Third Edition of Group Programs – Art, Music and Dance for Wellbeing
The POLIPSI service offers tnew group programs dedicated to all students and PhD candidates of Politecnico di Milano. Safe spaces guided by professionals to promote well-being, expression, and sharing. They are programs structured into three sessions, designed to be experienced in their entirety; attending all sessions allows participants to gain the most from the activities and practices offered.
Introduction to Sound Wellness – How to Reduce Stress Through Music - from November 4th
Music can become a powerful tool for managing stress, improving concentration, and promoting psychological well-being. During this series of meetings, you will discover how sound and mindful listening can help restore balance in university life.Connections – An Experience of Presence and Listening Beyond Words - from November 4th
Art can become a safe space for exploration, awareness, and emotional resonance, supporting personal well-being. This Art Therapy program will guide participants through a gradual process that moves from connecting with oneself and the group, to awareness and expression of one’s emotional world, and finally to exploring the relational dimension and meeting the other.Dance Movement Therapy – The Body and Movement as the Primary Tools of Experience - from November 4th
The Dance Movement Therapy program will guide participants in exploring and understanding the body as it is in the present moment: the breath, self-awareness, spontaneous gestures, the relationship with space, and the encounter with the movements of others. Only in Italian.
PoliPsi is the free counselling and psychological and psychotherapeutic support service for students and PhD candidates at the Politecnico di Milano. It has a team of experts (psychologists, psychotherapists, psychiatrists) in relational dynamics and learning processes. The service offers a place to confront and receive competent support in moments of discomfort, inherent to the personal and academic sphere. Maximum confidentiality and respect for privacy of any data and materials exchanged or collected are guaranteed.
In particular, with the help offered by the service you can:
- deal with difficult situations encountered upon entering academic life (both of an academic or psychological nature);
- improve your academic performance (targeting and refining your chosen academic path, the motivations and the reasons behind it and the most effective personal and cooperative strategies for achieving your desired results);
- get to know and better understand yourself, others, your most meaningful relationships and the situations that you put yourself in in anticipation of a rich, prestigious and original personal, professional and relational future;
- better cope with your first work placement experiences, in furtherance of internships, apprenticeships and research activities.
Depending on the specific problem, the service offers varying levels of psychological and psychotherapeutic support and counselling.
The service does not provide care for emergency or urgent conditions and does not guarantee the management of cases requiring multiprofessional interventions. In such situations, the service may offer guidance and support in referring users to the appropriate public healthcare services.
Uno spazio con te – Listening desk in the residences
Uno spazio con te is starting again: a psychological listening desk dedicated to students and PhD candidates living in the university residences, available from 14 September to 31 October 2026.
The service is free of charge, confidential and available in Italian and English. It is designed to promote well-being, protect health, and help prevent and manage the stress that may arise during one’s educational journey and life in residence. Further details will follow shortly.
For information and booking details for the residences:
The new Polipsi platform is now available
We are pleased to inform you that, as of April 21, 2026, the new Polipsi platform is now live, designed to provide a simpler and more immediate user experience.
Access has been streamlined - no more SMS code is required. You can now log in directly using your online service credentials. The “student” and “PhD candidate” profiles have been redesigned to be clearer, more intuitive, and faster to use. It will also be possible to access psychological support and psychotherapy services without the need to complete a preliminary course.
For difficulties in the academic sphere (study method, organisation, motivation, anxiety, delayed studies, doubts about choice) the service offers:
- a seminar on study and learning methodologies;
- 1 to 5 individual sessions in Educational Psychological Counselling with a psychologist with expertise in guidance and teaching methodologies. Individual sessions will be assigned only after the mandatory seminar has been attended.
For difficulties, also of a personal nature, the service offers:
- a cycle of 8 individual sessions - with psychotherapist and if necessary a follow up with a coordinator* psychotherapist - sessions are weekly
- Starting from Wednesday, July 9th, the Polipsi service will also be active at Bovisa La Masa, Building B30, Room 1.2 (located on the first floor). The methods for accessing the service and the courses remain unchanged, you will need to register on the Polipsi platform as always.
To access to the Psychological and Psychotherapeutic Support service, please click on the following link:
Services can be requested at any time - after registration and in full compliance with privacy regulations - by accessing the PoliPsi application from your personal Online Services.
For teaching staff, technical and administrative staff, research fellows and researchers, the CUG (Single Guarantee Committee) provides a listening service dedicated to work-related distress. In addition, a psychological counselling service is available for staff and members enrolled in the supplementary healthcare scheme Insieme Salute; for further information, please visit the PoliMI People Care section of the Online Services (Polimi - Authentication).
Actions
- World mental health day
- Educational psychological counselling
- Psychotherapeutic support
- PoliPsi Experiential Labs
- Special help desk for stalking victims: stalkingsos@polimi.it
- Mindfulness for students and PhD students
Contacts
For undergraduates and PhD students enrolled in the Polipsi service
polipsi@polimi.it
To request the service, please register in the PoliPsi Platform available in your Online services.
For Teaching, Technical and Administrative Staff
Listening and Work-related Distress Counselling Desk: sportellodiascolto@polimi.it
PoliMi People Care: polimi_peoplecare@insiemesalute.org / welfare@polimi.it