Psychotherapeutic counselling
If you are at a loss due to study-related problems or personal conflict situations, the Studierendenwerk Tübingen-Hohenheim offers you professional support in various counselling centres.
If you are at a loss due to study-related problems or personal conflict situations, the Studierendenwerk Tübingen-Hohenheim offers you professional support in various counselling centres.
A university course involves many challenges. Everything does not necessarily run smoothly all the time. Many students experience study-related or personal crises, which they do not always seem to be able to overcome alone. In these situations, or when you can see them on the horizon, you can approach the staff at the psychotherapeutic counselling centre. They will help you clarify issues, overcome challenges and prevent problems getting worse or becoming chronic. Normally it is possible to receive counselling promptly. It goes without saying that any situation is subject to strict professional confidentiality.
In addition to our own counselling centres in Tübingen and Stuttgart-Hohenheim, we have cooperation arrangements with counselling centres at other sites. Students at the universities overseen by the Studierendenwerk in Tübingen-Hohenheim can obtain advice at the counselling centres mentioned below. We do not charge you at our own counselling centres. Four counselling appointments are free of charge at the centres that cooperate with us.
In case of acute emergencies or serious psychological crises such as suicide danger, please call 112 or in Tübingen the Clinic for Psychiatry and Psychotherapy (Tel. 07071 / 29-82311) and in Stuttgart-Hohenheim the Furtbach Hospital (Tel. 0711 / 64650) or the Clinical Centre Stuttgart – Hospital Bad Cannstatt (Tel. 0711 / 278278).
At the telephone counselling service, you will find a contact person free of charge and anonymously around the clock at the telephone numbers 0800/111 0 111, 0800/111 0 222 or 116 123.
in Tübingen und Hohenheim
Contact and appointments with the PBS can be made in person, by telephone or online. A registration form must be filled out for the initial consultation. You can obtain the document in our office or download it from our download area.
Counselling centre Tübingen
Friedrichstraße 21
72072 Tübingen
Counselling centre Hohenheim
Kirchnerstraße
70599 Stuttgart-Hohenheim
Friedrichstraße 21
72072 Tübingen
You have the opportunity to select free dates for your first counselling interview at PBS in an online calendar and to reserve an appointment that suits you. We only need a few details from you. The transmission of the data is encrypted and completely secure.
If you are unable to keep your appointment, please let us know as soon as possible. In the interest of all those seeking advice, we try to keep waiting times short. By cancelling your appointment early, you help us to be able to make other appointments.
The open consultation hour always takes place on Tuesdays from 12.30 pm to 3.00 pm. You can find more information here.
Counselling is also available in English. We have summarised answers to some questions about the work of our PBS in Tübingen and Hohenheim in a FAQ list for you.
+49 7071 / 253961
pbs-stuwe [at] sw-tuebingen-hohenheim [dot] de
Please note: Mail communication with PBS is not encrypted, i.e. it is not guaranteed that messages cannot be read or changed by third parties without your or our knowledge and intervention. For confidential messages, we recommend contacting the PBS by telephone or in person.
Tübingen
Hohenheim
Our psychotherapeutic counselling centre offers open consultation hours where counselling is possible WITHOUT prior appointment. You can find all the details here.
Unfortunately there will be no open consultation hours on 17.09.2024.
What are the open consultation hours?
The open consultation hours allow you to have a counselling talk at certain times without having to make an appointment in advance. In this way, a counselling interview is possible in a timely manner, although it is significantly shorter (max. 25 minutes) than a regular interview (50 minutes). Unlike a regular initial consultation, it will not usually be possible to make further appointments in a timely manner. You can also visit the open consultation hour if you have already made an appointment for a regular initial consultation, but you still have to wait for this (possibly for a longer period of time) and you have an urgent matter. If the already arranged appointment is no longer necessary afterwards, we ask you to inform us accordingly and we can then assign the appointment to someone else. Conversely, you can also make a regular initial appointment after visiting the open consultation hours.
At what times does the open consultation hour take place?
The open consultation hour takes place on Tuesdays from 12:30 pm to 3:00 pm. Please note that you should come to the counselling centre a quarter of an hour before (i.e. between 12:15 pm and 12:30 pm) and register briefly at the secretary’s office to attend the open consultation. This helps us to organise the consultation hours on the day in question. There are a total of max. 5 opportunities to talk for up to 25 minutes per person during the open consultation hours. If after the first 5 students have registered for open office hours, they will unfortunately not be able to attend on that day. If the open office hours cannot take place on a certain date, we will indicate this on our website.
