
We all are aware that taking care of health is highly critical, no matter what the age. And when we talk about health, it is typically considered physical health. But it is now more than ever that we need to accept mental and physical health are part and parcel of an individual’s overall health and well-being.
No matter what the diagnosis, psychologists and counselors can evaluate emotional challenges and offer advice, support, and solutions to tackle them better.
Benefits of seeing a psychologist or a counselor:
We have drawn a list of well-known psychologists and counselors in Hong Kong.
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If you feel constantly overwhelmed, anxious, irritable, or struggle with work-life balance, sleep, or relationships, professional support can help restore balance and prevent burnout.
Psychologists focus on assessment and deeper behavioral insight, therapists provide structured treatment, while counsellors offer practical listening and advice. All are valuable—choose based on your specific needs.
Look for English-speaking professionals with strong reviews, relevant experience, and convenient Central or Kowloon locations. Many offer initial consultations to ensure a good fit.
Therapy provides fresh perspectives, emotional support, greater self-awareness, and practical tools to improve well-being, relationships, and daily resilience.
Yes, more families in Hong Kong are prioritising mental wellness.
MindWorX is OT&P’s dedicated mental wellness clinic in Central, offering expert, evidence-based support for individuals, couples, families, and children. Whether you’re proactively enhancing mental wellbeing and performance or navigating challenges such as anxiety, low mood, stress and burnout, sleep difficulties, trauma, or ADHD, the experienced team delivers personalised care tailored to each person’s needs. Bringing together psychiatrists, psychologists, counsellors, and therapists, MindWorX offers consultations in Cantonese, English, Mandarin, and Japanese for truly accessible support.
The clinic is also expanding into a larger space on a new floor, designed to better support families with additional learning rooms and a dedicated occupational therapy room. With more mental health professionals joining — including a psychomotor therapist and an occupational therapist — MindWorX is broadening its child-focused services to include autism, educational, and early years development assessments, alongside speech therapy and occupational therapy. This thoughtful expansion ensures seamless, integrated care that supports mental well-being at every stage of life.
OT&P MindWorX Clinic, Rooms 2205–6, 22/F, New World Tower I, 16–18 Queen’s Road Central, Hong Kong, +852 2468 3577, appointment@otandp.com, www.otandp.com/services/mindworx-mental-health
MindnLife is a welcoming, private psychology practice in Central, founded by a registered clinical psychologist, Dr. Zaidi who comes highly recommended amongst the Hong Kong community. Dr. Zaidi has extensive experience working with children, adults, families, and couples. Specializing in a broad range of mental health challenges, she is appreciated for her non-judgmental manner. The clinic also offers educational assessments, a self-care for women program and workshops.
MindnLife, Office 2118, 21st Floor LKF Tower, 33 Wyndham Street, Central Hong Kong, + 852 9700 2786, info@mindnlife.com, www.mindnlife.com
Sarah Breidenbach, Director of Focus², is a key figure in Hong Kong mental health. She has led a team serving expats and locals for 12 years and looks for immediate, practical ways to create measurable change for her clients. She recognizes the investment a client is making, appreciates the trust she’s given, and considers it her personal responsibility to offer new insights, tools, or experiences to every client. She has no one-size-fits-all approach and draws on her 25 years of social science research and counseling to offer a new path for clients, whether they're new to counseling or the seasoned patient who's seen many therapists before.
Her therapy includes the latest science behind trauma resolution work, and she believes the body cannot be separated from the mind in therapy. She integrates the insights of anatomy and neuroscience to educate clients on how to understand and use their bodies for healing and support. Focus² additionally has a professional team with a range of prices and sliding scale options, a rare option in Hong Kong.
Focus² Intelligent Therapy, Room 1206, Loon Kee Building, 267-275 Des Voeux Road Central, Hong Kong, +852 6014 3693, sarah@focus2.co, www.focus2.co
Parenting can bring immense joy, but it can also surface emotional challenges that affect the whole family. At IMI – Integrated Medicine Institute, families in Hong Kong can access compassionate psychotherapy, psychology and counselling services designed to support adults, teens and children through life’s more difficult moments. Located in the heart of Central, IMI takes a gentle, relationship-based approach to mental health care, recognising that healing happens over time and within safe, trusting connections.
