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 Russia
- Детский телефон доверия, 8 800 2000 122 and 124, for children, teenagers and parents: Tel: 8 800 2000 122, from any landline or mobile | Tel: 124, the short number, from a mobile only, running since December 2024
- Служба «Ясное утро», for cancer patients and their families: Tel: 8 800 100 0191
- Телефон психологической помощи МЧС России: Tel: +7 (495) 989-50-50
- Телефон неотложной психологической помощи, 051, Moscow: Tel: 051, from a Moscow landline | Tel: 8 (495) 051, from a mobile on MTS, Megafon, Beeline or Tele2 | Tel: +7 (499) 173-09-09, the enquiry line
- Центр «Сёстры», sexual violence: Tel: +7 (499) 901-02-01
- All crisis lines in Russia
Russia has 16 therapists listed on TherapyRoute.
At a glance
- Therapists listed
- 16 (Psychologists 9, Psychotherapists 5, Counsellors 1, Psychoanalysts 1). Professions given by 16 of them.
- How they see clients
- online and in person 16 (100%).
- Who they work with
- Adolescents, Adults, Couples, Organisations, Groups, Parents, Communities.
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.
Russia provides free medical care through a programme the government approves. Government Decree No 1940 of 27 December 2024 sets the current one. Mental and behavioural disorders sit outside the basic compulsory medical insurance programme.
Regional budgets fund primary and specialised primary care for those conditions instead. The programme covers counselling by a medical psychologist on a referral from the treating doctor. It limits that to named groups, among them people under dispensary observation and women during pregnancy.
Paid medical services follow separate rules, approved by Government Decree No 736 of 11 May 2023. See how to think about the cost of therapy.
Who is allowed to practise
In Russia, the psychotherapist title is a medical one. The registry records that only medical doctors with specialist training are licensed as psychotherapists by the Ministry of Health, and lists psychiatrists, medical psychotherapists, clinical psychologists and narcologists as the recognised categories.
Ask whether a practitioner is a medically licensed specialist or a non-medical psychologist: under Russian rules those are different things, and only the first carries a medical licence.
Therapists by profession and city
- Psychologists in Moscow
- Female Psychologists in Moscow, one filter on the full Moscow psychologists list
Real choice. Authentic, independent, clinician-led care.
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)