8 Best Psychologists & Therapists in Singapore (August 2026)

This section matters more than the list. Four things.

• The titles are not protected yet. Psychology in Singapore is currently self-regulated, which means there is no legal barrier to someone advertising as a psychologist, therapist or counsellor regardless of training. This is not a scare story, it is simply the current state of the law, and most practitioners are appropriately qualified. It just means the burden of checking sits with you rather than with a licensing board.
• Mandatory registration is coming under the Allied Health Professions Act. The Ministry of Health has set out the framework, covering five subdisciplines chosen through structured risk assessment: clinical, clinical neuropsychology, counselling, educational and forensic psychology. Title protection is the enforcement mechanism, the Allied Health Professions Council will take action against people falsely claiming registration, and there will be a publicly available register.
• Two registers already exist and both are free. The Singapore Register of Psychologists, run by the Singapore Psychological Society, only admits practitioners holding postgraduate applied psychology degrees and meeting its supervised-practice requirements. The Singapore Association for Counselling publishes its register of over 900 Registered Counsellors and 200 Registered Clinical Supervisors. Search the name before your first appointment.
• Ask three questions on the phone. What is your highest qualification and in what. Are you on the SRP or the SAC register. And who supervises your clinical work. Any practitioner worth seeing answers all three without hesitation, and the answers tell you more than any listicle can.

One more thing that is genuinely useful and rarely explained: a great deal of mental health support in Singapore is subsidised rather than private. Family Service Centres, polyclinic referrals and the Community Health Assessment Team run at a fraction of private fees, and HealthHub is the government starting point for those routes. If cost is the barrier, start there rather than assuming the only option is S$250 an hour.

These three get used interchangeably and they are not interchangeable. The difference decides whether the person in front of you can actually do what you came for.

The practical version. If you might need medication, or you want a formal psychiatric diagnosis, you need a psychiatrist, and they are the only one of the three already under statutory regulation. If you want assessment, a formal psychological diagnosis or structured therapy such as CBT, a clinical psychologist is the right call. If you want to work through a specific difficulty, a relationship, grief, work stress, a counsellor is often the better fit and costs less.

Plenty of people start in the wrong place, pay for several sessions and conclude therapy does not work for them. It is worth spending ten minutes deciding which of the three you actually want before you look at any names, including the ones below. I have covered each route separately: counselling services in Singapore, which is the cheapest and most heavily subsidised of the three, psychiatrists in Singapore, where a referral costs a tenth of going private, and child psychologists if the person who needs help is under 18.

Annabelle Psychology is the practice I would suggest first to someone who has never done this before, for two reasons that have nothing to do with clinical reputation. It publishes its fees plainly, S$180 to S$230 an hour, pro-rated when a session runs longer or shorter than the hour. And it is straightforward about what it does and does not treat.

The practice was founded by Dr Annabelle Chow and works across individuals, children, families and couples, with particular depth in complex trauma and personality disorders, which is not an area every private practice takes on. It also runs psychological assessments including neurocognitive, neurodevelopmental and IQ testing, so an assessment and the therapy that follows can happen under one roof.

It sits at Royal Square Medical Centre next to Novena MRT, which makes it one of the easier practices to get to without a car. Ask about the specific psychologist you will see rather than the practice as a whole, since a team practice means the fit is with a person.

Website: annabellepsychology.com
Where: Royal Square Medical Centre, Novena
Fees: S$180 to S$230 an hour, pro-rated
Also offers: Neurocognitive, neurodevelopmental and IQ assessments
Best for: Complex trauma, and knowing the price before you call

Promises is on this list for a structural reason rather than a stylistic one. It has been running since 2011 with both registered psychiatrists and a team of clinical, educational, counselling and forensic psychologists in the same practice, which means the medication question and the therapy question can be answered without a referral to a stranger.

That matters more than it sounds. A common path is someone starting therapy, discovering that medication would help, and then having to find and wait for a psychiatrist from scratch. Where both sit in one practice, that handover is internal and the two clinicians can actually speak to each other.

Because psychiatrists are involved, this is also the practice on the list where the statutory regulation already applies: psychiatrists are medical doctors registered with the Singapore Medical Council, which is a check you can do today. Expect psychiatry consultations to price well above psychology sessions.

Website: promises.com.sg
Since: 2011
Team: Psychiatrists plus clinical, educational, counselling and forensic psychologists
Fees: Psychiatry rates run above psychology rates, ask when booking
Best for: Cases where medication may be part of the answer

Alliance Counselling at Cluny Court is a counselling practice rather than a clinical psychology one, and that is the point of including it. For a great many presenting problems, a relationship in difficulty, grief, a work situation that has become unmanageable, a good counsellor is the right professional and costs less than a clinical psychologist.

