Women's Issues Therapists
Casey Blake
Edenvale, Johannesburg
Registered Counsellor
I work mainly with adults on an individual basis. My passions include working with people who usually feel invisible in the mainstream world (LGBTQIA and/or ethically non-monogamous); sexuality and identity; and trauma.
Amy Gorven
Craighall Park, Johannesburg
Clinical Psychologist
Amy Gorven is a clinical psychologist practicing in Craighall Park. She provides psychotherapy to adults, adolescents and couples.
Nasreen Malek
Overport, Durban
Clinical Psychologist
I am Durban-based clinical psychologist trained in dealing with both adults and children. My areas of interest are trauma, bereavement/grief, depression and anxiety. Much of my work is focused on women’s issues around motherhood, relationships and issues around fertility/infertility. My services include individual psychotherapy, couples therapy, play therapy and parent-child/infant psychotherapy. I also offer child intellectual and emotional assessments, as well as baby and child developmental assessments.
Shafe’ah Orrie Ebrahim
Florida, Roodepoort, Emmarentia, Greenside, Johannesburg
Educational Psychologist
I work with children, parents and families and offer a variety of services: educational, career, school-readiness and concession assessments. My interest in therapy is broad and includes children and adolescents with emotional and behavioural concerns, such as anxiety, anger, fear, bullying, low self-esteem. I have a particular interest in working with children with emotional and behavioural concerns related to broken and blended homes; as well as related family interventions.
Eleen Polson
Clydesdale, Sunnyside, Pretoria
Counselling Psychologist
I am a counselling psychologist with a holistic approach. I draw on both traditional psychotherapeutic techniques and on the unique and often powerful contributions of expressive arts therapy, mindfulness, visualisation and mind-body work. I work with adults, teenagers and children on an individual, in-depth therapeutic level and also offer expressive arts therapy interventions and TRE (trauma release exercises) in a group context.
The Marriage and Family Institute SA (TMFISA)
Edenburg, Rivonia, Sandton | Brooklyn, Pretoria
Marriage and Family Counselling
The M&FISA provides therapy, counselling, educational and empowerment programs to help individuals, couples and families to navigate the everyday conflicts and challenges towards healthy and fulfilling lives and relationships.
Jane van der Riet
Rosebank, Cape Town
Clinical Psychologist
I’m a clinical psychologist in Rosebank, working with adults, older adolescents and couples. Areas of special interest are: struggles with self-worth; stuck or destructive patterns in relationships; sexuality and sexual trauma; debilitating anxiety, depression or blocked creativity; coping with parenting, divorce and mid-life issues; distress around body image and food.
Caron Diamond
Sea Point, Cape Town
Clinical Psychologist
As a registered Clinical Psychologist (SAMDC) of twenty years, I work psycho-dynamically on a wide range of issues including anxiety, depression and interpersonal relationships, with empathic guidance. My main aim is to be a good listener who can quickly grasp the underlying issues and help you towards resolution.
Sarah Bailey
Sea Point, Cape Town
Clinical Psychologist
My particular interest since qualifying as a clinical psychologist in the eighties has been in working with women. The issues women present with may vary, but they frequently share at their root a struggle around the expression of their needs and a search within their lives for greater balance and personal meaning.
Dr Sonia Joubert – Thinking Fit
Linden, Randburg, Johannesburg
Registered Psychologist
I am well versed in working with all cultures and spiritual orientations. My practice is in the intimate surroundings of a home with a beautiful garden. I am flexible and skilled to serve an inclusive population of adults, teenagers and children; from work related and emotional challenges, personal development, relationships and parenting, to learning difficulties.
Mallorie Lee
Kalk Bay, Southern Suburbs, South Peninsula, Cape Town
Psychological Counsellor
I am a professional counsellor, working with adults and adolescents in many areas, including addiction, trauma, difficulties in relationships and personal growth. I believe that therapy needs to translate into meaningful action in daily life and offer the support necessary to do this. I draw from different disciplines:- humanistic, solution focussed, cognitive and somatic therapy amongst others.
Chant Malan
Sunninghill, Sandton, Johannesburg
Counselling Psychologist
I am a counselling psychologist, researcher, and executive member of the Southern African Sexual Health Association (SASHA). I have a special interest in gender, sexual, and relationship diversity and run my private practice in Johannesburg. I am currently offering online individual and relationship psychotherapy.
Patty Sabbagh
Bryanston, Sandton, Johannesburg
Counselling Psychologist
Patty, a counseling psychologist who works with adult individuals and couples, has worked in private practice in South Africa and Australia. Her areas of interest include relationship issues (and breakups), life transitions, loss, depression and anxiety. Her clients describe her as warm, empathic and present. She also offers after-hour appointments.
Jessica Emmanuel Jedeikin
Gardens, City Bowl, Cape Town
Psychodynamic Psychotherapist
Jessica is a psychodynamic psychotherapist trained at the University of Cape Town. Her private practice operates from Alchimia Clinic in Gardens Cape Town. She specialises in adults and adolescents.
Tamara Sosa
Mulbarton, Johannesburg South
Counselling Psychologist
I am a Counselling Psychologist practising in Mulbarton in the South of Johannesburg. I work with individuals, couples and I also conduct family therapy. My aim and goal as a Psychotherapist is to facilitate growth, self-awareness and change in the individual, couple and family to be able to manage their difficulties better and reach fulfilment towards their goals. The goal for clients is to be authentic and to find true, genuine identity within their lives and be content with their own unique journeys.
Angela Hough-Maxwell
Muizenberg, Cape Town
Educational Psychologist
I am interested in the meaning of our lives and what makes us feel alive. I believe that therapy is a journey and a relationship. In the safety of this relationship we may bring light to abandoned and avoided parts of ourselves, and be held in the places of suffering and painful experiences; navigate transformations and celebrate our places of joy. This work is ongoing, humbling, enriching and an honour.
Prof. Gertie Pretorius
Randpark Ridge, Randburg, Johannesburg
Counselling Psychologist
Prof has been registered as a Counselling Psychologist for the past 40 years and as a Research Psychologist for the past 13 years. She is currently in private practice where she fulfils her vocation as a therapist, facilitating healing, growth and resilience in her clients. The aim of therapy is always to facilitate constructive change and to find meaning in everyday life challenges.