Introducing the Women*’s Counselling and Therapy Center (TuBF)
Our services are for women and INTA+1 of all ages, geographical and social origins, cultural and ethnic backgrounds, regardless of life circumstances, handicaps, physical characteristics, religions and world views, sexual orientation and gender identity. We support people in mental crises with psychological counselling and therapy and we also offer professional coaching.
During our open telephone counselling hours, you can receive support for mental crises and life issues without making an appointment. Only some of our counsellors speak English, Turkish, Spanish, Russian or Georgian. Because of that we cannot guarantee a spontaneous counselling session in your preferred language during our open phone counselling hours. Therefore, we ask you to state your language preference at the beginning of the conversation, leave a message on our voicemail or send us an email at info@tubf.de with your request. A counsellor who speaks the language will call you back to schedule an appointment.
The consultations are free of charge, bound to professional secrecy (confidentiality) and can also take place anonymously.
Here you can access a short overview of our services
We are an open-topic counselling center and offer psychological counseling and therapy for women, inter, non-binary, trans*, agender and persons with other gender identities. Topics can be, for example:
- Conflicts in relationships, and separations
- Experiences of exclusion and xenophobia
- All forms of experiences of violence
- Acting violently oneself (anger management)
- Conflicts in occupation or studies
- Anxieties, lack of self-assurance, and excessive demands
- Problematic eating patterns (eating disorders)
- Psychological crises
- Loss and mourning
- …
Upon request we offer long term counseling and therapy as well as couples therapy for female, inter, non-binary and agender couples.
As a team, we constantly train ourselves in intercultural competencies to consult all people who feel they belong to different cultural groups in an appreciative manner. In doing so, we reflect the privileges of our majority society with its implicit racist self-evident facts.
It is not people who move between cultures, but culture that emerges between people. If culture is something that happens between people, then there is no such thing as „the“ culture, because every encounter between two people creates something new, a unique expression of culture, created in the coexistence of their different cultures of origin.
Consultations with an English-, Spanish-, Russian-, Georgian- or Turkish-speaking counsellor are possible upon request.
Our counselling sessions are queer- and gender-sensitive, i.e. our counsellors deal with diverse lifestyles and sexual identities in a sensitive and appreciative manner. We explicitly welcome diverse gender and sexual orientation (biological sex, social gender, sexual orientation) at TuBF. As TuBF, we want to help ensure that every sexual orientation and gender identity can be experienced with freedom and joy rather than emotional limitations.
Beyond individual counselling, we offer couples therapy for female, inter, non-binary and agender couples.
TuBF cooperates with female lawyers who can offer you an initial consultation free of charge regarding family law as well as immigration law and law concerning foreigners. We will be happy to put you in touch with them. Call us during our open consultation hours or send your request by e-mail to info@tubf.de.
Topics are for example:
- separation/divorce
- alimony
- custody
While our counseling sessions are free of charge, the costs for any kind of longer-term service (therapy, couples therapy, professional coaching) depend on your income and vary between 0 and 110 €.
The TuBF team
Here you can find all members of the TuBF team.
Working Methods
Our working method can basically be characterized by four factors:
The professional-methodical spectrum of the TuBF currently consists of the following qualifications: Psychodynamic therapy, cognitive behavioral therapy, systemic therapy and psychosynthesis.
Autonomy in organization and content allow us to combine qualified work with grass-roots democratic oriented structures. Our independent and autonomous working is based on joint decision-making processes concerning conceptual issues. Receiving team-supervision by an external supervisor on a regular basis and our own interest in discussions and changes allow us a satisfying and competent co-operation in solidarity.
Our co-operation is oriented towards the ensuring of the quality of counseling and therapeutic work on mutual assistance. Qualified education, regular advanced trainings, collegial intervision, and a respectful conduct with our resources guarantee a high working standard.
An internal working group on therapeutic and political issues is enlarging our feminist competences.
We are a member of the „Association of autonomous women’s counseling centers of NRW“ („Dachverband der autonomen Frauenberatungsstellen NRW e.V.“). Moreover, we are linked to regional and transregional groups and organizations especially to those ones who act interculturally and with women/lesbians/queer persons.