Will data be processed?
We will ask you for your name and make a note of it so that we can organise the timing of the open office hours. We will destroy this note immediately after the end of the consultation so that, as a rule, no more data about your visit to the open consultation is stored. In a few exceptional cases we may (under certain circumstances also without your consent) collect, store and possibly transmit certain data, but we will then inform you of this. This would be the case, for example, in the event of acute suicidal tendencies.
Psychotherapeutic counselling
Psychotherapeutic counselling
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at our cooperation centres
Brückenstraße 6 Protestant and catholic church + 49 7071 / 9299-0 +49 7071 / 9299-27 The consultation is possible in several languages (German, English, French, Italian, Greek)Adress
72074 TübingenBearer
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Marktstraße 14 Protestant and catholic church + 49 7071 / 9299-0 (office Tübingen) +49 7071 / 9299-27 The consultation is possible in several languages.Adress
72108 RottenburgBearer
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Gartenstraße 17 Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart + 49 7121 / 334547 +49 7121 / 321945 The consultation is possible in several languages (German, Bosnian, English, French, Croatian, Serbian)Adress
72764 ReutlingenBearer
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Werastraße 20 Caritas Fils-Neckar-Alb + 49 7022 / 21580 Mrs. ReinkowksiAdress
72622 NürtingenBearer
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Uracher Straße 31 Caritas Fils-Neckar-Alb + 49 7331 / 305590Adress
73312 GeislingenBearer
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Bahnhofstraße 26 Diözese Rottenburg-Stuttgart und Evangelischer Kirchenbezirk Balingen + 49 7431 / 13418-0 +49 7431 / 13418-10Adress
72458 Albstadt-EbingenBearer
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In der Vorstadt 2 Erzdiözese Freiburg + 49 7571 / 5787Adress
(Eingang Burgstraße 2-4)
72488 SigmaringenBearer
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Counselling at the PBS in Tübingen & Hohenheim
We have summarised answers to some questions here, which should explain the work of our psychotherapeutic counselling centres in Tübingen and Hohenheim.
Who works at the counselling centre?
The team at the counselling centres in Tübingen und Hohenheim consists of four graduate psychologists and two secretaries. All the counsellors not only have a psychology degree, but other qualifications in scientifically accepted psychotherapy procedures (psychodynamic psychotherapy, behaviour therapy, conversational psychotherapy and systemic therapy).
How do I arrange a counselling appointment?
You can contact the secretaries’ office during opening hours (Mo 08:45 am– 02:00 pm, Tue-Thu 08:45 am – 12:30 pm) by phone or in person. Our secretaries will then suggest an appointment for initial discussions.
Prior to the initial discussions, you need to complete a registration form, which helps the counsellor to prepare for the appointment and also acts as the basis for anonymous statistical assessments for the purposes of quality assurance.
You arrange any follow-up appointments directly with your counsellor.
What happens during a counselling session?
You can first describe your concern and what you expect from the counselling centre. This is the starting point for the ongoing counselling process. As things progress, the issue involves looking for answers and developing different solutions. This can take place in various ways:
The counselling can help you experience relief, gain some distance from problems and enhance your ability to make decisions and act. If it is not possible to adequately process your problem in one counselling session, discussions and possible recommendations for alternative or supplementary support measures form part of the counselling process.
I am not certain if the counselling centre is the right address for my problem…
Students sometimes say that their problem is really too unimportant to make use of professional assistance. We would point out here that a person’s individual feelings are crucially important here, not the issue of how important or insignificant the problem may appear to others. Clarifying whether a particular problem can be processed through counselling may be the subject for the session. So do not be afraid to contact us!
Will anybody find out anything about the counselling session?
NOThe contents of any discussions and even contacting the counselling centre are subject to strict confidentiality rules. They apply to all the members of staff and towards any persons and institutions – e.g. the university, the student services organisation, parents or the family doctor.
This confidentiality can be set aside if you wish information to be passed on to third parties (e.g. a doctor). Any necessary release from these confidentiality rules that you request must be made in writing.
What about data protection?
TThe data processing needed to organise the counselling centre meets all the requirements for protecting data. All the data is protected from any unauthorised access in encrypted form on a computer without any network connection. No data is passed on to third parties, as a matter of principle.