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 Spain
- Línea 024, the national suicide line: Tel: 024
- Teléfono de la Esperanza, 717 003 717: Tel, mobile: 717 003 717 | Tel, landline: 914 59 00 55
- Fundación ANAR, for children and adolescents: Tel: 900 20 20 10, which ANAR publishes for calls "desde toda España" | Tel: 116 111, the European harmonised child helpline number, which ANAR additionally offers in Aragón, Asturias, Baleares, Canarias, Castilla-La Mancha, Castilla y León, Ceuta, Extremadura, La Rioja, Navarra, Madrid, Melilla, Murcia and the Comunidad Valenciana
- Teléfono contra el Suicidio: Tel: 911 385 385
- 016, for violence against women, in 53 languages: Tel: 016 | WhatsApp: 600 000 016, which the ministry states takes WhatsApp messages and not calls | Text phone: 900 116 016
- All crisis lines in Spain
This page lists Female Counsellors in Malaga. 4 in all.
That is 4 of the 6 counsellors listed in Malaga.
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 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 and the professional title counsellor.
The Malaga page answers more questions about therapy there.
What these practitioners record
The areas of focus listed most often here are Anxiety (3), Life Transitions (3) and Stress / Burnout (3).
Sessions here are offered in English and Spanish.
Who registers therapists in Spain?
Our records name no register for the title counsellor in Spain. See the Spain page for the professions that do carry a register there.
Nearby places and related listings
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)