What couples counselling is
In couples counselling the relationship is the client.
Titles you will see include Psychologischer Psychotherapeut and Kinder-und Jugendlichenpsychotherapeut. Search the register by name at Bundespsychotherapeutenkammer (Federal Chamber of Psychotherapists). Check that the name and title match and that the entry is current. If they do not, ask the practitioner why.
It is not arbitration and nobody rules at the end. Couples counselling is for people married and unmarried, together and separating.
Is couples counselling the right first step?
The usual reasons not to start jointly are moderate to severe aggression between partners, active alcohol or other substance misuse, a continuing affair, and psychotic symptoms 1. Individual or specialist treatment comes first.
Couples sessions require safety. If one of you is afraid of the other, that is a safety question first.
Berlin has 43 therapists listed on TherapyRoute who work with couples.
If the problem is safety rather than the relationship
Where there is violence, control or fear at home, the first call is not to a counsellor.
The NO MORE Global Directory lists domestic and sexual violence helplines country by country, and covers almost every country the United Nations recognises 2. The NO MORE Foundation built it with the United Nations and the World Bank.
A number from another country will not help you. Look up the one where you are.
Most of the couples counsellors listed in Berlin see couples both online and in person. Couples counsellors in Berlin most often name mindfulness, CBT and psychoanalytic therapy as approaches. Couples counsellors in Berlin list life transitions, LGBTQI+ relationships and cross-cultural couples as focus areas.
Couples counsellors in Berlin practise in areas including Mitte, Bezirk Tempelhof-Schöneberg and Charlottenburg. Most couples counsellors in Berlin who state payment take direct payment.
Parents caring for a child have a right to partnership counselling through German youth services 3. As at November 2026, Berlin's Erziehungs- und Familienberatungsstellen counsel parents and couples free of charge 4.
Of the 43 who say how they work, 43 offer online sessions (100%).
Couples work here is offered by psychologists, psychotherapists and counsellors.
Couples sessions here are offered in English, German, Spanish and Russian.
Nearby places and related listings
- Every therapist listed in Berlin (84)
- Marriage counselling, Hamburg
- Marriage counsellors by city, the marriage counsellors page, not tied to a place
- Marriage counselling across Germany
References
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
