PSYCHOLOGICAL SUPPORT CENTER
Our centre provides support to students and staff with any challenges, academic or personal, you may be facing. Our aim is to help to improve your psychological well being by providing a safe and caring environment where you can access counselling services.
The Centre also aims to train and educate individuals through workshops and seminars, which can promote mental health and improve people’s knowledge in the field of psychology.
Individual counselling
The Counselling Centre provides free individual counselling to all SDU students in Kazakh, Russian and English languages.
There are challenging situations in everyone’s life, when we feel like we can’t handle certain difficulties by ourselves. If you feel like you need professional help to solve some of these problems, please feel free to contact us!
Counsellors can help you with a wide range of difficulties:
- Family problems and parental separations
- Relationship difficulties
- Work-related problems
- Academic difficulties
- Managing transitions
- Anxiety and stress
- Mood disorders
- Problems with establishing contacts
- Problems with self-esteem
- Lack of motivation, doubts about the career path you have chosen
- The loss of an important person
Both employees and students are welcome to contact us. Offline and online alternatives are possible.
HOW TO SIGN UP?
Follow the QR code
the link and fill the Google form.
The psychologist will help you to reconsider your problems, provide you with support, and help you manage change. However, we do not prescribe medications, in case of need we suggest consulting a psychiatrist.
Sabit Mukhamejanov
sabit.mukhamejanov@sdu.edu.kz
Director of the centre
Educational psychologist
Zhansaya Akhmetsadyk
zhansaya.akhmetsadyk@sdu.edu.kz
Psychologist-counselor
Works in Emotion Focused Therapy and Psychodrama methods
Gulnur Yeszhanova
gulnur.yeszhanova@sdu.edu.kz
Psychologist, psychotherapist
Trauma therapy, existential psychotherapist, NLP, Coach.
Nazerke Seitkaziyeva
nazerke.seitkaziyeva@sdu.edu.kz
Educational psychologist
Works in Psychoanalysis method
What if I signed up and my plans change?
- If you signed up but cannot come for any reason, please notify us as soon as possible by writing an email to the psychologist.
- In a free spot, we can have a client who is in high need of help. If you notify us in advance, then we can help another person. Hope for your understanding!
Group Therapy
Group Counselling is conducted in the Psychodrama method. Psychodrama is a method for realizing your inner conflicts and contradictions. An opportunity to look at your present in a new way, and to meet your past. This method allows you to model the future, it teaches mutual understanding and dialogue.
You are welcome to share as much as you wish about yourself in the group, however, the more open you are the better experience you will have. Group Counselling is for students only. The group meets one day every week for 1,5-2 hours during one semester. Done only on campus.
Trainings
This is a way to gain new experience, knowledge or skills that will help make your life richer, interesting and fulfilled. We organize:
- Trainings for self-development
- Art therapy sessions
- Workshops
- Tedtalks and more
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