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 the United Kingdom
- Samaritans: Tel: 116 123 (Free from any phone) | Tel: 0808 164 0123 (Welsh Language Line) | Tel: 18001 44 116 123 (Relay UK). 24 hours. The Welsh Language Line is open every day, 7pm to 11pm.
- Shout, text 85258: Text: 85258. 24 hours.
- NHS 111, the urgent mental health route (England, Scotland and Wales): Tel: 111 (then choose the mental health option). In Wales, 24 hours a day.
- CALM helpline: Tel: 0800 58 58 58. For people over 18. Every day, 5pm to midnight.
- Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health Helpline: Tel: 0121 262 3555 | Tel: 0800 915 9292 (Freephone). Every day, 9am to 11pm.
- Veterans emotional support line (Midlands, South West, East of England): Tel: 0300 323 0139. 24 hours.
- Connect, UK freephone, counselling for adult survivors of abuse: Tel: 0800 0488 023. Wednesday to Sunday, 5pm to 9pm (Irish time).
- All crisis lines in the United Kingdom
This page lists Trauma Counsellors in Birmingham. 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 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 Trauma and the professional title counsellor.
The Birmingham page answers more questions about therapy there.
Paying for therapy in Birmingham
Do affordable options exist in Birmingham?
Birmingham Healthy Minds. Phone +44 121 301 2525. The official NHS page says treatment is free. The service is for people aged 16 or over who are registered with a Birmingham GP. You can refer yourself.
Who registers therapists in the United Kingdom?
See the United Kingdom page for the professions that do carry a register there.
What these practitioners record
Nearby places and related listings
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References
Real choice. Authentic, independent, clinician-led care.
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)
