Therapy in English, in the Ruhr
No Krankenkasse, no waiting list, no doing this in your second language.
The Ruhr region is reindustrialising around logistics and tech, drawing international workers into cities where English-speaking care is scarcer than in Berlin.
Our therapists
Therapists who work in English
Sessions are online, so the Ruhr's thin local provision isn't your limit.
Piotr KowalskiPsychotherapist
Available onlineterapia online | psychoterapia gestalt
Languages: Polish · English
80 € / session
Justyna CzyżDoula
Available onlineI support parents as a certified ClauWi babywearing consultant (since 2022) and a doula (since 2023), having completed…
Languages: Polish · English
55 € / session
Joanna AdamsonPsychotherapist
Available onlineShe holds a diploma in integrative psychotherapy obtained at an institute that is a member of the European Association…
Languages: Polish · English
65 € / session
Why it matters here
The Ruhr, where English-speaking care lags behind
Dortmund anchors a dense post-industrial region that's rebuilt itself around logistics, tech, and universities, drawing internationals who live in English. But the Ruhr's English-speaking mental-health provision hasn't caught up with its bigger-city peers, and finding a therapist who works in your language locally is genuinely hard. Online, that stops mattering: you choose from everyone working in English and meet from home.
About Wefeel
What Wefeel is — and what it isn't
Wefeel is a place to find a therapist and arrange to meet them online. We verify that every therapist listed here is qualified to practise, and we give them a place to be found.
We are not a clinic and we are not a party to your therapy. The session is between you and your therapist, and it belongs to the two of you. What is said in it stays there.
Wefeel is also not a crisis service. If you are in immediate danger, the numbers below will reach someone right now.
What we work with
What brings people here
Loneliness and isolation
When your social life is made entirely of colleagues, and everyone who knew you before is in another time zone.
Anxiety and chronic stress
Visas, contracts, rent, the low hum of living somewhere you could be asked to leave.
Depression and flatness
Especially the kind that is hard to name, because on paper the move worked.
Identity and belonging
Caught between where you're from and where you live, between who you were and whoever this is now.
Relationships and family
Including the strain of having moved together — or of having moved without them.
Homesickness and grief
For people, for a former life, for the version of yourself that existed before you left.
This is not a complete list. If you're struggling with something that isn't here, get in touch anyway. Therapy begins with you, not with a category — and it doesn't require you to have found the right word for it first.
How it works
Three steps, no Krankenkasse
You read the profiles and choose your own therapist — nobody assigns one to you, and nothing goes through an insurer. You then pick a time from the hours they have open, shown in your own time zone, evenings and early mornings included. Finally you meet by video call, from home. No referral, no insurance paperwork, and no German required at any point.
You don't need a diagnosis to start
Most people who begin therapy have no idea what to call the thing they want to talk about. Finding out is part of it.
Reading
Written by the therapists themselves
Articles about anxiety, sleep, grief, burnout and the rest of it — written by the people you can book a session with.
If you need help right now
Wefeel is not a crisis service
If you are thinking about ending your life, or you are afraid of what you might do, please don't wait for an appointment. Emergency services answer at any hour, free of charge.
- Emergency services112
- Telefonseelsorge — free, 24 hours a day (German language)0800 111 0 111 or 116 123
- On-call medical service, non-emergency (German language)116 117
Common questions
Are there English-speaking therapists in Dortmund?
Few locally — online, you're not restricted to them.
Do I need German health insurance?
No — you arrange directly, nothing through the Krankenkasse.
Do I need to speak German?
No — sessions and the whole site are in English.
Start in your own language
Read the profiles, take your time, and choose someone you can talk to properly. No Krankenkasse, no referral, and no German required at any point.
For therapists
Working in English?
If you're a qualified therapist who works online in English, you can list your practice on Wefeel.