Counseling with regard to problems during your studies
Student Counseling Service (ZSB)
If things get stuck in your studies or if problems arise in connection with your studies, the Student Counseling Service is there to help you. Contacting us is straightforward; we offer daily consultation hours, even without an appointment. Depending on your concerns, it is also possible to arrange follow-up appointments to a certain extent.
It is part of our self-image to understand problems and to work out possible solutions together with you. Counseling topics include, for example:
- Illness
- Mental problems
- Motivation problems
- Learning problems, such as repeated "procrastination"
- Time management and workflow planning
- Loss of the right to take exams ("Verlust des Prüfungsanspruchs") and development of new perspectives
- Thoughts about dropping out of your studies
- Contact difficulties at the university
Our counseling is voluntary, open-ended and confidential. We focus on your individual concerns and issues related to your studies, and we develop with you appropriate solutions and strategies for your personal situation.
Depending on the issue at hand, it may also be advisable to go into more depth on certain sub-problems and to continue working on them elsewhere. If necessary, it can be part of the consultation process to sketch out a suitable strategy in this regard.
You can find further informationen in the Online Pathfinder: If things get stuck in your studies and on the website of the Student Counseling Service.
Psychological consultation
Free of charge psychological counseling is offered by the Psychotherapeutische Beratungsstelle des Studierendenwerks Tübingen-Hohenheim (PBS), Friedrichstraße 21, 72072 Tübingen.
You can find additional institutions and contact persons on the website Advice and information.
Supportive activities
The Student Health Management SGM BeTaBalance organizes courses, workshops and many other services for students in order to improve your mental and physical balance during your studies.
Mental Health
There is also a list of institutions and contact persons for mental health topics that you can turn to in case of worries or crisis.