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 Colombia
- Telefono de la Esperanza - Baranquilla: Tel: (00 57 5) 372 27 27
- Telefono de la Esperanza - Bogota: Tel: (57-1) 323 24 25
- Telefono de la Esperanza - Medellin: Tel: (00 57 4) 284 66 00
- Telefono de la Esperanza - San Juan de Pasto: Tel: 3016326701
- All crisis lines in Colombia
Colombia has 11 therapists listed on TherapyRoute.
The list includes psychologists, clinical psychologists and CBT psychotherapists.
At a glance
- Therapists listed
- 11 (Psychologists 7, Psychotherapists 2, Counsellors 1, Family Therapists 1). Professions given by 11 of them.
- How they see clients
- in person 1 (9%), online and in person 10 (91%).
- Who they work with
- Children, Adolescents, Adults, Couples, All ages, Parents, Communities.
- Languages
- mostly Spanish, then English 77%, Portuguese 8%.
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.
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 rewrote 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. Ley 1090 of 2006 restricts the word psicólogo to holders of the tarjeta profesional and treats advertising without one as illegal practice. It creates no psicoterapeuta or consejero title, so those words describe work rather than registration.
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)


