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 Sweden
- Självmordslinjen (Mind): Tel: 90101 (dialled within Sweden)
- Hjälplinjen: Tel: 90390 or 0202-90390 (dialled within Sweden)
- All crisis lines in Sweden
Sweden has 13 therapists listed on TherapyRoute.
The list includes psychologists, clinical psychologists and clinical mental health counsellors.
At a glance
- Therapists listed
- 13 (Psychologists 6, Counsellors 5, Psychoanalysts 1). Professions given by 13 of them.
- How they see clients
- in person 1 (8%), online and in person 12 (92%).
- Who they work with
- Adolescents, Adults, Elderly, Couples, Organisations, Groups, All ages.
- Languages
- mostly English, then Swedish 67%, Norwegian 25%, Danish 8%, Gujarati 8%.
Each city below carries its own list.
What therapy costs in Sweden
Sweden has no single national fee for health care. The Health and Medical Services Act leaves the charge to each region to decide. The same chapter sets an annual ceiling on what a person pays out of pocket. That ceiling is written as a share of the price base amount, so it moves each year.
A region may also set its own ceiling lower. For a problem affecting everyday life, contact a vardcentral, the local health centre.
See how to think about the cost of therapy.
Who is allowed to practise
Sweden's licence is called the legitimation, and the National Board of Health and Welfare issues it. The titles it protects are the licensed psychologist and the licensed psychotherapist, so a Swedish listing carrying either is making a claim a register can settle rather than a description of a way of working.
A practitioner holding the licence also falls under the health and social care inspectorate's supervision, which is part of what the licence means. Ask which of the two licences a practitioner holds.
Sweden's Patient Safety Act protects the titles psykolog and psykoterapeut for licence holders and people in prescribed practical training. It does not protect samtalsterapeut, terapeut or coach.
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)