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 Qatar
- National Mental Health Helpline, 16000 option 4: Tel: 16000, then, in HMC's wording, "choose option 4 for Mental Health".
- AMAN Centre 919, for women and children affected by violence: Tel: 919 | Tel: 0097444090999, as the centre prints it, also printed as "+974 44090999". | WhatsApp: 33850022, answered, in the centre's wording, "24 hours a day". The centre's own premises keep shorter office hours; the hotline and WhatsApp are the 24-hour channels.
- All crisis lines in Qatar
The list includes clinical psychologists, counselling psychologists and counsellors.
At a glance
- Who they work with
- Children, Adolescents, Adults, Couples, Families, Parents, Organisations.
- Languages
- English 92%, Arabic 69%, French 31%, Hindi/Urdu 23%, Marathi 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.
The Primary Health Care Corporation runs its psychology service at a small number of named health centres. Its integrated psychiatry service, staffed by hospital consultants, runs at a few more. Both are reached on a family physician referral rather than by walking in.
Qatar also runs a national mental health helpline, which is free and confidential.
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Registration and licensing
Qatar licenses its health practitioners through one national authority, the Department of Healthcare Professions at the Ministry of Public Health. Clinical psychologists, psychotherapists and psychiatrists all fall under it, so a single licensing question covers the titles a Qatari listing is most likely to carry.
The registry records the department as the sole licensing authority in the state, which makes the licence itself the right thing to ask a practitioner about. You can start from the Department of Healthcare Professions practitioner search.
The Department of Healthcare Professions licenses clinical psychologist and psychological counsellor as separate scopes of practice. A psychological counsellor may not do independent psychological testing, and does not provide care in severe mental illness or psychiatric emergencies.
Therapists by profession and city
- Male Psychologists in Doha, one filter on the full Doha psychologists list
- Female Psychologists in Doha, one filter on the full Doha psychologists list
- Psychologists in Doha
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)