If you know someone who would like to join AsyLex as a volunteer, please refer them to us.

In case of stress, mental health concerns or concerns about team leaders or colleagues, please feel free to reach out to us for a confidential meeting. 

If you have questions about HR related matters, you may reach out to us as well.

If you want a work certificate, please contact your team leader.

If you have any technical issues, please contact admin@asylex.ch. 

If you want to terminate your work with AsyLex, please follow the following procedure:

• Send a termination notification to your team leader at least 2 months in advance.

• Make sure you hand over all your cases to another volunteer (including proper instruction), update Zenobis / Eqipe properly and inform the clients about the change.

• If you want to get a work certificate, inform your team leaders in due course before the offboarding.

• Once all this is done and signed off by your team leaders, your team leaders will initiate the off-boarding proceedure with HR and admin.

Our HR co-teamleaders are:

• Leila Schmid (leila.schmid@asylex.ch) 

Cooperation with Webster Counseling Center

As of May 2024, AsyLex has a cooperation with the Webster Counseling Center (https://www.webstercounselingcenter.com/) to provide our volunteers/employees with free, accessible and low-threshold counseling.

About Webster Counseling Center

The Webster Geneva Campus Counseling Center provides counseling in-person/online or in the privacy of your own home at no cost while serving as a training site for graduate students of the MA in Counseling at Webster Geneva. Their offices are located in Geneva and Zurich. Their mission is to work towards equality and social justice by reaching those who could otherwise not access counseling, including culturally diverse groups, and underserved communities. They also provide free counseling support for solidarity and humanitarian workers.

Their counselors are supervised by counselors, psychologists, and psychotherapists with extensive clinical and supervision experience. They provide free, compassionate and professional services in a safe and confidential environment in multiple languages. 

As student members of the Swiss Association for Counseling (SGfB), their counselors are fully insured and adhere to the ethical guidelines of SGfB and the American Counseling Association (ACA). 

Our Cooperation

Volunteers and Employees at AsyLex are given the opportunity to meet with counselors in training from the Webster Counseling Center in individual sessions. Depending on your whishes and needs, you can schedule a single sessions or more. You may address thoughts or concerns regarding their volunteer work at AsyLex, but also discuss general/personal concerns or topics. The sessions are confidential and without any costs. 

Are you interested? These are the next steps!

1. Send an email to operations@asylex.ch and let us know that you're interested.

2. The Webster Counseling Center will contact you directly via email within the following days and match you with a counselor.

3. You can schedule your session individually and directly with your counselor (online or in-person). 

If you have any questions regarding this service/cooperations, please feel free to contact operations@asylex.ch!

Weekly open calls / "Sprechstunde"

We offer a weekly "Sprechstunde" on Wednesdays at 5pm (Zoom link here) where you can address issues regarding your volunteering at AsyLex with a member of the executive board. You can address any questions you may have about AsyLex in general, you can talk about your ongoing cases or other concerns you may have.

Resources from Medica Mondiale

During the AsyLex Academy of February 2025, Çağdaş and Maria from Medica Mondiale held a workshop on mental health. You can find the resources that they shared with us here. 

Included are: 

• a self-care booklet 

• debriefing regarding relief from acute traumatic experience

Interactive Online Training (WHO)

We suggest that you take time to have a look at the interactive online training "Mental Health and Psychosocial Support for Humanitarian Workers" from Nahed El Shazly here.