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Checking that someone is who they say they are
Seven countries, seven registers, and a one-minute check that most people never do before handing over their worst week.
Šī ir karte par to, kā sistēmas darbojas, nav diagnoze un nav ārstēšanas plāns. Tā nenosaukā nevienu praksi un nevienu privāto cenu, jo nevienu no tām šeit nevar uzturēt precīzu. Tā nevar jums pateikt, kas nav kārtībā vai kāda ārstēšana jums vajadzīga — tas ir klīnicista darbs, un tas sākas ar vizīti. Nekad nepārtrauciet un nemainiet izrakstītas zāles tīmekļa lapas dēļ. Ja kāda dzīvība ir apdraudēta tieši tagad, zvaniet ārkārtas numuram: 112 visur ES un EEZ.
Why the check is worth a minute
Mental-health work is unusually easy to fake and unusually damaging to fake badly. The room is private, the client is by definition not at their strongest, there is no equipment and no laboratory result to be wrong, and in several of these countries at least one of the professional titles is not legally protected at all. Every register named on this page is public, free and searchable by name, and using one takes about as long as reading a menu. It is the single highest-value minute in the whole process.
What each register actually proves
They do not all prove the same thing, and conflating them is the usual mistake. A health-care licence or authorisation — Sweden’s and Finland’s licensed professions, Norway’s health personnel register, Denmark’s authorisation, Estonia’s and Latvia’s registers of medical practitioners — proves that the state has recognised a qualification and that the person is subject to professional supervision, including the power to restrict them. A professional certificate, such as Estonia’s psychologist certificate in the national qualifications register, proves an assessed standard in a named specialisation. Association membership proves that the person has joined an organisation with entry requirements and an ethics code. All three are useful; only the first two involve the state.
A restriction is not the same as an absence
A register entry that exists but carries a restriction, a condition or a suspension is telling you something specific, and it is worth reading the entry rather than only checking that a name appears. Equally, a name that does not appear is not automatically a scandal: people practise under a maiden name, foreign qualifications may be recognised under a different heading, and someone whose base profession is registered may hold a psychotherapy qualification that the register does not record at all because the country does not register it. The correct response to a missing entry is to ask, not to accuse.
Ask the questions the register cannot answer
Three things matter that no register shows. Whether the person is in regular clinical supervision now — a professional standard rather than a sign of inexperience, and a question a qualified therapist answers without hesitation. Whether they carry professional liability insurance. And what happens to your record: where the notes live, how long they are kept, and who can see them. Those three, plus a register check, cover almost everything that can be checked before a first appointment. The confidentiality page explains what the answers should sound like.
Warning signs that are actually diagnostic
A few things are unambiguous rather than a matter of taste, and they cut across every method and every country. A therapist who will not name their qualification or training institute. Guarantees of a cure, or of a result in a number of sessions. Advice to stop a prescribed medicine, which no non-prescriber should ever give. Pressure to buy long packages up front, or to recruit others. Contact that migrates outside the therapy — social, financial or romantic, all of which are prohibited by every professional ethics code in the region. Discouraging you from consulting a doctor, or from telling anyone about the treatment. Any one of these is enough to stop, and it is always allowed to stop.
| Valsts | Register or authority | Ko tas pierāda |
|---|---|---|
| Igaunija | Terviseamet registers; Kutseregister for psychologists | Registration to practise in health care; the psychologist’s professional certificate and its level |
| Somija | JulkiTerhikki, under the Licensing and Supervision Agency | Licensed doctors and psychologists, and the protected psychotherapist title |
| Latvija | Veselības inspekcija; the statutory Register of Psychologists | Registration of medical practitioners; certification of psychologists and the field it covers |
| Lietuva | State Health Care Accreditation Agency; the psychologists’ practice arrangements | Licensing of health-care professionals and institutions; the statutory basis for psychologists |
| Zviedrija | Socialstyrelsen’s register of licensed health-care staff | Licensed psychologists and licensed psychotherapists, both verifiable by name |
| Norvēģija | Health personnel register, Helsedirektoratet | Authorisation as a psychologist, and specialist status where held |
| Dānija | Styrelsen for Patientsikkerhed; Psykolognævnet for psychologists | Authorisation of health professionals; the authorisation behind "autoriseret psykolog" |
Paši reģistri
| Valsts | Reģistrēties | Glabā | Ko tas pierāda |
|---|---|---|---|
| Igaunija | Veselības aprūpes speciālistu reģistrs | Terviseamet (Veselības pārvalde) | Ka ārsts, psihiatrs vai medmāsa ir reģistrēts praksei Igaunijā |
| Igaunija | Veselības aprūpes sniedzēju reģistrs | Terviseamet | Ka pašai klīnikai ir darbības licence |
| Igaunija | Kutseregister | Kutsekoda (Igaunijas Kvalifikāciju iestāde) | Ka psihologam ir profesionālais sertifikāts un kādā līmenī |
| Igaunija | Līgumpartneru saraksts | Tervisekassa | Ka klīnikai ir līgums, tāpēc maksā valsts un tiek piemērots vizītes maksas ierobežojums |
