Find Addiction Counsellors in Bangalore, India

The counsellors listed in Bangalore for addiction 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.

Our Bangalore fee guide puts a session at ₹1,000 to ₹3,000. Those are advertised prices, not official rates.

National Institute of Mental Health and Neurosciences (NIMHANS). Phone +91 80 2699 5250. Patients below the poverty line and indigent patients can be exempted from the hospital levy and given free medicines. Standard outpatient registration costs ₹100. You can walk in or come by referral. The exemptions and free medicines are only for patients who qualify as below the poverty line or indigent.

Titles you will see include Rehabilitation Counsellor and Counsellor.

In India registration goes by category: a clinical psychologist is enrolled on a statutory register, while counsellor sits on none. See the India page.