South African mental-health services providers are invited to help open access to their services by registering with TherapyRoute.com at no cost.

Published: 21 February 2019

TherapyRoute.com improves access to services by... 

  • Including community, private, public, and NGO services.
  • Automatically displaying the nearest registered services providers to website visitors.
  • Displaying providers who consult online (when no nearby ones are listed).
  • Offering a search function designed with the public (not professionals) in mind.
  • Enabling providers to accurately, represent their services, create a website, and publish informative content online. 
  • Promoting, sourcing, and distributing content that increases public and professional awareness of the benefits of psychotherapy and mental health. 

Visit the home page www.TherapyRoute.com  and click the relevant word on the top of the screen, e.g. 'Therapist' or 'Clinic/Org

Vincenzo Sinisi (Founder) on 0837420114 or via This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. 

TherapyRoute.com is an ideologically driven platform intent on raising awareness of, and access to, psychotherapy and other mental health services. The service is unmonetized and aims to achieve long term sustainability via advertising sales. 

Dr Penny Webster - Clinical Psychologist

Published: 04 January 2018

Modern life can be characterized as more stressful and complex than ever before. Major life changes are incurred at a faster pace and can be accompanied by couple and marital conflicts, parenting issues, trauma, and bereavement. The pressure to perform can lead to depression, substance abuse, and sexual problems and disease.

Dr Webster offers a range of psychological treatments for anxiety, depression, marriage conflicts and family relationship problems, parenting issues, life trauma: including sickness, disablement, bereavement and aging, as well bi-polar disorder.

The psychological treatment offered is aimed to integrate short term approaches to psychotherapy with long-term psychoanalytic therapy. The approaches include:

Short and long term therapy: how to find out who you are and your goal in life

Cognitive behavioral psychotherapy

Couples therapy and sex therapy : how to make the most of your intimate relationships

Parent training & child assessment

Adolescent psychotherapy

Family therapy: at all times a flexible approach is adopted and different members of the family can be seen depending on the needs of your family

ADD and ADDHD in adults and children

Long term Psychoanalytic psychotherapy

Bereavement counseling

Trauma counseling

Supervision for other psychologists and counsellors

Dr Webster will work with medical practitioners if you require it, to help you deal with medication.All psychotherapy will integrate medical approaches to psychological and psychiatric distress if necessary.