Find Couples Counsellors in Berlin, Germany

For a couple, the counsellors listed in Berlin offer talking sessions of about an hour ¹. Counselling usually runs weekly, for a set number of sessions.

Assessment, diagnosis and medicine sit outside counselling; ask who provides them where you are. Open the profiles below to compare experience, language, fee, and whether they work online. Ask how soon each one can see you.

Everyone on this page describes their work as counselling. A counsellor listens and helps you find your own solutions to problems ¹.

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.

Bezirksamt Lichtenberg Sozialpsychiatrischer Dienst. Phone +49 30 90296 7562. The district states that its social-psychiatric offers are free of charge. Adults with mental illness or mental-health problems may use the service. That includes depression, anxiety, serious social difficulties and related psychosocial problems, and relatives or close contacts may also come. Consultation can be anonymous, and the district publishes open consultation hours.

Usually. Partners are almost always seen together².

Some practitioners will see one partner alone where the other will not attend. A practitioner should still see you if you have no partner or cannot bring them³. Ask what a practitioner does when one person is unwilling.

No. Couples counselling is for people in a relationship, married or not, of any gender, living together or not. The same practitioners work with couples deciding whether to separate, and with couples who have already separated and are parenting together. Say which of those describes you at first contact.

No. The work is with what happens between two people rather than with a verdict on either of them. Effective work with couples needs its own theories and methods, drawn from research on relationships. Ask a practitioner how they handle it when you disagree in the room.

Yes, and many practitioners offer it. Couples therapy by video shows few significant differences from face-to-face sessions⁴. Symptom reduction, engagement and the therapeutic alliance are comparable.

Sitting in the same room at home suits some couples and not others. Ask what a practitioner offers.

Our records name no register for the title counsellor in Germany. See the Germany page for the professions that do carry a register there.