If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic. If you are in crisis, these helplines answer now:
Crisis numbers in Australia
- Lifeline Australia: Tel: 13 11 14
- 1800RESPECT: Tel: 1800 737 732
- 13YARN: Tel: 13 92 76
- Beyond Blue Helpline: Tel: 1300 22 4636
- All crisis lines in Australia
This page lists Male Counsellors in Sydney. 5 in all.
That is 5 of the 22 counsellors listed in Sydney.
These are practitioners who identify as male 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 man. While many people prefer this, we found no research on whether it changes how the therapy goes.
Identifying as a man is a different thing from working with men's concerns. A client and a practitioner always differ, whatever they share 2.
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 Male identity and the professional title counsellor.
Paying for therapy in Sydney
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
The areas of focus listed most often here are Relationship Issues (4), Addiction (3) and Anxiety (3).
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
- Male Psychologists in Sydney, one filter on the full Sydney psychologists list
- Female Psychologists in Sydney, one filter on the full Sydney psychologists list
- Family Therapists in Sydney
- Counsellors in Sydney
- Psychotherapists in Sydney
- Psychologists in Sydney
- All therapists listed in Sydney (130)
- 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)
