If you or someone close to you is in danger now, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service or hospital. The NACADA Toll-Free Helpline 1192, for alcohol and drug problems (Tel: 1192) answers day and night. Other crisis lines:
Crisis numbers in Kenya
- NACADA Toll-Free Helpline 1192, for alcohol and drug problems: Tel: 1192. 24 hours. Free from Safaricom and Telkom lines.
- All crisis lines in Kenya
This page lists Female Addiction Counsellors in Kisumu. 3 in all.
That is 3 of the 5 counsellors listed in Kisumu.
These are practitioners who identify as female on their profile 1. We ask every therapist that question, and they may decline to answer. We do not check the answer, and nothing here is ranked.
This list answers an explicit request for a woman. While many people prefer this, we found no research on whether it changes how the therapy goes.
A client and a practitioner always differ; what matters is what that means to you and how you work with it 2. You can filter the same list by the languages a practitioner works in.
What the counsellors on this page do, and how to choose one
The counsellors listed in Kisumu for addiction offer talking sessions of about an hour 3. Counselling usually runs weekly, for a set number of sessions.
Assessment, diagnosis and medicine sit outside counselling; ask who provides them where you are. Open the profiles below to compare experience, language, fee, and whether they work online. Ask how soon each one can see you.
What a counsellor does, and how counselling differs from psychotherapy
Everyone on this page describes their work as counselling. A counsellor listens and helps you find your own solutions to problems 3.
The training emphasises the conversation itself. Sessions usually stay close to something happening now: a loss, a relationship, work, a decision. That focus is what most often separates counselling from longer psychotherapy.
A counsellor is not a medical doctor and does not prescribe or diagnose. Ask a counsellor what they work with, and for how long.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the practitioner's stated Female identity, the specialism recorded as Addiction and the professional title counsellor.
The Kisumu page answers more questions about therapy there.
Who registers therapists in Kenya?
The title you will see is Counsellor. Search the register by name at Counsellors and Psychologists Board (CPB). A current entry is that body's own published record of the person.
A practitioner must hold that registration to practise legally in Kenya. See the Kenya page.
Nearby places and related listings
- Addiction Counsellors in Kisumu
- Black Addiction Counsellors in Kisumu
- Black Counsellors in Kisumu, one filter on the full Kisumu counsellors list
- Black Male Counsellors in Kisumu, two filters on the full Kisumu counsellors list
- Male Counsellors in Kisumu, one filter on the full Kisumu counsellors list
- Female Counsellors in Kisumu, one filter on the full Kisumu counsellors list
- Counsellors in Kisumu
- Kisumu: all therapists listed (16)
- Marriage counseling in Kisumu
References
[1] TherapyRoute's own records.
[2] Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice, p. 120. Client-therapist similarities.
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
