How Much Does Therapy Cost in Brussels? Complete 2025 Guide

What therapy costs in Brussels in 2026

Belgium's conventioned psychology scheme has numbers most countries cannot match: through the 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.

These are guiding estimates. 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. Mutualités partially reimburse private sessions under their own complementary rules, which differ mutualité by mutualité; check yours. Pages quoting a standard Brussels session price are quoting themselves; the reliable figure is the practice's own quote.

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.

Reviewed July 2026. All scheme figures are INAMI's own, read at source on 28 July 2026. We quote no private euro figures because none have a published source.