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• Adrian Perkel — Dr AK Perkel is a clinical psychologist in private practice specialising in individual adult and couple psychotherapy. Previously a senior lecturer in psychology at the University of the Western Ca...
• Amy Coleman — Amy Coleman is a qualified Sensory Integration Occupational Therapist working within a remedial environment. Her seven years of experience and expertise are in the field of the assessment and inter...
• Andrea Fourie — Andrea holds her undergraduate speech therapy degree from the University of Cape Town and Masters of Arts in Speech Pathology from the University of the Witwatersrand. Andrea has a passion for me...
• Andrew Fuller — Andrew Fuller is an Honoray Fellow at the University of Mel-bourne. He has acted as the scientific consultant for ABC TV on the science of teenage brains, is the principal consultant for the na-tio...
• Anita Kleinsmidt — Anita Kleinsmidt is an attorney who moved into medical law and ethics after practising at law firms in Johannesburg and at the AIDS Law Project (renamed as Section 27). She lectured medical ethics ...
• Annelet du Preez — Annelet du Preez (Prinsloo) is a qualified Music Therapist (M.Mus. Music Therapy) and registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa. She works and resides in Kempton Park and the g...
• Annelie van der Westhuyzen — Annelie is a Speech therapist with a Msc (Med) in Bioethics and Health Law. She owns Ethics Simplified, an ethics consultancy company that does training on bioethics and health legislation to healt...
• Annelize Clark — Annelize Clark is an Occupational Therapist and Foundation Phase Teacher with a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Intervention. Her passion lies with inclusion and teaching foundational skills to ...
• Annelize Clark — Annelize Clark is an Occupational Therapist and a Remedial Foundation Phase Teacher with a Master’s Degree in Early Childhood Intervention. Her passion lies with inclusion and teaching founda...
• Antoinette Liechti Maccarone — Antoinette s trained as a psychologist, a psychotherapist, a Senior Imago Clinical Instructor and Workshop Presenter and a Clinical Sexologist. She has a private practice nearby Geneva, Switzerland...
• Ashley Jay — Ashley Jay is an Educational Psychologist in private practice. She consults to Pre – Primary schools and works extensively with children, families and teens. Her areas of special interest inc...
• Audrey Katsidzira — Audrey is the Founding Consultant of You Plus Wellness, a company which provides clinical, research and advocacy services. Audrey is resident psychologist at the Centre for Digestive Diseases and L...
• Barbara Kellett —     Barbara Kellett qualified as a Speech-Language Therapist and Audiologist from Stellenbosch University.   She is employed by the Cochlear Implant team affiliated to Stellenbo...
• Ben Truter — Founder and Clinical Lead – NDC. Currently, the MDT consists of a clinical team of approximately 30 Psychologists, Psychiatrists, Developmental Paediatrics, Paediatric Neurology, Occupational Thera...
• Blank — Juana Horn is a developmental psychodynamic clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for over 30 years. She has extensive experience of different kinds of psychological assessments, ...
• Blank — Juana Horn is a developmental psychodynamic clinical psychologist who has been in private practice for about 30 years. She has extensive experience in a range of psychological assessments, and has ...
• Callyn Bowler — Callyn Bowler is a psychometrist who has developed a series of workshops on writing the board exam. She has been running these hugely successful workshops for 3 years, helping psychologists ,counse...
• Callyn Bowler — Callyn Bowler is a psychometrist who has developed a series of workshops on writing the board exam. She has been running these hugely successful workshops for 3 years, helping psychologists ,counse...
• Callyn Bowler — Callyn Bowler is a psychometrist who has developed a series of workshops on writing the board exam. She has been running these hugely successful workshops for 3 years, helping psychologists ,counse...
• Carin Marcus — Carin’s fields of interest include Oncology, Palliative Care, grief, loss, crisis management and bereavement. She was employed at the Hospice Association of the Witwatersrand for 11 years, as...