| Somija | JulkiTerhikki | Licencēšanas un uzraudzības aģentūra (Lupa- ja valvontavirasto) | Ka ārstam vai psihologam ir licence un ka psihoterapeitam ir aizsargātais profesijas nosaukums |
| Somija | Uzraudzības iestāde | Lupa- ja valvontavirasto, kas no 2026. gada pārņēma Valvira pienākumus | Licencēšana, uzraudzība un prakses ierobežojumi |
| Somija | Kela pakalpojumu sniedzēju meklēšana | Kela | Ka terapeits ir apstiprināts rehabilitējošās psihoterapijas programmai |
| Somija | Psihologu apvienības katalogs | Suomen Psykologiliitto | Dalība un specializācija — papildinājums, nevis licences apliecinājums |
| Latvija | Ārstniecības personu reģistrs | Veselības inspekcija | Ka ārsts vai psihiatrs ir reģistrēts praktizēšanai |
| Latvija | Psihologu reģistrs | Uztur Labklājības ministrijas pārziņā | Ka psihologs ir sertificēts saskaņā ar Psihologu likumu un kurā jomā |
| Latvija | Valsts apmaksātie pakalpojumi un sniedzēji | Nacionālais veselības dienests | Kurām klīnikām maksā valsts un kāds ir pacienta līdzmaksājums |
| Lietuva | Veselības aprūpes licences | Valsts veselības aprūpes akreditācijas aģentūra (VASPVT) | Ka ārstam vai iestādei ir licence sniegt veselības aprūpi |
| Lietuva | Psihologu prakses saraksts | Ieviests ar psihologu darbības likumu | Ka psihologs atbilst likumā noteiktajām prasībām praktizēšanai |
| Lietuva | Sabiedrības veselības informācija | Veselības ministrija un Higiēnas institūts | Kādi pakalpojumi pastāv un kur tie tiek sniegti |
| Zviedrija | Licencēto veselības aprūpes darbinieku reģistrs (HoSP) | Socialstyrelsen (Nacionālā veselības un labklājības padome) | Ka psihologam, psihoterapeitam vai ārstam ir Zviedrijas licence |
| Zviedrija | Uzraudzības iestāde | IVO (Veselības un sociālās aprūpes inspekcija) | Sūdzības, pārbaudes un prakses ierobežojumi |
| Zviedrija | Aprūpes meklētājs un padomi | 1177 | Kādas klīnikas pastāv, ko tās ārstē un kā pieteikties |
| Zviedrija | Psihologu asociācija | Sveriges Psykologförbund | Dalība un specializācija — papildinājums, nevis licences apliecinājums |
| Norvēģija | Health personnel register (HPR) | Helsedirektoratet (Directorate of Health) | That a psychologist, specialist or doctor holds a Norwegian authorisation |
| Norvēģija | Health service guide | Helsenorge | How the schemes work, what they cost and how to change your GP |
| Norvēģija | Psihologu asociācija | Norsk psykologforening | Membership and specialist status — a supplement, not proof of authorisation |
| Norvēģija | Patient and user ombudsman | Pasient- og brukerombudet | Free help with rights, complaints and being heard |
| Dānija | Authorisation register | Styrelsen for Patientsikkerhed (Patient Safety Authority) | That a doctor or health professional is authorised, and whether the authorisation is restricted |
| Dānija | Psychologist authorisation | Psykolognævnet (Psychology Board) | That a psychologist is authorised, which is what "autoriseret psykolog" means |
| Dānija | Health service portal | Sundhed.dk | Your own records, your GP, and how the schemes work |
| Dānija | Complaints authority | Styrelsen for Patientklager (Patient Complaints Authority) | Where a formal complaint about treatment goes |
Avoti:JulkiTerhikki (Finland) · Socialstyrelsen (Sweden) · Helsedirektoratet (Norway) · Styrelsen for Patientsikkerhed (Denmark) · Kutseregister (Estonia) · Veselības inspekcija (Latvia)· Noteikumi, tiesības un palīdzības līniju numuri mainās: pirms paļaujaties uz kādu no tiem, pārbaudiet pakalpojuma sniedzēja paša lapu. Pārbaudīts2026-09-08.
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Kā pārbaudīt, vai terapeits ir kvalificēts?
Search the public register in the country they practise in — the licence or authorisation register for doctors, psychologists and, in Finland and Sweden, psychotherapists, and the professional certificate or certification register where the country uses one. Every register named on this page is public and free.
The person is not in the register. Is that a problem?
Possibly, but ask first. People practise under other names, foreign qualifications appear under different headings, and some countries do not register psychotherapy qualifications at all. Ask which register they appear in and under what name; a straight answer is normal, evasion is not.
What does association membership prove?
That the person joined an organisation with entry requirements and an ethics code, and that there is a body to complain to. It is a real signal, particularly in countries where the title is not protected — but it is not a state licence and should not be described as one.
What are the clear warning signs?
Refusing to name a qualification, guaranteeing a cure, telling you to stop a prescribed medicine, pressure to pay for long packages up front, any social, financial or romantic contact outside the therapy, and discouraging you from seeing a doctor or telling anyone.
Vairāk par šo
How referrals actually work
What a referral is, which countries require one for mental-health care, what makes a good one, and what to do when it does not happen.
Waiting lists, guarantees and what to do meanwhile
The published access rules in each country, how to read a queue, and a realistic plan for the months in between.
Free and low-cost routes
Every route in this region that costs nothing or very little — with the eligibility rule that goes with each, because most of them have one.
Online and remote therapy
What remote sessions change, which country’s rules apply when the therapist is over a border, and where video is the wrong format.
Therapy in your own language
Why the working language is clinical rather than cosmetic, what interpreting you are entitled to, and how to search for Russian, English, Ukrainian or Estonian-speaking help.
Visas valstis un ceļveži
Centrs: piecu profesiju salīdzinājums, septiņu valstu sistēmas, visi publiskie reģistri un visas krīzes līnijas.
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