Addiction Counsellors in Durban

Assessment, diagnosis and medicine sit outside counselling; ask who provides them 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 describes their work as counselling. A counsellor listens and helps you find your own solutions to problems.

The training emphasises the conversation itself. Sessions usually stay close to something happening now: a loss, a relationship, work, a decision. That focus is what most often separates counselling from longer psychotherapy.

A counsellor is not a medical doctor and does not prescribe or diagnose. Ask a counsellor what they work with, and for how long.

King Dinuzulu Hospital Complex - Psychiatric Services. Phone +27 31 242 6000. KwaZulu-Natal applies the Uniform Patient Fee Schedule. It publishes categories that receive free care, among them old age pensioners, children under six, and pregnant patients without medical aid. Public patients follow the provincial referral pathway. The hospital charter describes external referrals and a weekday reception for psychiatric outpatient and psychology care.

The title you will see is Registered Counsellor. Search the register by name at Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA). 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.

See the South Africa page.