Studentenwerk Leipzig

The Student Service Center of the university offers low-threshold, promptly usable psychological counseling services at no charge three times a week. You need to make an appointment. For more information, please refer to this page.

In addition to Studentenwerk, the student organizations (StudentInnenRäte) of Leipzig University, HTWK Leipzig and HTM provide counselling services for students in problematic situations as well. Further they provide help and assistance in organizing and handling everyday student life.

• Student organization of Leipzig University
• Student organization  of HTWK
• Student organization of HTM

Students participating in the teacher training programme can make use of the psychological counseling office at the Zentrum für Lehrerbildung und Schulforschung of Leipzig University. In addition to counseling interviews, Annett Ammer-Wies, licensed psychologist and systemic therapist and counselor (SG), offers workshops on various issues like examinations and postponing. For information and contact, please refer to http://www.uni-leipzig.de/~zls/psychologischeberatungsstelle.html

Students of all universities can talk about their worries on the phone at night. Trained persons, students themselves, are on the other end of the line, listening actively and forwarding the student to the appropriate counseling service, if necessary.

You can reach the Nightline in Leipzig during semesters every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from 9.00 p.m. to midnight by calling 0341/973 7777. For further information, refer to the Facebook page “Nightline Leipzig”, leipzig.nightlines.eu or write an e-mail to leipzig {{ätt}} nightlines {{punkt}} eu.

The self-help group geist:reicht is an offer especially for mentally ill students suffering from work disruption. This group is a university group of the HTWK Leipzig and a work group of the student organization of the Leipzig University:  www.geistreicht.de

Crisis call center, help hotline, social-psychiatric service, or Samaritan telephone line - on the page of the City of Leipzig you can find all telephone numbers and contact details at a glance. 

The self-help contact and information office (SKIS - Selbsthilfekontakt- und Informationsstelle) of the City of Leipzig provides information on self-help and support groups in Leipzig. You can get advice; will be placed in a self-help group, if possible, or get support in establishing a self-help group yourself.

• www.leipzig.de/selbsthilfe

As many international health insurances and travel cancellation insurances exclude mental disorders from insurance coverage, we recommend paying close attention to possible exclusion clauses and reading the General Terms and Conditions carefully.

On this account, the “Irrsinnig Menschlich e.V.” association has prepared an overview on the subject of travel insurances for mentally ill persons, which you can read here.