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 Nepal
- National Suicide Prevention Helpline: Tel: 1166
- TUTH Suicide Hotline: Tel: 16600121600
- Mental Health Helpline Nepal: Tel: 1660-0133666
- All crisis lines in Nepal
Nobody is listed here yet. The rest of this page still answers two questions that do not depend on our list. Who is entitled to register as a therapist in this country, and where to get help urgently.
What therapy costs in Nepal
Nepal's Public Health Service Act, 2075, provides free basic health services. The listed headings include service relating to mental disease. The Act says basic health service is provided without charge.
A health institution refers a person onward when it cannot provide the care needed. The Act sets no scale of charges for private practice, and no fee provision of any kind.
See how to think about the cost of therapy.
Who is allowed to practise
Clinical psychologists in Nepal register with the Nepal Health Professional Council, and the NHPC Act makes that registration a legal requirement to practise. The council publishes no register you can search online, so ask a practitioner for their NHPC registration rather than looking it up.
Counsellors and psychosocial counsellors have no national register; much of Nepal's counselling is delivered by NGO-trained psychosocial workers working to international guidelines rather than under a licence.
See the academic credentials behind Nepal's mental health professions
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)