Good Psychologist in Helsinki in English?

[ajdias]

This link has been posted elsewhere but won't hurt to repeat it here, perhaps someone can get some help from this service:

http://www.mielenterveysseura.fi/en/support_and_help

The Finnish Association for Mental Health provides help and support

The SOS crisis center helps foreigners and their family members living in Finland in different crises of life. The center serves adult clients. Help is conversational help.

A client can tell about his/her own life situation in his/her mother tongue in English, Finnish or Swedish, or with the help of an interpreter.

[upperreule]

Thanks ajdias, really useful link.

I just wondered if anyone found a psychotherapist in Helsinki in the end and could recommend that person?

Any help would be most appreciated:)

[Flossy1978]

80-100€??? I just paid 153,30€ for a 45 minute session at a private practise where the person just wrote for the entire 45 minutes and didn't do anything with me. Just made a form to be submitted to kaunpunki healthcare for further study. Yeah, so what is the 15 minutes for if the person just sits and writes out a document and you acheive nothing the whole time? You can be sure he wasn't making notes after the session, since he rarely talked to me the whole 45 minutes. Nice to pay that huge sum to nothing. I am so rich, not.

[AldenG]

I'm sorry you had that bad experience. Your intuition is correct that that's not how it is supposed to work in modern psychotherapy.

[benina jakobson]

hi,
i am a psychologist and a therapist in espoo. my english is good, though not my mothertongue. i just found this site and this conversation. suppose this is not the place to advertise, so tell me where to put an add for you guys to find me?

[Hrn]

Hi DaveS, are you and your wife still in Finland? Any way I could get in touch with your wife? I want to help my husband and he insists on a native English speaker.

[benina jakobson]

hi everybody,

i am a psychologist and a therapist and i do psychotherapy in english, though it is not my monthertongue.
you can find me at VITA lääkäriasema

http://www.vita.fi/index.php?id=laakariasema
we couldn't be located more centrally, diagonally behind ateneum.

book an appointment, i'm there every friday. you can either call 09-22 88 00 or book on net at
http://www.vita.fi/index.php?id=172

don't hesitate - during the first meeting we can figure out whether it's this or something else that works out the best for you.
when booking an appointment, you don't need to tell anything about yourself to the receptionist - just ask for an appointment to me.
you can also send me private mail via this forum.

yours sincerely,
benina jakobson

[charu]

Hi!

I am a psychotherapist based in Australia. I am thinking of moving to Finland.
I was wondering if somebody could provide me some information on how the profession of psychotherapy is regulated in Finland. I do know that it is not regulated in the same way as psychology is.
Also does one need to know Finnish to be able to practice as a psychotherapist there?

any information would be helpful.
many thanks

[Upphew]

Hi!

I am a psychotherapist based in Australia. I am thinking of moving to Finland.
I was wondering if somebody could provide me some information on how the profession of psychotherapy is regulated in Finland. I do know that it is not regulated in the same way as psychology is.
Also does one need to know Finnish to be able to practice as a psychotherapist there?

any information would be helpful.
many thanks

http://www.valvira.fi/en/licensing/prof ... ice_rights

edit.

Also does one need to know Finnish to be able to practice as a psychotherapist there?

If you don't then you restrict your clientele a lot.

[celestiacom]

I am qualified Psychologist so I can give for you consultation in remote connection / web call, send me PM.

[bishal916]

Hello, DaveS
I was in need of psychotherapist, can we talk more?

[saleciahost]

I am looking for a school readiness test that must be conducted in Finland befriend July 28th and August 4th
Does anyone know a child psychologist or psychiatrist who can conduct this.

[Parrot]

My (English) wife is a qualified psychotherapist, we live an hour or so from Helsinki, if that's any help.

Hi, I am American and living in Finland. I don't have many friends here, mostly on the internet back in America. I've lived a stressful life of trauma and violence and I recently got into a fight with my mother, a very serious fight and we are both at fault. I am 16, and I find it hard even looking at my mother. She doesn't treat me like she loves me as her son. I am in a lot of stress and I thought I should have therapy to have someone to talk to. The social has also recommended therapy. I don't know what to do.

[Parrot]

My (English) wife is a qualified psychotherapist, we live an hour or so from Helsinki, if that's any help.

I am also half Finnish. My father is Finnish, but I lived most of my life in America