If you or your children are not safe, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or police station immediately. The line listed below is a gender-based-violence line.
Crisis numbers in Malaysia
- Talian Kasih, Ministry of Women, Family and Community Development (KPWKM): Tel: 15999
This page lists Male Couples Counsellors in Kuala Lumpur. 3 in all.
That is 3 of the 5 counsellors listed in Kuala Lumpur.
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 it.
This list answers an explicit request for a man.
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 the counsellors on this page do, and how to choose one
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.
If you are afraid of your partner, say so to the practitioner before any joint session is booked. Ask to be seen on your own first.
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.
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, the specialism recorded as Couples and the professional title counsellor.
Paying for therapy in Kuala Lumpur
Do affordable options exist in Kuala Lumpur?
Hospital Ampang Specialist Psychiatry and Mental Health Clinic. Phone +60 3 4289 6423. The hospital's public fee guide covers Malaysian citizens referred to the specialist clinic. A government hospital or clinic referral makes the first visit free, with follow-ups at RM5. A private-practitioner referral costs RM30 for the first visit and RM5 for follow-ups. Specified exempt groups pay nothing. The hospital publishes public referral/document guidance and specialist-clinic fees for government and private referrals. The facility is in Ampang within the continuous Kuala Lumpur urban area and provides scheduled weekday outpatient psychiatric care.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do both of us have to come?
Usually. Partners are almost always seen together3. Couples sessions require safety.
Some practitioners will see one partner alone where the other will not attend. Ask what a practitioner does when one person is unwilling.
Is this for married couples only?
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.
Will the therapist say who is right?
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.
Can couples counselling be done online?
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.
Who registers therapists in Malaysia?
The title you will see is Registered Counsellor.
In Malaysia a counsellor must be registered and hold a practising certificate, and among psychologists only clinical psychologists sit on a statutory register.
Nearby places and related listings
- Asian Couples Counsellors in Kuala Lumpur
- Couples Counsellors in Kuala Lumpur
- Female Couples Counsellors in Kuala Lumpur
- Asian Counsellors in Kuala Lumpur, one filter on the full Kuala Lumpur counsellors list
- Asian Female Counsellors in Kuala Lumpur, two filters on the full Kuala Lumpur counsellors list
- Asian Male Counsellors in Kuala Lumpur, two filters on the full Kuala Lumpur counsellors list
- Psychologists in Kuala Lumpur
- Counsellors in Kuala Lumpur
- Every therapist listed in Kuala Lumpur (28)
- Marriage counselling, Kuala Lumpur
References
[1] TherapyRoute's own records.
[2] Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice, p. 120. Client-therapist similarities.
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
