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 Norway
- Kirken SOS I Norge: Tel: +47 22 40 00 40
- Kirkens SOS i More og Romsdal: Tel: 70 10 09 92 | Mobile: 480 68 328
- Kirkens SOS i Bjorgvin: Tel: 55 32 58 45
- Kirkens SOS i Tunsberg: Tel: 990 84 320 | Mobile: 990 84 320
- All crisis lines in Norway
The list includes counsellors and psychotherapists.
At a glance
- Who they work with
- Children, Adolescents, Adults, Families.
Start with the cities. Each city page lists the practitioners who work there.
What therapy costs in Norway
Two things decide what a Norwegian pays a psychologist. The first is a referral, from a doctor, a psychologist or a child welfare officer. The second is the psychologist's own arrangement with the state.
Covered work is billed against a national tariff set by regulation, Forskrift 2020-06-18-1262. A psychologist without a funding contract with the regional health authority falls outside it. The patient then pays the whole cost.
Municipalities also run Rask psykisk helsehjelp. It is free, and it asks for no referral from a doctor. Read the state's own page on user fees for treatment by a psychologist, Helsenorge.
See how to think about the cost of therapy.
Registration and licensing
In Norway the check is a single national one. The Directorate of Health runs the health personnel registry, and a psychologist practising lawfully holds an authorisation recorded there against a personal registry number.
Asking for that number is an ordinary request rather than a pointed one, and it is the question the registry exists to answer. For a counselling or therapy title held outside the authorised health professions, this registry is not the check that answers.
You can look up a psychologist in the Helsepersonellregisteret. Section 48 of the health personnel act lists psykolog, and neither psykoterapeut nor terapeut is on it, so neither carries an authorisation.
Section 74 stops anyone without one from using the title or otherwise giving that impression.
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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)


