Last updated on 10/13/2026
Viktoria Tkachenko
For this list I looked for places that help with heartbreak in very different ways: distraction, pampering and, where needed, professional support. It was important to me to take the subject seriously and still offer light, comforting ideas, so that there is something for every mood, from a dance night to therapy.
Since 2006, Silvia Fauck has been providing relationship counseling for heartache at Hohenzollerndamm in Wilmersdorf; around ninety percent of her clients seek help for relationship issues. Services offered include individual sessions, couples counseling, and telephone coaching. The concept is now available at over fifty locations. After a separation, this is the most specialized address in the city.
Atelier Dennis Creuzberg is located at the beginning of Auguststraße in Mitte, in converted studio spaces with stucco and a quiet, minimalist interior. Since 2013, the salon has been part of the Leading Salons of the World, and standard looks are explicitly not offered here. After a breakup, this is the hour when someone calmly considers how they might want to look in the future.
Tangotanzen macht schön is a tango school located in the rear building at Oranienstraße 185 in Kreuzberg, run by the teacher couple Susanne Opitz and Rafael Busch with thirteen other instructors. There are courses for all levels, their own milongas, and dance evenings for beginners. For heartbreak, the main thing is that you come alone and still dance with a partner all evening.
IL KINO on Nansenstraße in Neukölln opened in 2014 in a vacant bakery and was Berlin's first new independent cinema in twenty-nine years. It shows international arthouse cinema in original versions, and you can bring wine and Italian food into the auditorium. For heartbreak, remember: Crying looks completely normal in the dark.
Opened in 1907 on Tauentzienstraße in Schöneberg, KaDeWe is the largest department store on the European mainland, spanning approximately 60,000 square meters across seven floors. The Beauty Lounges are on the third floor, and the gourmet food floor on the sixth. When heartbroken, this sheer size is an advantage: you can wander around without running into anyone.
The Surya Villa in Prenzlauer Berg is located in a backyard near Kollwitzplatz, in a Sri Lankan-style house with a green garden and terrace. Treatments involve warm herbal oils, alongside a sauna, wooden steam bath, and courses in yoga and meditation. For heartbreak, this is the place where the body is more important than the mind for an hour.
The jogging trail around the Waldbühne begins on Glockenturmstraße in Westend and leads through Murellenschlucht and Schanzenwald, a forty-hectare dry valley on the edge of Grunewald. The full loop measures six kilometers over gravel, forest paths, and stairs. To alleviate heartbreak, the mental space this route creates is particularly crucial.
Dancing has taken place at Chausseestraße 102 in Mitte since 1905, and Ballhaus Berlin is the last dance hall remaining there. The spiral staircase, disco ball, and old table telephones, which were once used to call neighboring tables, have been preserved. Here, especially if you're heartbroken, the main thing that helps is that you don't need to know how to dance or even come with company.
Nibs Cacao on Bleibtreustraße is a narrow shop behind Savignyplatz, exclusively dedicated to fine cocoa. It features products from manufacturers in Spain, Italy, Belgium, and Ecuador, with hot chocolate with churros and cocoa with chili considered specialties. It's particularly good for heartbreak because no one here asks why you've come.
Isabella Buschinger has been working as a hypnosis therapist on Wiesbadener Straße in Friedenau for over ten years, with heartbreak being a special focus. There is no sign at the practice, and there is a second entrance at the back. Anyone who can't escape their own thoughts at night after a breakup will find a different kind of access here.