• Carmen Betterridge — Carmen is a Subject Matter Expert in suicidology, being Director and Principle Psychologist with Suicide Risk Australia. She consults across a broad range of government, non-government and corporat...
• Carol-Ann Dixon — My direction in life was clear when I nearly died as a baby. After 7 months in hospital fighting for my life, I began to thrive and brought great joy to my family. My life’s mission - to thrive an...
• Caroline Bernhardt-Lanier — Dr. Caroline Bernhardt-Lanier is a Franco-American Licensed National Professional Counsellor (Washington DC and Maryland),Maryland Board-approved Clinical Supervisor andMember of the American Couns...
• Casha Meintjies — Casha has been practicing as an optometrist since qualifying from the University of Johannesburg in 1991. Over the years she has furthered her knowledge and cultivated her passion for binocular vis...
• Cathy Milwidsky — Cathy is an early childhood educator and leader, a registered counsellor and member of the Australian Counselling Association (ACA). Cathy held the position of Head of Early Learning and Developmen...
• Catriona Boffard — Catriona Boffard is an accredited Clinical Sexologist, Psychotherapist, Sex Researcher & Educator and Speaker. She is a globally recognised authority on sex, and has delivered her expert advice on...
• Cheryl Fisher — Cheryl Fisher (MSC OT) runs an Occupational therapy practice specialising in Sensory Integration with children aged birth to approximately 13 years of age, informed by principles of DIR:Floortime. ...
• Cindy Strydom — Cindy is an HPCSA-registered Clinical Psychologist with a preference for working predominantly from a Cognitive Behavioural Therapeutic (CBT) paradigm . She developed an interest in CBT from her in...
• Clive Willows — Clive Willows trained as a social worker and worked for 10 years for the Pietermaritzburg Child Welfare Society. He later qualified and registered as a Clinical Psychologist and has worked in priva...
• Corrianne Van Velze — Corrianne qualified as an Occupational therapist at the University of Stellenbosch in 1976. She subsequently completed an Honours course as well as a Masters degree in Occupational therapy. Hands a...
• Dan Wolf — Dan Wolf, director of Houghton House Group of Treatment Centres, is a registered psychologist who specialises in dealing with addictive disorders. He graduated from the University of the Witwatersr...
• Danella Eliasov — Dr Danella Eliasov obtained her medical degree from the University of the Witwatersrand in 2006. She participated in the Sports Medicine masters program at WITS while completing her internship and ...
• Dani Schlesinger — Dani Schlesinger is a speech therapist and audiologist who coordinates the Chris Hani Baragwanath Academic Hospital Cochlear Implant Programme in Soweto, where she has worked for the past 13 years....
• Daniella Allan — TBC
• Danielle Gluckman — Danielle Gluckman is a qualified Sensory Integration Occupational Therapist and has worked in the area of Paediatrics in the school environment for the past five years. She is passionate about work...
• Debbie Catto — Debbie Catto is both a supervising and assessing psychologist for Bellavista S.E.E.K. She is also an Educational Psychologist in private practice with experience in assessment, play therapy and lit...
• Debbie Catto — Debbie Catto is an Educational Psychologist who has worked both in private practice and as a  supervising and assessing psychologist for Bellavista S.E.E.K over the past ten years. She has a s...
• Denise Grobbelaar — Denise Grobbelaar is a Jungian Analyst, Psychotherapist, and Clinical Psychologist in private practice in Cape Town. She is a member of the teaching staff for the South African Association of Jungi...
• dfds — Sarah-Anne is a clinical psychologist who has been working in private practice for the past 21 years. In 2011 she began learning about the Enneagram through the Enneagram Institute in New York. Sin...
• Dianne Everitt — Dianne is a Clinical Psychologist who trained in South Africa and then moved to the UK. She worked with the National Health Service before setting up her own practice, which has grown to a thriving...
• Dianne Zeller — Graduated from the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa. with a BSc in Physiotherapy in 1992. Co-owned a private orthopaedic practice for 8 years before switching to the fiel...
