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 Bangladesh
- Kaan Pete Roi, 3 PM to 3 AM every day: Tel: +880 9612-119911
- Shastho Batayon 16263, health advice rather than a crisis line: Tel: 16263
- Child Helpline 1098, for children and about children: Tel: 1098
- Vent by Mindspace, 6 PM to 6 AM: Tel: 09678-678-778
- National Helpline 109, violence against women and children: Tel: 109
- Bangladesh Mahila Parishad, help line for victims of violence: Tel: 01717 363 647 | Tel: 01727209271
- All crisis lines in Bangladesh
Bangladesh has 4 therapists listed on TherapyRoute.
The list includes psychologists and counselling psychologists.
At a glance
- Therapists listed
- 4 (Psychologists 4). Professions given by 4 of them.
- How they see clients
- in person 1 (25%), online and in person 3 (75%).
- Who they work with
- Adolescents, Adults, Couples, Families, Organisations, Parents, All ages.
- Languages
- mostly Bengali and English, then Hindi/Urdu 20%.
Most of the practitioners listed here work in one city, and the grid below shows which. If that is where you are, start there. If it is not, the summary above sets out what the country's practitioners offer. You can also filter for practitioners who work by video.
In Bangladesh the public route runs through district hospitals and upazila health complexes. Tertiary care sits with the National Institute of Mental Health. Specialists are concentrated in a few cities.
Psychiatrists at the national institute supervise staff at district hospitals by video link, twice a month. Parliament replaced the Lunacy Act of 1912 with a Mental Health Act in 2018. See how to think about the cost of therapy.
Registration and licensing
Bangladesh has no statutory register for psychologists, counsellors or psychotherapists, and no law requires a licence to practise talking therapy. Psychiatrists are the exception: they are medical doctors registered with the Bangladesh Medical and Dental Council.
For psychologists, the marker to ask about is voluntary professional membership, most notably the Bangladesh Clinical Psychology Society, whose members typically hold the University of Dhaka MPhil in clinical psychology.
Membership signals training; it is not a licence.
See who can legally provide therapy in Bangladesh
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)