Find Grief Family Therapists in Nairobi, Kenya

Grief is a normal response to a death rather than an illness. Most people come through it without treatment ¹. Counselling helps some people carry it.

The work covers the person who died, the circumstances, and what has changed since. For a smaller number, grief stays intense and daily life does not resume. Clinicians call that prolonged grief disorder, and they treat it differently.

Grief does not run to a timetable. Ask a practitioner whether they work with bereavement. Say what kind of loss it was.

Everyone on this page describes their work as family or systemic therapy. Family therapy helps people in close relationships understand and support each other ². 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 ³. Ask a practitioner who they would want in the room.

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.

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.