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 the Netherlands
- 112, the emergency number: Tel: 112
- 113 Zelfmoordpreventie, the national suicide-prevention line: Tel: 113 | Tel: 0800-0113, the older free number, still live and no longer promoted by the service itself
- Veilig Thuis, on violence at home: Tel: 0800-2000
- De Luisterlijn, the national listening line: Tel: 088 0767 000
- All crisis lines in the Netherlands
The Netherlands has 115 therapists listed on TherapyRoute.
The list includes psychologists, clinical psychologists and counselling psychologists.
At a glance
- Therapists listed
- 115 (Psychologists 74, Counsellors 18, Psychotherapists 11, Psychoanalysts 3, Family Therapists 2, Psychiatrists 1). Professions given by 114 of them.
- Who they work with
- Adolescents, Adults, Elderly, Couples, Parents, Groups, Organisations.
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 the Netherlands, basic health insurance covers mental health care, the GGZ, so the route matters more than the fee. Treatment needs a referral, usually from your GP, and the GP visit itself carries no deductible at all.
Specialised care is reimbursed wholly or partly once your annual deductible is met, and waiting lists are the real constraint, differing sharply by region, so ask about the wait first. Outside the insured route, with a coach or a psychologist working without insurer contracts, you pay the therapist's own fee in full: ask the rate per session.
Read What therapy costs in the Netherlands.
Who is allowed to practise
In the Netherlands the state healthcare register is the BIG-register. It is kept under the Individual Healthcare Professions Act. The plain word psycholoog is not a protected title, but gezondheidszorgpsycholoog and psychotherapeut are, and a person may work under one of those titles only if the register carries them.
Registration also puts a practitioner under Dutch disciplinary law. The register therefore answers a conduct question as well as a qualification one. You can look up a practitioner in the BIG-register.
Therapists by profession and city
- Female Psychologists in Amsterdam, one filter on the full Amsterdam psychologists list
- Psychologists in Amsterdam
Other cities with therapists listed (7)
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)