READ THIS FIRST. If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, please get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic immediately. If you are in crisis, consider these helplines and suicide hotlines worldwide.
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 106 therapists listed on TherapyRoute, including psychologists, clinical psychologists and counselling psychologists.
At a glance
- Therapists listed
- 106 (Psychologists 43, Clinical Psychologists 12, Counselling Psychologists 5, Psychotherapists 5, Therapeutic Counsellors 4, Counsellors 3, Jungian Analysts 3, Mental Health Counsellors 2). Professions given by 95 of them.
The summary above sets out how the practitioners listed across the Netherlands differ from one another. If you know where you want to be seen, the city pages below each carry that place's own list. Filtering for practitioners who work online shows everyone in the Netherlands available by video, wherever they are based. Two or three enquiries is normal, and a first conversation is where most people decide.
Cities in the Netherlands with therapists listed
- Amsterdam (52)
- Rotterdam (14)
- Den Haag (13)
- The Hague (12)
- Utrecht (10)
- Leiden (5)
- Maastricht (4)
- Alkmaar (1)
- Amstelveen (1)
- Amsterdam Netherlands (1)
- Bilthoven (1)
- De Noord (1)
- Delft (1)
- Eindhoven (1)
- Groningen (1)
- Harderwijk (1)
- Hengelo (1)
- Hierden (1)
- Hilversum (1)
- Renkum (1)
- Veldhoven (1)
- Zuidplas (1)
A therapist who practises in more than one city is listed under each.
Places with a therapist and no page of their own yet (7)
These are recorded against a therapist on TherapyRoute and have no listing page yet, so there is nothing to send you to and no count we can stand behind.
Gemeente Utrecht, Gemeente Zuidplas, Hoofddorp, Nieuwegein, Nijkerk, Voorburg, Zuid Holland
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. Verify with BIG-register (CIBG) (BIG).
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 and whether your insurer reimburses any of it. What a session costs varies with training, setting and where the practice is. What therapy costs in the Netherlands sets out the current picture.
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, not to investors or corporate interests. 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)
TherapyRoute is not for emergencies and does not provide medical advice. All of our content is informational and cannot replace professional healthcare. In an emergency, contact a local emergency service. For immediate support, consider a local helpline.
