Counseling & advice
Navigating the health system and understanding legal rights can be challenging. These counseling and advice centers are set up to guide people through those big questions and topics.
Sexual & reproductive health
Pro Familia
180 centers nationwide giving advice on pregnancy, sexual and reproductive health, and family planning.
Familienplanung
Reproductive health portal from the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA): pregnancy and birth, contraception, fertility, pregnancy conflict and adolescent pregnancy.
Pregnancy & birth counseling
Hilfetelefon Schwangere
Free, anonymous information and counseling on pregnancy by phone, email/chat, or in person at 1,600 centers.
Beratungsstelle Familienzelt
Counseling on pregnancy, birth and parenting – including benefits and rights, trauma, premature babies, stillbirth and miscarriage – plus parents’ groups and classes.
Schwanger? Null Promille
Information on pregnancy and alcohol, for parents and their friends and family.
A Babylotse (“baby guide”) helps families access social services and healthcare. They work at maternity clinics and practices across Germany – search “Babylotse [your city]”.
For state-approved pregnancy counseling, search “Staatlich anerkannte Beratungsstelle f. Schwangerschaftsfragen [your city]” or use this portal.
Faith-based advice centers
Caritas
Online and telephone counseling for families and parents. Ukrainian translators available; pregnancy information in German/Arabic and English/French.
Diakonie Deutschland
Counseling services for pregnant people and children, plus a postal-code search for services for refugees and immigrants.
BeReshith e.V.
Services for Jewish women, including life counseling, support for migrant families and their integration, and educational seminars.
MINA e.V.
Social counseling center for Muslim women and families.
Support for refugees & people with a migrant background
Bildungs- und Beratungskarawane e.V.
Recognition of professional degrees and career counseling for women* with a migrant background.
Agisra
Autonomous, feminist advice center by and for migrant, refugee and Black women* and all those affected by racism and discrimination.
Armut und Gesundheit e.V.
Social counseling and help with the legal aspects of the health and social services system.
Internationales Frauenzentrum Bonn
Individual and family counseling for binational couples, families and refugees: psychological, legal, and general advice about life in Germany.
Support for the FLINTA / LGBTQIA+ community
LesMigraS
Multilingual counseling for lesbian, bisexual, trans*, inter*, non-binary and queer people on violence, discrimination, gender, police violence and legal questions.
Schwulenberatung Berlin
Counseling for gay and bisexual men, trans* and inter* people, people living with HIV/AIDS and their partners and relatives.
Queer Refugees Germany
What LGBTIQ+ refugees and supporters should know about the asylum process and refugee accommodation, plus legal advice, counseling and networking.
Additional multilingual resources
If you or your children are not safe
Hilfetelefon Gewalt gegen Frauen: free, anonymous counseling, 24/7.
Visit website → Shelters & crisis centersFrauen Info Netz gegen Gewalt
Search by postal code for local crisis centers and women’s & children’s shelters.
Search shelters →Mutter-Kind-Haus, Frauen helfen Frauen, Frauen-Notruf
Search these terms with your city to find local resources.
Call local emergency services.
