If you or someone close to you is in danger now, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service or hospital. The Family Drug Support 24/7 National Support Line (Tel: 1300 368 186) answers day and night. Other crisis lines:
Crisis numbers in Australia
- National Alcohol and Other Drug Hotline: Tel: 1800 250 015. 24 hours a day, except from South Australia: 8.30am to 10pm.
- Family Drug Support 24/7 National Support Line: Tel: 1300 368 186. 24 hours.
- Lifeline 13 11 14: Tel: 13 11 14 | Text: 0477 13 11 14. 24 hours.
- Suicide Call Back Service: Tel: 1300 659 467. 24 hours. For ages 15 and over.
- Gambling Help Online chat: Chat: www.gamblinghelponline.org.au. 24 hours. Not for crises; in a crisis, seek help right away.
- All crisis lines in Australia
This page lists Female Addiction Counsellors in Sydney. 5 in all.
That is 5 of the 8 counsellors listed in Sydney.
These are practitioners who identify as female on their profile 1. We ask every therapist that question, and they may decline to answer. We do not check the answer, and nothing here is ranked.
This list answers an explicit request for a woman. While many people prefer this, we found no research on whether it changes how the therapy goes.
A client and a practitioner always differ; what matters is what that means to you and how you work with it 2. You can filter the same list by the languages a practitioner works in.
What the counsellors on this page do, and how to choose one
The counsellors listed in Sydney for addiction offer talking sessions of about an hour 3. Counselling usually runs weekly, for a set number of sessions.
Assessment, diagnosis and medicine sit outside counselling; ask who provides them where you are 4. Open the profiles below to compare experience, language, fee, and whether they work online. Ask how soon each one can see you.
What a counsellor does, and how counselling differs from psychotherapy
Everyone on this page describes their work as counselling. A counsellor listens and helps you find your own solutions to problems 3.
The training emphasises the conversation itself. Sessions usually stay close to something happening now: a loss, a relationship, work, a decision. That focus is what most often separates counselling from longer psychotherapy.
A counsellor is not a medical doctor and does not prescribe or diagnose. Ask a counsellor what they work with, and for how long.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the practitioner's stated Female identity, the specialism recorded as Addiction and the professional title counsellor.
Fees, insurance and lower-cost options
Do affordable options exist in Sydney?
Sydney Local Health District Community Mental Health Service. Phone 1800 011 511. NSW public hospital and community mental-health services are free. The service is open to the public. You reach it through the NSW Mental Health Line, which assesses you clinically and refers you on. Local catchment areas apply.
The Sydney page answers more questions about therapy there.
What these practitioners record
Who registers therapists in Australia?
Our records name no register for the title counsellor in Australia. See the Australia page for the professions that do carry a register there.
Nearby places and related listings
- Addiction Counsellors in Sydney
- Female Addiction Psychologists in Sydney
- Female Addiction Psychotherapists in Sydney
- Female Anxiety Counsellors in Sydney
- Female Couples Counsellors in Sydney
- Female Depression Counsellors in Sydney
- Female Grief Counsellors in Sydney
- Female Trauma Counsellors in Sydney
- All therapists listed in Sydney (132)
- Couples counselling, Sydney
References
[1] TherapyRoute's own records.
[2] Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice, p. 120. Client-therapist similarities.
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TherapyRoute is a clinician-led directory that champions independent practitioners who answer to you and their professional ethics. We don't take commissions, sell your data, or assign therapists by algorithm. You browse, compare, and choose.
Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
