Struggling uni student

So I’m in my second year at university and it’s going a lot better than my first year socially. I have some social anxiety so it makes me anxious to join clubs or participate in anything, so I’m not very involved. Lately I’ve been feeling very anxious and sad about things, and a lot of past issues are starting to come up again and I have multiple break downs a week and feel like I have no one to talk to. I’ve been thinking about going to my university’s counseling center but I’m scared. I’ve never really been able to talk about my mental health with my parents and and the idea of bringing it up to someone else is really really hard for me. I’ve also never been to a therapist at all so I don’t know what to expect and it scares me. I know I should go, and one of my close friends from back home always tells me I should go because it helped her a lot. But I’m scared. How to I work up the courage because I’m a baby?