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 Switzerland
- Die Dargebotene Hand, La Main Tendue, Telefono Amico, Tel 143: Tel: 143, answered day and night. In the organisation's own words, translated from German: "We are there for you round the clock, 365 days a year." | Tel, English line: 0800 143 000, from 6 to 11 pm, as published on the organisation's homepages.
- Beratung + Hilfe 147, for children and young people: Tel: 147, answered day and night. | WhatsApp: via 147.ch, daily from 07:30 to 22:00, with a reply normally within 24 hours.
- Opferhilfe Schweiz, the victim-support number 142: Tel: 142, answered day and night.
- Elternnotruf, for parents and caregivers: Tel: 0848 35 45 55, answered day and night with the night arrangement above.
- All crisis lines in Switzerland
This page lists Couples Counsellors in Basel. 4 in all.
What the counsellors on this page do, and how to choose one
For a couple, the counsellors listed in Basel offer talking sessions of about an hour 1. 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 1.
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 Couples and the professional title counsellor.
Frequently Asked Questions
Do both of us have to come?
Is this for married couples only?
No. Couples counselling is for people in a relationship, married or not, of any gender, living together or not. The same practitioners work with couples deciding whether to separate, and with couples who have already separated and are parenting together. Say which of those describes you at first contact.
Will the therapist say who is right?
No. The work is with what happens between two people rather than with a verdict on either of them. Effective work with couples needs its own theories and methods, drawn from research on relationships. Ask a practitioner how they handle it when you disagree in the room.
Can couples counselling be done online?
Yes, and many practitioners offer it. Couples therapy by video shows few significant differences from face-to-face sessions4. Symptom reduction, engagement and the therapeutic alliance are comparable.
Sitting in the same room at home suits some couples and not others. Ask what a practitioner offers.
Who registers therapists in Switzerland?
Our records name no register for the title counsellor in Switzerland. See the Switzerland page for the professions that do carry a register there.
Nearby places and related listings
- Male Counsellors in Basel, one filter on the full Basel counsellors list
- Counsellors in Basel
- Every therapist listed in Basel (11)
- Marriage counselling, Basel
References
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
