Coaching and counselling options

1 to 4 session counselling

As you know, ELTE BTK provides help with mental health issues, blocks, anxieties as well as a mentoring program to strengthen your skills in studying and helping you deal with the system and requirements of Hungarian education system.

You have to keep in mind, that I am only the first step – though the biggest you have made when asking for help! – and I’m here to listen to and understand your needs. What I can help with is to hold your hand until we find the best way to get you professional help.

Counselling, provided by ELTE BTK HELP (and by me) is basically the first step to identfy your blockages and find you the best type of help and helper either inside ELTE’s own psychological therapist team or outside with an independent professional.

What can you expect from the one-session counselling?

• 50 min counselling session
• Identifying your difficulties and needs
• Counselling according to your need
• Professional guidance for stress or crisis management
• Informing you about your options for further support in ELTE HELP according to your needs
• Informations about mental health care systems outside of ELTE if needed

What can you expect if you need more than one occasion?

• Identifying your difficulties and needs
• Support to find your way to professional ELTE psychologists
• 3, maximum 4 occasions (50 min each) of counselling until you wait for your professional ELTE psychologist with whom you can start a longer cooperation
• Crisis intervention, supporting you find the fastest way to receive professional help

Opening up or working with others in a group may feel stressful first, but is a great opportunity to get fedback from your peers, to feel you are not alone with neither your difficulties nor your joyous experiences. Group sessions also provide safe space where you can discuss topics you otherwise wouldn’t, or make friends with those whom you otherwise wouldn’t have met.

Group sessions mainly focus on strengthening inter- and intrapersonal skills; just as dealing with stress and procrastination, managing or at least understanding the source of emotional instability, and learning some mindfulness and cognitive strategies which might provide quick help in need. For the creative minds, I also provide an insigt to art therapy, and how you can work on self-knowledge in your free time.

Details:

• 120 min each with 10-15 min break.
• On every session, I’m available for a little longer if you had anything to discuss personally about your experiences in the group

Dates and venue of Psychology Workshops 

► CULTURAL SHOCK & COPING WITH NEW ENVIRONMENTS

• 3rd of October (Friday) 14:00
• ELTE Faculty of Humanities (1088. Budapest, Múzeum körút 4.), Main Building, 3rd floor, room: 309 (map)
• Meeting point for those uncertain in finding the way: 13:50 in front of Building A.

Welcome again to this semester's psychology workshops! This semester we start with getting to know the psychological effects of cultural shock and the challenge of arriving to a new environment. Apart from the basic knowledge on cultural differences, we'll peek into what environmental psychology has to offer us in the topic as well. In the second half of the workshop, we'll learn some of the coping strategies and fill a questionnaire that helps you map your strengths. 

If you are interested why Budapest is freaking you out, why you might be more tired than usual, what anxieties a new environment might cause, or simply enjoy filling psychological questionnaires join us!

The workshops are including a presentation and some frontal parts but we discuss most of the topics together in our group. 

► PROCASTINATION AND EXCUTIVE FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN

• 7th of November (Friday) 14:00
• ELTE Faculty of Humanities (1088. Budapest, Múzeum körút 4.), Main Building, 3rd floor, room: 309 (map)
• Meeting point for those uncertain in finding the way: 13:50 in front of Building A.

We have all been procrastinating in our lives once… twice… or we always do. Even right now, reading your mail. 

But what doesn’t that actually mean, what might be the reasons behind it?

During the session we will talk about the executive functions of our brain and what might hijack it. Look into the common misconceptions of ADHD and focus on attention and attention deficit in general.

During the second part of the session we’ll look at some exercises that aim to improve performance and avoid freezing.

The workshops are including a presentation and some frontal parts but we discuss most of the topics together in our group. 

► MIND YOUR BODY. AN INTEGRATIVE APPROACH TO WELLBEING

• 28th of November (Friday) 14:00
• ELTE Faculty of Humanities (1088. Budapest, Múzeum körút 4.), Main Building, 3rd floor, room: 309 (map)
• Meeting point for those uncertain in finding the way: 13:50 in front of Building A.

When academic stress is on, we often forget that our brilliant minds are encapsulated in a (just as brilliant) body. Moreover, we need this body to keep functioning effectively through the weeks in order to achieve our personal goals.

During these periods many students get sleep deprived, move significantly less than WHO’s minimum recommendation and eat fast food. Most of the time bodies start complaining only as we age, but the impact that a healthy body has on our mental and emotional health we often underestimate.

This time I would like to shed light on how the health of our body impacts the health of our mind and why sometimes it is worth to sleep or exercise an extra hour instead of studying through the night. 

The workshops are including a presentation and some frontal parts but we discuss most of the topics together in our group. 

All international students (BA, MA, PhD) of the Faculty of Humanities who are on an active semester. Unfortunately, we are unable to accept students who are on a passive semester or students from other faculties of ELTE / universities.

If you are an international student at another faculty of ELTE and are seeking help, please contact your faculty's international office/coordinator and ask them for information about the assistance available at that faculty.

Thank you for your understanding!