Psychotherapeutic and Psychosocial Counselling Service

The people working at our Psychotherapeutic and Psychosocial Counselling Service are clinical psychologists who continued their education to become psychotherapists or who are about to take their final examinations as psychological psychotherapists.

To ensure that we have enough time and room for our students seeking advice, we exclusively work with fixed appointments. On average, we can offer three 50-minute consultations per case. Our counselling can also be carried out anonymously; we do not require a health insurance card. We always start off by listening to your problems and then try and sort the situation together. The next step is to look for possible solutions so that the people seeking advice once again experience themselves as capable of acting and are able to find new hope. An important part of our work is to offer our professional opinion whether the problem you are experiencing is pathological or not. In the case of a pathological disorder, we would provide information on how to receive further support as quickly as possible and which support services would be best suited. This could be, for instance, outpatient psychotherapy.

Apart from individual consultations, our counselling service includes couples and family consultations as well as talks and group offers.

Our psychological-psychotherapeutic counselling team is strictly bound to maintain confidentiality. Your health insurance, your university or other offices at the Studierendenwerk will definitely not learn about the fact that you used our counselling service. Only at your specific request, will data be passed on.

You should be prepared to having to wait for two weeks for an initial consultation. At the moment, we are handing out appointments from the 18th December 2023 onwards. Follow-up appointments can then be made at short notice. Contact details of other places to turn to can be found here.

Our advisory service is, of course, free of charge for all students who have paid the Studierendenwerk fee.

At the moment, we can offer our consultations in German, English and French.

In general, we are specialists for the services provided at your place of study. Should you, for instance, be spending the entire semester abroad, we cannot offer sufficient advice from a professional point of view. In this case, we urgently advise you to look for suitable places to turn to where you are staying at the minute. Perhaps talk to your doctor.

The “Telefonseelsorge” offers a list of international help lines: https://www.telefonseelsorge.de/international-helplines/

Finding suitable therapy requires time and strength. Often, you will have to contact several psychotherapists and will have to wait a couple of weeks or even months for your first appointment. We will support you as best we can by explaining everything in detail, offering tips and handing on our knowledge about the services available in Munich and Upper Bavaria. We are also glad to pass on information about the various different psychotherapeutic treatment opportunities that exist and talk about which treatment could be well-suited for your needs. For instance, following therapies are accepted by public health insurance in Germany at the moment: Analytic psychotherapy, systemic therapy, psychotherapy founded on the principles of depth psychology and behavioural therapy. Organizing an appointment for therapy, however, is not part of our job.

Psychotherapy means treating psychological disorders that are of clinical significance. As part of the German health system, this treatment – depending on the type of therapy – is offered to an extent of 12 to 300 hours. Our Counselling Service is not intended to offer this type of treatment. We are very happy to support you with the first steps to finding a solution to your problem.

You could, for instance, start by finding out about the services offered by the “Kassenärztliche Vereinigung Bayerns” (KVB / association of statutory health insurance physicians in Bavaria): https://www.kvb.de/service/patienten/psychotherapeutische-versorgung/

Or use the online search screen of the KVB: https://dienste.kvb.de/arztsuche/app/einfacheSuche.htm

The PTK (Psychotherapeutenkammer) also offers a search mask: https://www.ptk-bayern.de/ptk/web.nsf/id/pa_psychotherapeuten-suche.html

This type of service is naturally also offered by the other federal states’ associations of statutory health insurance physicians: https://www.kbv.de/html/arztsuche.php

Portals such as the platform www.therapie.de also offer the possibility of searching online.

Another possibility is contacting Munich institutes offering further education in the area of psychotherapy. These institutes offer psychotherapy with experienced psychologists at the end of their training to becoming psychotherapists. Institutes such as these would be – with no guarantee of completeness:

Psychodynamic / Psychoanalytical Institutes:

- Münchner Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Psychoanalyse e.V. - MAP

- Akademie für Psychoanalyse und Psychotherapie München e.V.

- Ärztlich-Psychologischer Weiterbildungskreis für Psychotherapie und Psychoanalyse (ÄPK)

- Alfred Adler Institut für Individualpsychologie

- C. G. Jung-Institut München e. V.

- Lehrinstitut für Psychotherapie und Psychoanalyse München gGmbh (LPM)

- Münchner Lehr- und Forschungsinstitut (LFI) der Deutschen Akademie für Psychoanalyse (DAP)

Cognitive-Behavioural Institutes:

- Institut für Therapieforschung (IFT)

- Münchner Universitäres Institut für Psychologische Psychotherapieausbildung (MUNIP)

- Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Verhaltensmodifikation (AVM)

- Deutsche Gesellschaft für Verhaltenstherapie (DGVT)

- Verein zur Förderung der klinischen Verhaltenstherapie (vfkv e.V.)

- Institut für Psychotherapie am kbo-Isar-Amper-Klinikum Haar

Systemic Institutes:

- AsysTH-Ausbildungsinstitut für systemische Psychotherapie

- Verein zur Förderung der Familientherapie und -beratung (vft) e.V. - Systemisches Institut München

Kirinus provides training and offers treatment in all the above-mentioned methods of psychotherapy

That is unfortunately not possible due to data protection regulations. We would advise you to always be very cautious when providing personal information in emails!

Please understand that due to the high demand for appointments, we would like to keep our resources available for student counselling. For the sake of fairness, it’s also not possible for us to answer individual enquiries.

In the event of a crisis, please ring the “Psychiatrische Krisendienst” (psychiatric crisis service):

phone: 0800 / 655 3000

https://www.krisendienste.bayern/

The “Telefonseelsorge” offers a list of international help lines: https://www.telefonseelsorge.de/international-helplines/