The Frauenkrisentelefon offers counseling for women* in various crisis situations: from general and chronic life problems to emergency situations and suicidal crises.

Crises can have different causes:

• Traumatic events (e.g. rape, domestic violence)
• Change (e.g. breakup, divorce, death of a loved one)
• Development (e.g. separation from family, identity issues)
• Chronic life problems (e.g. psychological illness, addiction, difficult life circumstances)

The type of telephone counseling depends on the caller’s needs:

• Singular crisis intervention
• Repeated, accompanying counselling
• Continuous, long-term counselling
• Receiving information on
  • Counseling and therapy centres, self-help groups
  • Specific women’s projects
  • Continuing education possibilities
  • Other projects in different languages
  • And more