English-speaking therapists in Kazakhstan

Living in Kazakhstan, in English

Therapy in English, online, wherever in Kazakhstan you are. No waiting list.

For the expat community in Kazakhstan — often here for energy, mining, or diplomacy — English-speaking mental-health care is genuinely scarce on the ground.

Almaty against the mountains — English-speaking therapy for Kazakhstan

Why therapy in English

Where English-speaking care is hard to find locally

The people who move to Kazakhstan for work — the energy sector, diplomacy, international business — mostly live and work in English or Russian, and English-speaking therapy is genuinely thin on the ground. Postings can be isolating, and the usual supports are a long way off.

Online closes that gap: you choose from every therapist working in English, wherever they are, and meet privately from home.

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.

Therapy in your city

How it works

Three steps, online

Choose your therapist, pick a time in your own zone, meet by video 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.

If you need help right now

Wefeel is not a crisis service

If you are thinking about ending your life, or you're afraid of what you might do, please don't wait for an appointment. Emergency services answer at any hour, free of charge, and in English.

  • Emergency services112
  • National crisis helpline — free, 24 hours a day (Kazakh / Russian language)150
  • Almaty Mental Health Centre (Kazakh / Russian language)+7 727 376-56-60

Common questions

Do I need Kazakh or Russian?

No — sessions and the whole site are in English.

Are there English-speaking therapists in Kazakhstan?

Very few locally — which is exactly what online solves. You choose from everyone working in English, wherever they are.

Is it confidential?

Yes, subject to the usual limits.

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.

For therapists

Working in English in Kazakhstan?

If you're a qualified therapist who works online in English, you can list your practice on Wefeel.