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 Portugal
- Linha Nacional de Prevenção do Suicídio, the national line: Tel: 1411
- SNS 24 psychological counselling, 808 24 24 24, option 4: Tel: 808 24 24 24, then select option 4
- All crisis lines in Portugal
This page lists Trauma Counsellors in Lisbon. 3 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 Trauma and the professional title counsellor.
The Lisbon page answers more questions about therapy there.
Paying for therapy in Lisbon
Lower-fee services in Lisbon
- Associação Portuguesa de Apoio à Vítima (APAV) in Lisbon offers free and confidential psychological, social and legal support to victims of crime or violence.1
Who registers therapists in Portugal?
See the Portugal page for the professions that do carry a register there.
Nearby places and related listings
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)
