If you or your child are in immediate danger, or your child has hurt themselves or talked about it, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic. The line listed below is a children's and young people's line. Child helplines and crisis lines:
Crisis numbers in Kenya
- National Child Helpline 116: Tel: 116 | Tel: 0724 555 251 (Call or text) | WhatsApp: +254 722 116 116. 24 hours.
- Not a local line: helplines and suicide hotlines worldwide
- All crisis lines in Kenya
This page lists Female Teen Family Therapists in Nairobi. 3 in all.
That is 3 of the 4 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 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.
How therapy with teenagers works, and what stays confidential
A therapist shapes the work to the teenager's age. It is not adult therapy cut short.
Physical, emotional and social change in adolescence can make young people vulnerable to mental health problems 3.
Work often covers anxiety, low mood, self-esteem, school, friendships and conflict at home. A therapist handles confidentiality differently with a young person than with an adult.
A therapist usually involves parents to some degree. Ask a practitioner at the start what will be shared with you.
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 4. 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 5. Ask a practitioner who they would want in the room.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the practitioner's stated Female identity, the specialism recorded as Teen and the professional title family therapist.
Fees, insurance and lower-cost options
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.
The Nairobi page answers more questions about therapy there.
What these practitioners record
Who registers therapists in Kenya?
Our records name no register for the title family therapist in Kenya. See the Kenya page for the professions that do carry a register there.
Nearby places and related listings
- Teen Family Therapists in Nairobi
- Female Teen Counsellors in Nairobi
- Female Teen Psychologists in Nairobi
- Female Teen Psychotherapists in Nairobi
- Female Addiction Family Therapists in Nairobi
- Female Couples Family Therapists in Nairobi
- Female Grief Family Therapists in Nairobi
- Male Psychologists in Nairobi, one filter on the full Nairobi psychologists list
- All therapists listed in Nairobi (304)
- Marriage counseling in Nairobi
References
[1] TherapyRoute's own records.
[2] Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice, p. 120. Client-therapist similarities.
[3] World Health Organization. Mental health of adolescents.
[5] Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (Canada). Family therapy.
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
