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 the United Kingdom
- Samaritans, answered day and night: Tel: 116 123
- Shout, text 85258, the national text crisis line: Text: 85258, texting the word SHOUT
- National Domestic Abuse Helpline: Tel: 0808 2000 247
- Scotland's Domestic Abuse and Forced Marriage Helpline: Tel: 0800 027 1234 | Text and WhatsApp: 07401288595
- All crisis lines in the United Kingdom
This page lists Black Depression Counsellors in London. 5 in all.
That is 5 of the 46 counsellors listed in London.
These are practitioners who identify as Black on their profile. It is their own answer to a profile question. We do not check it, and nothing here is ranked.
This list answers a request for a practitioner of the same race or ethnicity. Cabral and Smith found the match made almost no difference to treatment outcomes 1.
The request is usually narrower: a practitioner who will name race early, without you having to explain yourself. Some family therapy approaches recommend the therapist raise it near the start 2. You can ask a practitioner how they handle it.
What the counsellors on this page do, and how to choose one
The counsellors listed in London for depression offer talking sessions of about an hour 3. 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 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 Black identity, the specialism recorded as Depression and the professional title counsellor.
What therapy costs here
Do affordable options exist in London?
South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust Lambeth Talking Therapies. Phone +44 20 3228 6747. Talking Therapies care is free under the NHS. Adults aged 18 and older can refer themselves. You must live in Lambeth or have a Lambeth GP.
The London page answers more questions about therapy there.
Who registers therapists in the United Kingdom?
Our records name no register for the title counsellor in the United Kingdom. See the United Kingdom page for the professions that do carry a register there.
Nearby places and related listings
- Depression Counsellors in London
- Female Depression Counsellors in London
- Male Depression Counsellors in London
- Black Depression Psychotherapists in London
- Black Anxiety Counsellors in London
- Black Couples Counsellors in London
- Black Female Psychotherapists in London, two filters on the full London psychotherapists list
- Black Male Psychotherapists in London, two filters on the full London psychotherapists list
- London: all therapists listed (368)
- Relationship counselling, London
References
[2] Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice, pp. 71-72, citing Kelly et al. (2020). Cultural humility, cultural competence and the therapeutic alliance.
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)