Persian-speaking Mental health in Frankfurt am Main

This page lists the Persian-speaking psychotherapists, psychiatrists and mental health practitioners registered with us in Frankfurt am Main. The general account of this field is on Mental health. What follows is about Frankfurt.

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 Hesse are licensed through the Psychotherapeutenkammer Hessen, and your own insurer can also confirm somebody's contract status.

Insurance does not pay for every kind of therapy, and the choice is yours

Few people know this beforehand, which is why they accept the first place that offers an appointment without knowing what they have chosen.

Statutory insurance covers a defined set of approaches: behavioural therapy, therapies with psychoanalytic roots, psychoanalysis, and systemic therapy. They differ in how long a course runs and in how the work is done. One concentrates more on present patterns and practice, another more on the past and on relationships. Neither is better than the other, and which suits you becomes clear in the first sessions.

Those first sessions have a name of their own and are part of the treatment. They are introductory sessions in which you assess the therapist as much as the therapist decides about you. If it does not feel right, you may stop there. That is neither rude nor a failure: the fit between therapist and patient is part of the work.

So ask on the first call which approach they work with. If the name means nothing to you, ask them to explain it in a sentence.

Frankfurt is a small city with a large region

The list here is longer than in the surrounding towns, but the whole Rhine-Main region is within reach by train, so you have more options than this page alone shows.

For weekly therapy, a practice near an S-Bahn stop is more sustainable than one on the edge of your own town. And since this list also has a section showing online practitioners, a video session is a real option if a weekly journey does not fit around your work.

Ask before you start

• Which therapeutic approach do you work with?
• Do you hold a statutory contract?
• When could an initial consultation happen, and how long is the wait after it?
• Do you have slots outside office hours? For anybody working in this city that decides it.
• 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

The other towns in the region are twenty to thirty minutes away by train and have their own lists on this site. For therapy in Persian, look at the online section of this page too, because in this field language counts for more than distance.

Reviews and privacy

Be more careful here than anywhere else. Who opened a profile and who got in touch is neither kept nor shown by us. Nothing goes public except a review you write, under a name you settle on.

If you write one, keep it to the administrative: whether the phone was answered, how long the wait was, and whether the terms were clear from the start. Say nothing about the content of the sessions or whether the therapy helped, because it is a poor guide for others and it publishes something about you that cannot be taken back.

The full directory is at Mental health.