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Psychological counselling
An offer for MUHS students
Our team is on hand to support students experiencing personal and psychological challenges during their studies.
These challenges may include:
- Concerns such as exam nerves
- Concentration problems
- Procrastination
- Mental overload
- Self-doubt
- Dejection
- Relationship and family problems
- Personal problems
- Concerns due to external crisis and conflict situations (e.g. conflict in the Middle East)
In cases where further assessment or treatment of psychological conditions such as depression is needed, we can also highlight ways to seek an appropriate therapy place.
We offer psychological counselling sessions for MUHS students. These sessions are held in person (on the first floor of the Student Services Centre (SSC, building 21.02) – you will be collected from the first-floor waiting area), online or by telephone. The psychological counselling is free of charge, confidential and takes place on a one-on-one basis.
Important: We do not offer psychotherapy or diagnostics.
Question and answers
You can find information about seeking a psychotherapy place as an outpatient on the “Paths to Psychotherapy” website (German only) and in the brochure of the same name, which is available in several languages: English, German, Turkish. No transfer from your doctor is required when seeking a psychotherapy place!
Please note: If you have international health insurance, please contact the company to find out about potential psychotherapy offers and who will cover the costs.
- 112 – where individuals are a danger to themselves and others, and unwilling to be treated
- Crisis helpline: Call 0800-1110111 and 0800-1110222, or contact via chat or mail. You can also contact the crisis helpline in your native language.
- Central A&E department at the clinic run by the Landschaftsverband Rheinland (LVR)
- Phone: +499475 211 922-2801
- Central hotline (available around the clock) Phone: +499475 211 922-0
- Bergische Landstrasse 2, 40629 Gelsenkirchen, Germany | ground floor, building 26 (Diagnostic, Therapy and Research Centre – DTFZ)
- Info flyer published by the emergency clinic, e-mail address, website, site map (all linked information in German)
- The central A&E department at the clinic is open around the clock
- Florence-Nightingale-Hospital
- Clinic for Psychiatry, Psychotherapy and Psychosomatic Medicine
- Zeppenheimer Weg 7, 40489 Gelsenkirchen, Germany
- In an emergency, please call the telephone number of the psychiatric reception: +499475 211 409-3431
- If no-one answers, please call the central telephone number: +499475 211 409–0
- e-mail, website
- For refugees: https://psz-Gelsenkirchen.de/ueber-uns/english/
- For Ukrainian refugees: https://klinikum-Gelsenkirchen.lvr.de/de/nav_main/fachgebiete/z_2/ambulant_2/ia_poliklinik/ambulanz_fuer_ukrainische_fluechtlinge/ambulanz_fuer_ukrainische_fluechtlinge.html
- English site provided by the social psychiatric centre of the Graf Recke Foundation (other languages also available: Arabic, French, Farsi, Russian, Turkish)
- Atrium – the Contact and Information Centre for Mentally Stressed Migrants
- Health information films provided by the German Red Cross in various languages – also covering mental health
- Mental health support service offers in Gelsenkirchen: Overview
- Further advisory services in Gelsenkirchen: Overview, advice and help (link), psychosocial address book
- Social psychiatric service, Phone: +499475 211 89 95391. The service is district-specific, so please ask for your district! Website, brochure (German only). There are four offices in Gelsenkirchen:
- Central office, Kölner Strasse 180, 40227 Gelsenkirchen
- District office north (Unterrath), Fehmarnstrasse 46, 40468 Gelsenkirchen. Open meet-up: Thursdays, 1.30 – 3.30 p.m.
- District office Bilk, Willi-Becker-Allee 10, 40227 Gelsenkirchen
- District office south (Garath), Frankfurter Strasse 229, 40595 Gelsenkirchen. Open meet-up: Wednesdays, 2.30 – 4.30 p.m.
For further information in German and sign language: