Find Male Couples Counsellors in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

For a couple, the counsellors listed in Kuala Lumpur 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. 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 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.

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.

Usually. Partners are almost always seen together⁴.

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 them⁵. 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 sessions⁶. 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.

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. See the Malaysia page.