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Psychology Internship at krisenchat Ukrainian (gn)

Remote, Germany, Ukraine
Full-time
Intern / Student

Your mission

Please note that this is an unpaid internship opportunity as part of your studies.

We are looking for interns based in UA.
OR
interns with valid enrollment based in Germany.


We are looking for motivated Ukrainian and/or Russian speaking interns who are interested in supporting krisenchat Ukrainian in our journey with a minimum of 15 hours per week for at least 8 weeks. Since we are a platform for psychological counseling, this position is highly applicable for psychology students.
  • Chat counseling
  • Supporting the counselors with content-related questions
  • Supporting the psychological management in conceptual work regarding trauma, PTBS,the topic of refugees and more
  • Participation in internal meetings and supervisions
  • Translations
  • Administrative tasks
  • Development of a task (tool) that can be used in the chat consultation
  • Holding a workshop accompanying the developed excercise

Your profile

  • Confidence in speaking and writing in Ukrainian and/or Russian
  • Enrollment or Degree in psychology
  • interns based in UA OR interns with valid enrollment based in Germany.
  • Clinical knowledge of problems and psychological disorders
  • Interest in supporting people affected by the ongoing war with a high sensitivity for this topic
  • Feeling for sensitive communication and knowledge of resonance
  • Ability for self-reflection
  • Flexibility, fun and curiosity in testing digital support services
  • Ability to work in a team and independently, digitally
  • Important: Please check beforehand whether the internship can be recognized by your university or college. For administrative reasons, we focus on applications from within Germany.

Why us?

  • Accompaniment by a clinical psychologist (M.Sc.) of the psychological lead team
  • Certificate at the end of the internship (usually applicable for universities)
  • Exciting work in a great, dynamic team
  • Supervision/Intervision offer
  • Flexible working hours possible with far ahead planning
  • remote work / home office
  • Close connection to the psychological management team

About us

krisenchat is a nationwide, free support service for children and young adults in need. We offer children and young people professional psychosocial counseling - every day, 24 hours a day, via web application or WhatsApp. krisenchat has been available 24/7 since May 2020 - since then, our many crisis counselors have been able to help in over 200,000 crisis situations. Since March 1, 2022, krisenchat has also been offering confidential crisis counseling for Ukrainians of all ages, providing support to those particularly affected by the war. In addition to chat counseling, krisenchat now reaches millions of young people every year through psychoeducational content on various social media platforms.

We are an interdisciplinary and agile non-profit organization and work flexibly in our beautiful office in Berlin or remotely.

krisenchat values diversity. We encourage all interested individuals, regardless of national or ethnic origin, age, religion, disability, gender, gender identity, or sexual orientation, to apply. We look forward to hearing from you!

For the sake of transparency, we would like to point out that krisenchat is a project-funded service. Therefore, our job advertisements are always subject to the final approval of our project financiers. 

Your qualifications are also very important to us. Therefore, we kindly ask you to send us your resume without a photo. Thank you very much!