If you or your children are not safe, contact your local emergency services or the police. 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 Female Family Therapists in Nairobi. 12 in all.
That is 12 of the 14 family therapists listed in Nairobi.
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 it.
This list answers an explicit request for a woman.
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 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
Everyone on this list gave family therapist as their professional title and described themselves as female. Nothing else narrows the list.
The Nairobi page answers more questions about therapy there.
Paying for therapy in Nairobi
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. 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.
The Social Health Insurance Fund's mental wellness package covers counselling and psychosocial support services 3.
Who registers therapists in Kenya?
What these practitioners record
4 of the 12 have included their registration on their profile.
The areas of focus listed most often here are Abuse (9), Relationship Issues (8) and Anxiety (6).
Sessions here are offered in English and Kiswahili.
Nearby places and related listings
- Male Psychologists in Nairobi, one filter on the full Nairobi psychologists list
- Psychologists in Nairobi
- Counsellors in Nairobi
- Psychotherapists in Nairobi
- Every therapist listed in Nairobi (289)
- Marriage counselling, Nairobi
References
[1] TherapyRoute's own records.
[2] Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice, p. 120. Client-therapist similarities.
[3] Social Health Authority, Benefit Tariffs: Mental Wellness Benefit Package.
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TherapyRoute is a clinician-led directory that champions independent practitioners who answer to you and their professional ethics. We don't take commissions, sell your data, or assign therapists by algorithm. You browse, compare, and choose.
Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
