Persian-speaking Mental health in Düsseldorf

This page lists the Persian-speaking psychotherapists, psychiatrists and mental health practitioners registered with us in Düsseldorf. For the general picture of this field, see Mental health. What follows is about Düsseldorf.

In an emergency call 112. Outside practice hours the nationwide on-call medical number is 116117. For a free, round-the-clock conversation in a crisis, TelefonSeelsorge can be reached on 0800 1110111, 0800 1110222 or 116 123. This page is only a directory and is not an emergency service.

What the Verified badge does and does not say

Verified says one thing only: a real person stands behind this profile and manages it themselves. YabInfy does not check anyone's certificates, licences, experience or competence, and the badge is not for sale. Psychotherapists in this state are licensed through the Psychotherapeutenkammer Nordrhein-Westfalen, which is based in Düsseldorf.

For this profession, the whole state has one chamber

The point looks administrative and it makes one practical thing simpler for you.

Doctors in North Rhine-Westphalia fall under two separate chambers and you have to know which one covers your city. For psychotherapists that is not the case. There is a single chamber for the entire state, so every psychotherapist from Aachen to Dortmund appears in that one register, and there is only ever one place to check.

Why does that help? Because the title psychotherapist is protected in Germany and may only be used by somebody holding the state licence. Titles such as life coach or counsellor carry no such requirement and anybody may use them. That does not make them useless, but what they do is not treatment, and insurance does not pay for it.

So if you are unsure, ask the chamber once, or ask the practitioner directly whether they hold the licence. It is a completely ordinary question and nobody takes offence at it.

Look at Düsseldorf and Köln together

The two cities are half an hour apart by regional train and sit under that same single chamber. So if you find no free place, open the search to both.

For weekly therapy, half an hour each way becomes wearing over time. Which is why the online practitioners in this list are worth looking at too: for a conversation held in your first language, a video session is often more sustainable than a weekly journey.

Ask before you start

• Do you hold the state licence, and do you work with statutory insurance?
• When could an initial consultation happen?
• Do you work by video?
• Will the therapy be in Persian, or only the first assessment?
• YabInfy checks none of this, so ask for it yourself, and ask to see the document where it matters.

If this group is not big enough for you

Köln is your nearest large option and the other cities in the state have their own lists. For therapy in Persian, take online seriously, and on the first call ask whether they work with your insurer, because that question decides more than distance does.

Reviews and privacy

Be more careful here than anywhere else. We never store or display who opened a profile or who made contact. The only public part is the review you write, under a name of your choosing.

If you write one, stay entirely on the administrative side: whether the phone was answered, how long it took to get an appointment, and whether the terms and the cost were clear from the start. Do not write about whether the therapy helped, because that differs for everybody and publishing it says something about you.

The full directory is at Mental health.