If you or your children are not safe, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or police station immediately. The lines listed below are gender-based-violence lines.
Crisis numbers in South Africa
- GBV Command Centre: Tel: 0800 428 428 | Text: 31531 (SMS for people with disabilities). 24 hours.
- LifeLine Gender Violence Helpline: Tel: 0800-150-150 | WhatsApp: +27800150150. 24 hours.
- TEARS Foundation helpline, for people affected by rape or abuse: Tel: 08000 83277. 24 hours.
This page lists Family Social Workers in Cape Town. 7 in all.
What the social workers on this page do, and how to choose one
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.
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 social work covers, from counselling to housing and income
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.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the specialism recorded as Family and the professional title social worker.
The Cape Town page answers more questions about therapy there.
Paying for therapy in Cape Town
Do affordable options exist in Cape Town?
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.
Lower-fee services in Cape Town
- Services to Families Programme in Cape Town offers family, marriage and couple counselling, reached through a social worker's assessment.3
Who registers therapists in South Africa?
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). Check that the name and title match and that the entry is current. If they do not, ask the practitioner why.
In South Africa psychologists and social workers must be registered to practise. No statute protects the plain title counsellor.
What these practitioners record
7 of the 7 have included their registration on their profile.
Sessions here are offered in English and Afrikaans.
Nearby places and related listings
- Female Family Social Workers in Cape Town
- Family Counsellors in Cape Town
- Family Psychologists in Cape Town
- Family Psychotherapists in Cape Town
- Addiction Social Workers in Cape Town
- Anxiety Social Workers in Cape Town
- Psychologists in Cape Town
- Social Workers in Cape Town
- All therapists listed in Cape Town (488)
- Marriage counselling, Cape Town
References
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)