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 can help:
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, 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 Anxiety Psychotherapists in Karachi. 3 in all.
That is 3 of the 4 psychotherapists listed in Karachi.
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 it.
This list answers an explicit request for a woman.
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.
How anxiety is treated
Anxiety treatment is for fear and worry that persist and get in the way.
The treatments with the most evidence are based on cognitive-behavioural principles 3. That includes exposure therapy, where you face what you have been avoiding, a step at a time.
A prescriber may also consider medicine, depending on age and severity 4.
What psychotherapy works on, and how long it usually runs
Everyone on this page describes their work as psychotherapy. A psychotherapist works through talking with you about your thoughts, feelings and behaviours.
Psychotherapy usually runs longer than counselling and aims for clinical change. It works on patterns that repeat rather than on one current problem.
A psychotherapist trains in psychological treatment rather than in medicine. What that training covers, and which approach a practitioner uses, differ between practitioners. Ask which approach a psychotherapist trained in, and how long they usually work.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the practitioner's stated Female identity, the specialism recorded as Anxiety and the professional title psychotherapist.
The Karachi page answers more questions about therapy there.
Paying for therapy in Karachi
Do affordable options exist in Karachi?
Pakistan Association for Mental Health - Prof Dr Haroon Wellness Clinic. Phone +92 325 3588034. Consultation, therapy, counselling and medicines are free. The clinic is open to the public and focuses on underprivileged people.
Who registers therapists in Pakistan?
See the Pakistan page for the professions that do carry a register there.
What these practitioners record
Nearby places and related listings
- Anxiety Psychotherapists in Karachi
- Female Anxiety Counsellors in Karachi
- Female Anxiety Psychologists in Karachi
- Female Psychologists in Karachi, one filter on the full Karachi psychologists list
- Female Psychotherapists in Karachi, one filter on the full Karachi psychotherapists list
- Psychologists in Karachi
- Psychotherapists in Karachi
- Karachi: all therapists listed (43)
- Marriage counselling in Karachi
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)