Notice

The Corona pandemic still has a firm grip on all our lives and for many of you it makes studying even more demanding than it already is. Organising your studies and preparing and adjusting to the academic challenges has probably rarely been more difficult than during the last year and a half! With this in mind, we would like to draw your attention to the Studying with a Plan series of events organised by the Central Student Advisory Service at the University of Tübingen. There you can get lots of information and tips for successful studying in lectures and workshops. Our Psychotherapeutic Counselling Centre is also involved with two lectures.

Studieren mit Plan

If you hit a brick wall with study-related problems or personal conflict situations, the Studierendenwerk in Tübingen-Hohenheim can offer you professional support at various counselling centres.

Appointments in presence can take place again in our psychotherapeutic counselling centre in Tübingen. There is no longer a 3G regulation, but masks are mandatory (FFP2 or comparable). Furthermore, video-based consultations are also possible. Further information on this can be obtained from our secretariat or from this document (in German).

At present, it is not yet possible to make appointments in the counselling centre in Hohenheim, as the building has not yet been reopened to the public.

Help in difficult life situations

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.

Counselling topics

  • The pressure to perform, examination nerves
  • Feeling of being overwhelmed, the fear of failure
  • Problems with planning course work and examinations
  • Things disturbing your work or concentration
  • Writer‘s block
  • Motivation problems, procrastination
  • Depression problems
  • Fears, anxiety
  • Self-esteem problems
  • Relationship and partnership conflicts
  • Sexual difficulties
  • Conflicts with parents, detachment problems
  • Social difficulties
  • Questions related to general life issues
  • Physical (psychosomatic) symptoms
  • Addictions
  • …

Emergency contacts

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.

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Psychotherapeutic counselling centre

in Tübingen & Hohenheim

Addresses

Tübingen
Friedrichstraße 21
72072 Tübingen

Stuttgart-Hohenheim
Kirchnerstraße 5
Zimmer Nr. 103 (1. OG)
70599 Stuttgart-Hohenheim

Registration times

Mo
08:45 am – 02:00 pm
Tue-Thu
08:45 am – 12:30 pm

(answering machine at other times)

For organisational reasons, it is only possible to agree an appointment for initial discussions on the phone or personally during the registration times in our office.

Telephone

+ 49 7071 / 253960

E-Mail

pbs-stuwe [at] sw-tuebingen-hohenheim [dot] de

Please note: e-mail communications with the PBS are not encrypted – i.e. we cannot guarantee that third parties will not read or change your messages without your knowledge or assistance or ours. We recommend that you contact the PBS by phone or in person with any confidential messages.

Fax

+49 7071 / 253961

Information

We can also counsel you in English. We have compiled answers to some questions about the work of our PBS in Tübingen and Hohenheim in a FAQ list.

Contact
persons

Tübingen

Contact
persons

Hohenheim

Secretariat

all locations

Contactform

Further counselling centres

at our cooperation centres

Psychological counselling Brückenstraße

Adress

Brückenstraße 6
72074 Tübingen

Bearer

Protestant and catholic church

Registration times

Mo – Fr
08:30 am – 11:30 am (Wednesdays untill 11 am)
Mo – Do
2:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Telephone

+ 49 7071 / 9299-0

Fax

+49 7071 / 9299-27

Information

The consultation is possible in several languages (German, English, French, Italian, Greek)

FAQs

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.

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).

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.

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:

  • through communicating information
  • through support for outside or inner conflicts and crises
  • through developing connections between your current situation and experiences in the past
  • through support in acquiring skills to help you actively work towards changing your situation
  • through support in decision processes
  • by becoming aware of your resources and making greater use of them.

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.

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!

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.

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.

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