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 Counsellors in Lausanne. 3 in all.
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 professional title counsellor.
The Lausanne page answers more questions about therapy there.
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.
References
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
