Rachel Tuso Makoni
Educational Psychologist
Rachel has worked both public and private practice. Rachel began her career in the teaching profession, teaching for 6 years. She then qualified as a psychologist and registered with the Health Professions Council in 2016. Rachel’s expertise spans from working with pregnant individuals and couples, to working within the postnatal period, into childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. She has a keen interest in working with young adults from diverse backgrounds and has a special interest in in inter-racial adoption. She speaks four languages.
Previous Projects/Experience
Previous experience includes the following:
- Therapy: Counselling of individuals and couples of all ages.
- Assessments: Conducting full career, psycho-educational and assessments for concessions and accommodations.
- Parent workshops and parent-child therapy: designing and implementing parent workshops (E.g. Discipline, The importance of parental attention). Facilitating parent-child therapeutic interventions to promote bonding.
- Experience in schools: Working in private and public primary and high schools in South Africa, Zimbabwe and Eswatini both as a teacher and a psychologist.
- NGO work: Supervision of infant mental healthcare workers and implementing assessment and therapeutic interventions for adolescents and children. Training and workshops for NGO’s in Zimbabwe.
- Hospital consultations: Therapeutic interventions for mother-baby dyads in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at a Government hospital in South Africa.
