Support for students and applicants from Ukraine

Support for students from Ukraine

Support for applicants from Ukraine

Psychological assistance in crisis situations 

Students who seek psychological assistance due to the situation in Ukraine can make use of the following offers free of charge and in a non-bureaucratic way:

 


Psychosocial assistance for students from Ukraine

  • Psychological Counselling Services
    You can make initial psychological counselling appointments online.
    Persons affected can contact the Psychological Counselling Services and receive individual counselling and psychological assistance. You can use different hotlines. In addition, they now also offer counselling in Russian and Ukrainian https://www.studierendenberatung.at/en (Vienna, online reservation and hotline)
  • Crisis Intervention Center Vienna, Phone: +43-1-4069595, Monday to Friday, 10:00-17:00
    Crisis Intervention Center providing support and counselling for people in acute crises, Vienna. Counselling in person, via telephone or via e-mail.
    Online at http://www.kriseninterventionszentrum.at/en/.
  • Social psychiatric emergency services (PSD) in Vienna
    Phone: +43-1 31330, every day from 0:00 to 24:00
    Immediate psychiatric assistance for people in acute crises: By calling this number, you will receive qualified and immediate assistance around the clock. Online at https://www.psd-wien.at/.
  • ESRA Vienna. Provides psychosocial counselling and support in Russian for Jewish people living in Vienna. Website: https://www.esra.at/en/about-esra.html
  • Wiener Couch (Vienna couch): private association of psychotherapists and coaches, also provides counselling in Russian: Counselling in Russian - Wiener Couch | centre for psychotherapy
  • Counselling for bicultural marriages and partnerships, Vienna: News - Fibel association (https://www.verein-fibel.at/)
  • Centre providing counselling and support for survivors of war and torture, HEMAYAT association, Vienna HEMAYAT

 

Children and adolescents

 

Psychosocial assistance in German

 

Offers for refugees

This website provides psychological counselling to persons traumatised by war experiences:CARITAS Austria. CARITAS Austria offers psychotherapeutic and psychological counselling for people with a refugee background. It also has a mobile intervention team offering psychological assistance to refugees receiving basic services in Vienna.

→ for example, you can find information in the FAQs about the legal situation if persons would like to bring their family to Austria.

 

Offers for psychosocial assistance for students from Russia

  •  Psychological Counselling Services. You can book initial psychological counselling appointments online. Persons affected can contact the Psychological Counselling Services and receive individual counselling and psychological assistance. You can use different hotlines. In addition, they now also offer counselling in Russian and Ukrainian  https://www.studierendenberatung.at/en (Vienna, online reservation and hotline)
  • Crisis Intervention Center Vienna, Phone: +43-1-4069595, Monday to Friday, 10:00-17:00. Crisis Intervention Center providing support and counselling for people in acute crises, Vienna. Counselling in person, via telephone or via e-mail. Online at  http://www.kriseninterventionszentrum.at/en/.
  • Social psychiatric emergency services (PSD) in Vienna. Phone: +43-1 31330, every day from 0:00 to 24:00. Immediate psychiatric assistance for people in acute crises: By calling this number, you will receive qualified and immediate assistance around the clock. Online at https://www.psd-wien.at/.
  • ESRA Vienna. Provides psychosocial counselling and support in Russian for Jewish people living in Vienna. Website: https://www.esra.at/en/about-esra.html
  • Wiener Couch (Vienna couch): private association of psychotherapists and coaches, also provides counselling in Russian: Counselling in Russian - Wiener Couch | centre for psychotherapy
  • Counselling for bicultural marriages and partnerships, Vienna: News - Fibel association (https://www.verein-fibel.at/)
  • Centre providing counselling and support for survivors of war and torture, HEMAYAT association, Vienna HEMAYAT

 

Further useful information for students from Ukraine