Its team is internationally trained and multilingual, which is a genuine differentiator in Singapore. Therapy conducted in your second language is harder work than people expect, and being able to do it in Mandarin, Malay, Tamil or another first language changes what is possible in a session.

It publishes a fees and terms page rather than making you enquire, which remains rarer than it should be in this field. If you go this route, check the individual counsellor on the SAC register before the first appointment.

Website: alliancecounselling.com.sg
Where: Cluny Court
Fees: Published on their fees and terms page
Team: Internationally trained and multilingual counsellors
Best for: Couples, and therapy in a first language other than English

The most common practical failure in this field is not quality, it is waiting. Good practices with three clinicians are often booked six weeks out, which is a long time when someone has finally decided to ask for help. Psychology Blossom runs a team of more than 30 therapists out of the CBD, and that scale is the reason it is here.

It covers the common presenting issues, anxiety, depression, trauma, couples work and ADHD, across a team broad enough that there is usually someone with a relevant specialism and a slot in the near future. For someone in the CBD who wants an appointment before the end of the month, that combination is hard to beat.

The trade-off with a large team is that the practice name tells you less about who you will actually see. Ask which therapist you are being assigned, what their qualification is and whether they are on the SRP or SAC register, and treat the answer as the real decision.

Website: psychologyblossom.com
Where: CBD
Team: More than 30 therapists
Covers: Anxiety, depression, trauma, couples, ADHD
Best for: Getting seen soon, in town

Psych Connect is the practice to go to when what you need is an assessment rather than therapy. It covers psychological and diagnostic assessments across the lifespan, neuropsychological testing, speech assessments and art therapy, with a particular focus on child development.

Assessment is a genuinely different service from therapy and it is priced differently. A full psychoeducational or neurodevelopmental assessment involves multiple sessions, standardised testing and a written report, and runs into the thousands rather than the hundreds. If a school has asked for a report, this is the kind of practice that produces one.

It offers both in-person appointments at its Singapore centre and secure online sessions, which matters for families juggling school hours. Ask for the full assessment cost and the report timeline in writing before committing, because both vary considerably and neither is a small number.

Website: psychconnect.sg
Offers: Diagnostic and neuropsychological assessment, speech assessment, art therapy
Format: In-person and secure online appointments
Fees: Assessment pricing on enquiry, expect four figures for a full assessment
Best for: Child assessments and school reports

The Psychology Practice is owned and led by clinical psychologists whose training and experience came through public hospitals and tertiary mental healthcare settings in Singapore and Australia, and that background is the reason to consider it. Tertiary settings mean seeing the severe end of the spectrum in volume, which is a different education from private practice alone.

It publishes a psychological services fee schedule rather than quoting on enquiry, which I keep flagging because it is the clearest signal a practice is comfortable being compared. Fees for assessment work sit separately from therapy sessions, as they should.

This is the pick when the presenting problem is complex or has been going on for years, and where you would rather have someone who has seen a lot of it than someone who is a better cultural fit. If those are the same person, better still.

Website: thepsychpractice.com
Team: Clinical psychologists trained in public hospital and tertiary settings
Fees: Published fee schedule, therapy and assessment priced separately
Best for: Complex or long-standing presentations

Ardelle Psychology charges S$250 a session, in person in Singapore or by telehealth, and publishes that number plainly. In a field where most practices quote a range or ask you to enquire, a single flat rate is genuinely useful: you can budget a course of eight sessions before you make the first call.

Its published work leans toward young adults, which is a group that often falls between services here, too old for the school and family routes and not yet settled enough to absorb an open-ended private commitment. Telehealth as a standard option rather than an afterthought also suits people working shifts or living outside the centre.

S$250 sits in the upper middle of the market rather than at the value end. What you are buying is predictability, which for a course of therapy is worth more than shaving twenty dollars off a session.

Website: ardellepsychology.com
Fees: S$250 a session, in person or telehealth
Format: Telehealth offered as standard
Best for: Young adults, and budgeting a course of sessions in advance

Us Therapy charges S$305 to S$325 for an individual session with its principal psychologist and founder, which makes it the most expensive practice on this list. It is here because that pricing is transparent about what it is: you are paying for the most senior person rather than for whoever is available.

Two details worth knowing before booking, both published and both easy to miss. Sessions are 50 minutes rather than a full hour, with longer sessions pro-rated, and there is a S$20 surcharge for appointments outside normal opening hours. Neither is unusual in this field. What is unusual is stating both up front.

The 50-minute standard is worth internalising generally, because it is the norm across the profession and people routinely budget for an hour. Over a twelve-session course that is a two-hour difference between what you assumed and what you get.