• Digby Ormond-Brown — Digby Ormond-Brown is the principal neuropsychologist at the Netcare Rehabilitation Hospital, where he has been based since 1994. He has been immersed in the neurosciences for his entire career. Di...
• Dr Adri Van Der Walt — Paediatric Neurologist
• Dr Alison Bentley — Dr. Bentley has been seeing patients with sleep problems, both adults and children, off and on over the last 30 years. She ran the first private diagnostic sleep laboratory in South Africa from 199...
• Dr Anusha Lachman — Dr. Anusha Lachman currently heads the Adolescent Psychiatric Inpatient Unit at Tygerberg Children's Hospital in Cape Town and is a joint lecturer in the Department of Psychiatry at the University ...
• Dr Giada Del Fabbro — Dr Giada Del Fabbro is a clinical psychologist in private practice.  She obtained her Masters in Clinical Psychology and Doctorate in Psychology at the University of Pretoria. She has been wor...
• Dr Jana Lazarus — Dr Jana Lazarus is a Clinical Psychologist committed to client care and consultation with all ages around behavioural, mental and emotional difficulties. She has knowledge of infant observation, pl...
• Dr Jenni Underhill — Dr Jenni Underhill has been  in the field of academic literacies and language skills development for the past twenty years. Initially she trained in teaching English as an International Langua...
• Dr Lucinda Tsunga — Dr. Lucinda Tsunga is a Clinical Neuropsychologist with experience in medical and high-risk community settings. She has interests in the psychological impact of medical conditions, neurological con...
• Dr Lynn Steinberg — Dr. Lynn Steinberg, originally from South Africa, is an expert witness and a reunification therapist with over 50 years of experience specializing in family dynamics, domestic violence, coercive co...
• Dr Margaret Fockema — Dr Fockema is a medical doctor, who graduated from the University of the Orange Free State. She received an MSc Med in Urology from the University of Witwatersrand. She specializes in diagnosing an...
• Dr Melodie de Jager — Melodie's career as an ECD teacher led to the successful completion of her Master's degree on Mathematics and Science programmes. Her doctorate focused on the role of neurological integration in th...
• Dr Michele Van Niekerk — Dr. Michele van Niekerk is a Paediatrician in private practice working in the coastal town of Hermanus, South Africa. For many years she served as the only private Paediatrician in the Overberg, du...
• Dr Michele van Niekerk — Dr Michele van Niekerk is a Paediatrician in private practice in Hermanus, Western Cape, South Africa. She has a special interest in children & adolescents with neurodevelopmental conditions su...
• Dr Ronald Doctor — Ronald Doctor, MD is a Consultant Psychiatrist in Medical Psychotherapy and Forensic Psychotherapy, West London NHS Trust, and a Psychoanalyst in private practice. He is a Fellow of the British Psy...
• Dr Rose Aghdami — Dr Rose Aghdami is a Chartered Coaching Psychologist, CPD Trainer, BPS Registered Supervisor, author, and experienced practitioner with more than three decades of experience across clinical, counse...
• Dr Sharon Moonsamy — Sharon Moonsamy is a Speech Language Pathologist and Audiologist, and a remedial education consultant. She is a senior lecturer in the Department of Speech Pathology & Audiology at the University o...
• Dr Shona Fraser — Shona Fraser completed her PhD in Neuropsychology and she currently works on the Wits Academic Hospital circuit and is a member of staff at Tara Hospital.
• Dr Stephanie Gottwald — Stephanie Gottwald, Ph.D., is the Assistant Director of the Centre for Reading and Language Research at Tufts University and the Director of Content for the non-profit organisation Curious Learning...
• Dr Ute Liersch — Dr Ute Liersch is a Chartered Counselling and Coaching Psychologist based at 10 Harley Street and The Soke in Chelsea, London. A practising clinician with over a decade of experience, her work inte...