Counselling and Coaching for Employees
consultation hours for employees
You will find the specific consultation hours on the german homepage
During consultation hours, you can make initial contact with us by telephone. We will discuss your enquiry with you and work out together how we can support you. We look forward to hearing from you!
Quicklinks
- conTakt consulting centre for questions about sexualised discrimination and violence
- Contact points for acute crises
Counselling and Coaching for Employees

Changes and challenges accompany us in our professional and private lives. Personal stress, conflicts or work-related problems can affect our mental health and job satisfaction. It can then be helpful to discuss and clarify our own thoughts and feelings with an external person in a protected environment. This can often open up new perspectives and solutions.
- Are you dealing with a professional, private or health problem or a conflict?
- Do you have a desire for further development and want to actively tackle it?
- Do you feel an imbalance in your life or at your workplace?
- Are you looking for solutions or decision-making options?
Counsellors Dr Astrid Beermann and Jutta Vaihinger offer you advice and coaching to help you deal with your issues. We focus on your concerns, your current situation and your social context. Together we look for new perspectives and possibilities. These should increase your own room for manoeuvre and thus bring about a noticeable improvement in your personal feelings and situation.
You have come to the right place with these and many other concerns:
- Mental stress in the workplace
- Personally and/or family-related challenging situations
- Conflicts with colleagues/employees/superiors/students
- Decision-making issues with reorientation
- Excessive demands, stress management, burnout and boreout prevention
- Dealing with change and requests for personal development
- Communication in the team, feedback and conflict culture
- Your topic is not listed here? Feel free to contact us anyway.
The counselling and coaching services are aimed at all employees of the University of Oldenburg. It is available to you directly during working hours - without bureaucratic obstacles. We counsellors are bound to confidentiality and all concerns are treated in strict confidence.
Please feel free to contact us. We look forward to hear from you!
Profil
Sociologist, systemic counsellor and therapist (DGSF/SG), consultant and coach (DGSF, DGSv), mediator (DGSF), systemic teaching consultant/therapist/mediator (DGSF), European Certification of Psychotherapy (ECP), industrial clerk
Dr Astrid Beermann has worked for 20 years as a systemic counsellor and therapist, consultant, coach and mediator in practice and teaching, including 14 years at the University of Oldenburg in the Centre for Lifelong Learning. Long-term cooperation and networking with universities, specialist and professional associations in the context of counselling, therapy, training and further education. Board member (unpaid) of the German Association for Systemic Therapy, Counselling and Family Therapy (DGSF) and deputy spokeswoman for the DGSF department for academic systemic research and teaching. Member of the German Association for Supervision and Coaching (DGSv). Academic research and teaching on factors in change processes of personal and professional development
Jutta Vaihinger
Diplom Pädagogin, systemic counsellor and systemic coach according to the standards of the German Society for Systemic Therapy, Counselling and Family Therapy(DGSF) and the Systemic Society (SG)
Academic appointment to date
- Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf: Student Counselling
Counselling and coaching of students, project leader/coordination, Head of Division and Deputy Head of Division 1.1 - McKinsey & Company Düsseldorf, management consultancy:
Collaboration in change management processes, multiplier training on topics such as project management, negotiation, moderation, presentation and much more. - Deutsche Angestellten Akademie Aachen, adult education:
Career coaching and planning, decision counselling, support throughout the entire application process - Diakonisches Werk Duisburg: Socio-educational family support
Family and educational counselling
Healthy university
We are part of the cross-university network "Healthy teaching, learning and working". As part of this co-operation, we have created a helpful website together with all stakeholders. It provides a good overview of the various institutions and contact persons who are actively committed to health and well-being at our university. Please feel free to take a look around.
Events or advice on current topics
Are you interested in one of the following or completely different topics? Please feel free to contact us. We will customise our offer to your needs/concerns.
- Home office, ‘pleasure or frustration’
- Communication within the team
- Dealing with stressful external influences (war, climate crisis, etc.)
- Difficult situations in teaching