Find Family Social Workers in Cape Town, South Africa

The social workers listed in Cape Town for family relationships work with the person and their situation. That can mean regular sessions, help with services, or work with the family ¹.

Where an assessment, a diagnosis or medicine is needed, ask who provides it 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.

Everyone on this page is listed under the professional title social worker. Social work is a practice-based profession and an academic discipline ². It promotes social change, cohesion and the empowerment of people.

The training emphasises the systems around a person. Housing, income, schooling, child protection and family conflict are part of it.

In mental health that often means talking work alongside practical support. Ask a practitioner what parts of your situation they would work on.

Groote Schuur Hospital - Psychiatry Outpatient Services. Phone +27 21 404 9111. Western Cape public hospitals charge on a means-tested scale. Patients in the lowest band pay nothing for specialist outpatient visits. Public patients are accepted by referral from a district or secondary service. Each specialty has its own eligibility criteria.

• Services to Families Programme in Cape Town offers family, marriage and couple counselling, reached through a social worker's assessment.³

Titles you will see include Social Worker and Student Social Worker. Search the register by name at South African Council for Social Service Professions (SACSSP). A current entry is that body's own published record of the person.

In South Africa psychologists and social workers must be registered to practise. No statute protects the plain title counsellor. See the South Africa page.