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 Saudi Arabia
- Domestic Violence Reporting Center: Tel: 1919
- Ministry of Health 937 Call Centre, answered day and night: Tel: 937 from within Saudi Arabia. | Tel: 00966920005937 from outside the Kingdom, as the Ministry itself prints it.
- Psychological Consultation Centre: Tel: 920033360
- Child Helpline 116111, for readers under 18: Tel: 116111
- All crisis lines in Saudi Arabia
The list includes clinical psychologists, counselling psychologists and psychologists.
At a glance
- Who they work with
- Adolescents, Adults, Couples, Families, All ages, Organisations, Parents.
- Languages
- mostly English, then Arabic 50%, Hindi/Urdu 31%, French 19%, Spanish 12%.
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.
Under the Private Health Institutions Law, Royal Decree M/40, a private institution in Saudi Arabia sets its prices and the Ministry then approves them. They cannot be changed without the Ministry's agreement.
The same law requires prices to be displayed prominently. A patient is owed an approximate cost before treatment begins, and an itemised statement afterwards. Mental health care has its own statute, the Mental Health Care Law issued by Royal Decree M/56. That law governs facilities, admission and patients' rights, and it does not deal with cost.
See how to think about the cost of therapy.
Who is allowed to practise
In Saudi Arabia the Saudi Commission for Health Specialties classifies and registers psychologists, and classification is required before practising. Psychologists are graded on the Commission's health-specialist ladder: specialist, senior specialist and consultant, tied to bachelor's, master's and doctoral training with supervised clinical experience.
A practitioner's grade can be checked on the SCFHS register. Psychiatrists are physicians and sit on the Commission's medical ladder, where grades such as registrar and consultant apply. Search the register by name at Saudi Commission for Health Specialties (SCFHS).
A current entry is that body's own published record of the person. Saudi law's list of health practitioners names psychological and social specialists, الأخصائيين النفسيين والاجتماعيين, as separate categories. Both require a licence, so a social specialist on a Saudi listing is not registered as a psychologist.
Therapists by profession and city
- Female Psychologists in Riyadh, one filter on the full Riyadh psychologists list
- Psychologists in Riyadh
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. 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)


