by PsySSA-Web Support | Oct 26, 2025
Fatima Peters is a lecturer at the University of Venda. She has worked in higher education for over 12 years and is a Registered counsellor belonging to HPCSA. The first scholarship that she was awarded was NSFAS (B Psych), followed by DBBS/VLIR ( MA Psych), SATN/THENSA (PhD candidate at UJ). She teaches Research Methodology, Community Psychology and Ethics. Her research interests are research, human rights, sexuality and gender, higher education, decolonisation and climate and environmental psychology. She has been part of the DRM executive of PsySSA since 2019 and CEPD since 2022.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Oct 26, 2025
Thando is a lecturer at the Department of Psychology at the University of Johannesburg. Her research interests draw from feminist and critical psychology theories, she is currently writing on the intersectionality of race, gender and class on identities in contemporary South Africa. Thando has an interest in climate justice, specifically in black youth representation in climate justice discourse.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Oct 26, 2025
Genevieve Burrow is an accomplished Registered Counsellor with over seven years of leadership experience serving on various Executive Committees within the Psychological Society of South Africa (PsySSA). Genevieve is committed to fostering innovation and promoting the visibility and impact of registered counselling on a national scale.
As the manager of The Youth Hub—a pioneering adolescent counselling centre at Groote Schuur Hospital’s Adolescent Centre of Excellence—Genevieve oversees a dynamic multidisciplinary team providing holistic, medically-informed care to adolescents. Her work integrates counselling, student management and facilitation, and operational leadership, ensuring the centre delivers impactful, client-centred services to underserved communities.
Driven by a passion for youth empowerment, Genevieve collaborates with medical professionals and specialists to address the complex challenges adolescents face, striving to create meaningful, sustainable change in their lives. Her vision and expertise continue to shape innovative approaches to adolescent mental health and wellbeing in South Africa.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Oct 26, 2025
Angeline Stephens, until very recently, worked in student mental health at the University of KwaZulu-Natal. As a mental health practitioner, she works within a critical, decolonial framework that recognises the interconnectedness between person and historical, political, social, cultural and economic contexts. She has extensive experience within the therapeutic context in the areas of trauma, violence, and healing. Her research interests centre around qualitative methodologies that explore social citizenship in the South African context. She is particularly interested in the intersections of gender, race, and sexual identities among marginalised people and how these intersections play out in experiences of citizenship. She has a PhD in Psychology from UCT.
by PsySSA-Web Support | Oct 26, 2025
Réjane Williams is an organisational psychologist with over 20 years’ experience in researching, designing and implementing interventions for individual, collective and organisational change. Her focus is on racism, diversity, racial healing, transformation, and social justice in organisations. Currently, she is pursuing her PhD (Department of Psychology, Wits University) dealing with the racialisation of black senior professionals in organisations.
