If you are in immediate danger or thinking about harming yourself, get help now. Visit a nearby emergency service, hospital, or mental health clinic. The lines listed below are children's, women's and gender-based-violence lines. If you are in crisis, these helplines answer now:
Crisis numbers in Zimbabwe
- Childline Zimbabwe, for children: Tel: 116 | WhatsApp: +263 719 116 116 | WhatsApp: +263 732 116 116 | Tel: +263 242 252000, head office landline. | Tel: (0292) 880052, Bulawayo.
- Youth Advocates, 393, for young people: Tel: 393; the organisation's call widget labels this "393 CALL FREE". | Tel: 0777 469 107 | WhatsApp: +2630777469107; this is the number exactly as Youth Advocates publishes it, and it keeps the national trunk zero after the country code. In that form it will not connect from outside Zimbabwe. We have not altered it, because it is what the organisation prints on its own page. If you are calling from abroad and the WhatsApp number does not work, the local number above is the one to try.
- Musasa, for women and girls facing violence: Tel: 08080074, Econet. | Tel: 08010074, NetOne. | Tel: 0731080074, Telecel. | Tel: (0242) 706284, office line.
- Adult Rape Clinic, for survivors of sexual violence: Tel: 08080472; the clinic labels this "24-Hour Toll Free Line", and prints it as "Free for Econet". | Tel: 0775 672 770; the clinic marks this one as working on all networks. It publishes nothing about what a call to it costs. | Tel: +263 242 793572 | Tel: +263 775 672 770 | Tel: +263 733 406 292
- National Gender-Based Violence Call Centre, 575: Tel: 575 — the National Gender-Based Violence Call Centre. | Tel: 08080544 — Victim Friendly Unit, from Econet. | Tel: 08010149 — Victim Friendly Unit, from NetOne. | Tel: 0735342874 — Victim Friendly Unit, from Telecel.
- Not a local line: helplines and suicide hotlines worldwide
- All crisis lines in Zimbabwe
This page lists Trauma Family Therapists in Harare. 3 in all.
What trauma therapy treats
Trauma therapy treats what stays behind after a frightening or overwhelming event. Trauma-focused cognitive behavioural therapy and EMDR are the recommended treatments 12.
World Health Organization guidance recommends both for post-traumatic stress disorder 3. Cognitive therapy and narrative exposure therapy are also used.
Treatment usually includes preparation, and work on the memory itself comes later. It is for people whose symptoms have persisted.
Not everyone who has been through something bad needs it. Ask a practitioner which approaches they are trained in.
What a family therapist does, and who comes to the sessions
Everyone on this page describes their work as family or systemic therapy. Family therapy helps people in close relationships understand and support each other 4. It works with the relationships between people, not with one person alone.
Family here means whoever those involved count as family. Sessions usually have more than one person in the room.
A therapist may also meet members on their own 5. Ask a practitioner who they would want in the room.
What this page filters on
These are the only filters: the specialism recorded as Trauma and the professional title family therapist.
The Harare page answers more questions about therapy there.
Who registers therapists in Zimbabwe?
The title you will see is Family Therapist - Counsellor. Search the register by name at Allied Health Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe (AHPCZ). A current entry is that body's own published record of the person.
A practitioner must hold that registration to practise legally in Zimbabwe. See the Zimbabwe page.
Nearby places and related listings
- Grief Family Therapists in Harare
- Black Family Therapists in Harare, one filter on the full Harare family therapists list
- Female Family Therapists in Harare, one filter on the full Harare family therapists list
- Family Therapists in Harare
- Harare: all therapists listed (14)
- Marriage counselling, Harare
References
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
