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 Colombia
- Teléfono de la Esperanza, Medellín, mental health and crisis line: Tel: (604) 604 27 84. Monday to Friday, 8am to 6pm; Saturday, 10am to 6pm.
- Not a local line: helplines and suicide hotlines worldwide
- All crisis lines in Colombia
Colombia has 14 therapists listed on TherapyRoute.
The list includes psychologists, clinical psychologists and CBT psychotherapists.
At a glance
- Therapists listed
- 14 (Psychologists 10, Psychotherapists 2, Counsellors 1, Family Therapists 1). Professions given by 14 of them.
- How they see clients
- in person 1 (7%), online and in person 13 (93%).
- Who they work with
- Children, Adolescents, Adults, Couples, All ages, Parents, Communities.
- Languages
- mostly Spanish, then English 77%, Portuguese 8%.
Start with the cities. Each city page lists the practitioners who work there.
What therapy costs in Colombia
Colombian law names the entry point. Article 15 of Ley 1616 de 2013 makes the first level of care the door into the system. Article 26 requires mental health cover in the benefit plans of every regime.
Ley 2460 de 2025 amended that law, and added two paragraphs to the entry article. On the private side there is no fee scale. The psychologists' college has said a professional body imposing a table of rates would count as cartelisation.
The Ministry of Health also runs Linea 106, a free and confidential national line.
See how to think about the cost of therapy.
Registration and licensing
In Colombia, a psychologist practises on a Professional Card, the Tarjeta Profesional, issued under law by the Colegio Colombiano de Psicólogos. Without that card a psychologist cannot lawfully practise in the country, which makes the card the practical thing to ask about rather than a qualification described in general terms.
The college runs a public card-verification service, and asking a practitioner for the number that service takes is reasonable. You can start from the Colpsic card verification service. Under Ley 1090 of 2006, practising or advertising as a psicólogo needs the tarjeta profesional.
The law creates no psicoterapeuta or consejero title.
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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)
