Individual counselling service
Suspension of the Counselling service over the winter holidays
The counselling service will not be available between 23 December 2024 and 6 January 2025 included. It will resume on Tuesday, 7 January 2025.
Students can still book a preliminary meeting before the winter break, as long as there are time slots available. In this case, the counselling sessions will probably start after the holidays.
The University offers a free counselling service to students experiencing momentary difficulties in their studies that could affect their academic performance and their ability to adapt to university life.
Two different types of free counselling may be requested:
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counselling in study methods
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counselling for emotional difficulties.
Please note
The preliminary meeting takes place via Teams. The following meetings may be held either remotely or in person, depending on the student’s preference.
The first meeting is intended to assess whether counselling would be a suitable option to deal with the student’s issues. If counselling turns out not to be appropriate, students will be referred to one of the psychotherapy schools in Milan recognised by MIUR (former Ministry of Education, University and Research), to start a psychotherapy programme covered by the University of Milan and made up of 10-12 sessions free of charge. Alternatively, they will be helped in identifying which local services could be more suitable for them. Participation in non-university psychotherapy programmes is attentively monitored by the counselling service.
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How to book
Send an e-mail to [email protected] from your @studenti.unimi.it account and indicate your name and phone number in the message.
You will receive an e-mail in which you will be offered the date and time of the preliminary online meeting via Teams.
The service helps students learn specific strategies and techniques for developing a personal method of study that can be adapted to different contexts; it also helps them acquire greater awareness of their personal resources.
The counselling sessions (a maximum of 5 individual sessions) are intended for students facing purely academic difficulties:
- problems in time management and in organizing studies
- the need to adapt learning methods to university study
- difficulty in effective communication during exams.
This is a short-term professional counselling service reserved for students with emotional difficulties affecting their academic performance, such as:
- problems adapting to university life
- uncertainty and dissatisfaction in personal choices
- relational difficulties with peers and professors
- lack of confidence and low self-esteem
- difficulty in making decisions and managing complex or stressful situations
- problems managing one's emotions, sentimental problems
- exam anxiety, loss of motivation.