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.
- All crisis lines in the United Kingdom
This page lists Depression Counsellors in Manchester. 3 in all.
What the counsellors on this page do, and how to choose one
The counsellors listed in Manchester for depression 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 Depression and the professional title counsellor.
Fees, insurance and lower-cost options
Do affordable options exist in Manchester?
Manchester Talking Therapies. Phone +44 161 271 0190. Treatment is free. Manchester residents with common mental health problems can come through the published NHS referral route. Higher-intensity treatment follows an assessment.
The Manchester 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 Psychologists in Manchester
- Depression Psychotherapists in Manchester
- Anxiety Counsellors in Manchester
- Male Psychologists in Manchester, one filter on the full Manchester psychologists list
- Psychologists in Manchester
- Manchester: all therapists listed (27)
- Relationship counselling in Manchester
References
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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)
