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 Pakistan
- Sehat Tahaffuz 1166, the national health helpline: Tel: 1166
- Taskeen Health Initiative, 11 AM to 11 PM: Tel: +92 316 827 5336
- Rozan Counseling Help Line, 0800-22-444: Tel: 0800-22-444, the number Rozan labels as toll-free. | Tel: 0304-111-1741; Rozan notes regular charges apply to this one.
- Sindh Mental Health Authority, for readers in Sindh: Tel: 021 111 117 642, Jinnah Postgraduate Medical Centre, Karachi. | Tel: 022 111 117 642, Sir Cowasji Jahangir Institute of Psychiatry and Behavioural Sciences, Hyderabad. | Tel: 021 9921 5720, Dr Ruth K. M. Pfau Civil Hospital, Karachi.
- All crisis lines in Pakistan
This page lists Female Addiction Counsellors in Islamabad. 3 in all.
That is 3 of the 5 counsellors listed in Islamabad.
These are practitioners who identify as female 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 woman. While many people prefer this, we found no research on whether it changes how the therapy goes.
A client and a practitioner always differ; what matters is what that means to you and how you work with it 2. You can filter the same list by the languages a practitioner works in.
What the counsellors on this page do, and how to choose one
The counsellors listed in Islamabad for addiction 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.
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 Female identity, the specialism recorded as Addiction and the professional title counsellor.
Fees, insurance and lower-cost options
Do affordable options exist in Islamabad?
Pakistan Institute of Medical Sciences - Department of Psychiatry. Phone +92 51 9261170. PIMS says eligible patients can receive financial assistance or charity care. Its yearbook records Zakat and Bait-ul-Maal assistance, including free medicines. PIMS accepts patients of all ages and says it serves Islamabad and the surrounding regions. It publishes public outpatient hours.
The Islamabad page answers more questions about therapy there.
Who registers therapists in Pakistan?
Our records name no register for the title counsellor in Pakistan. See the Pakistan page for the professions that do carry a register there.
Nearby places and related listings
- Addiction Counsellors in Islamabad
- Female Addiction Psychologists in Islamabad
- Female Anxiety Counsellors in Islamabad
- Female Couples Counsellors in Islamabad
- Female Depression Counsellors in Islamabad
- Female Psychologists in Islamabad, one filter on the full Islamabad psychologists list
- Psychologists in Islamabad
- Psychotherapists in Islamabad
- All therapists listed in Islamabad (64)
- Marriage counseling, Islamabad
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)
