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 Female Family Social Workers in Cape Town. 7 in all.
That is 7 of the 8 social workers listed in Cape Town.
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.
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 3.
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.
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 4. 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 practitioner's stated Female identity, the specialism recorded as Family and the professional title social worker.
Fees, insurance and lower-cost options
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.5
The Cape Town page answers more questions about therapy there.
What these practitioners record
7 of the 7 have included their registration on their profile.
Sessions here are offered in English and Afrikaans.
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). 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.
Nearby places and related listings
- Family Social Workers in Cape Town
- Female Family Counsellors in Cape Town
- Female Family Psychologists in Cape Town
- Female Addiction Social Workers in Cape Town
- Female Child Social Workers in Cape Town
- Female Teen Social Workers in Cape Town
- Black Female Psychologists in Cape Town, two filters on the full Cape Town psychologists list
- Female Psychologists in Cape Town, one filter on the full Cape Town psychologists list
- Cape Town: all therapists listed (550)
- Marriage counselling, Cape Town
References
[1] TherapyRoute's own records.
[2] Integrative Systemic Therapy in Practice, p. 120. Client-therapist similarities.
[3] MSD Manual, Consumer Version. Treatment of mental illness (Overview of mental health care).
[4] International Federation of Social Workers. Global definition of the social work profession.
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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)
