How Much Does Therapy Cost in Brussels in 2026?

Through Belgium's conventioned mental health networks, your first session is free, each session after costs €11, or €4 if you qualify for enhanced reimbursement, and under 24 you pay nothing at all. Group sessions cost €2.50. Outside the convention, private fees are set practice by practice.

The figures below are INAMI's own, not our estimates. Outside the convention, practitioners set their own fees.

The conventioned route, in the insurer's own words

The INAMI (Belgium's health insurance institute) reimburses psychological care delivered through conventioned mental health networks, and its own page states the patient costs plainly:

• Adults: "the first session is free, you then pay €11 for each session", or €4 per session with enhanced intervention (intervention majorée). Group sessions cost €2.50; community interventions are free.
• Children and young people up to 23: "there is no personal contribution". Zero.
• First-line support needs no prescription: you contact a network psychologist directly. Adults get up to 8 individual first-line sessions per 12 months (the youth network gets 10); more intensive psychological treatment runs to 20 sessions on a functional assessment made in the first session.

The door is the network, not the individual psychologist: the rates above apply with clinicians working in one of the conventioned mental health networks that cover the country, including Brussels. Ask a psychologist directly whether they work within the network convention, or your mutualité can point you to one.

Outside the convention

Private psychologists and psychotherapists outside the network scheme set their own fees, and no Belgian professional body publishes a schedule: the Commission des Psychologues registers psychologists and protects the title, but sets no tariff. Brussels practices that publish their rates list roughly €55 to €90 for an individual session, and Infor Jeunes Bruxelles puts the usual private range at €40 to €70 for 45 to 60 minutes. Your mutualité takes part of that back: Partenamut and Solidaris each reimburse up to €20 a session, capped at €400 a year, under complementary cover. The amounts and the conditions differ mutualité by mutualité, so check yours before you book.

Lower-cost routes in Brussels

• PsyBru is the Brussels-region door to the conventioned rates above: first session free, then €11 a session, €4 on enhanced reimbursement, free under 24, €2.50 in a group. You contact a network psychologist directly, with no prescription.
• Services de santé mentale, the subsidised community mental health services across the Brussels communes, set what you pay against your income. Infor Jeunes Bruxelles puts their base price at €10 to €20, and they will go lower, or to nothing, where the cost would keep you away.
• University clinics. BRUCC, the VUB centre on Pleinlaan in Ixelles, charges €90 a session, €11 for VUB students and staff over 23, and €12.50 for group sessions. The ULB's CCUP on Boulevard de la Plaine sees adults, adolescents and children, and sets its fee with the practitioner you are matched to.
• Ask in the language you want to be treated in. Brussels works in French and Dutch, and much of private practice also works in English. The conventioned networks run on both sides of the language line, so the language you are most yourself in is a request you can make, not a compromise you have to accept.

Whoever quotes you a fee, you can check them: the Commission des Psychologues holds the legally protected title of psychologist under the law of 8 November 1993 and publishes a searchable register of the roughly 19,000 people entitled to use it.

If you need someone now

• Centre de Prévention du Suicide: 0800 32 123.
• Zelfmoordlijn (Dutch-speaking): 1813.

Sources

• INAMI, first-line psychological care via the mental health networks: the free first session, the €11/€4/€2.50 rates, the zero contribution up to 23, the session limits and the no-prescription rule. Read 28 July 2026.
• PsyBru, individual sessions: the free first session, €11, €4 on BIM, free under 24. Read 26 August 2026.
• BRUCC (Vrije Universiteit Brussel), psychotherapy fees: €90 a session, €11 for VUB students and staff, €12.50 for group sessions. Read 26 August 2026.
• CCUP, Université libre de Bruxelles consultation centre, Boulevard de la Plaine, Ixelles. Read 26 August 2026.
• Infor Jeunes Bruxelles, what psychological help costs in Brussels: the €10 to €20 SSM base price and the €40 to €70 private range. Read 26 August 2026.
• Partenamut, psychology reimbursement, and Solidaris, psychology benefit: €20 a session to a maximum of €400 a year. Read 26 August 2026.
• Commission des Psychologues, the register and the protected title. Read 26 August 2026.

Reviewed August 2026. The scheme figures are INAMI's own, re-read at source on 26 August 2026. The private and institutional figures are quoted from the organisations that publish them, read the same day. Fees outside the convention are set practice by practice, so treat the range as a guide and ask for a quote.