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 Portugal
- Emergency numbers, 112 and 144: Tel: 144
- Linha Nacional de Prevenção do Suicídio, the national line: Tel: 1411
- SNS 24 psychological counselling, 808 24 24 24, option 4: Tel: 808 24 24 24, then select option 4
- CIG, for domestic violence: Tel: 800 202 148 | SMS: 3060
- All crisis lines in Portugal
Portugal has 108 therapists listed on TherapyRoute.
The list includes clinical psychologists, psychologists and psychotherapists.
At a glance
- Therapists listed
- 108 (Psychologists 63, Psychotherapists 20, Counsellors 10, Family Therapists 6, Psychoanalysts 5). Professions given by 108 of them.
- Who they work with
- Adolescents, Adults, Elderly, Couples, Parents, Groups, Organisations.
- Languages
- English 87%, Portuguese 57%, Spanish 15%, French 9%, Russian 9%.
- Session fees
- Across Portugal: EUR 40 to EUR 70 for a session of 50 to 60 minutes with a psychologist, most between EUR 50 and EUR 60, per our Portugal fee guide. Those are advertised prices, not official rates.
Practitioners here are spread across a number of places rather than gathered in one. Each city below carries its own list. You can also filter for practitioners who work by video, wherever they are.
What a session costs
Across Portugal, a session with a psychologist commonly costs EUR 40 to EUR 70. Those are advertised prices, not official rates.
Therapy fees in Portugal are set by each practice, so what a psychologist or psychiatrist charges depends on their qualifications, the length of the session and where they work. If the fee is beyond your means, ask about a sliding scale based on income, and look at community mental health services and university training clinics.
Registration and licensing
In Portugal, psychology is a regulated profession. The professional title and the right to practise both depend on registration with the Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses, which grants the title and issues the cédula profissional, the professional card.
The Order runs a public directory that confirms whether a person is registered, searchable by name or by cédula number. Psychiatrists are doctors and sit under medical regulation, so this directory does not answer for one.
You can search the Ordem dos Psicólogos Portugueses directory. Portugal has no separate psicoterapeuta title. Regulamento n.º 15/2023 counts psychotherapeutic intervention among the acts of the psychologist, so the same registration check answers.
Therapists by profession and city
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)