Study and career counselling psychologist services for doctoral students

We offer support and consultation related to studies, studying practices, self-directedness, motivation, academic well-being and career choices.

You can contact us when you feel like you’re lacking motivation or time-management skills, having trouble getting things accomplished, feeling stress or anxiety about your thesis or like you may not be able to keep up, or if you’re looking for the way of studying that suits you best. 

If you are facing mental-health or general health-related issues, you should contact occupational health (if you are an employee) or the health centre in your home municipality. Below you can find information on how to get in touch with these services. (Please note: doctoral students are not entitled to use the Finnish Student Health Service (FSHS).)

A wide range of support services for doctoral students are available at: https://www.aalto.fi/en/study-at-aalto/support-for-challenges-during-your-doctoral-studies. 

Our services are for available to all Aalto University doctoral students, regardless of the employer or financial situation. All discussions with a study or career counselling psychologist are confidential and free of charge.  

For the details on how to contact us, see: Individual counselling by study and career counselling psychologists | Aalto University

If you are an Aalto employee, you are eligible to receive occupational health services. 

Support is also available for mental well-being: 

If you do not have an employment contract with Aalto or some other Finnish employer (but have, for example, your own grant funding instead), you can contact the health centre for your municipality about physical or mental-health matters:  

Espoo 

Helsinki 

Vantaa 

MIELI Mental Health Finland offers mental health services for health-promotion and problem-prevention. 

Aalto offers various kinds of workshops and groups and self-study material for study skills, well-being and career planning.