Therapy in English, for a life you thought was temporary
No German required, no Krankenkasse, no waiting list. Choose your therapist and meet online.
You moved here for a role with an end date. The office runs in English, learning German felt like investing in a place you weren't staying — and then the years passed anyway.
Our therapists
Therapists who work in English
Sessions are online, so they move with you when the next posting comes.
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
People arrive here for three years and leave in nine
Frankfurt is a city you move to for a role. The office runs in English, the contract has an end date, and learning German feels like an investment in a place you are not staying. So you don't. And the years pass anyway.
What accumulates is specific and rarely named: a social life made entirely of colleagues, a flat you never decorated, the sense of living at one remove from a city you have now been in for most of your adult life. It is not depression, necessarily. It is not nothing, either.
Therapy in English isn't a compromise here — it is the only language in which most people who live this life can say what it's actually like.
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.
Burnout is not a personality trait
It is what happens to competent people who kept going for too long without anyone asking how they were. It responds to being talked about.
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
I might be relocated next year. Is it worth starting?
Sessions are online, which means they move when you do. Therapy that ends because of a visa or a posting is a real loss; therapy you never began because you assumed it would end is a quieter one.
My employer offers a few counselling sessions. Why this instead?
Employee schemes typically offer a fixed, short number of sessions with whoever is assigned. That helps some people a great deal. Here you choose the person yourself and stay as long as it is useful — which for many things is longer than six sessions.
I work eleven-hour days. When would I even go?
Available times are shown on each profile and include early mornings and evenings. This is the constraint online therapy removes most reliably.
Is the therapist based in Frankfurt?
Often not, and for an online session it does not need to be. Each profile states where the therapist is qualified to practise.
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.