Edinburgh University students made to wait up to 12 weeks for a counselling appointment They can wait four weeks for a consultation and an additional eight for an appointment 3 months ago Edinburgh University students are being made to wait up to 12 weeks to get a counsellor using uni mental health services, The Tab Edinburgh can reveal. Emails obtained by The Tab show that a student using the service only received an appointment today, January 11th, when she initially applied on the 22nd October. The student had a consultation appointment on the 23rd November to assess her individual risk and was then informed by her counsellor that she would likely not have an appointment until the new year.