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 Counsellors in Johannesburg. 6 in all.
What the counsellors on this page do, and how to choose one
The counsellors listed in Johannesburg for family relationships offer talking sessions of about an hour 1. Counselling usually runs weekly, for a set number of sessions.
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.
What a counsellor does, and how counselling differs from psychotherapy
Everyone on this page describes their work as counselling. A counsellor listens and helps you find your own solutions to problems 1.
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.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the specialism recorded as Family and the professional title counsellor.
Fees, insurance and lower-cost options
Do affordable options exist in Johannesburg?
The Family Life Centre - FAMSA Johannesburg. Phone +27 11 788 4784. Fees are assessed on a sliding scale. Johannesburg residents can request an appointment.
Lower-fee services in Johannesburg
- TARA - The H Moross Centre (Tara Hospital) in Johannesburg offers outpatient individual, group and family therapy, accessed by formal referral.2
The Johannesburg page answers more questions about therapy there.
What these practitioners record
3 of the 6 have included their registration on their profile.
Who registers therapists in South Africa?
The title you will see is Registered Counsellor. Search the register by name at Health Professions Council of South Africa (HPCSA). 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 Psychologists in Johannesburg
- Addiction Counsellors in Johannesburg
- Anxiety Counsellors in Johannesburg
- Child Counsellors in Johannesburg
- Couples Counsellors in Johannesburg
- Depression Counsellors in Johannesburg
- Grief Counsellors in Johannesburg
- Teen Counsellors in Johannesburg
- All therapists listed in Johannesburg (269)
- Marriage counselling, Johannesburg
References
Real choice. Authentic, independent, clinician-led care.
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)
