Any ideas around Hamburg?

I think you are going to have to supply a little bit more info - eg what specific "type" of counsellor? - or is English the subject to be advised upon?

sorry of course, anxiety,depression,panic attacks. General sort of thing to discuss problems but due to limited German might be easier in English. Thanks

Will you get a prescription from Krankenkasse or will you pay privately?
(Many therapists are not licensed by Krankenkasse...)

Hello, can get a prescription or also pay private in case KK don't cover costs.

I can strongly recommend Niko Feistle, Kaiser-Wilhelm Str 47 (near Music hall) Tel. 353283.
(speaks fluent German, English, French, Japanese and a bit of some other langauges too)

If you haven't found anyone yet, maybe you contact Danielle who just posted on TT? She's an art therapist...

If you find a good one let us know. I'm a fan of psychotherapy.

Meaning? You like going to a different therapist every week or what?

Maybe it's become a spectator sport?

The two posts above mine are totally unnecessary. Don't you guys have anything better to do than troll around Toytown and make silly comments? It takes a lot of courage to talk to seek out a psychotherapist, and even more so to ask for help in a public forum. Hopefully more recommendations will be posted. I can get by with my preschool German at the normal doctors but can't imagine speaking about such in-depth topics as my inner workings in German!

@marymanu - Thanks for backing me.

@Kay, @Silty1 - I'm feeling attacked and picked on by your comments.

(beat)

@Kay, @Silty1 - Sigh. Do I really need to define what is obviously clear?!? Or do the British and Canadians just not use the word 'fan' in the way Americans do?

fan ² (fān) noun
An ardent devotee; an enthusiast. [Short for fanatic.]

--"fan." The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Houghton Mifflin Company, 2004. <Dictionary.com http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/fan>. (Accessed: February 26, 2008).

@Kay, @Silty1 - I'm not sure if you two deserve such a patient answer from me, but alas, just in case you were innocently confused and your comments not laced with hostility... "I am a fan of pyschotherapy," means I am pro-psychoanalysis; I believe in it; I find it helpful.

I don't attach a stigma to clients of pyschological therapy. (Otherwise, I'd have to attach one to myself!)

I think it's a healthy thing. I even credit therapy for a large part of my current maturity.

@marymanu - Once again, if you find one, let us know. Really good therapists are hard to find.

@half-japanese
Thank you for your comments.
The fact that your initial post provoked a similar reaction in two very different people would seem to indicate that your intended meaning wasn't so "obviously clear" to everyone. To me your use of the term "fan" in this context seemed to trivialise psychotherapy, and it appears that Silty1 felt the same.
I trust the misunderstanding has now been cleared up on both sides.