If you or your children are not safe, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or police station immediately. The line listed below is a gender-based-violence line.
Crisis numbers in Kenya
- Gender Violence Recovery Centre toll-free helpline: Tel: 0800720565. 24 hours.
This page lists Black Couples Family Therapists in Nairobi. 5 in all.
That is 5 of the 12 family therapists listed in Nairobi.
These are practitioners who identify as Black on their profile. It is their own answer to a profile question. We do not check it.
The request is usually narrower: a practitioner who will name race early, without you having to explain yourself. Some family therapy approaches recommend the therapist raise it near the start 1. You can ask a practitioner how they handle it.
What a family therapist does, and who comes to the sessions
Everyone on this page describes their work as family or systemic therapy. Family therapy helps people in close relationships understand and support each other. It works with the relationships between people, not with one person alone.
Family here means whoever those involved count as family. Sessions usually have more than one person in the room.
A therapist may also meet members on their own. Ask a practitioner who they would want in the room.
If you are afraid of someone in your family, say so to the practitioner before any joint session is booked. Ask to be seen on your own first. The support numbers at the top of this page are for that situation.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the practitioner's stated Black identity, the specialism recorded as Couples and the professional title family therapist.
The Nairobi page answers more questions about therapy there.
What therapy costs here
Do affordable options exist in Nairobi?
Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital - General Mental Health Outpatient Services. Phone +254 20 2337694. Kenya's Social Health Authority covers mental health care in its benefits package. Mathari National Teaching and Referral Hospital is accredited by the Authority and says so in its own public material. To use that cover you must be registered with the Authority, and what it pays for is set by its benefit rules. The hospital runs an ordinary outpatient clinic from Monday to Friday. Ring the hospital's enquiries line to arrange an appointment. It is an enquiries line, not a crisis line.
Who registers therapists in Kenya?
See the Kenya page for the professions that do carry a register there.
What these practitioners record
Sessions here are offered in English and Kiswahili.
Nearby places and related listings
- Couples Family Therapists in Nairobi
- Female Couples Family Therapists in Nairobi
- Black Couples Counsellors in Nairobi
- Black Couples Psychologists in Nairobi
- Male Psychologists in Nairobi, one filter on the full Nairobi psychologists list
- Psychologists in Nairobi
- Counsellors in Nairobi
- Family Therapists in Nairobi
- Every therapist listed in Nairobi (272)
- Marriage counselling, Nairobi
References
[1] Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice, pp. 71-72, citing Kelly et al. (2020). Cultural humility, cultural competence and the therapeutic alliance.
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
