Mental health

My Psychologist Support is evolving

Publié le 18 mars 2025 - Directorate for Legal and Administrative Information (Prime Minister)

My psychosocial support allows you to benefit from psychological counseling sessions supported by the Health Insurance. You may want to use this device if you have mild or moderate anxiety disorder, if you are depressed or if you have an eating disorder. My shrink support is evolving: now you can benefit from more reimbursed sessions.

The My Psychological Support device is available from 3 years of age. It is intended for all people with mild to moderate psychic distress. You can benefit from the device in particular:

  • if you feel anxious, anxious, depressed or stressed;
  • if you have difficulty sleeping;
  • if you suffer from eating disorders;
  • if you have problems with alcohol, tobacco and/or cannabis use (repeated or one-time abuse, or harmful use), without suffering from dependence.

You can now benefit up to 12 sessions with a psychologist supported by the Health Insurance, as opposed to eight before.

Counseling includes the following:

  • a first session, which is an assessment interview (this first exchange allows the psychologist to assess the number of sessions needed);
  • then up to 11 psychological follow-up sessions, lasting from 45 minutes to 1 hour, that can be conducted remotely by video transmission.

After the last session, the psychologist may send a report of the end of the treatment to your doctor, with your agreement. The session package is renewable each calendar year, after consultation involving a doctor and the psychologist you consulted or a psychiatrist. If your health does not improve after the 12 sessions, it is recommended to consult your doctor; he can then refer you to a more appropriate management (medical/psychological center, psychiatrist...).

FYI  

You cannot benefit from the My Psychological Support device if your situation requires a psychiatrist ; this is particularly the case if you suffer from:

  • a severe form of depression or anxiety;
  • an eating disorder with signs of severity;
  • a severe neurodevelopmental disorder;
  • a suicidal attack (a state of acute mental illness characterized by increased dark thoughts and a desire to commit suicide);
  • addiction to psychoactive substances (tobacco, alcohol, antidepressants, cannabis, cocaine...).

How do I get My Psychologist Support?

You no longer have to go to a doctor or midwife first to get My Psychological Support. You can make an appointment directly with a psychologist contracted by the Health Insurance (you can find on this directory a psychologist partner of the device working near you).

During a consultation you can also discuss with a doctor (or midwife) whether this counseling device is appropriate for your condition, or whether it is better to refer you directly to more specialized care.

Please note

Students can combine the 12 free sessions with a psychologist offered as part of the scheme Student shrink health, and those of My Psych Support.

How do you get reimbursement for your sessions with the psychologist?

As part of My Psychological Support, you have to pay the professional directly after each appointment or at the end of several sessions, depending on the psychologist's preference. Your health care provider will give you a care sheet, which you must send to your health insurance organization to be reimbursed.

The fee for ongoing consultations through My Psychological Support is now €50 (instead of €30 previously), with no possible fee overrun.

The increase in the cost of the consultation does not have any financial consequences for the patients. Health Insurance continues to take 60% of the cost of the sessions. If you have a mutual or supplementary insurance, it pays for the remaining 40% where permitted by your contract.

FYI  

In some situations, you don't have to advance the costs of your sessions with the psychologist. This is the case, for example, if:

  • you are a beneficiary of the solidarity health supplement;
  • you are a beneficiary of State medical aid (AME);
  • you receive care related to a long-term conditionaccident at work , an occupational disease or an occupational disease;
  • you are pregnant or have just given birth (from 6e months of pregnancy until 12e day after the date of delivery).

Please note

The various developments of My Psychological Support are already in effect. Some of these changes have been legally confirmed by the law of 28 February 2025 on the financing of the Social Security for 2025; the others are due to be confirmed shortly following the publication of a text in the Official Journal.

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