Whether you or your child are navigating anxiety, depression, trauma, phobias, behavioural concerns or emotional overwhelm, IMI’s experienced therapists work at a pace that feels comfortable and supportive. Their multilingual team offers sessions in English, Cantonese and Mandarin, making care more accessible for Hong Kong’s diverse families. Treatment plans are thoughtfully tailored using a range of evidence-based approaches, including CBT, trauma-informed psychotherapy and mind-body practices that help build emotional resilience and wellbeing.
What sets IMI apart is its integrated philosophy of care. Their psychologists and counsellors work alongside other wellness practitioners within the clinic to provide holistic support for both mental and physical wellbeing. We love IMI for its warm, non-judgemental approach to family mental health and the calm, nurturing environment they create for parents, children and teens alike. The combination of clinical expertise, multilingual care and holistic wellness services makes IMI a trusted resource for long-term emotional wellbeing in Hong Kong.
IMI – Integrated Medicine Institute, 13/F Kailey Tower, 16 Stanley Street, Central, Hong Kong, Tel: +852 2523 7121, reception@imi.com.hk, www.imi.com.hk
SPOT is Hong Kong’s leading family clinic with a warm and caring team of highly experienced specialists offering psychological and psycho-educational assessments as well as individual and group therapy. The SPOT team is trilingual, and they come from diverse backgrounds. Their therapy sessions have a solution-oriented approach toward a myriad of challenges faced by children, adolescents, and parents, including social difficulties, adoption, anxiety/depression, attachment issues, educational struggles, eating disorders, divorce, trauma, parenting challenges, and more. Call the SPOT clinic to speak to one of the friendly teams and find the right therapist to suit your family’s needs.
SPOT, contact@spot.com.hk, https://spot.com.hk/
A bonus of the psychiatry and psychology team at Central Health is that they can work alongside their team of family doctors and medical specialists for a comprehensive solution. A dedicated child development team and adult specialist coordinators are available. Employing a number of evidence-based theories plus a knowledge of cultural differences makes this a good choice for many families in Hong Kong. They also provide e-therapy sessions online. They are open Monday to Friday from 8:30am - 6pm, Sat 9am - 1pm. They also have clinics in Southside and Discovery Bay.
Central Health, 37/F Floor, New World Tower 1, 16–18 Queen's Road Central, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2824 0822, enquiries@centralhealth.com.hk, www.centralhealth.com.hk
Academic counseling services for both local and international schools are available, along with client counseling here. Their polyglot team employs counseling from positive psychology as well as cognitive-behavioral therapy. Among the 32 counselors who collectively speak English, French, Spanish, Japanese, German, Cantonese, and more, you may even be able to converse in your native language. They offer practical programs such as co-parenting for divorced parents, pre-marital counseling, and mediation for couples, which are also really helpful! They are open Monday to Friday, 9:00am - 9:00pm.
St. John’s Cathedral Counselling Service, 7/F On Hing Building, 1-9 On Hing Terrace, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2525 7207, info@sjcshk.com, www.sjcshk.com
Taking on a holistic approach, Central Minds Ltd. offers therapy services for both the mind and body to improve the overall well-being of you and your little ones. Some services provided are play therapy for the youngest lot, marriage counseling for couples, cognitive behavioral therapy, and anxiety management, amongst many more. With the belief that the mind and body are connected, they also provide services like acupuncture and craniosacral therapy to help you feel your best. They are open Monday to Friday, 9am - 6:30pm.
Central Minds Ltd., 8th & 10th Floor VC House, 4-6 On Lan Street, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2813 6601, info@CentralMinds.hk, www.centralminds.hk
Providing both in-person and online counseling and coaching, Dr. Lichtman has extensive experience helping couples, professionals, and individual adults recover from divorce, repair personal conflicts, become effective communicators, and develop practices and a vision for healthy relationships. His combination of skills as a registered psychotherapist and certified transformational coach, as well as over 8,000 hours of experience, can assure you that you are in the right hands.
