If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic. If you are in crisis, these helplines answer now:
Crisis numbers in South Africa
- SADAG Suicide Crisis Helpline: Tel: 0800 567 567
- Gender-Based Violence Command Centre: Tel: 0800 428 428 | SMS: send the word help to 31531, published for people with disabilities
- Substance Abuse Helpline: Tel: 0800 12 13 14 | SMS: 32312
- Higher Health, for students and staff: Tel: 0800 36 36 36
- LifeLine Gender Violence Helpline: Tel: 0800 150 150 | WhatsApp: 0800 150 150
- All crisis lines in South Africa
This page lists Psychoanalysts in Cape Town. 6 in all.
What a psychoanalyst does, and how often the sessions run
Everyone on this page describes their work as psychoanalysis or psychoanalytic therapy. You talk as freely as you can, and the analyst listens for patterns. The analyst also listens for how those patterns appear between you both.
Analysis usually means several meetings a week, agreed between you and the analyst. Psychoanalytic psychotherapy uses the same ideas once or twice a week.
The work runs open-ended rather than to a fixed number of sessions. Ask a practitioner which of the two they are offering, and why.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the professional title psychoanalyst.
What therapy costs here
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.
The Cape Town page answers more questions about therapy there.
What these practitioners record
6 of the 6 have included their registration on their profile.
The areas of focus listed most often here are Anxiety (5), Relationship Issues (5) and Trauma (5).
Who registers therapists in South Africa?
Our records name no register for the title psychoanalyst in South Africa. See the South Africa page for the professions that do carry a register there.
Nearby places and related listings
- 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
- Male Psychologists in Cape Town, one filter on the full Cape Town psychologists list
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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)


