The John Vane Academy
Mental Health Support
We want to make sure our members are aware of the free services available to them through the Advice and Counselling team at QMUL. PhD students and Staff have access to a range of free mental health support and we encourage you to use it when you need it.
The below list was provided by the Student Experience team; all are free to use and can be accessed through a self-referral form on the students AskQM account. Additional services are available to postdocs and other early career research staff.
Counselling
- Confidential, non-judgmental emotional and psychological support through short-term talking therapy or cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) informed therapy, group therapy and supportive groups including 8-week PhD support group facilitated by a group therapist.
Mental Health Advice
- Mental health advisors offer guidance and support to students struggling with distress and/or mental health difficulties. They offer crisis intervention, psycho education and advocacy, working collaboratively with internal and external services.
Wellbeing Advice
- Practical support and strategies for issues that impact on day-to-day life and overall wellbeing such as stress, sleep, time management, loneliness or transitioning to university.
Sexual Assault and Harassment Advice
- Free, confidential and specialist support for students affected by any form of sexual violence including rape, sexual assault & sexual harassment, intimate image abuse and stalking & harassment whether it happened now or in the past. Not sure if it "counts"? Come talk to us anyway.
Welfare Advice and Advocacy
- Advice and advocacy on a range of practical, financial and welfare issues including funding studies and hardship funding; budgeting and managing money; student finance and tuition fee issues; changes to studies; welfare benefit and debt advice.
Immigration Advice and International Support
- Advice, guidance and representation relating to your student visa requirements and conditions including working, immigration for your family members, travelling and re-entering the UK and general support for international students in the UK.
Specialist support
- For students who are estranged, care experienced, asylum seekers and refugees, carers, at risk of domestic abuse, at risk of/experiencing domestic abuse, at risk of/experiencing so-called ‘honour’-based abuse (including forced marriage), parents, disabled.
