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
Zimbabwe has 11 therapists listed on TherapyRoute.
The list includes family therapists, clinical psychologists and registered social workers.
At a glance
- Therapists listed
- 11 (Family Therapists 5, Counsellors 2, Psychologists 2, Social Workers 1). Professions given by 11 of them.
- How they see clients
- in person 3 (27%), online and in person 8 (73%).
- Who they work with
- Adolescents, Couples, Families, All ages, Groups, Parents, Organisations.
- Languages
- mostly English, then Shona 50%, isiNdebele 14%, isiZulu 7%.
Most of the practitioners listed here work in one city, and the grid below shows which. If that is where you are, start there. If it is not, the summary above sets out what the country's practitioners offer. You can also filter for practitioners who work by video.
Zimbabwe's public system is meant to be entered at primary care level. From there a person is referred up to district, provincial and central hospitals. Under the Mental Health Act, psychotropic medication is to be supplied free in public facilities. The rest runs largely on user fees.
The Health Professions Act sets no scale of charges to patients. Its fee sections are about what a practitioner pays a council. The Friendship Bench works alongside the Ministry of Health and Child Care. It offers talk therapy at no cost.
See how to think about the cost of therapy.
Who is allowed to practise
In Zimbabwe, psychologists, clinical social workers and family therapists are registered by the Allied Health Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe, the statutory regulator that checks a practitioner against the training standard the law requires.
Psychiatrists are doctors, and they answer to the Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe instead. The two councils keep separate registers, so start from the title you have been given rather than from the profession you assume.
For a psychiatrist, open the Medical and Dental Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe. Search the register by name at Allied Health Professions Council of Zimbabwe (AHPCZ). A current entry is that body's own published record of the person.
Psychologist and counsellor are separate registration categories at the Allied Health Practitioners Council of Zimbabwe, each with its own requirements. Only the psychology route asks for a letter of commitment from an internship supervisor.
Therapists by profession and city
- 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
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)