ISU Peer Counselling offers individual counselling sessions to make your everyday student life easier. Peer counselling means that you will be counselled by students from the Master's programme in Psychology. Your colleagues have been trained for this format as part of a course.

Who can use this councelling?

We offer this to students at the University of Vienna

• who have difficulty concentrating or require special attention in their learning environment.
• who have difficulty structuring their course material or the requirements of their courses.
• who need support in organising and planning their studies.
• who suffer from exam anxiety and are looking for strategies to cope with it.

Peer counselling is an inclusive service. Students with disabilities and neurodivergent students are very welcome. Our counsellors are sensitive to your concerns. No proof is required.

What are the topics of the counselling?

• Semester planning
• Study organisation
• Optimisation of personal time management
• Creation of a study plan and structuring of study material
• Writing emails to lecturers or university staff
• Discussion and joint development of possible strategies for exam anxiety
• Joint strategy development for motivation difficulties

How does it work?

• To book appointments no u:account is required.
• Select a week and then a sprecific time slot.
• Enter a valid email address.
• ISU Peer Counselling creates a trusting and supportive environment. In return, we expect respectful communication, confidentiality and active participation. By registering, you accept the following terms and conditions:
• Our peer advisors are students who support you on an equal footing. They offer guidance and help you determine the next steps, but do not provide psychotherapeutic or clinical psychological counselling.
• The counselling focuses on study organisation and related challenges.
• Advisors are bound to confidentiality.
• Private relationships between counsellors and participants are not permitted.
• Aggressive or inappropriate behaviour will result in immediate termination and exclusion from further counselling appointments.
• Please cancel appointments in good time (at least three working days in advance) to give other students the opportunity to take advantage of the service.

Where does the councelling take place?

TP 146 in the main building of the University of Vienna (Universitätsring 1, 1010 Vienna)

Directions:

• When you are standing in front of the main building, use the side entrance on the right (brown door towards the Audimax).
• In the second courtyard (there is a lift there): turn right in the courtyard and you will see an entrance three steps up. Take this entrance.
• In the stairwell, turn left immediately, take another three steps and go through the small brown door marked ‘am Weg zur Studienzulassung’ (on the way to the admission office).
• Then take the second door on the right in the long corridor (TP 144, ‘Let's Talk’).

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