International Student Support Group

Supporting students with their mental health, student life and living-abroad challenges

• Struggling with student life, loneliness and long-term distance from family and friends from your home country?
• Overwhelmed by stress because of upcoming exams?
• Concerned about gender or racial equality in your environment?
  
• Guilty every time you try to relax, since you “should have” been studying?
• Worried about speaking in public, going on job interviews, or asking someone for a date?
• Struggling with social anxiety, procrastination, perfectionism? ​

If your answer is “YES” to some-or all- of those questions,
then join us to our new International Students Support Group!
There is a group for International Students for those who would like to join, share and get practical tools for their students life and its challenges. 

Will it help me if I join the students support group?

It is proved that people that have participated in our Support Group for a few months have felt more confident, less lonely, more connected with others and belonging to a group, they have found practical tools in order to cope with personal issues, and they have admitted that they feel strong and ready to deal with the challenges of every day life especially as an international student. 

In our support group we discuss about:

• What stress is and how to handle it efficiently.
• Homesickness: how to deal with this feeling of being away from home, family and friends.  
• How to better understand anxiety and negative thinking, and learn how to reverse it 
• How to emotionally deal with gender bias, discrimination, bullying, race-trauma
• How to better prepare for exams and how to deal best with the actual nerve-wrecking exam day.
• How to build skills around time management, procrastination, focus, organisation and planning
• How to keep a balance between your student life and your personal and social life.
• How to build friendships and stay connected.
• How to prioritise decisions and to handle responsibilities of your adult life.

The members of our students support group

• International University Students of all faiths, racial groups, nationalities, immigration statuses, genders, sexual identities as well as political parties. Our groups advocate for diversity and inclusion.
• Different groups for undergraduates, graduates, PhD candidates. ​

Our facilitators

Our facilitators-counselors hold the scientific background and the warm personality to support you through your journey to more self-confidence and inner peace. They are trained in CBT, Schema Therapy, Mindfulness, and other evidence-based approaches. 

About our meetings

We meet every other week to help each other navigate the challenges of Student Life and to give practical tools for real-life struggles. 

At our meetings we provide POSITIVE support in a NON-JUDGMENTAL setting where each member has a chance to discuss, share and get help.
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Bring only your concerns, questions, open minds and warm hearts!

Useful Information & Registration

FEES: 60€ per month (it includes two sessions of two hours each + handouts)
​DAY: tba - every other week
TIME: tba
PLACE: ONLINE
NO OF PARTICIPANTS: 8-10 max.
Minimum commitment: 3 months 

In order to register, please fill in the form that you will find HERE. 

Other services

If you are looking for starting therapy or counseling on an 1:1 basis, visit our link for more information on how therapy works, or contact us directly.

If you are looking for an online course on Perfectionism, visit this link and find more on how to change this self-sabotaging, exhausting mindset and find more inner peace, joy and self-acceptance in life.