively improving the mental health literacy of college students.