In addition to psychosocial counselling, Paderborn University offers a number of other contact and counselling centres for study-related and personal problems. There are also other centres outside the university and digital support services that you can make use of.

• The Writing Competence Centre provides support with academic writing and work; help with procrastination is also offered by ProLearning
• The Family Service Office is a counselling and mediation centre that helps students reconcile their studies/career and family life
• The Equal Opportunities Officers (centralised and decentralised) provide advice on all equality-related topics. They support students by promoting and protecting equal opportunities, against bullying, stalking and discrimination at the university, at events/exams or student jobs
• At my beneFIT@upb.de you will find many offers on health and well-being
• The AStA Social Office is the student contact point for social issues, such as information on social loans, the "Housing for Help" project, reimbursement of the semester ticket amount; the AStA also offers legal advice for all student issues

• The counselling services of the Catholic University Community and Protestant University Community help with crises of meaning, questions of life and faith, financial emergencies and much more

• The Lilith Women's Counselling Centre provides advice on campus and supports women who are currently experiencing or have experienced psychological, physical or sexualised violence in the past. It is also a point of contact in cases of sexual abuse against children

• As part of LehramtsNavi, student teachers are offered short workshops on dealing with stress or self-organisation

• ThePaderborn Alliance against Depression e.V.provides support in finding counselling services and information about events on the subject of depression

• U25] Paderborn helps with suicidal thoughts and crises with an anonymous mail counselling service

• Help with eating disorders is offered by theCounselling centre for adults with eating disorders

• Theaddiction counsellingof the Caritasverband Paderborn e.V. offers information and counselling in the field of legal and illegal addictive substances as well as non-substance-related addictions such as gambling addiction, regardless of whether you currently want to change your consumption behaviour.

• TheSocial Psychiatric Serviceoffers counselling and support to mentally ill, addicted and mentally disabled people as well as their relatives and other affected persons

• The self-help contact centre in Paderborn provides information about self-help and refers people to existing groups

• Belladonnathe women's counselling centre against sexual and domestic violence offers help, advice and support in cases of acute or past violence

• The men's counselling service of KIM - Rat & Tat e.V. supports men in psychosocial crisis situations with individual counselling and group offers

• Pregnancy conflict counselling, non-denominational and non-partisan, is offered by pro familia, as well as information on social law issues during pregnancy and after birth and sexual counselling

• Counselling for children at risk (of students)is offered by the General Social Service of the Paderborn district

• The debtor and insolvency counselling centre of the Caritasverband Paderborn e.V. provides advice and support in regulating your own expenses and income

• MiCadois a psychosocial counselling centre forimmigrants and refugeeswhich also offers trauma therapy

• ThePsychotherapists' Association Paderborn-Höxter e.V.provides guidance on the path to outpatient psychotherapy in the region. On the website of the KVWL (Westphalia-Lippe Association of Statutory Health Insurance Physicians), theDoctor and psychotherapist searchInformation on registered medical and psychological psychotherapists

• Online self-help programmeiFightDepression
• Online self-help programmemoodgym
• Self-help smartphone appCOGITO
• Professionally moderated online forum for exchanging experienceswww.diskussionsforum-depression.de
• Email counselling for young people:www.u25-deutschland.deorwww.jugendnotmail.de

Additionally analogue:

• Germany-wide information hotline for depression 0800/33 44 5 33
• Telephone counselling 0800/111 0 111 or 0800/111 0 222