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 Germany
- TelefonSeelsorge, the national line, in German only: Tel: 0800 111 0 111 | Tel: 0800 111 0 222 | Tel: 116 123
- 112, 110 and 116 117, Germany's emergency numbers: Tel: 112 | Tel: 110 | Tel: 116 117 | Tel: 0049 116 117, the form published for callers from outside Germany
- Telefon Doweria, in Russian: Tel: 030 440 308 454
- MuTeS, in Turkish, Arabic and Urdu: Tel: 030 443 509 821
- All crisis lines in Germany
The list includes clinical psychologists, psychologists and psychological counsellors.
At a glance
- Who they work with
- Adolescents, Adults, Couples, Families, Parents, Organisations, Groups.
- Languages
- English 96%, German 48%, Spanish 12%, Turkish 8%, Russian 8%.
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.
In Germany the question is usually which insurance you have rather than what a therapist charges. Statutory health insurance covers prescribed psychotherapy with no co-payment for the sessions, and the system's own standard treats waiting more than three months as unreasonable.
If no covered therapy place is found, your insurer can agree in advance to reimburse a private practice, on documented evidence of the failed search. The Patientenservice 116117 arranges appointments with psychotherapists for people with statutory insurance.
Not every licensed psychotherapist can bill statutory insurance; a Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie normally cannot. Paying privately, fees are set by each practitioner and rarely published, so ask the rate per session before you begin.
Read How to think about the cost of therapy in Germany.
Who is allowed to practise
In Germany the title to look for is Psychotherapeut. Only a state-licensed person may use it, and that licence is the Approbation, granted under the Psychotherapeutengesetz. A psychology-trained holder is a Psychologischer Psychotherapeut, and the licensed title for work with children and young people is Kinder- und Jugendlichenpsychotherapeut.
Someone described as Psychologe holds a psychology degree rather than a treatment licence. A Heilpraktiker für Psychotherapie works under a different permission and is normally paid privately. You can open the federal chamber's therapist search.
Therapists by profession and city
- Female Psychologists in Berlin, one filter on the full Berlin psychologists list
- Psychologists in Berlin
- Psychotherapists in Berlin
- Psychologists in Hamburg
- Male Psychotherapists in Berlin, one filter on the full Berlin psychotherapists list
- Male Psychologists in Berlin, one filter on the full Berlin psychologists list
- Female Psychologists in Hamburg, one filter on the full Hamburg psychologists list
Other cities with therapists listed (18)
- Therapists in Leipzig (1)
- Therapists in Bonn (1)
- Therapists in Heidelberg (1)
- Therapists in Mannheim (1)
- Therapists in Bochum (1)
- Therapists in Pforzheim (1)
- Therapists in Marburg (1)
- Therapists in Dahlenburg (1)
- Therapists in Denzlingen (1)
- Therapists in Elsfleth (1)
- Therapists in Grunwald Bei Munchen (1)
- Therapists in Haan (1)
- Therapists in Hassfurt (1)
- Therapists in Herzogenrath (1)
- Therapists in Idar Oberstein (1)
- Therapists in Reutlingen (1)
- Therapists in Sandhausen (1)
- Therapists in Schleswig Holstein (1)
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)


