If you or your children are not safe, contact your local emergency services or the police. The lines listed below are family and gender-based-violence lines.
Crisis numbers in Kenya
- Gender Violence Recovery Centre, 0800 720 565, for gender-based violence: Tel: 0800 720 565 (toll-free)
- Childline Kenya, the national child helpline: Tel: 116
- All crisis lines in Kenya
What couples counselling is
Couples counselling is talking therapy for two people seen together, with the relationship itself as the work.
Titles you will see include Psychologist, Counsellor and Medical Practitioner (Psychiatrist).
Approaches generally share similar features 1. The counsellor takes an active part and works on the patterns that keep a difficulty going. They build an alliance with both of you at once.
The counsellor does not take a side.
It is separate from the counselling a court may direct in a domestic violence matter, which is ordered rather than chosen 2. Couples come married, customarily married and unmarried, together and undecided. Relationship distress is an ordinary reason for adults to seek therapy 3.
Is couples counselling the right first step?
A joint session is not always the right start.
Moderate to severe aggression between partners is one reason 1. Active alcohol or other substance misuse is another. So are a continuing affair and psychotic symptoms.
Individual or specialist help usually comes first.
Couples sessions require safety. Where one partner is afraid of the other, the safety route comes first. Anyone who takes or investigates a domestic violence complaint in Kenya must tell the complainant about the relief available, including shelter and medical help, and about the right to apply for a protection order 2. Seeing someone on your own first is a normal beginning.
Kiambu has 5 therapists listed on TherapyRoute who work with couples.
If the problem is safety rather than the relationship
Where there is violence or fear at home, these routes come before counselling.
The legal route is a protection order under the Protection Against Domestic Violence Act. A person in a domestic relationship with another person may apply to the court for one 2. Someone else may apply on their behalf, and the Act names who: a police officer, a social welfare officer, an employer, a guardian, a relative, a neighbour, a fellow employee, a medical practitioner, a counsellor, a probation officer, an organisation working with victims of domestic violence, a religious leader or community elders.
The Resident Magistrates' Courts hear applications. Whoever takes the complaint must explain the relief available and how to lodge a criminal complaint.
Childline Kenya answers a national line for children, toll-free and at any hour, and links children to child protection services 4.
Most of the couples counsellors listed in Kiambu see couples both online and in person. Couples counsellors in Kiambu list life transitions, divorce and family issues as focus areas.
The Social Health Insurance Fund's mental wellness package covers counselling and psychosocial support services 5.
Of the 5 who say how they work, 5 offer online sessions (100%).
Couples work here is offered by counsellors, psychologists and family therapists.
Couples sessions here are offered in English, Kiswahili and Afrikaans.
Nearby places and related listings
- All 5 therapists listed in Kiambu
- Marriage counsellors by city, the marriage counsellors page, not tied to a place
- Marriage counselling in every Kenya city listed
References
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Vincenzo (Enzo) Sinisi, Clinical Psychologist (HPCSA), Psychoanalyst (IPA/SAPA), Group Analyst (IGA)
