Entering university is a life stage that opens people to various opportunities:
- Opportunities to education
- Meeting new people
- Learning new things
- Building self-confidence
- Developing self-image
- Discovering one’s potentials
- Actualizing them.
At times, however, these opportunities may bring about psychological reactions such as
- Frustration
- Anxiety
- Self-doubt
- Sadness
- Hopelessness
- Anger
that interfere with the pursuit of a successful and satisfying university life.
Counselling is a process in which a counsellor meets with students, aiming at enhancing their self-understanding and personal development, empowering them to cope with their problems, facilitating their adjustment to university life and assisting them in making healthy life changes.
You may benefit from seeing a counsellor if you:
Find it difficult to adjust to university life
Feel powerless in coping with your problems, such as interpersonal conflicts, trauma, situational stress, grief and loss
Feel sad, anxious, stressed, or troubled for a long period of time
Want to understand yourself more
Want to enhance your interpersonal relationship
Want to explore and develop your potentials
Want to improve your emotional wellness
Want to optimize your decision-making, problem-solving and stress management
All information that you reveal to our counsellors is kept strictly confidential. The counselling record will not be contained in your academic record. The collected personal data is for providing psychological counselling service, no information will be released to anyone without written consent, except when You are at risk of harming yourself or others, or other regulations by the law, the data may be transferred to other legal authorities/institutions.
In accordance with the Law No. 2/2004 – “Law on the Prevention, Control and Treatment of Infectious Diseases”, if the place is confirmed or shows a sign that caused the occurrence or spread of infectious diseases, to protect the public interest, the participation status of the people who visit the psychological counseling center may be transferred to other legal authorities/institutions.
Counselling Appointment
A counselling session lasts for 50 minutes. If you wish to schedule an appointment with a counsellor, please click the “make an appointment ” button below. We will reply you within 2 working days, please check your UM email or phone call.
For effectively use counselling resources, if you need to cancel or absent for the appointment, please contact us 2 working days before. So that we can arrange the time slot to other students.