Integrated Way, 110 Wellington St, Central, Hong Kong,+852 64631242, integratedway@icloud.com, www.integratedway.com
Allison Heiliczer, counselor, psychotherapist, and ICF-certified coach, offers sessions at Rethink The Couch. Allison works with adult individuals and couples to transform their relationships and work challenges. Based in Singapore, Allison offers virtual sessions during weekdays and Sundays for clients in Hong Kong.
Rethink The Couch, +65 88798310, allison.heiliczer@gmail.com, www.rethinkthecouch.com
Established in Hong Kong in 2009 by clinical psychologist Dr. Scarlett Mattoli, the multidisciplinary and multinational team at Psynamo provides counseling, psychological, coaching, social work, and assessment services.
Psynamo’s compassionate practitioners support people facing challenges like anxiety, neurodiversity, trauma, grief, and addiction, using evidence-based therapies like CBT, DBT, ACT, and expressive arts. Their services include QEEG, neurofeedback, and Tomatis listening therapies, enhancing traditional talk therapy.
Psynamo also offers full and partial psychological assessments, group courses, workshops, and corporate consultancy, with support available in-person, online, or on-site in multiple languages. Committed to creating positive change, Psynamo focuses on each person’s unique journey, providing ethical and professional care every step of the way.
Psynamo Limited, Suite 701-702, 1 Lyndhurst Tower, 1 Lyndhurst Terrace, Central, Hong Kong, +852 9676 6506, flourish@psynamo.com, www.psynamo.com
MindSpace is run by Ashima Sharma, who has more than 12 years of experience working at inpatient and outpatient psychiatric and child care departments, paediatric clinics and rehabilitation centres. She has experience working with infants, kids, teens, adults, couples, families and the LGBTQ community. In her practice, Ashima uses evidence-based solutions to equip her clients with lifelong tools to Reboot, Reflect and Revive. She specialises in a broad range of mental health concerns, providing assessments and treatment solutions for child and adolescent academic, mental and behavioral concerns. Other areas of specialty include anxiety, trauma, stress management, anger management, bipolar and personality disorders, couples therapy, adjustment issues, LGBTQIA concerns and cyber addictions. She offers a free 20-minute meeting in person or on the phone.
MindSpace, House 182,Boulevard Du Lac, The Beverly Hills, 23 Sam Mun Tsai Road, Tai Po, Hong Kong, +852 9621 8026, mindspace@ashima.hk, mindspace.ashima.hk
Registered Individual and Couples Relationship Counselor Lori Chau is a relationship counselor at Restore Integrative Medical Clinic who works with couples and individuals to create harmony within their relationships. She specializes in helping clients acquire the tools they need for better communication. Her work includes: pre-marital counseling, marriage, healing from affairs, long-term relationships, work relationships, family interactions, friendships, separations, breakups and conflict resolutions.
In her couples sessions, Lori specializes in using the Gottman Method to help couples learn tools for conflict management and effective communication so that they can confidently and respectfully work through difficult or sensitive topics of discussion. In her individual sessions, Lori has worked with issues including grieving the loss of a relationship, stress management, time management, anxiety, worries and helping individuals learn more about their own communication styles.
Restore Integrative Medical Clinic, Room 1602, 16/F, 1 Duddell Street, Central, Hong Kong, +852 2331 8816, restoreintegrativemedical.com
Maple Tree Counselling is a trusted mental health practice in Hong Kong, offering compassionate care through a diverse, multicultural team of highly qualified counsellors and psychologists. With therapy available in English, Cantonese, and Mandarin, they support individuals, couples, families, and adolescents facing a wide range of challenges, including anxiety, depression, trauma, relationship issues, and life transitions. Their team specializes in evidence-based approaches like CBT, EMDR, ACT, and psychodynamic therapy, tailoring treatment to each client’s unique needs in a safe and supportive environment.
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