frabina Beratungsstelle für binationale Paare und Familien

What frabina Beratungsstelle für binationale Paare und Familien does

frabina Beratungsstelle für binationale Paare und Familien is a Swiss non-profit association (gemeinnütziger Verein) organized under Articles 60ff of the Swiss Civil Code (ZGB), founded in 1980 and headquartered in Bern. The organization delivers professional multilingual counseling services for binational couples and families, migrants, expats, and victims of racial discrimination across Switzerland, with service delivery in German, French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese. Its primary clients are individuals, couples, and families navigating cross-cultural relationships, family reunification, residence rights, integration, and racial discrimination.

The service portfolio spans six modalities: face-to-face consultations at four physical locations (Bern, Biel, Solothurn, Olten), telephone consultations via a premium-rate hotline, secure video consultations, email consultations, single-chat consultations, and historically a free walk-in short consultation (discontinued effective January 2026). Beyond individual counseling, frabina runs anti-racism workshops for the general public and anti-racism school workshops for secondary schools in Canton of Solothurn. The interdisciplinary five-person team combines credentials in social work, family mediation, systemic therapy, law, and ethnology.

frabina's revenue model is a hybrid of three streams: tiered consultation fees ranging from CHF 20 to CHF 200 based on canton of residence and household income; institutional funding via Leistungsverträge (performance contracts) with the Canton of Bern, Reformed Churches Bern-Jura-Solothurn, and the Canton of Solothurn Integration Credit; and membership dues (CHF 50 individual / CHF 500 collective) plus donations collected via TWINT through Raisenow. The organization is politically independent and religiously neutral, and operates without parent company, private equity, or institutional investor ownership. Its technology stack is composed entirely of standard third-party SaaS tools for payments, scheduling, communications, and analytics; no proprietary technology platform is described.

Name

frabina Beratungsstelle für binationale Paare und Familien

Legal name

frabina

Website

https://frabina.ch

Company type

Private

Founded year

2016

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1–10 employees

Short description

frabina is a Swiss non-profit association founded in 1980 in Bern, delivering multilingual professional counseling in German, French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese for binational couples and families, migrants, expats, and racial discrimination victims across Switzerland, funded through Leistungsverträge with cantonal governments and the Reformed Churches, consultation fees, and donations.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Social and Family Counseling Services

NAICS

Individual and Family Services (6241), Other Individual and Family Services (624190), Other Individual and Family Services (62419)

SIC

Services-Social Services (8300)

akta.pro primary industry

Refugee & Immigrant Support Services (BPAGAEAI)

akta.pro secondary industries

Integration & Inclusion Services (Housing, Education, Employment) (BPADAHAI), Language & Cross-Cultural Training (BPACANAL), Refugee & Humanitarian Newcomer Orientation (Resettlement Support) (EDAAADAI)

Keywords

• Binational couples counseling
• Family counseling services
• Intercultural advisory services
• Anti-racism consulting
• Migrant family support

Headquarters

HQ city

Bern

HQ country

Switzerland

HQ region

Europe

Offices4 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Others

Revenue model

1. Consultation fees: Fee-for-service consulting with tiered pricing based on canton of residence and household income. Full tariff CHF 200; reduced rates CHF 20-200 for Bern and Solothurn residents.
2. Government subsidies and Leistungsverträge: Subsidized rates possible for certain target groups through performance contracts (Leistungsverträge) with Canton Bern, Reformed Churches Bern-Jura-Solothurn, and Integration Credit of Canton Solothurn.
3. Membership dues and donations: Non-profit association funded by member dues (individual CHF 50/year, collective CHF 500/year), donations, collections, legacies, and other contributions.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels4 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

frabina is a non-profit counseling center that provides professional multilingual psychosocial and legal advisory services for binational couples and families, as well as for migrants in Switzerland. Consultations are offered in multiple languages (German, English, Portuguese, Spanish, French, Italian, Ewe, and Farsi) through face-to-face meetings, phone, video, email, and chat formats. The center also delivers workshops on intercultural competencies and anti-racism for institutions and groups.

Product overview

frabina is a non-profit counseling association (Art. 60ff ZGB) providing professional multilingual counseling services for binational couples, families, migrants, expats, and victims of racial discrimination throughout Switzerland. The organization operates as a unified service platform offering multiple consultation modalities including face-to-face sessions at four locations (Bern, Biel, Solothurn, Olten), telephone consultations via hotline, secure video consultations, email consultations, individual chat consultations, and free walk-in short consultations. Services are delivered in German, French, English, Spanish, and Portuguese, with interpreter arrangements available as needed. The portfolio includes specialized anti-racism workshops for schools and the general public, supported by subsidies from the Canton of Bern, Reformed Churches Bern-Jura-Solothurn, and the Integration Credit of Canton Solothurn. Consultation fees range from CHF 20-200 based on household income, with fixed pricing structures per service type.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Individual Counseling Consultations

Named customers3 records

Segments5 records

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration10 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Biel Integration OfficeminorChannel Partner/ Reseller/ DistributorCo-location partnership at Burggasse 10, 2501 Biel, providing integration services in partnership with the municipality.

Scale indicators3 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Direct peers

• SOS-Eheberatung Schweiz: Swiss couple and family counseling organization operating regional Beratungsstellen. Directly comparable to frabina in offering subsidized couple and family counseling across multiple cantons, though without frabina's binational/cross-cultural specialization.
• Beratungsstelle für Frauen und Familien (various cantonal): Cantonal women's and family counseling centers in Switzerland providing subsidized relational and family counseling. Comparable as a regional direct peer delivering similar counseling services to individuals, couples, and families, often with Leistungsvertrag public funding.
• pro familia Schweiz: Swiss family planning and sexual health counseling organization with regional centers. Comparable as a nonprofit offering subsidized counseling services to individuals, couples, and families across Switzerland, with overlapping target demographics and similar Leistungsvertrag funding model.

Regional players

• Caritas Bern: Regional Caritas affiliate covering Canton of Bern with migration and social counseling services. Direct regional peer in frabina's home market, offering overlapping migration and family support services with potential client overlap and shared public funding sources.

Others

• Integras (Fachverband Sozial- und Sonderpädagogik): Swiss professional association for social pedagogy, including work with migrant children and families. Comparable as an ecosystem participant in the Swiss social services sector that interfaces with binational family issues, though focused on child/youth services rather than adult couple counseling.

Broad incumbents

• Caritas Schweiz: National Swiss humanitarian organization providing migration, integration, and family support services. Comparable as a broad incumbent offering subsidized counseling and integration services to migrants and vulnerable populations, though at much larger scale and across more service areas than frabina.
• HEKS/EPER (Hilfswerk der Evangelischen Kirchen Schweiz): Swiss Protestant aid organization running integration, migration, and anti-racism programs. Comparable because it shares frabina's Reformed Church affiliation and operates subsidized counseling and integration services for migrants across Switzerland, but at a national scale.
• Schweizerisches Rotes Kreuz (Swiss Red Cross): National humanitarian organization running migration integration programs and family reunification services. Comparable as a broad incumbent serving similar migrant and binational family populations with subsidized programs across Switzerland.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/frabina.ch
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/frabina-beratungsstelle-f%C3%BCr-binationale-paare-und-familien

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles5 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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