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We are IPSO – International Psychosocial Organisation.

We specialise in psychosocial support and mental health care, and we combine these activities with promoting local culture as well as socio-cultural dialogues as a means and path to peace and reconciliation. We are committed to making a paradigm shift in mental health care that focuses on self-efficacy and the ability to consciously shape one’s own life. We see psychosocial support as being a cross-sectional task that is needed in all health care and humanitarian work sectors.

More about us and our approach

Our fields of activity

IPSO Care

Our professional VBC online counseling for refugees in Germany and other European countries.

IPSO Freetalk

Our professional VBC online counseling for people worldwide, especially living in regions where psychosocial support is hard to access or not available.

IPSO Academy

Our VBC training for psychologists, educators, and social workers.

Projects

Our national and international involvement includes local capacity building, VBC counseling and psychosocial peacebuilding.

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What We Do

The focus of our work is Psychosocial Support (MHPSS), the heart of which is our Value Based Counseling. Our international commitment includes local capacity building, low-threshold help for self-help and psychosocial peacebuilding. Since 2015/16 we have been working on setting up an innovative supply structure for refugees in Germany: We use the resources of a migration society for successful integration.

More about our projects

Germany

saba app: a pilot project for improved access to mental health care for refugees

Germany

The aim of the project is to offer psychosocial support to as many people with refugee or migration background in Germany as possible – at a low threshold, digitally and individually.Click here to be …

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Afghanistan

Psychosocial and Mental Health Center Kabul

Afghanistan

VBC® was integrated into the Basic Package of Health Services (BPHS) in 2011–2016 with support from the EU and the Federal Foreign Office. The state health system’s capacities improved considerably …

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Psychosocial Resilience: Training and Support for Healthstaff in Gaza

We build the capacity of MHPSS staff working in IMC hospitals in Gaza to provide psychosocial support using Value Based Counseling, strengthen their resilience and wellbeing, and develop a suicide …

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IPSO freetalk

Many people carry emotional pain alone. Displaced, isolated, facing trauma or discrimination or often unable to get help due to language barriers, long waits, or cost. IPSO freetalk offers free …

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Our partners

We express our deep gratitude to our donors and partners for their support

We owe Dr. Michael Otto essential stimuli for our work in Germany. His vigorous and generous support over many years laid the foundation for our psychosocial support for refugees, which is now available countrywide. Our greatest thanks go to him.

For twelve years, the German Federal Foreign Office was a reliable partner for our work in Afghanistan. Its steady support enabled us to establish comprehensive psychosocial care in Afghanistan.

Public authorities and institutions

International institutions

Scientific/medical institutes

Civil society organisations

Companies

We would like to sincerely thank the team members at Strichpunkt Design, who have designed our website on a pro bono basis with huge commitment and for their very stimulating and enriching collaboration: Lea Schulte-Rödding, Luzie Bayreuther, Maria Hiegelsberger, Maria Strodt, Martina Hofschneider, Maximilian Tolksdorf, Moritz Scharnhop, Paul Brian Judt

Contact

If you have any questions or project inquiries, please do not hesitate to contact us.