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 Depression Counsellors in Lahore. 6 in all.
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.
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 specialism recorded as Depression and the professional title counsellor.
The Lahore page answers more questions about therapy there.
What therapy costs here
Do affordable options exist in Lahore?
Fountain House Lahore. Phone +92 42 37110798. The official site says outpatient services are free for less privileged people. The service is for community members seeking psychiatric or rehabilitation care.
Lower-fee services in Lahore
- Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, King Edward Medical University (Mayo Hospital, Lahore) in Lahore offers a daily outpatient clinic, an acute care unit, child psychiatry clinics and individual, family and group psychotherapy.1
- Centre for Clinical Psychology, University of the Punjab in Lahore offers assessment and treatment services at what its own page calls an affordable cost.2
Who registers therapists in Pakistan?
See the Pakistan page for the professions that do carry a register there.
What these practitioners record
Sessions here are offered in English and Hindi/Urdu.
Nearby places and related listings
- Female Depression Counsellors in Lahore
- Male Depression Counsellors in Lahore
- Depression Psychologists in Lahore
- Depression Psychotherapists in Lahore
- Addiction Counsellors in Lahore
- Anxiety Counsellors in Lahore
- Psychotherapists in Lahore
- Counsellors in Lahore
- Lahore: all therapists listed (92)
- Marriage counselling in Lahore
References
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TherapyRoute is a clinician-led directory that champions independent practitioners who answer to you and their professional ethics. We don't take commissions, sell your data, or assign therapists by algorithm. You browse, compare, and choose.
Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