Website: us-therapy.sg
Fees: S$305 to S$325 with the principal psychologist
Session length: 50 minutes, longer sessions pro-rated
Note: S$20 surcharge outside opening hours
Best for: Seeing the most senior clinician rather than the next available

Therapy in Singapore costs roughly S$120 to S$250 a session with a counsellor, S$150 to S$350 with a clinical psychologist, and S$250 to S$575 for a psychiatrist consultation. There is no national fee schedule for private mental health care, so rates are set practice by practice and the only reliable figure is the one the practice gives you. Full psychological assessments run into the thousands.

Two things that move the real cost. Sessions are usually 50 minutes rather than 60, so an assumed hourly rate understates the per-hour price by about 20 percent. And some employers cover therapy through an Employee Assistance Programme, which a surprising number of people never check before paying privately.

Search the practitioner by name on the Singapore Register of Psychologists, run by the Singapore Psychological Society, which only admits people holding postgraduate applied psychology degrees and meeting supervised-practice requirements. For counsellors, search the Singapore Association for Counselling register, which lists over 900 Registered Counsellors. Both are free and public. For psychiatrists, check the Singapore Medical Council register, since psychiatrists are medical doctors and already statutorily regulated.

This matters because psychology is not yet a regulated profession in Singapore and the titles are not legally protected, so registration is the only meaningful signal currently available. Ask any prospective practitioner for their highest qualification, their register status and who provides their clinical supervision. A qualified professional will answer all three readily.

Not yet, but it is about to be. Psychology in Singapore is currently self-regulated through voluntary registration, so the titles psychologist, therapist and counsellor are not legally protected and anyone may use them. The Ministry of Health has set out a framework to bring psychologists under the Allied Health Professions Act with mandatory registration across five subdisciplines: clinical, clinical neuropsychology, counselling, educational and forensic psychology.

Under that framework, title protection is the enforcement mechanism, so unregistered practitioners will not be permitted to use the registered titles in any context, including advertisements and service agreements. The Allied Health Professions Council will oversee compliance and take enforcement action against people falsely claiming to be registered, and there will be a publicly available register. Until it takes effect, checking the voluntary registers yourself is the only equivalent safeguard.

A psychiatrist is a medical doctor who has specialised in psychiatry, is registered with the Singapore Medical Council, and can prescribe medication. A clinical psychologist holds a postgraduate degree in clinical psychology, assesses and treats through therapy such as CBT, and cannot prescribe. A counsellor typically holds a masters in counselling, works therapeutically on specific difficulties, and does not diagnose.

Fees follow the same order: roughly S$250 to S$575 for a psychiatrist, S$150 to S$350 for a clinical psychologist and S$120 to S$250 for a counsellor. The practical rule is that medication or a formal psychiatric diagnosis means a psychiatrist, formal psychological assessment or structured therapy means a clinical psychologist, and a specific life difficulty is often best served by a counsellor at lower cost.

Yes. Family Service Centres, polyclinic referrals to public mental health services, and the Community Health Assessment Team for young people all operate well below private rates, and some are means-tested rather than flat-priced. HealthHub is the government starting point for finding these routes. Many employers also fund therapy through an Employee Assistance Programme, which is worth checking before paying privately.

Private practices sometimes offer reduced rates for sessions with provisionally registered psychologists working under supervision, which is a legitimate way to access good care at lower cost. Ask directly whether a sliding scale or a supervised-clinician rate exists, since practices rarely advertise it but a fair number offer it.

Start by deciding which of the three professions you actually need, because that single choice matters more than which name you pick off this or any other list. Medication or a psychiatric diagnosis means a psychiatrist. Assessment or structured therapy means a clinical psychologist. A specific difficulty in your life is often best handled by a counsellor, at meaningfully lower cost.

Then check the register. It takes a minute, it is free, and until mandatory registration takes effect it is the only real safeguard available. Annabelle Psychology is where I would send someone starting from scratch, because the fees are published and the clinical depth is real. Promises if medication might be part of it. Alliance for counselling, especially in a first language other than English. Psychology Blossom if the wait somewhere else is six weeks and that is six weeks too long. Psych Connect if what you need is an assessment and a report.

Two things almost nobody is told. Sessions are 50 minutes, not an hour, so a course costs more per hour than the headline suggests. And subsidised routes exist and are good, so if S$250 a session is the reason you have not booked anything, that is a solvable problem rather than the end of the road.

One last note, and it is not a sales pitch so much as an observation from researching this. Several of the practices here publish their fees plainly and several do not, and the ones that do are markedly easier to trust before you have met anyone. In a field where the client is often anxious and comparing quietly at midnight, a clear fees page does more work than any amount of copy. If you run a practice and your website is the weak link, that is fixable. Take a look at my web design services in Singapore, or get a quote and I will tell you honestly what would move the needle.